What will the world be like in 2023?

Foxhound38

Lets play a game - based on broad current trends, and the rate of technological, social, political and technical advancement over the last 10 years, what do you reckon Ireland and the World will be like 10 years into the future.

Obviously it's impossible to be too specific here - nobody could have predicted the coming explosion of social media in 2003 for example, but there were people commenting the increasing tendencies towards user-driven content creation (mostly blogging back in those days if I can recall).

So given the broad swing of things at the moment, in what way do you reckon we'll be living this day 10 years from now?

Wacker The Attacker

squirt porn will have taken over the world

Itwasntme.

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

squirt porn will have taken over the world

I thanked your post because the word 'squirt' made me giggle but wt-eff is squirt porn?

Mrs Garth Brooks

Ireland: Cold, wet and miserable.

I'll be a bitter old hag, possibly with 20 cats.

The Backwards Man

I'll be dead from enjoying myself too much and not giving a fcuk. Otherwise, it will be just the same.

lahalane

It'd be nice if the current world problems such as famine, poverty, disease and fame hungry idiots were gotten rid of but it's hardly likely. It'll probably be pretty much the same but with more technological advances. Hover boards maybe...been waiting for that a long time now though.

my my my

the world will be ****ed

1ZRed

We learned in engineering that 2023 is the year computers will have the same amount of transistors as there are neurons in the human brain, going by Moor's Law. So every 18 months computers will double ahead of our thinking capacity.

Autonomous robots are an inevitability, even if it takes 100 years, max.

esox28

When was judgement day to start...2013 if I remember t2 correctly...this phone been acting funny all week the machines are up to something

Iwasfrozen

Itwasntme. wrote: »

I thanked your post because the word 'squirt' made me giggle but wt-eff is squirt porn?

I'll give you a clue, the squirt doesn't come from the male.

my my my

the european union will ban packs of ten cigarettes

toastedpickles

Motor tax on a 1 liter car will be the equivalent of having six 3 liters

This is looking like a world I can live without.....

Duggy747

3 sea shells will have replaced toilet paper.

jacksie66

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my my my

other eu countries willl have toilet papaer and i think it's disgusting ,

Hijpo

aliens from outer space will finally show up and save us from ourselves.

my my my

ya and they#'' be smokin mentho l cigarettes which are harsehr, and thats whats gonna happen

Mammanabammana

Miley Cyrus will no longer be entertaining.

Well, that was easy.

my my my

people will be irritated by clear conversation

MadsL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJS3xnD7Mus

my my my

i have twelve children

Karl Stein

The line between reality and virtual reality will become further blurred.

There'll be no such thing as lost.

You'll be able to click on things you see and access more info.

Get Real

3d printers (which already exist) will become more affordable and commonplace household items. Just like computers have over the last decade. The cartridges will be filled with certain materials, and objects will be bought and downloaded online, and printed on the printer. A vase for example or even a pair of shoes.

my my my

in 2023 there will be clear skies with the odd shower possible

flas

Get Real wrote: »

3d printers (which already exist) will become more affordable and commonplace household items. Just like computers have over the last decade. The cartridges will be filled with certain materials, and objects will be bought and downloaded online, and printed on the printer. A vase for example or even a pair of shoes.

you wouldn't download a pair of shoes!

MadsL

My wife and I will still be arguing over the merits of Satnav vs maps.

allibastor

Massive over population.

General General

allibastor wrote: »

Massive over population.

& don't forget.. the Over Population Massive.

Lots of Civil War Centenary commemorations too.

allibastor

General General wrote: »

& don't forget.. the Over Population Massive.

Lots of Civil War Centenary commemorations too.

Yeah, we will be a fat population, eating solyant green.

Seriously though, over population is actually a very real problem, we have gone well past the point of having a civilisation that is sustainable by the planet, we have already in this year gone past the resource replenishment quota for the year

jester77

The hoverboard will have finally arrived after a 10 year delay.

o1s1n

Get Real wrote: »

3d printers (which already exist) will become more affordable and commonplace household items. Just like computers have over the last decade. The cartridges will be filled with certain materials, and objects will be bought and downloaded online, and printed on the printer. A vase for example or even a pair of shoes.

That'll be interesting, you'll have torrent websites full of pirated downloadable Nike shoes and Gucci handbags.

SEPT 23 1989

The Irish football team will be an excellent team once more with all the kids of foreign nationals playing for the Republic

smoking_kills

Silvio Berlusconi will still be shagging 20 year olds. Thats a cert..

There will be the radiation zone :eek:, or as we call it the middle east.

