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Post by willywonka666 on Jan 5, 2009 8:19:28 GMT -5
So throughout the years, through movies, books and television, we've seen or read about what the future and what it could be like. The question I'm posing is, to what extent do you think we may see some of this in our lifetime, if at all.
I'm not just talking about the inventions either,one thing these films share is the environment-kind of a post apocalyptic type of feel. Do you think we'll see any change in our type of environment?
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Jan 5, 2009 8:33:01 GMT -5
I think so, with all the crap that gets pumped into the oceans, atmosphere and countryside things are bound to get screwed up sooner or later. Can't see it happening for like 100 years or more in which case I'll be dead so I don't actually give a toss if it does happen
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Jan 5, 2009 8:36:37 GMT -5
I think within the next 20 years you will not be able to buy hard copies of movies, music or videogames unless there from a antique shop.
Also sometime over the next 50 to 100 year the technology used to make Harrier Jump Jets take off and land will be used on all aircraft rendering the airport runway obsolete. It will also make Aircraft Carriers smaller.
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Post by B'Cup x on Jan 5, 2009 8:40:12 GMT -5
its near impossible to predict the future as we predict it using the technology availible to us as the basis. Just go back and look at all the victorian predictions of how we would be living, no planes, tvs, computers any of that jazz, but its a future built around airships and the like
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Post by Push R Truth on Jan 5, 2009 8:42:57 GMT -5
I don't think Population will be as much as an issue in the future.
I'm still amazed to this day that we haven't had a Major Outbreak of a Swift and Deadly Disease in recent history.
With the way people travel all around the world, it's only a matter of time before it happens. Just need 1 or two of the right (actually... wrong) mutations and we are looking at losing 20-50% of the worlds population short term, and another 20-40% because the infrastructure of the world will be unmaintainable due to the loss of man-power.
I actually don't really like predicting this, but it's just something that a history buff and biology hobbyist finds interesting.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Jan 5, 2009 8:46:57 GMT -5
Although cars won't be flying for another century I feel.
But we are well on the way to having cars that can drive themselves. Today you can get cars that have a cruise control that adjusts the speed based on the car in front of it. And BMW has a prototype that can memorize routes and can drive itself on those routes.
With GPS and all that all they really need to do is figure out when they need to stop at a red light, stop sign, road hazard.
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Post by Push R Truth on Jan 5, 2009 9:08:12 GMT -5
Although cars won't be flying for another century I feel. But we are well on the way to having cars that can drive themselves. Today you can get cars that have a cruise control that adjusts the speed based on the car in front of it. And BMW has a prototype that can memorize routes and can drive itself on those routes. With GPS and all that all they really need to do is figure out when they need to stop at a red light, stop sign, road hazard. I don't think you'll ever get Cars the truely drive themselves without actual true AI. Why? There is a little kid that wants to cross the street. You can look at the kid and start to figure out by the look on their face if they are going to run for it, or stand and wait. Think a car can figure that out? Or better yet, do you WANT to trust that power to your car?
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Jan 5, 2009 9:12:50 GMT -5
Also sometime over the next 50 to 100 year the technology used to make Harrier Jump Jets take off and land will be used on all aircraft rendering the airport runway obsolete. It will also make Aircraft Carriers smaller. I'm surprised that hasn't happened already actually. Harriers have been around for a while now so Id've thought they'd have made a few more aircraft with the same technology.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Jan 5, 2009 9:18:05 GMT -5
I am ready for a future Fallout 3 world complete with automobile sized scorpions and robots that guard train stations with 'Lethal force'
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Post by Topher is Human on Jan 5, 2009 9:21:55 GMT -5
... The Future, Conan?
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Jan 5, 2009 9:25:31 GMT -5
I am ready for a future Fallout 3 world complete with automobile sized scorpions and robots that guard train stations with 'Lethal force' And helper robots that tell Christmas Cracker jokes.
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Post by Push R Truth on Jan 5, 2009 9:28:05 GMT -5
I am ready for a future Fallout 3 world complete with automobile sized scorpions and robots that guard train stations with 'Lethal force' And helper robots that tell Christmas Cracker jokes. I'm surprised and slightly disappointed at the lack of Giant Guardian Monsters protecting us from Planet X Aliens in your future predictions.
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Post by Bo Rida on Jan 5, 2009 9:30:18 GMT -5
We're all screwed unless we can get more oil out of the ground, most people don't realise that you even need it to make plastic.
Technology we can't really predict, we don't have robot servents but have the internet and nobody predicted that, in some cases it's more likely to go backwards due to eco and safety concerns (eg Concord).
Of course it's hard to discuss the future without mentioning political issues.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Jan 5, 2009 9:30:25 GMT -5
I am ready for a future Fallout 3 world complete with automobile sized scorpions and robots that guard train stations with 'Lethal force' And helper robots that tell Christmas Cracker jokes. A Neutron walks into a bar and asks "how much for a drink"? Barkeeper replies "for you no charge" I love the butler-bot
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Post by Ultimo Chocula on Jan 5, 2009 14:32:53 GMT -5
In the year two thousaaaaaand! In the year two thou-SAAAAAAAAAAAND!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2009 14:41:57 GMT -5
Movie portrayals of the future are always ridiculous. It's always some fantastic, flashy impractical nonsense we're seen as having. We'll have cool things, but things designed to make our lives easier and not things that make for interesting movie sequences.
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Post by The Booty Disciple on Jan 5, 2009 15:37:53 GMT -5
Also sometime over the next 50 to 100 year the technology used to make Harrier Jump Jets take off and land will be used on all aircraft rendering the airport runway obsolete. It will also make Aircraft Carriers smaller. I'm surprised that hasn't happened already actually. Harriers have been around for a while now so Id've thought they'd have made a few more aircraft with the same technology. I recall reading a while back that itt takes an insane amount of fuel to actually take off vertically. Until they make them FAR more efficient for vertical TO/landing, we'll continue to see the ski-jump variant runways for Harriers and standard TO/Landing for regular birds for the foreseeable future.
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Post by -Lithium- on Jan 5, 2009 15:46:35 GMT -5
Although cars won't be flying for another century I feel. Yeah but the public will never have them. Too many stupid and dangerous people out there for that to be available. And its real hard to predict what advances in technology we'll have because everything moves so fast these days. Advances that use to take like a decade happen in a couple of years now. But I think the whole worlds gonna be over in the near future because of nuclear war, anyway...
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Post by erisi236 on Jan 5, 2009 15:48:39 GMT -5
Yesterday was the future two days ago.
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Post by Push R Truth on Jan 5, 2009 15:52:44 GMT -5
You know all those people you swear at for driving like morons? Give them at least quadruple the speed, flight and mini-nuclear generators and see how long the world lasts.
I give it around 3 hours.
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