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Posted: 1/29/2015 6:49:44 PM EDT
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I see robotics, life extension therapy/medicine, obviously computing power, communications. Space ships? Nothing like firefly for hundreds of years, unless propulsion technology makes huge leaps.
Socialism is our largest barrier, although it would take socialism to gain the tech if we want the government to do it. I'd love to see all welfare and social security ended, and NASA gets a $50b/year budget. |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 6:50:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryThat is a more realistic possibility than you may realize. Once cognitive computers are controlling our battle bots and programmable drones, we will be at war with them for or own survival in short order.
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Posted: 1/29/2015 6:52:07 PM EDT
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I'm in the "Idiocracy" camp. Mankind is getting stupider and stupider at an astonishing pace. I don't have a lot of hope for the future. This. The global IQ has been dropping each decade. |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 6:52:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm hoping for genetic engineering tech. Nothing to improve quality of life like engineering out all the genes that leave you prone to certain maladies.  |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 6:54:32 PM EDT
[#5]
Idiocracy for sure.
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Posted: 1/29/2015 6:54:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryThis. both war with robotics, and "Jump" technology when we find out that quantum entanglement can be controlled for superluminal travel easier then collapsing space time. the "red line" will be observed as maximum distance a jump can be made. |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 7:04:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mark D:
This. The global IQ has been dropping each decade. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mark D:
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I'm in the "Idiocracy" camp. Mankind is getting stupider and stupider at an astonishing pace. I don't have a lot of hope for the future. This. The global IQ has been dropping each decade. That's not true. |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 7:06:33 PM EDT
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Serious answer.. most of the stuff from SnowCrash.. with in the next 100.. It's been probably close to 10 years since I last read that, but I don't recall anything far-fetched in there. Honestly, I think most of that we could do today. |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 7:13:05 PM EDT
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Arfcom smartphone app. one would hope.
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Posted: 1/29/2015 7:19:50 PM EDT
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Serious answer.. most of the stuff from SnowCrash.. with in the next 100.. This, plus "1984". |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 7:23:16 PM EDT
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Not on this Planet
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Posted: 1/29/2015 7:50:00 PM EDT
[#12]
Bump.
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Posted: 1/29/2015 8:54:30 PM EDT
[#13]
Revelation Space
In the 21st cent. numerous wars occurred, and a flotilla of generation ships were deployed to colonize a planet orbiting a nearby star. In the tail end of 22nd cent. a splinter branch of humanity - the Conjoiners - emerge as they become increasingly meshed with neural implants. No FTL, but there are huge ships called Light-huggers that approach light speed and connect human planets. Only the Conjoiners know how to build the engines that power the Light-huggers. For the next few centuries, the so-called Belle Epoque, humanity enjoyed a period of relative peace and prosperity, with several planets being colonized. The Belle Epoque ends with the Melding Plague in 2510, a nanotechnological virus that destroyed all other nanotechnology it came into contact with. |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 9:00:05 PM EDT
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Sorry, I still have a boner over the possibility of immortality and getting to create my own universe.
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Posted: 1/29/2015 9:11:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Socialism is our largest barrier, although it would take socialism to gain the tech if we want the government to do it. I'd love to see all welfare and social security ended, and NASA gets a $50b/year budget. |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 9:14:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 500 Years? Do you know how long that is in technological development time? Where were we 100 years ago? 500 Years is unimaginable.  I would have gone with 50 years....even THAT is a stretch  |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 9:25:12 PM EDT
[#17]
A penis enlarger that actually works.
Edit - Um, I mean I hear they don't work. Um, not that I need one. |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 9:29:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Hell yeah! http://<a href=http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/bb475/Randomguy1911a1/1349374520374.jpg</a>" /> Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Ghost in the shell within 150 years. Id love to have a Tachikoma.. hell 2 at least to keep them selves company.. Hell yeah! http://<a href=http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/bb475/Randomguy1911a1/1349374520374.jpg</a>" /> Nah, Appleseed is more like it!  I like Appleseed more than I like Ghost in the Shell.    |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 9:35:06 PM EDT
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500 years? I'm skeptical we make it that long.
ETA: or if we do, Idiocracy. |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 9:37:11 PM EDT
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We will probably be back to the horse and buggy if we survive the next great asteroid strike.