And Monkey butlers for all......

goose2005

One Direction reunion tour

Cecelia Ahern elected Taoiseach in landslide

Cathal Cloch wrote: »

There'll be no such thing as lost.

We have to go back!

goose2005

One Direction reunion tour

Cecelia Ahern elected Taoiseach in landslide

Cathal Cloch wrote: »

There'll be no such thing as lost.

We have to go back!

smoking_kills

goose2005 wrote: »

One Direction reunion tour

Dear god say it aint so.....

biko

Flying cars.

Capt'n Midnight

Measles and Polio will be extinct.


We will have lots more wind turbines.

Solar will be cheap enough to use here.


Smartphones will have batteries that last up to three days.

No one will have gone to Mars.

Soyuz will still be most used Human rated spacecraft.

smoking_kills

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Measles and Polio will be extinct.


We will have lots more wind turbines.

Solar will be cheap enough to use here.


Smartphones will have batteries that last up to three days.

No one will have gone to Mars.

Soyuz will still be most used Human rated spacecraft.

We might have Fusion power by then, so Solar panels and turbines may be redundant...

BeerWolf

I'd probably get proper broadband 2 years from then.

2023... I guess I'd be most interested with the project of people being sent out to Mars by then.



Petrol prices would have sky rocketed - €5/liter

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

squirt porn will have taken over the world

Was thinking "Wtf is wrong with you" when I initially read that as SquiD porn... :pac:

Gannicus

Based on current trends and how the general populous seem to be acting these days in regards to mindless followings of popular culture and "text speak" still being popular long after the invention of smart phones I reckon this is the world about 5 or 6 generations from now:

MOC88

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

The Irish football team will be an excellent team once more with all the kids of foreign nationals playing for the Republic

I don't think there's too many kids of Spanish descent around so there's nobody to learn from

I'd imagine there'll start being a bad reaction to immigration from certain areas not because immigration is bad in itself but because everything goes in cycles and a certain population coming in to specific areas normally creates tensions. The massive overpopulation in areas like India would have to be dealt with in their own areas not allowed to overspill in to an area, such as the EU where our population is relatively static and we can be self sufficient food wise. They almost outnumber the Chinese population and whereas the Chinese pop. is now stable the Indian population shows no sign of slowing its growth. They're not being pro-active about it and they're social structure allows for very little change so it'll be more a case of the rest of the world reacting to them.

The U.S is in danger of going down a slippery slope where everyone lives in gated communities or slums outside of them in the main population areas.

There'll have been another worldwide boom and another crash in the making - not completely unintentional either.

China will become more moderate and have increase its living standards and may start to produce a middle class that demands more rights - which will mostly be be ignored but not cracked down on as viciously as has happened before.

South America is anyones guess - Brazil might be the first state of a more independent region that can exert its own influence not only on itself but on outside states.

Wacker The Attacker

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

squirt porn will have taken over the world

Google Cytherea.

That's squirt porn

kingtiger

the world is going to change the second the yanks go into Syria

and we will be bearing the fruits of this for a lot longer than 10 years

Roger_007

My computer will be running on Windows 29 and only crashing once a day?
Due to emigration the population will be reduced to 107,(all in a retirement home in Dalkey).

Birroc

My septic tank will be truly septic.

conorhal

Get Real wrote: »

3d printers (which already exist) will become more affordable and commonplace household items. Just like computers have over the last decade. The cartridges will be filled with certain materials, and objects will be bought and downloaded online, and printed on the printer. A vase for example or even a pair of shoes.

Since you will never EVER, be able the 3D print leather, everybody in the future walks around in naff Crocs?

Kill me now.....

conorhal

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

The Irish football team will be an excellent team once more with all the kids of foreign nationals playing for the Republic

How's Nigera and Pakistan and China's football teams doing these days?



Na, they like the rest of us will all have evolved stubby little feet and very long fingers to allow them to sit on their arses all day playing videogames and eat crisps from the bottom of the bag!

kingtiger

conorhal wrote: »

everybody in the future walks around in naff Crocs?

what's wrong with Crocs? the most comfortable shoes ever

feck off back to Starbucks with your iPhone fashionista

conorhal

kingtiger wrote: »

what's wrong with Crocs? the most comfortable shoes ever

feck off back to Starbucks with your iPhone fashionista

I don't even own a smartphone, your crocs however make you look like a goofy Disney character!

kingtiger

conorhal wrote: »

your crocs however make you look like a goofy Disney character!

and guess how much I care what people think of my fashion sense :pac: