It feels like the future has arrived quite suddenly

kirk.

A lot of what was a long way off is suddenly here

Drone Delivery

Driverless Cars

Commercial Space Travel

Artificial Intelligence

Quantum Computing

Humanoid Robots seems to be lagging they haven't integrated fully with mankind yet

And more

Everlong1

That's all very nice but where the lightsabres we were promised?

Panthro

Garlic bread!

It’s the future, I’ve tasted it.

What about the undersea rail network that was supposed to get us from New York to Paris in ninety minutes?

Dublinandy3

Still waiting on the replicators

frag420

John Connor enters the chat…

ottolwinner

What about the self drying jackets from Back to the future?

Leg End Reject

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121261141#Comment_121261141

And the hoverboards too.

kirk.

Anyone guess the big one

Will probably never happen

Although maybe in a small way thanks to Einstein

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058318895/it-feels-like-the-future-has-arrived-quite-suddenly

When's Skynet due to take over?

Lewis_Benson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121261271#Comment_121261271

August 29th 1997.

Badly Drunk Boy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121261137#Comment_121261137

Or even to Dublin airport? (It doesn't have to be undersea.😉 )

littlevillage

and the more....

Climate catastrophe

Ecological breakdown

Global Pandemics

Wars over dwindling resources

Mass human migrations

lbunnae

Most of those on your list aren't really here tbh. And have been on the cards for 20 plus years.

Vita nova

The future is always coming but never arrives.

SharkMX

Get over yourselves. The future hasnt arrived until you can beam from one place to another star trek style.

John_Rambo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058318895/it-feels-like-the-future-has-arrived-quite-suddenly

Great thread and I wholeheartedly agree.

My moment was getting the first Covid vaccine. Army trucks & Garda vans parked up, security in masks directing people as I drove through the indoor carpark in complete silence in an electric car before talking to my wife face to face on a screen.

ancapailldorcha

I'm still waiting for a cure for cat allergy. I want to see the little s*ts faces when they realise they can't make me sick any more.

dickdasr1234

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121261137#Comment_121261137

Hehe, can you imagine the fun that the Russkies would have with that?

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121261739#Comment_121261739

What you fail to take into account is that cats are advancing their own technology at a faster pace than we are.

dickdasr1234

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121261727#Comment_121261727

Dystopian or whah!

ZeroThreat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058318895/it-feels-like-the-future-has-arrived-quite-suddenly

Don't forget large scale environmental/ecological destruction, real global warming and Waterworld...

kirk.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121261858#Comment_121261858

I think eventually there will an elite who don't reside on this planet but exercise control for their needs

AMKC

@OP Well done. You just picked 5 things that are no way widely availible yet. No drones delivery where I live unless you calling the drivers of Amazon vans or DHL vans etc drones.

No AI either or self driving cars or quantum computing or definitely no spaceport in Dublin yet that I know of because it certainly would not be in the county I live in.

I just want transporters to be a thing so the people who want to drive can drive and does who do not can just beam to work or play. Not going to happen tomorrow do or maybe not even in the next 50 or 100 years. So we will never see that or a lot if the other things you mention either unfortunately. Sorry to put a dampener on your thread but Humans are slow to change.

John_Rambo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121262146#Comment_121262146

Jesus.

Buzzkill D'arcy is on boards.ie.

looksee

It took me far longer than it should have to sort out 'does' and 'do' and make sense of the paragraph.

looksee

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121261138#Comment_121261138

The 3D printers are heading in that direction a bit. Kinda.

Cup

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121262146#Comment_121262146

AI is here and it’s shaking its booty. I use it in work (legal tech), it’s integrated into platforms I use, and I’m seeing it take over from real life hoooomans. And I’m not talking about asking Chat GPT to lend a land writing an email - although that can be handy too.

I’m amazed, excited, and a little bit overwhelmed at how quickly things are changing in my tech sphere in the last years. It’s legitimately life changing (for the better for me so far), and I’m only seeing the changes come thicker and faster.

kirk.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121262146#Comment_121262146

There wouldn't much happening with people like u around anyhow

dxhound2005

Artificial intelligence will never defeat human stupidity.

SuperBowserWorld

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N - N participants.

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Also, you can now have an AI attend the meeting for you and take notes.