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Posted: 1/29/2015 9:38:40 PM EDT
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I won't lie. Ide love a gene therapy for crohns. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I'm hoping for genetic engineering tech. Nothing to improve quality of life like engineering out all the genes that leave you prone to certain maladies. There is nanotech already in the works to replace the human digestive system with one that pulls in only what nutrients that the body should have, and excretes waste for the rest, fixing all sorts of GI issues. |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 9:44:45 PM EDT
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There is nanotech already in the works to replace the human digestive system with one that pulls in only what nutrients that the body should have, and excretes waste for the rest, fixing all sorts of GI issues. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I'm hoping for genetic engineering tech. Nothing to improve quality of life like engineering out all the genes that leave you prone to certain maladies. There is nanotech already in the works to replace the human digestive system with one that pulls in only what nutrients that the body should have, and excretes waste for the rest, fixing all sorts of GI issues. Still giddy for the (probability of) immortality and getting to create my own universe. 
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Posted: 1/29/2015 9:44:53 PM EDT
[#23]
man will be lucky to still be around in 500 years
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Posted: 1/29/2015 9:45:03 PM EDT
[#24]
do we get to pick our robot bodies or is it just randomly assigned? I want to be the robot from the 80s black hole movie, or a space marine dreadnaught.
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Posted: 1/29/2015 9:47:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Serious answer.. most of the stuff from SnowCrash.. with in the next 100.. It's a bummer.....we COULD be the Forerunners. |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 9:47:23 PM EDT
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do we get to pick our robot bodies or is it just randomly assigned? I want to be the robot from the 80s black hole movie, or a space marine dreadnaught. Probably get to pick.... ...if we don't live under a global dictatorship by then... |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 9:49:29 PM EDT
[#27]
Idiocracy combined with 1984.
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Posted: 1/29/2015 9:49:59 PM EDT
[#28]
Grey goo!
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Posted: 1/29/2015 9:50:03 PM EDT
[#29]
Best case scenario: Idiocracy
Most likely scenario: Soylent Green, followed by The Postman, followed by The Road Not gonna happen scenario: Star Trek, Firefly, etc. |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 9:50:05 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/29/2015 9:50:48 PM EDT
[#31]
Berserkers
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Posted: 1/29/2015 9:51:02 PM EDT
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....I agree....we COULD have just jumped right into the Diamond Age...but, apparently, we have to be a bunch of idiots first..... It's a bummer.....we COULD be the Forerunners. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Serious answer.. most of the stuff from SnowCrash.. with in the next 100.. It's a bummer.....we COULD be the Forerunners. One of my favorite quotes from Halo "We are Forerunners, guardians of all that exist.The roots of the galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms... And the impervious shelter beneath which it has prospered. "
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Posted: 1/29/2015 9:52:17 PM EDT
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Mind uploading i was playing around with that idea as the basis of a short story. the implications are fascinating. |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 9:52:34 PM EDT
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Guardians of the Galaxy Gear.
The Hadron enforcer for example uses particles that actually exist, unlike Star Trek. I don't think ST will ever happen because most of their tech is based on non existent particles and elements and technobabble. Definitely Starship Troopers in 200 years. |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 9:53:23 PM EDT
[#35]
A loading bar that actually works
A cell phone you make calls where you can actually hear the person. Seriously though in 100 years I think we'll have advanced nanotech and be able to live 300 + years. In 200 years I think we will have mastered efficient sub light speed travel and 10+ space colonies. Telepaths will be common place. We will truly understand the human body and brain. We will have AI many times smarter than the human race combined. We will fully understand the origins of the universe and be able to efficiently manipulate both energy and matter, this will make energy near boundless. In 300 years I think people will be able to live as long as they want, we will have advanced AI, and have unlocked the secrets to teleportation and faster than light travel. in 500 years we'll all be part of the borg.I believe we are roughly 200 years away from the nano tech revolution which will change the world in a way more profound than the invention and mastery of the transistors. All we have to do to get here is not kill each other and avoid the end of the world as we know. So I won't hold my breath
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Posted: 1/29/2015 10:07:15 PM EDT
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Now for my real answer. I think over a long enough time period someone will cause a giant setback to mankind. Nuclear war, Biological, or Technological. Technological being anything from Nanorobotics to skynet. I don't have enough faith in humans that we won't start a WW3 that will almost end civilization.
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” Albert Einstein |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 10:07:30 PM EDT
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Sorry, I still have a boner over the possibility of immortality and getting to create my own universe. Well.. I know it sounds pretty out there.. but really, the exponential growth of computing power, analytical technology, scientific modeling, rapid prototyping, etc, will make discoveries come faster and faster. Food for thought. We will likley, by 2040, have the computing power to computer model every cell in the human body, from conception to old age, for a given genetic code, in seconds. That means we will be able to accurately model and test everything from new drugs and compounds, to therapies and treatments via computer simulation. With parallel computing, you could model 100,000 different people, and run a drug trial on all of them from birth to death, in a few seconds. If the test can run every permutation of a compound or molecule, you can find solutions to all sorts of disease and issues in days. Take that a step further to identify genetic diseases, and implement cures, and you can perfect the human body, and eventually conquer disease, aging, etc. Add nanotechnology, and even injury might be a minor and temporary thing. And this is just around the corner. |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 10:09:33 PM EDT
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I want your thoughts and ideas, hence why I am not doing a poll Personally, I think we are getting close to were Firefly is, maybe where the UNSC from Halo is as well (sans FTL travel.) Supposedly Firefly wasn't FTL but the whole "universe" never made any fucking sense from a hard Sci-fi standpoint. And we are way far away from drive systems like they had. 500 years probably not, most of the drives violate all sorts of reality principles (mainly way too small, and absurly inefficient). |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 10:10:54 PM EDT
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Id love to have a Tachikoma.. hell 2 at least to keep them selves company.. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Ghost in the shell within 150 years. Id love to have a Tachikoma.. hell 2 at least to keep them selves company.. I'd take Saito's implant and gun 
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Posted: 1/29/2015 10:11:20 PM EDT
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Dune.
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Posted: 1/29/2015 10:15:40 PM EDT
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Ships powered by electricity which can submerge beneath the seas and travel underwater.
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Posted: 1/29/2015 10:24:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Arfcom smartphone app. one would hope. |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 10:26:36 PM EDT
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And this is just around the corner. lol |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 10:28:21 PM EDT
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We will either be extinct or colonizing space.
ETA 500 years of exponential technological progress would be unimaginable. What we would call "human" today may be long gone and it'll be our "creations" that colonize space. |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 10:30:23 PM EDT
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time travel |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 10:31:25 PM EDT
[#46]
Probably the Flintstones.
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Posted: 1/29/2015 10:42:01 PM EDT
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please say Mechs..... please say Mechs.....
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Posted: 1/29/2015 10:43:11 PM EDT
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In 500 years we'll have cell phone calls that's aren't dropped, people will know the difference between "your" and "you're" and microwave popcorn will be "unburnable." Well, maybe 600-700 years from now, anyway.
In all seriousness, we'll fuck it all up because we can't help ourselves, and it will be straight Mad Max style!
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Posted: 1/29/2015 10:54:30 PM EDT
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Interesting... What technology do you see us having by the year 2115? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I want your thoughts and ideas, hence why I am not doing a poll Personally, I think we are getting close to were Firefly is, maybe where the UNSC from Halo is as well (sans FTL travel.) None of them. Really. We will probably surpass what most of them have, tech wise, within the next 100 years. 500 Years from now.. probably more of a biblical kind of thing. Interesting... What technology do you see us having by the year 2115? There may be a version of Windows that doesn't suck. Nothing serious in space will happen until we can leave the solar system and get to another star. We could conceivably engineer the atmosphere of Venus to make it habitable, but the machinery and effort needed to do it is something humanity is unlikely to muster. If it was done, I imagine it would take a century or more to make it habitable. Once the atmosphere became breathable, there would still be a lack of fertile soil. Farming would be very limited and it would take many more years to make it a place that could sustain and grow. Then the question is how do we get out of the solar system and there's not much practicality or point if we have to do it at conventional speeds. The nearest potentially habitable planet is 23 light years away and the crew will have to haul a lot of stuff there to deal with whatever they find. Then it will be a minimum of 23 more years before they can report what they found. IOW, you need some kind of FTL drive. I'm certain that someone will find a way, but the method is essentially alien to us now. It may go along with a system that produces limitless energy or one that can transform nuclei, or both. Star Trek's communism is not unreasonable in such a world. When energy and material are essentially free, work is for people who want something to do. They won't really have to have jobs. |
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Posted: 1/30/2015 12:33:10 AM EDT
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