The Future?

lcrcboy

So what do you think the next 30 years will hold in advancement in areas of technology, During the 50's and 60's they thought we would all be flying around in hover cars and living on the moon but even though a lot of what they predicted never happened, I don't think they foresaw us using Ipods or being able to have 3d television.

Already on the way is contact lenses which can display images such as emails and gps for the car, apparently a Japanese company is working on developing holographic TV and is hoping to have it on the market around 2020.
So what do you think we will experience in the next 30 years.

Mint Sauce

I just waiting on my Hover Board now.

W77

No future for the sheeple..

..except death of course.

wolf moon

Weed will be legal, available in local Centra.
Technology I do not know.

tallaghtmick

By 2040????? I dunno a million posts on boards would be nice.

My name is URL

A tax on envisioning stuff

Dotrel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFJ6VZTR8QU

deathrider

Aren't we all going to die horribly in an armageddon next year anyways?

44leto

One damned thing after another.

Gunnerkid

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

Now imagine all the new ways you could watch porn with this technology

vektarman

I confidently predict that within 30 years we'll have wristwatches with built-in fax machines.

smk89

Gunnerkid wrote: »

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

Now imagine all the new ways you could watch porn with this technology

Its nothing but glass with these guys!

Amirani

Robotics will develop to the point where humans can interact with them easily.

Gunnerkid

more relevant to your post op, stuff that's made but will probably get released in the next few years

acidskiffle

It will be like Mad Max except everyone will be fighting over water and
in the end everyone dies.

orourkeda

A job would be nice

pragmatic1

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

44leto

I am not to optimistic about, to many people and not enough resources.

ejmaztec

We'll all be living in shacks and eating our own sh1t. Asia will occasionally collect money to feed us.

Gunnerkid

Post these up as well:

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

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

df1985

voice controlled everything.

Kasabian

I'd like to think the world will be a place of peace. We will have repelled an attack from Martians and realised that we need to stick together as a species and learned to live in harmony.

Failing that scenario I would be happy if someone would invent a toaster where the toast is a perfect golden brown and buttered when it pops up.

red menace

nanotechnology - nanobots used for cell repair in the body
hyper efficient fertilizers that fix nutrients from the atmosphere

bleg

Singularity.

ejmaztec

Diet Soylent Green

hondasam

Kasabian wrote: »

Failing that scenario I would be happy if someone would invent a toaster where the toast is a perfect golden brown and buttered when it pops up.

There is one, it's called a woman.

Will be less energy intensive, everything will be simpler, fewer gadgets, only essentials will be available.

ejmaztec

ejmaztec wrote: »

Diet Soylent Green

Made from retired "bed blockers".

3hn2givr7mx1sc

hondasam wrote: »

There is one, it's called a woman.

Is there anything a vagina can't do these days?

Saila

war and lots of it

brimal

Graphene. Everywhere.

ejmaztec

baz2009 wrote: »

Is there anything a vagina can't do these days?

They'll have minge machines in shopping mall toilets, next to the hand-dryers.

Jesus Wept

Gunnerkid wrote: »

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

Now imagine all the new ways you could watch porn with this technology

So just glass, nothing else changes. :pac:

pudzey101

Nothing hopefully.

Got myself a touchphone for my birthday and threw it off a wall after 5 days

mickrock

Digital watches with built-in calculators.

44leto

mickrock wrote: »

Digital watches with built-in calculators.

That's just crazy talk its obvious you watch to much star wars.

OneArt

Voodoo will be the state religion for most places, we'll have a Space Pope and fending off attacks from the man-eating Snap Apples.

44leto

In the future there will be war.

If we are in for a worsening depression that will spring radical politics and perhaps a claw back of democracy. Then nationalism then war. That what usually happened.

But no-one knows it could be bright with unmatched discovery and technology leaps which will bring prosperity to more people everywhere.

