What major changes we MIGHT see in the next 100 years ?

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E equals MC2

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Originally posted by: 3NF
1. The Elohim will return, and reveal the real truth about our origins.

2. One "Earth" government, one language, and the concept of money will no longer exist. The world government will be based on humanitarianism and geniocracy. A total democracy is not good, because it allows stupid people to make decisions. Voting should be limited to those with above average intelligence.

Voting limited to 'intelligent people' sounds like a good idea as it annoys me that the old lady next door told me she voted for Bush simply because she thought he's cute. However, this implementation will be HIGHLY suspectible to corruption. World government in 100 years??? You MUST be dreaming. Do you live down south? You have any idea how individualized we are as ethinicity, culture, and etc? You think English will magically throw off their hatred for French and hug each other and Koreans will accept Japan with open arems after they've raped their women, try to rid of their culture and abolish our identity with unspeakable atrocities? History speaks and also predicts future. Not in 100 years.

3. Human cloning will be a reality, and if so, the possibility of immortality through science will be achievable.

4. If immortality is possible, then the concept of marriage will no longer exist. Couples can and will exists, the concept of marriage (contract) between two people should end. If you could live 200 years, would you really want to stay married to the same person all that time? No! If the person you love wants to love another, then you should be happy, not jealous. Jealousy is the opposite emotion of love and is useless - a sign of weakness.

5. Monotheistic religions will die, because we will understand that all life on this planet was designed and engineered by aliens.

6. Raelianism will be the new "religion".

7. Militaries will no longer exist, because the earth will have been unified under one government.

8. Chemical education will need to become a reality, because the amount of information each generation needs to learn grows exponentially. Traditional school systems will no longer exists, because they will simply become inadequate.

9. Racism will no longer exist, because we will eventually all become the "same" race, after mixing together and essentially becoming mutts.

Sir you MUST be JOKING. Look at the history of mankind. We are ignorant, presumptuous and tend to ground among ourselves. Mutts? Maybe 1000 years down the road. 100 years is just around the corner.

10. People will be free of the slavery of work, and will be able to blossom in whatever it is they makes them happy.

Uh huh

If the above doesn't happen, it will be because humanity will have destroyed itself - which is certainly a possibility before the year 2100.

 

0roo0roo

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Originally posted by: her209
China will be a superpower. The US will become what Europe is now.

not without oil.
if sh*t hits the fan chinas going to have some severe problems with its population.
 

invidia

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We'll get invaded by a Protoss-like alien race who wants to wipe us off the face of the planet.

We'll all become extinct because we won't be able to work together because of our ideology and religious differences 100 years later.
 

FleshLight

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Oil becoming extremely expensive, melting of Greenland and polar ice sheets, Dubai bubble bursting, China becoming a superpower, Starcraft will be available to play on cellphones.
 

Vageetasjn

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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.
Always nice to see a fellow transhumanist.

As for predictions, I pretty much echo Nano's assertions in his previous post.
 

Mikey

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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.
 
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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.

I hear paragraphs will be a standard within the next 100 years. I wish we could all be around to see it.
 

bonkers325

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it'll be like futurama, except we'll have eaten all the lobster-people because of the great famine of 2130.
 

Oceandevi

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You will be able to walk from the pacific to the atlantic.... entirely on the roofs of suburban homes.
 

SsupernovaE

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Originally posted by: NanoStuff
Originally posted by: gsethi
Transportation - traveling through Space
Depends. How far and why? We will send robots as usual, but we ourselves? No.

Originally posted by: gsethi
Fusion becoming our main energy source, also solar and wind ?
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
Medicine - Synthetic organs instead of transplants, cloning etc.
Nope. That's 2010-2040 range. 2100 will be long past that.

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 )
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
Also, A.I. becoming mainstream - we relying on A.I. to do the thinking and planning for us ??
What is mainstream? AI would have long exceeded human intelligence, assuming we even allow AI to get that far considering moral and existential concerns.

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.

Are you a Singularitarian?
 

invidia

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Originally posted by: SsupernovaE
Originally posted by: NanoStuff
Originally posted by: gsethi
Transportation - traveling through Space
Depends. How far and why? We will send robots as usual, but we ourselves? No.

Originally posted by: gsethi
Fusion becoming our main energy source, also solar and wind ?
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
Medicine - Synthetic organs instead of transplants, cloning etc.
Nope. That's 2010-2040 range. 2100 will be long past that.

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 )
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
Also, A.I. becoming mainstream - we relying on A.I. to do the thinking and planning for us ??
What is mainstream? AI would have long exceeded human intelligence, assuming we even allow AI to get that far considering moral and existential concerns.

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.

Are you a Singularitarian?

I am.