The Near Future

Gunnerkid

So what do you think the near future will be like say between now and 2100 will there be huge changes in life or do you think it will stay pretty much the same as it is currently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syKJP1lnjQA

thought the above clip was kind of an interesting perspective

lcrcboy

war will be different....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0qf2bV2WVk

Snakeblood

Gunnerkid wrote: »

So what do you think the near future will be like say between now and 2100 will there be huge changes in life or do you think it will stay pretty much the same as it is currently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syKJP1lnjQA

thought the above clip was kind of an interesting perspective

Robot Power Suits or Bust.

Guill

Robosexual marraige legalsed by 2100.

orourkeda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGXeXm0uMDo

J. Marston

Hovercars!

doopa

Gunnerkid wrote: »

So what do you think the near future will be like say between now and 2100 will there be huge changes in life or do you think it will stay pretty much the same as it is currently

thought the above clip was kind of an interesting perspective

I'd say that is a pretty pessimistic view of the future, specifically about climate change. Somehow we'll work out carbon nanotube based ladders to space but not access to water? It takes extremely pessimistic predictions of the bad stuff and really optimistic stuff about the good stuff.

Mickeroo

lcrcboy wrote: »

war will be different....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0qf2bV2WVk

Mjolnir Armour?

*runs off and enlists*

Professey Chin

Fcuk that sh!t.
Think I'll live in and enjoy the now instead of wondering what'll happen when I'm gone

Frank Black

Try to imagine what it will be like




- well, it won't be anything like that.

policarp

Look back 100 years and multiply the changes and advances made by at least 100, I would say.

Mickeroo

Nike have announced self lacing shoes just like the ones in Back to the Future 2. Fingers crossed someone invents the hoverboard next.......

doopa

Mickeroo wrote: »

Nike have announced self lacing shoes just like the ones in Back to the Future 2. Fingers crossed someone invents the hoverboard next.......

This is the kind of future I'll happily sign up for. Screw drought, nuclear war, famine and pestilence. I don't want to waste my time tying my own shoes.

jugger0

We will destroy ourselves with nukes or AI becomes self aware and takes over... doubt we'll be around for too long to be honest.

Matthew23

"2031 World War 3.... 2032 first manned mission to Mars"?

I would have thought "2031 World War 3... 2032 (see 2000 BCE)" would be more likely.

Kevin Duffy

lcrcboy wrote: »

war will be different....

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." Albert Einstein.

orangebud

global warming propaganda

mackg

Porn streamed straight into your brain and pants that jack you off and clean up the mess afterwards.

Matthew23

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." Albert Einstein.

Along similar lines: I don't know if he coined the phrase but at a conference I attended Noam Chompsky said "intelligence is a fatal mutation".

Duckworth_Luas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoi1MSGu64

Sunnyisland

Boards.ie will be run by a group of Rodarators.

Capt'n Midnight

Homosexuality made compulsary.

Captain_Generic

Sports will be played by cyborgs, and Paddy Wallace's son will make the irish team despite his advanced lack of talent

galwayrush

Altari Jaguar will be the presidental nomination from the province of Ireland for the United States of Germany Europe.

Conor108

Mickeroo wrote: »

Nike have announced self lacing shoes just like the ones in Back to the Future 2. Fingers crossed someone invents the hoverboard next.......

We're getting there.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNX1hTEI_W8

Mickeroo

Conor108 wrote: »

We're getting there.....

Yea I've seen that, but it only works when it's over another magnet, won't hold a persons weight either Still it's only a matter of time I'm sure.

As for the people predicting nuclear holocaust, seriously the cold war ended ages ago, thats like soooooooooooooo 1980's :pac:

KeithAFC

lol and still no United Ireland

noxqs

A common theme thru history - back to the earliest written texts - is that it was better in the old times, now is limbo, and the future is hell on earth.

However; Humans only progress, with minor setbacks such as war, famine, and various ecological disasters (which we do fix usually).

We already know how to make unlimited fresh water. That video predicts we will die due to drought but have access to Helium-3 Fusion Reactors (endless energy, virtually). We could surely build a few desalination plants? Perhaps the Irish will run the taps so hard during the winter due to fear of pipes bursting that the world will really run out of water, but I doubt it. I think we might dig the pipes deeper into the ground by then. Perhaps.

The Amazon: Why is it being cut down now, and which advanced in technology will obsolete it ? Paperless societies and high intensity farming or in-vitro meat perhaps ? No need for agri-land or paper.

Anyways - it's funny how we can build a space elevator, colonize mars, the moon, and travel to alpha centaury but we will still destroy the earth in the process and start a few world wars.

I own several popular science mags from the 70es and 80es and they all predict 'the year 2000' magic number we would have flying cars, AI, a pill that cures everything, space travel, and all kinds of stuff which they thought made sense at the time but in retrospect is pure fantasy.

jugger0

KeithAFC wrote: »

lol and still no United Ireland

Unionists will be sent to the sun on a water finding expedition, we can sort it out when they're gone.

dsmythy

Sooner or later the Chinese are going to need living space. And where better than depopulating Russia.

lcrcboy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYtgZyZGO2M

This would be cool to see in the next few years, I would also love to see virtual gaming before I die but I dont know if thats going to happen anytime soon