What the Future Holds: In 10, 20, 50 Years

[wolram]

In 10, 20 , 50 etc years, at least for the majority of people?

 

[mattmns]

Higher quality internet porn.

 

[JasonRox]

Things that will get better.

I guess a lot of medical research would be relatively advanced.

 

[Evo]

Earlier cancer detection and treatment.

 

[russ_watters]

What won't get better?

 

[JasonRox]

What won't get better?

Air quality.

 

[Ki Man]

Higher quality internet porn.

most likely with more laws to get rid of it too

 

[JasonRox]

Higher quality internet porn.

With easier access so the whole world, from poor to rich, can enjoy porn. No horny person should be left behind.

 

[Cyrus]

Higher quality internet porn.

You're Dammmmmmmn right.

 

[Cyrus]

most likely with more laws to get rid of it too

Eh, what? If you don't like it, don't watch it. Its just like guns. Dont own one if you don't like it. No ones forcing you to.

 

[wolram]

What won't get better?

Taxation, or the £ in your pocket

 

[Ivan Seeking]

What will get better? I believe that the free flow of information on the internet will help to make the world a community. This will change everything.

What will get worse? The free flow of information will come with many problems such as privacy issues, online terrorist training, information overload, and perhaps most of all it poses great problems re inaccurate information - make-up a good lie today and it's global tomorrow.

 

[moe darklight]

Higher quality internet porn.

hahaha, internet porn? that is sooo 2007... think sex-o-bots! or orgasm chambers like in that woody allen movie.

 

[Cyrus]

In all honesty though, I think the jump in technology will be staggering. I mean hell, look at the freaking Iphone.

Its a touch screen phone, with internet, with an OS, with an Ipod. And it has amazing resolution and quality, all in the palm on your hand. It blows anything and everything out of the water in the phone industry.

Now imaging that being an old big piece of junk 10 years down the line.

It would be nice to have everything digital, and I mean everything. Like, how about the walls of your house are impregnated with circuits so that you can change the color of it by imputing a voltage. I want EVERYTHING electrical, and sleek.

 

[wolram]

hahaha, internet porn? that is sooo 2007... think sex-o-bots! or orgasm chambers like in that woody allen movie.

The things folk think up for 5 seconds of joy?

 

[moe darklight]

Now imaging that being an old big piece of junk 10 years down the line.

that's so true, look through some magazines from 1997, check out some computer ads and it's truly amazing how far computers have come.. my Ipod has 20 GB's of memory... that's more than any home computer would have dreamed of a decade ago... and my ipod is from 2 years ago... the new ones hold many times that plus videos and video games and 5 hours more of battery time.

hahaha, internet porn? that is sooo 2007... think sex-o-bots! or orgasm chambers like in that woody allen movie.

The things folk think up for 5 seconds of joy?

you're right! what we need is a time machine to slow down time!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Like, how about the walls of your house are impregnated with circuits so that you can change the color of it by imputing a voltage.

LCD paint licked

Walls and curtains could sport liquid-crystal digital displays.

Homes of the future could change their wallpaper from cream to cornflower blue at the touch of a button, says Dirk Broer. His team has developed paint-on liquid crystal displays (LCDs) that offer the technology.[continued]

http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/materialwissenschaften/bericht-9687.html

Next?

 

[Cyrus]

I want to be invisible...and fly.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I want to be invisible...and fly.

Okay, you're invisible. Trust me.

http://www.aa.com/index_us.jhtml

 

[Ivan Seeking]

invisibility cloak
http://science.howstuffworks.com/invisibility-cloak.htm

 

[Ivan Seeking]

okay really, you can fly here
http://www.jet-man.com/index_eng.html

 

[Cyrus]

Oh man, whered he go?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Oh man, whered he go?

Do you see the guy standing next to the guy in the coat?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

funny enough, look what was on the CtoC main page today
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2270686.html

 

[Cyrus]

How's that not reinventing the wheel?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

How's that not reinventing the wheel?

For sale to the general public.

 

[Cyrus]

Every moron needs a way to kill himself I suppose. At 130k, that's one rich dead moron.

 

[wolram]

I want to be invisible...and fly.

Apart from enhancing your already above average allure, how could this be anything better? to have an invisible ultra egotistic flying Cyrus would be scary and worst for most :rofl:

 

[Cyrus]

Laugh it up, those arent bird droppings.

 

[wolram]

Laugh it up, those arent bird droppings.

Well at the very least, please do not wear a superman type costume when
on your travels, those Lycra clothes reveal to much (shudder).

 

[Cyrus]

There is much to be revealed.