this is what comes to mind when i think of the future
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Originally posted by: her209
China will be a superpower. The US will become what Europe is now.
Originally posted by: her209
China will be a superpower. The US will become what Europe is now.
Originally posted by: fishmonger12
Except we'll all be dead.
Always nice to see a fellow transhumanist.Originally posted by: NanoStuff
Originally posted by: fishmonger12
Except we'll all be dead.
Speak for yourself![]()
I would be willing to come to your funeral though if it makes you happy, I guess.
Originally posted by: Mikey
We won't have flying cars, but if we do, I'm quite sure people wouldn't be aloud to fly them. Everything would become automated, because people can't be trusted to fly if everyone owned his/her own vehicle. An accident would be far more devastating in the air than on the ground due to increased collateral damage. Also, cell phones will probably be the primary computation source for the average person. We'll have unlimited amounts of high speed bandwidth with holographic projectors on our smart phones. Cell phones will also take over digital camcorders and digital cameras, with more megapixels then you would ever need. Also, optical zoom would be anywhere from 15-120x. Video games will all be virtual reality and they will probably be played through the cell phones too. Within the next 50 years, we will have the medical technology for humans to live over 200 years, though the human physiology is only designed to live optimally to an average 115 years prior to total degeneration. We will have cloned all sorts of land animals for food, as well as cloning the world's fish supply to meet demands. Resources, such as trees, will be genetically engineered to grow at an increased rate to provide lumber, and our primary source of energy will be electricity. Electricity will come from a mix of various technologies, such as improved and more efficient geothermal, solar, wind, ocean, and fusion. Since the water levels are expected to rise, that means there will be less landmass on earth to populate, so mankind will probably begin making floating cities. This technology is available now, but the funding required for it is non-existent. It just requires desperation for engineering marvels like this to jumpstart. I also believe that there will be countless major wars on this planet do to the fight over resources and land and etc. As for space flight, there will not be enough funding from any country on this planet to invest in manned space exploration out of this solar system. It would be more cost effective, safe, and efficient for all the space exploration programs to be done by robots and machines.
Originally posted by: NanoStuff
Depends. How far and why? We will send robots as usual, but we ourselves? No.Originally posted by: gsethi
Transportation - traveling through Space
Hard to say which will dominate at this point. All bets are off, but probably at least one of the three will be used extensively.Originally posted by: gsethi
Fusion becoming our main energy source, also solar and wind ?
Nope. That's 2010-2040 range. 2100 will be long past that.Originally posted by: gsethi
Medicine - Synthetic organs instead of transplants, cloning etc.
Definitely not. That's 2010-2040 range, and when I say 2040 that's really pushing the bounds of what by then will be retro technology.Originally posted by: gsethi
Entertainment - a Combined portable super computer that links to everything ?? (Probably some kind of helmet/glasses as the main screen ? think Robocop )
What is mainstream? AI would have long exceeded human intelligence, assuming we even allow AI to get that far considering moral and existential concerns.Originally posted by: gsethi
Also, A.I. becoming mainstream - we relying on A.I. to do the thinking and planning for us ??
One thing I'd expect is that the field of biotechnology and medicine would be obsolete, considering that by then complete biological substitution will be possible, it's doubtful a substantial amount of humans would prefer to remain biological at that point. Those that do would have likely died due to biological mortality anyways. The lack of biology implies minimal upkeep footprint and the complete virtual reality naturally suggests effectively infinite goods at no cost. Considering that at this point practically no physical goods are required to be sustainable, it necessarily suggests that an economy as we know it would no longer exist, and would largely be limited to artistic creations.
Originally posted by: SsupernovaE
Originally posted by: NanoStuff
Depends. How far and why? We will send robots as usual, but we ourselves? No.Originally posted by: gsethi
Transportation - traveling through Space
Hard to say which will dominate at this point. All bets are off, but probably at least one of the three will be used extensively.Originally posted by: gsethi
Fusion becoming our main energy source, also solar and wind ?
Nope. That's 2010-2040 range. 2100 will be long past that.Originally posted by: gsethi
Medicine - Synthetic organs instead of transplants, cloning etc.
Definitely not. That's 2010-2040 range, and when I say 2040 that's really pushing the bounds of what by then will be retro technology.Originally posted by: gsethi
Entertainment - a Combined portable super computer that links to everything ?? (Probably some kind of helmet/glasses as the main screen ? think Robocop )
What is mainstream? AI would have long exceeded human intelligence, assuming we even allow AI to get that far considering moral and existential concerns.Originally posted by: gsethi
Also, A.I. becoming mainstream - we relying on A.I. to do the thinking and planning for us ??
One thing I'd expect is that the field of biotechnology and medicine would be obsolete, considering that by then complete biological substitution will be possible, it's doubtful a substantial amount of humans would prefer to remain biological at that point. Those that do would have likely died due to biological mortality anyways. The lack of biology implies minimal upkeep footprint and the complete virtual reality naturally suggests effectively infinite goods at no cost. Considering that at this point practically no physical goods are required to be sustainable, it necessarily suggests that an economy as we know it would no longer exist, and would largely be limited to artistic creations.
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