But we will have to employ security to guard our petrol tanks at night.

massdebater

Everything in Monority Report and iRobot will have happened.

Chuck Stone

I predict that all the predictions in this thread will be way off ceptin' for this one.

AKforde

The future for Ireland. If we play it right and avail of out talents then it couyld bbe a really prosperous one. Would love to see us change politics for the future. Bring about a far more transparent government, Ireland tho is definetely a great place for the future

Immaculate Pasta

AKforde wrote: »

The future for Ireland. If we play it right and avail of out talents then it couyld bbe a really prosperous one. Would love to see us change politics for the future. Bring about a far more transparent government, Ireland tho is definetely a great place for the future

Batsy

The world's most powerful computer - known as a supercomputer - is Japan's K Computer.

Even though it does not become fully operational until November 2012, TOP500 earlier this year ranked the computer the world's fastest, with a rating of over 8 petaflops, and in November 2011, K became the first computer in history to top 10 petaflops.

The K Computer - named for the Japanese word "kei" (京), which means "10 quadrillion" (and "capital city") - uses 88,128 2.0GHz 8-core SPARC64 VIIIfx processors packed in 864 cabinets. This makes the computer physically huge, taking up a large space in a vast room. The computer also consumes as much energy as suburban 10,000 houses. It's also interesting to note that the world's most powerful computer today is 36,000 times more powerful than the world's most powerful computer in 1993, the year that the world's 500 most powerful computers started to be listed.

This is similar to how the world's first computers back in the mid twentieth century took up huge space. Now, however, we have far more powerful computers than those early ones but which are very, very small - such as mobile phones. So, in a similar way, it is almost certain that, by 2050, almost everybody will be walking around with small, hand-held devices, similar to today's mobile phone, that are more powerful than today's supercomputers which take up huge rooms, such as the K Computer. Everybody having access to such huge computer power, which they are able to keep in their pockets, seems mind-boggling to us today but it is what many futurologists and other experts are predicting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_computer

bodhrandude

Whats black and knocks at your door?







































The Future.

TPD

Not sure when, but a brain / computer interface is going to happen at some point. When it becomes widespread, goodbye education system.

Imagine having a chip in/attached to your head, that could respond to queries you give it in thought form, find the answer, and add that information to your brain instantly. The underlying technology is already in development and coming along remarkably.

I feel like I'm coming across as a bit of a mentalist. Here are some links.

http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2011/06/scientists-turn-mouse-memory-on-and-off-with-the-flick-of-a-switch/

http://gizmodo.com/5843117/scientists-reconstruct-video-clips-from-brain-activity

The above is particularly interesting, in that if the technology comes along far enough, all that will be needed to make films is a good imagination. Same goes for making celebrity porn tapes :P

Simi

Sand monkeys will inherit the Earth and we will gradually regress to a pre-industrial civilisation.

weemcd

I'll have had my 1st (2nd) breakdown from living in this country, wondering why I can't afford to live in houses made entirely of touch screen gas

Snowie

lcrcboy wrote: »

So what do you think the next 30 years will hold in advancement in areas of technology, During the 50's and 60's they thought we would all be flying around in hover cars and living on the moon but even though a lot of what they predicted never happened, I don't think they foresaw us using Ipods or being able to have 3d television.

Already on the way is contact lenses which can display images such as emails and gps for the car, apparently a Japanese company is working on developing holographic TV and is hoping to have it on the market around 2020.
So what do you think we will experience in the next 30 years.

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hal9000

computers will be twice as big and twice as powerful and only the 4 richest kings of europe will be able to afford them

the culture of deference

Star trek style medicine please

ToddyDoody

The world will continue to jostle with the differences between masculinity and femininity, feminine values may be more prominent as masculine ones burn themselves out? (if you get me) the world may be awash with trendy chinese brands, the west may become more quasi easternized? The west may be poorer, supplying the east with more low value produce to support its needs? (some possibilities)