Things you reckon will happen

Ray Palmer

Are there technology changes that are going on and there are things are probably going to happen. Not wild outlandish things but I can see there being a point where people grow human flesh in a lab to eat. It will be illegal but still will happen. Anybody else think of them.

freshpopcorn

They'll be app and it will tell you if your pregnant!

rgodard80a

Brain interfaces will effectively give people simple telepathy by sending text messages to each other.

RWCNT

What kind of a time frame are we putting on this?

I'd love if teleportation become a real thing at some point.

Also if we could somehow learn things without having to read/watch anything. Like, you just take a pill and suddenly you know all about Plato's philosophy or something.

tom1ie

Hologram projectors for phones. No more lcd screens.

Hammer89

Pat Kenny will contract Hep C.

Yer Da sells Avon

freshpopcorn wrote: »

They'll be app and it will tell you if your pregnant!

An app that will get you pregnant. They could call it 'Pregnr'.

rgodard80a

RWCNT wrote: »

I'd love if teleportation become a real thing at some point.

Teleportation will never happen, however being able to remotely connect to a human drone is more likely. Send a robot somewhere and control it virtually as if you were there.

Gwynplaine

The machines become self aware, and in the panic they try to pull the plug.

SEPT 23 1989

There was a machine at that technology show in the USA today that folded all your clothes without having to be asked

Birneybau

freshpopcorn wrote: »

They'll be app and it will tell you if your pregnant!

They will!?!?

greencap

Wearable AI enhancement.

And even surgeries to make the AI equipment sub-dermal, so no leaving it at home or forgetting it.

You'll be able to photograph and use calculator apps. Without reaching into your pocket.

Brain integration ... ok that will happen too , just a bit farther down the road.

But in the mid future, just a hard enough squint of the chosen eye and you've got a photo.

Uploading of your info, not so sure. Maybe some kind of always on rfid/bluetooth.

OK Im not sure exactly how it will be done.

But basically whereas now only a rare few people have perfect memory or the ability to do extreme arithmetic, and the rest of us have to pull out our phones, that will change to joe/jane public just having to communicate with an internal accessory.

TL;DR A smartphone you never forget, and you don't have to fumble for.

js35

Some sort of a chip inserted into head that could be scanned by doctors when ill ( wishful thinking) :pac:

McMurphy

I'll poo later this evening I reckon.

Mr. CooL ICE

freshpopcorn wrote: »

They'll be app and it will tell you if your pregnant!

An app that requires you to piss on your phone. I like it.

DontThankMe

The world will become a more tolerant place.

rgodard80a

js35 wrote: »

Some sort of a chip inserted into head that could be scanned by doctors when ill ( wishful thinking) :pac:

More likely it would be a sensor that monitors your blood, checking red/white blood cell counts, hormone levels, glucose levels etc. Possibly also some form of nano bots that embed themselves in your digestive system.

moonage

A device for toasting bread—putting bread under the grill will become a thing of the past.

rgodard80a

Police/emergency drones that have huge range/flight time to get to an incident within minutes and survey the crime/accident scene while the human responders are on their way.

Conall Cernach

rgodard80a wrote: »

Brain interfaces will effectively give people simple telepathy by sending text messages to each other.

Couple this with robotics and "the internet of things" we will also be able to move stuff by thought.

ibFoxer

Mark Rippetoe wrote: »

An app that requires you to piss on your phone. I like it.

What kind of iPEE rating will that need?

wally1990

My guesses are

1 Block chain technology (technology behind bitcoin) will end being being massed adopted

2 Crypto currencies themselves will start taking off and have a use but not a unique crypto currency like bitcoin but rather a government issued Digital euro or dollar or yuan or whatever and will remain under government control

3 Ireland to be cashless (more or less) by 2025

4 AI will rapidly increase by 2030 and we will fail to have proper regulatory controls or oversight

5 most banks will move to online banking and will have no people in a bank by 2025-2030

6 electric cars will be the majority activitly used in the western worls by 2050

That's all I can think of right now...

seamus

RWCNT wrote: »

I'd love if teleportation become a real thing at some point.

There are scientific and philosophical reasons why teleportation of people is never going to happen. Some kind of "surrogates" style system is a possibility though.

nullzero

freshpopcorn wrote: »

They'll be app and it will tell you if your pregnant!

All the phones will be destroyed with p1ss

rgodard80a

wally1990 wrote: »

Ireland to be cashless (more or less) by 2025..

Ireland is already cashless since the financial crash/bailout.

Ninthlife

rgodard80a wrote: »

More likely it would be a sensor that monitors your blood, checking red/white blood cell counts, hormone levels, glucose levels etc. Possibly also some form of nano bots that embed themselves in your digestive system.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/voices/wisconsin-company-microchip-employees-robots-artificial-intelligence-data-three-square-market-a7874486.html%3famp

Already been done. A number of articles about these chips being inserted into employees to monitor stress levels, blood pressure etc

rgodard80a

DontThankMe wrote: »

The world will become a more tolerant place.

