Things you reckon will happen

Four Phucs Ache · 08-01-2019 11:01pm

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 · 09-01-2019 8:36am

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 · 09-01-2019 11:53am

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 · 09-01-2019 12:01pm

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 · 09-01-2019 12:01pm

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 · 09-01-2019 12:43pm

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 · 09-01-2019 12:58pm

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 · 09-01-2019 1:04pm

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 · 09-01-2019 1:13pm

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.

09-01-2019 1:16pm

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 · 09-01-2019 1:19pm

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 · 09-01-2019 1:20pm

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 · 09-01-2019 1:25pm

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 · 09-01-2019 1:27pm

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 · 09-01-2019 1:35pm

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 · 09-01-2019 1:37pm

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 · 09-01-2019 1:37pm

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 · 09-01-2019 1:57pm

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 · 09-01-2019 2:15pm

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 · 09-01-2019 2:28pm

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:

DEFTLEFTHAND · 09-01-2019 2:30pm

Humphrey BoaGart wrote: »

Trolling will be recognised as a profession. :pac:

It already is.

Trolls like 'Jimbo James Robbo' and 'A Thoughtful Man' are giving seminars on trolling in the UK.

4068ac1elhodqr · 09-01-2019 2:34pm

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

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

Long before that, every country will have massive yellow vest protests as millions of low-skileld workers begin to get replaced by the 'bots. Add in millions pouring into the EU from economic migration over the next 5/10yrs.

UBI payments will be introduced - electronic only and so it can't be spent on booze, fags, luxury goods or casinos. Payments can only be made by RFID tags embedded into your right hand coupled with iris scans.

While the 10% will get richer (and live in gated 'new towns'), the other 90% get poorer.

China will be the only exception having conquered the seven seas, the moon and Mars for mining and gas (low-cost fusion energy) extractions. China will also ban religions and the worship of false idols such as the cardigan ladies.

rgodard80a · 09-01-2019 3:05pm

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

You guys are way optimistic.

Yeah, there's a famous quote "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run," coined by Roy Amara, past president of The Institute for the Future.

So the PC was invented in 1980 (ish) but look they can do now after 30 years when twinned with the internet.

It would be great to see the advent of stable reliable fusion power in my lifetime, but not clear when.

We are still very primitive in the field of biotechnology.
Performing surgery with scalpels, amputations, skin grafts from other parts of the body etc will all seem terribly backward.

When we have full control over human DNA then we can cure all known diseases, regrow limbs, enhance human sensory organs, even add new senses like infra-red vision.

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