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What will the world be like in 2023?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 488 ✭✭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......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    One Direction reunion tour

    Cecelia Ahern elected Taoiseach in landslide

    There'll be no such thing as lost.

    We have to go back!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    One Direction reunion tour

    Cecelia Ahern elected Taoiseach in landslide

    There'll be no such thing as lost.

    We have to go back!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 488 ✭✭smoking_kills


    goose2005 wrote: »
    One Direction reunion tour

    Dear god say it aint so.....



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Flying cars.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,589 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 488 ✭✭smoking_kills


    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...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭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
    squirt porn will have taken over the world

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,736 ✭✭✭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:



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 430 ✭✭MOC88


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    squirt porn will have taken over the world


    Google Cytherea.

    That's squirt porn


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭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).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭Birroc


    My septic tank will be truly septic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,096 ✭✭✭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.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,096 ✭✭✭conorhal


    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? :confused:



    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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,096 ✭✭✭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! :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭kingtiger


    conorhal wrote: »
    your crocs however make you look like a goofy Disney character! :p

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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 673 ✭✭✭pundy


    i thought the future was bright, the future was orange?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,096 ✭✭✭conorhal


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

    Well... I suppose they do go nicely with your sombrero......


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 430 ✭✭MOC88


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

    Kill me now.....

    What are you on about - cow goes in leather shoes come out... simples

    you could print off a steak and a few burgers while you're waiting shur


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,036 ✭✭✭Surveyor11


    hover boards will jam up our streets


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,589 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


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

    the original plans for the EDF nukes was 2025, and they are still haggling so with the current and future delays it's probably going to be nearer to 2030 and that's using an existing design

    Fusion is decades away.

    Current predictions for solar are 36c per watt by 2017
    https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/solar-cost-reduction-drivers-in-2017

    Unlike nuclear, solar has been been getting 7% cheaper a year for the last 30 years. And there are lots of lab proven technical developments waiting to be commercialised.

    Stuff like using hydrogen ion plantation to fracture off 200um silicon slices instead of wasting 1mm per cut using saws


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 430 ✭✭MOC88


    LOL

    the original plans for the EDF nukes was 2025, and they are still haggling so with the current and future delays it's probably going to be nearer to 2030 and that's using an existing design

    Fusion is decades away.

    Current predictions for solar are 36c per watt by 2017
    https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/solar-cost-reduction-drivers-in-2017

    Unlike nuclear, solar has been been getting 7% cheaper a year for the last 30 years. And there are lots of lab proven technical developments waiting to be commercialised.

    Stuff like using hydrogen ion plantation to fracture off 200um silicon slices instead of wasting 1mm per cut using saws

    Yes


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    The Simpsons will still be running and will be even worse than it is now. There will be an episode about how Marge and Homer met in 2005 buying iPods.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    The Simpsons will still be running and will be even worse than it is now. There will be an episode about how Marge and Homer met in 2005 buying iPods.


    Do people still watch it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭Nemeses


    Do people still watch it?

    Watch what?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭W.Shakes-Beer


    The world will be gone to shít.


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