Don't expect much until we have a world government, solved fusion power/limitless green energy and eliminate the massive wealth differences between people. Unrestricted capitalism has bad impacts on society.

Muckka

freshpopcorn wrote: »

They'll be app and it will tell you if your pregnant!

That's taking the piss....

freshpopcorn

Muckka wrote: »

That's taking the piss....

I should go on the Dragons Den with it. The Dragons could test it out.

JohnnyFlash

The pension and social welfare crisis will reach a head in 2030 and Europe will be plunged into a period of increased turmoil.

Humphrey BoaGart

Trolling will be recognised as a profession. :pac:

Four Phucs Ache

I reckon the year my mortgage is paid off I'm going to die, probably electrocuted while fitting something google has come up with , probably an internet of things device to dispense shower gel while showing me what shower gel I should have bought

rgodard80a

There's already promising treatments for anti-aging.
If this is perfected and people live longer healthier lives, then I suspect the government will have to start killing off pensioners who reach the ripe old age of 70.. similar to "Logans Run". As a cure for the pension crisis.

Beanntraigheach

Advances in technology will make possible a level of surveillance, control, and repression of the general population/opposition vastly beyond anything hitherto seen in history, ushering in a new age of tyranny.

Hooray!:D

Ray Palmer

Beanntraigheach wrote: »

Advances in technology will make possible a level of surveillance, control, and repression of the general population/opposition vastly beyond anything hitherto seen in history, ushering in a new age of tyranny.

Hooray!:D

1984 has already been written and so have laws that prevent it. The only real surprise is people willing to give away the information freely

Ray Palmer

Beanntraigheach wrote: »

Advances in technology will make possible a level of surveillance, control, and repression of the general population/opposition vastly beyond anything hitherto seen in history, ushering in a new age of tyranny.

Hooray!:D

1984 has already been written and so have laws that prevent it. The only real surprise is people willing to give away the information freely

Kidchameleon

Self aware brain emulations running on a computer. Someone will create billions of copies then delete them, the largest genocide in history

Franz Von Peppercorn

wally1990 wrote: »

My guesses are

1 Block chain technology (technology behind bitcoin) will end being being massed adopted

This fad will die out.

2 Crypto currencies themselves will start taking off and have a use but not a unique crypto currency like bitcoin but rather a government issued Digital euro or dollar or yuan or whatever and will remain under government control

Crypto has peaked but probably will chug along.

3 Ireland to be cashless (more or less) by 2025

I’d largely say that was true now. Why pubs etc don’t have multiple cash points on the counter I don’t know.

4 AI will rapidly increase by 2030 and we will fail to have proper regulatory controls or oversight

Every generation has an AI panic.

5 most banks will move to online banking and will have no people in a bank by 2025-2030

That’s already probably peaked

6 electric cars will be the majority activitly used in the western worls by 2050

The technologies from this will go into cars to assist humans. I don’t see full driverless cars taking off unless on pre defined routes.

Vic_08

So is everyone just going to simply ignore the utter freakish weirdness of the OP then yeah?

Ray Palmer wrote: »

Are there technology changes that are going on and there are things are probably going to happen. Not wild outlandish things but I can see there being a point where people grow human flesh in a lab to eat. It will be illegal but still will happen. Anybody else think of them.

NO. No we are not going to chomp down on an American burger and have it contain a lab-grown American in it.

No.

seamus

Vic_08 wrote: »

So is everyone just going to simply ignore the utter freakish weirdness of the OP then yeah?

Well, no, that's not really weird.
He's right, that's what some people will do. In the same way that some people say they want to kill and eat some ultra-endangered animal "just to see what it's like", people are fncking weird.

In fact, people eating lab-grown human flesh is probably the only thing in this thread that's guaranteed to happen in future.

It will be illegal, at least initially, because the data tells us that cannibalism in mammals causes degenerative brain diseases. But we don't really know how or why. The thoughts about prions are still very much theoretical.
So until/unless we can determine that human meat is safe to eat, it will be illegal, and some people will eat it purely because it's a rare delicacy.

Consuming things like Human Placenta is already common enough. I have done it myself. So I am with Seamus on this one - it is likely to happen in the future. And some people like Memphis Meats are already on the trail of producing lab grown meat. When the cost of production finally comes down on that - I can see meat to order and species to order being a thing quickly enough.

major bill

The Porn industry will take VR technology to a new level that a man or woman using the technology can join in on the scene!!

:pac:

Franz Von Peppercorn

We will hit peak oil demand ( might have already happened).
Renewables will continue to grow
A battery technology will be invented which will be a game changer.

seamus

major bill wrote: »

The Porn industry will take VR technology to a new level that a man or woman using the technology can join in on the scene!!

I was just thinking how many technologies are propelled to initial success because of porn, and then reflecting on the above discussion about lab-grown meat.

And...yeah. Lab-grown vaginas. It's going to happen. It'll probably be niche, considering they'll have a limited shelf-life...but it'll happen.

