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SycoShaman
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Ive been thinking lately. What kinda advancements do you think we will make in the next 20 years, in technology and medicine?
Discuss
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| Posted: Sat, 8th Mar 2008 23:13 Post subject: |
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More people will be able to kill more people more efficiently at more of a distance.
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Horrordee
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| Posted: Sat, 8th Mar 2008 23:27 Post subject: |
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COD4 has taught me the above is probably true.
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| Posted: Sat, 8th Mar 2008 23:49 Post subject: |
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It think we will have a theory of quantum gravity, but I think whatever certainty we seek will be ruined by Godel's incompleteness.
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| Posted: Sat, 8th Mar 2008 23:56 Post subject: |
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I am hoping on large scale fusion power, but I am afraid this will take a long time before its actually economically viable =(
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i'm afraid there is gonna be so many wars raised by then that nothing but survival will matter and hot water will be praised as air we breath in right now
of course i can be wrong and we all ban all gods and religions and will live in peace and harmony happily ever after, which i highly doubt
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| Posted: Sun, 9th Mar 2008 00:54 Post subject: |
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This may seem wierd, but i'm actually hoping England get's to experience a major rough climate shift, just to witness the true destructive power of nature.
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| Posted: Sun, 9th Mar 2008 01:27 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Sun, 9th Mar 2008 03:07 Post subject: |
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America will have had a black president and american white people will become racist again.
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| Posted: Sun, 9th Mar 2008 03:35 Post subject: |
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I will deploy many small nuclear type devices around the world and in key locations taking out the worlds power grid thus sending the world into chaos. I will then rule the world like in ye olde' barbaric times as I clearly have the largest penis. I will kill everyone that looks at me the wrong way, and I will drink Iced Tea with a smile.
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| Posted: Sun, 9th Mar 2008 03:50 Post subject: |
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I think it's safe to say that most of the technologies we use now will be better, compacter, etc in the future but it's not that easy to predict what NEW technologies there will be. Those are few and far between and change the way we live rather than just improve/enhance life. The last new tech were the transistor and the computer which was like 50 years ago.
Even things like nanotechnology and AI haven't really borne their promise out. I would really like to see a combination of nanotech and stem-cells being used in some way to rebuild damaged tissue, bone, nerves. Wireless energy transfer might actually make it into everyday applications.
And unfortunately, weapons will continue to become more destructive and I guess energy weapons are not far away. Lasers, microwaves, infrared, uhf are all being field tested and just a question of time before atleast tank-sized weapons are introduced.
But these are just new applications of existing science and the new scientific breakthroughs are never easy to predict because who knows which mad (for now) scientist will make current sci-fi a future reality.
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| Posted: Sun, 9th Mar 2008 03:52 Post subject: |
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I think we will have TVs that you can roll up, really big ones. You can just unroll then and hang them wherever. Also they don't have cables, everything is wireless.
I think we'll see unmanned tanks and bomber planes. Everything will be remote control in wars.
Stuff won't be voice activated, it will be thought activated.
I also think there will be some new kind of rifle, like a phased plasma rifle, in the 40 watt range.
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| Posted: Sun, 9th Mar 2008 03:53 Post subject: |
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A 40 watt plasma rifle.
Good fucking luck with that Einstein. Your going to need it.
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| Posted: Sun, 9th Mar 2008 08:35 Post subject: |
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The future of entertaining is going to be in high defintion glasses. They will have tiny screens embeded in them that can display a picture larger than the largest cinema in the world, seeing as it's so close to your eye.
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| Posted: Sun, 9th Mar 2008 09:52 Post subject: |
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I think that it's really hard to predict the future, as there are many things to consider. Approximately every 6 months you have new type of microprocessor, and that is moving up the geometric scale. With the advance of technology you can't really predict what will happen, as all things are possible. We can conquer the Moon and Mars, we can have technology like we can't possibly imagine, through cell phones implemented in ourselves, nanotechnology and so on. As we develop technology we are also evolving (you can say too fast), that can't only be good. Humans have animal instinct that will be implemented in ourselves, probably forever, with that in mind we can have worst case scenarios like WW3 and probably worse. Not to mention that we are entering new cold era... Or the Earth can be struck by some giant meteorite, aliens, *** ,etc...(fill out the blanks yourself)
"Quantum mechanics is actually, contrary to it's reputation, unbeliveably simple, once you take the physics out."
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| Posted: Sun, 9th Mar 2008 10:16 Post subject: |
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World of Warcraft will rule us all.
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| Posted: Sun, 9th Mar 2008 17:50 Post subject: |
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They are already working on the beginnings of processors based on quantum physics and I don't think anyone can even imagine how fast they will be compared to what we have now.
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SycoShaman
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| Posted: Mon, 10th Mar 2008 00:36 Post subject: |
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Well, Im glad some people actually put some effort into their answer....geez...I was looking forward to a good conversation but with all these stupid remarks, the thread is ruined.
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| Posted: Mon, 10th Mar 2008 01:02 Post subject: |
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A toilet that processes your poop and urine into an edible substance again, that way we will solve world hunger(except for africa ofcourse where they don't have plumbing yet)
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| Posted: Mon, 10th Mar 2008 03:18 Post subject: |
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I hope they invent a toilet that doesn't splash my asshole with water when I cut a turd.
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| Posted: Mon, 10th Mar 2008 03:20 Post subject: |
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damn it
u and your shit again
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and im not talking about the next Crysis, im talking about the next format of games.. perhaps some Virtual Reality or something. My theory is this.. look at how far we have come along within the last 10 years.
hopefully!
