It's very hard to predict what will take off, and what will stay the same.
100 years ago, there were cars, and they had internal combustion engines. The fundamentals were hardly any different to today. But other things, like medicines, space travel, computing, could never have been imagined back then.
What do you think will be different, and what will be fundamentally the same, in 100 years from now?
What will life be like in 100 years time?
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What will life be like in 100 years time?
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Our synthetic biological quantum brained slaves will rise up and destroy us. Hopefully.
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Please don't tell me this will take 100 years. I was hoping for early November, when the weather is favorable.Clinton Huxley wrote:Our synthetic biological quantum brained slaves will rise up and destroy us. Hopefully.
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The one really stunning thing that could happen, and have gigantic consequences, is if someone finds a cure for aging. And it's starting to look like it's not impossible.
I can't imagine people taking that development smoothly. It would have to be rationed, and you would have the rich staying young, and living for ever, and the poor getting old and dying. I think that might cause a revolution. I'd be up for it.
I can't imagine people taking that development smoothly. It would have to be rationed, and you would have the rich staying young, and living for ever, and the poor getting old and dying. I think that might cause a revolution. I'd be up for it.
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I still consider myself to be somewhere between young and old, but I don't see grand prospects for being materially rich in the present state of things. Therefore, sign me up for the revolution.
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Maybe nothing will happen, for a hundred years.
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The British Empah, as we know is, will hardly exist.Clinton Huxley wrote:Maybe nothing will happen, for a hundred years.
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Guh. It's worse than I ever imagined.Clinton Huxley wrote:Maybe nothing will happen, for a hundred years.
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Re: What will life be like in 100 years time?
Hundred years from now fewer vehicles will be operating that are powered by internal combustion engines than there were 100 years ago. That is to say there'll be fuckall, even presuming that there'll be humans left alive to operate them.
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Re: What will life be like in 100 years time?
The planet will likely be warmer and less ice on land there will be lots of 3D printing, there will be less fossil fuel in the ground.
Everything else is up for grabs.
It would be like trying to imagine the impact of the discovery of coherent light 50 years ago. No possible way of knowing where it was and is to go.
Everything else is up for grabs.
It would be like trying to imagine the impact of the discovery of coherent light 50 years ago. No possible way of knowing where it was and is to go.
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We'll be reduced to a subsistence level economy powered by draft animals and their dried shit. The early middle ages, should anyone remember them at all, will look like a golden era. Giant, mutant mosquitoes will carry off our young. We'll all eat semi-poisonous tubers with the occasional bit of scavenged carrion every day.
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Ha and they are often hilariously wrong. But the reason some predictions are wrong shouldn't surprise smart peopleIt's very hard to predict what will take off, and what will stay the same.
Robot maids. Constructing one isn't beyond the realms of technology and engineering. Except when it comes to the AI needed to control it. Artificial intelligence unsurprisingly, is extremely, extremely difficult. Both in the hardware needed to run AI and the software needed to simulate it. If AI ever happens, I don't ever see it as being as cheap / easy to be dedicated to washing laundry and cooking dinner.
Flying cars. A fender bender traveling hundreds of miles an hour hundreds of feet above the Earth is a scary concept. Your normal car stalls, you pull over to the side of the road and call a tow truck. The side of the road is a loooong way down for a flying car.
Easy space travel. Chemical based propulsion systems always incurs an extremely high cost per pound to launch something beyond Earth orbit. We'll have to invent both the magical sci-fi energy source, which I'll call controlled tiny fusion reactors, and the magical make ship move propulsion system powered by that.
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FIFA will have awarded the 2114 World Cup to Venus.
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Generating multiple "Where can we move the 2114 WC?" threads.Clinton Huxley wrote:FIFA will have awarded the 2114 World Cup to Venus.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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Artificial intelligence is like the microchip itself. It might be extremely difficult to develop, but once you get there, it will be extremely cheap and easy to produce in huge quantities. So I wouldn't dismiss it's role. Especially as processing power and circuits will keep getting bigger in power, and smaller in size.
As far as space travel goes, the real cost is getting heavy hardware off the ground. If they can get materials off the moon, and manufacture the heavy stuff on a space station, they could really accelerate the process, just lifting people themselves, and the highest tech stuff from Earth.
The size of rockets to do that could be dramatically reduced, as most of the effort of takeoff is lifting the rocket and it's fuel.
As far as space travel goes, the real cost is getting heavy hardware off the ground. If they can get materials off the moon, and manufacture the heavy stuff on a space station, they could really accelerate the process, just lifting people themselves, and the highest tech stuff from Earth.
The size of rockets to do that could be dramatically reduced, as most of the effort of takeoff is lifting the rocket and it's fuel.
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