Lab-grown penises, maybe, but you have to figure out how to fill them with fluid too. A flaccid member is no fun.

rgodard80a

wally1990 wrote: »

4 AI will rapidly increase by 2030 and we will fail to have proper regulatory controls or oversight

In the 1990's or thereabouts the focus was on "expert systems", where they thought they could sit down and ask a doctor every possible question and translate that into a computer program. It was very much a specific domain problem.

I see AI going the same way.

You won't have a virtual person/brain performing general purpose tasks.
You'll have an AI for the stock market, an AI for air running a company's operational systems eg. stock transport/fleet logistics etc.

Eventually, there might be a sort of general purpose supervisory AI that can delegate those tasks down to each dedicated AI.

Each AI needs to be trained for a certain task, much like humans.

Franz Von Peppercorn

rgodard80a wrote: »

In the 1990's or thereabouts the focus was on "expert systems", where they thought they could sit down and ask a doctor every possible question and translate that into a computer program. It was very much a specific domain problem.

I see AI going the same way.

You won't have a virtual person/brain performing general purpose tasks.
You'll have an AI for the stock market, an AI for air running a company's operational systems eg. stock transport/fleet logistics etc.

Eventually, there might be a sort of general purpose supervisory AI that can delegate those tasks down to each dedicated AI.

Each AI needs to be trained for a certain task, much like humans.

The very failure of expert systems tends to prove that AI may not be the success expected.

BattleCorp

Toilets will evolve to become medical equipment. Take a p1ss in the morning and it automatically analyses your urine and alerts you to any problems. Same for when you crap.

Self-driving cars will rapidly be gotten rid of due to the use of self-fly drones that can carry people around. No more traffic jams. This will happen in the next 15 or 20 years, if not sooner.

Food will be created using a 3d printer. Decide that you want lobster, the 3d printer will make it for you and it will taste like the real thing. Want alcohol, it will make it for you.

3d printers will be in every house and will be able to make pretty much anything. Feck, where did I put the scissors, print a new scissors.

Nanotechnology will mean that little robots will go into our bodies and remove tumors, cysts etc. one cell at a time. This will lead to us living much much longer (maybe not us, but our children and grandchildren). These nanobots will also be able to remove fat cells, and do many other things to alter our health and appearance.

The invention of a superconductor that works at room temperatures will be developed allowing for the invention of motors that will run for years on one charge. This will fcuk all the arabs who will have nothing to sell and will go back to riding camels.

Edit.

I nearly forgot the best bit. Virtual reality sex suits. Stick one on and shag whoever or whatever takes your fancy. All in your head and in the suit but it'll feel 100% real to the person wearing the suit.

Grayson

seamus wrote: »

Well, no, that's not really weird.
He's right, that's what some people will do. In the same way that some people say they want to kill and eat some ultra-endangered animal "just to see what it's like", people are fncking weird.

In fact, people eating lab-grown human flesh is probably the only thing in this thread that's guaranteed to happen in future.

It will be illegal, at least initially, because the data tells us that cannibalism in mammals causes degenerative brain diseases. But we don't really know how or why. The thoughts about prions are still very much theoretical.
So until/unless we can determine that human meat is safe to eat, it will be illegal, and some people will eat it purely because it's a rare delicacy.

To be fair, that's going to a very rare thing. How many people actually want to do that?

We're more likely to see more tech in sex. Actual androids and simulations.

Franz Von Peppercorn

BattleCorp wrote: »

Toilets will evolve to become medical equipment. Take a p1ss in the morning and it automatically analyses your urine and alerts you to any problems. Same for when you crap.

Self-driving cars will rapidly be gotten rid of due to the use of self-fly drones that can carry people around. No more traffic jams. This will happen in the next 15 or 20 years, if not sooner.

Food will be created using a 3d printer. Decide that you want lobster, the 3d printer will make it for you and it will taste like the real thing. Want alcohol, it will make it for you.

3d printers will be in every house and will be able to make pretty much anything. Feck, where did I put the scissors, print a new scissors.

Nanotechnology will mean that little robots will go into our bodies and remove tumors, cysts etc. one cell at a time. This will lead to us living much much longer (maybe not us, but our children and grandchildren). These nanobots will also be able to remove fat cells, and do many other things to alter our health and appearance.

The invention of a superconductor that works at room temperatures will be developed allowing for the invention of motors that will run for years on one charge. This will fcuk all the arabs who will have nothing to sell and will go back to riding camels.

Edit.

I nearly forgot the best bit. Virtual reality sex suits. Stick one on and shag whoever or whatever takes your fancy. All in your head and in the suit but it'll feel 100% real to the person wearing the suit.

You guys are way optimistic.

randd1

Sports events will be beamed into sitting rooms around the world through holographic tables, giving people at home a proper 3D rendering of the field, the ball and the players as they move naturally.

Once the match is over, you'll then be able to flip up the screen and watch TV as normal.

sbsquarepants

freshpopcorn wrote: »

They'll be app and it will tell you if your pregnant!

Plus you can pre-programme it with various options, so the first you know is when you ask alexa what's on for the day and she tells you have an abortion booked for 11:00am, straight after that big breakfast meeting and before the dentist. Busy day:eek: