#1: Future Technology: What do you expect?

[ThePokemonDude]

All I'm Hoping For Is The Best Vidio game Ever Where It Literally Transports you inside, sumthing like the 1Chip that gives you mind controll (Pokemon Without even having to toutch your cards...yeah) and pleasure robots *oooohhhh*

Oh, and cheaper gas so I could go to Nats when it's in St. Luis X.X

 

[omahanime]

I was watching Daily Planet a while ago and they said that Microsoft stated that in a decade everything would be a touch screen.

Don't forget that 10 years ago they were predicting the death of desk tops in a decade.

 

[bacon]

@ Spoon: Values will always apply no matter what, because they shape our personalities and ultimately determine who we are. And let's not forget one very, very important point: while machines will do the labour, who is commanding those machines? Humans. A person who is in control of such machinary and power will need to be a decent person, otherwise all hell is going to be let lose.

I stand corrected on the boredom part... sort of. But I still think that this education thing is going to become a massive problem if kids and teenagers have no reason to attend. And following that logic, people are going to become less educated- that's a step in the past surely, not the future.

@ Zilla: You sure are jumping ahead there, assuming that our natures are entirely dependant on our genes. While genetics does have an influence, the environment we live in also plays a massive role. And this environment is where I am making my point. A society where people don't have to learn or work is the environment: can you honestly say that these are the conditions in which decent people are shaped? I know I can't.

 

[Kingdra King]

I hope for:

ABL: Automatic Butt Lickers

now seriously..Automic Butt lickers!

Now very seriously...I'm looking fo the future of gaming...a game that feels like you are actually in it...maybe glasses that show you 3-d pictures or something...I don't know...oh and world peace!!!!Yay!!!!

 

[Metricus]

Just now I read that scientist says that soon we may be able to equip spacecrafts with a warp drive similar to that of Startrek.

 

[PokeChamp]

I hope for:

ABL: Automatic Butt Lickers

now seriously..Automic Butt lickers!

Now very seriously...I'm looking fo the future of gaming...a game that feels like you are actually in it...maybe glasses that show you 3-d pictures or something...I don't know...oh and world peace!Yay!

lolwut?


I like Heavenly Spoon's universe ^_^

What I want is just some virtual reality games, made possible buy technology. Other than that, I'm good

 

[The Fallen One]

In the future, robots will take over the planet and kill all other animals. Then they will keep having wars, and as they cannot multiply, all robots will eventually die out, leaving the planet vacant. Then the entire universe will be destroyed because of something. Then the big bang will happen again and it'll start all over again.

It's true.

Pessimist.

And the only chance for the Big Bang to occur again is if the Universe collapses. Destruction of the Universe would mean that all the matter in it is destroyed. With no matter, there can't be a super-dense atom to explode. What you're saying is probably something like all the Black Holes suck all the matter up. They aren't the same thing.

 

[Shining Raikou]

/facepalm

I can't believe I haven't seen this yet.

Genetically created Pokemon. :O

Wow, wouldn't that be awesome...

However, terrorists had better not get ahold of them. The world would be kinda scary to be honest, if we actually had like...Team Rocket or Team Galactic-like groups running around terrorizing people with Pokemon.

I think they probably could create Pokemon, but they wouldn't have "powers" really. Also... PokeBalls ...maybe they could happen. But wouldn't they suffocate the poor thing? I mean, I never understood how they breathe in there. Maybe there's airholes somewhere,...

I dunno...just some random thoughts on that. lol.

 

[Rotom479]

/facepalm

I can't believe I haven't seen this yet.

Genetically created Pokemon. :O

Wow, wouldn't that be awesome...

However, terrorists had better not get ahold of them. The world would be kinda scary to be honest, if we actually had like...Team Rocket or Team Galactic-like groups running around terrorizing people with Pokemon.

I think they probably could create Pokemon, but they wouldn't have "powers" really. Also... PokeBalls ...maybe they could happen. But wouldn't they suffocate the poor thing? I mean, I never understood how they breathe in there. Maybe there's airholes somewhere,...

I dunno...just some random thoughts on that. lol.

You for got about the random 10-year-old with impossibly good timing who will save the day. Oh wait... we're doomed.

 

[adlaerxo]

weopons to kill of the alieans who try to kill us before we kill earth (The Day the earth SS)

 

[42 chocolate]

Well... maybe what I said was a little off...
But I'll bet you anything we'll actually speak like this in the future:
P1: Hi!
P2: Hi! How r u?
P1: good
P2: I hrd u did somthing kewl 2day.
P1: Yah I went ice-skating
P2: Kewl
P1: Want 2 hang out 2morrow?
P2: Sure where?
P1: I dunno.
P2: Okay... hw abt d cocunut mall?
P1: Sure! c u l8r m8!
P2: C u then!

It's the sad truth.

And if global warming and littering keep happening, the world may be destroyed.

"Plan for the worst, but hope for the best."

 

[apophys]

@ Spoon: The lessons we learn in life determine not only our values, but also have a great influence on our personality. Take a look at some of the teenagers we see on the streets; they're bored, they don't have any goals in life. They probably don't go to school regularly, if at all. They look for other things to do, and their attentions are drawn to street crimes, drugs, and teenage pregnancy.

Now imagine a world where people don't even need this ambition in order to survive. Why go to school, when you won't need an education? Why quit smoking, when somebody can grow you a new lung? Why bother about anything? This doesn't sound like a futuristic utopia to me. It sounds more like a benefits culture, applied on a worldwide scale. And I really, really dislike the idea of that.

No, no, no, Bacon you have it all wrong. You see, those kids are on the streets, do drugs, and get their partners pregnant not because of their values, but because their parents passed on "juvenile delinquent" genes that for some reason that science can't explain (but says with confidence is "very real") gives them a predisposition to value-less lifestyles.

The only way to truly prevent this from happening is to literally "nip it in the bud."

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As for a future technology, something that allows psychiatry to be a real science and not a committee with bottles of medication wrapped around them in ammo belts with a diagnostic manual in one hand and a straight jacket in the other. Some might consider that a hyperbole but until psychiatry truly acknowledges how the attempt to explain mental deficiency through science lead to eugenics and the idea of literal inferiority through genetics, I stand by it.

Ignoring something does not it doesn't exist.

You're just one step away from saying the Holocaust was a good thing. IIRC, Hitler was greatly influenced by eugenics.
Inferiority through genetics? As decided by whom? By those in power of course. Do you want to be forcefully sterilized because someone deemed you "inferior"?

The only way to prevent juvenile delinquency is to ACTUALLY TEACH THEM TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES. Not teach them to follow directions, but teach them to create & voice opinions.

The biggest advance in technology will be the ever-so-popular Brain Chip, from now on referred to as iChip in this post. The iChip will be implanted in the brain and will function as everything, and everything will be activated through thought, or at least, through certain actions within the brain. Don't worry, your brain will learn them quite easily, through a trial and error principle. A happiness regulator (possibly with limitations, so this does not become a drug) will let people decide their mood. You'll be able to download knowledge on there in later versions, which will not make school obsolete, but which will change the use of school from a place where you gather knowledge to a place where you learn skills, social interaction, meet people, stuff.
The iChip also means interaction with everyone all over the world without even saying a word, just sending thoughts. Don't worry, you'll get used to it, it'll be like cellphones/internet, only better, user-friendlier, more natural, and without doing anything.

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No teleporters, sorry. Hoovercars? Probably, yes. Depends on our new source of energy.

Watch this South Park clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsABbZ-Xjmo



The primary purpose of the school system in America is social control, not teaching. I've learned far more by watching TV than by being in school. (Of course, you need to know which channels will teach you something. Very few, unfortunately.)

There should never be a "happiness regulator." It's like mass pacification.
You don't like what your government is doing? Turn up your happiness dial.

WE ALREADY HAVE IMPLANTABLE BRAIN CHIPS!!!
Oh, one more thing: implantable chips will enable mind control.


WE ALREADY HAVE FLYING CARS!!!
http://www.moller.com/

 

[Heavenly Spoon]

I am fully aware of the existence of brain chips, and do not doubt their share in defining the future of humanity. Most of the stuff in my wall of text might very well be possible in the long run. Changing information to brain waves is the only really big challenge left, the opposite is already pretty doable, cyborg monkey arms operated using a brain chip already exist

I did not question the possibility of hoovercars, I questioned whether or not we'd have an energy source powerful enough to allow massive usage. As we all know, our oil reserves are running out, and hydrogen just doesn't produce enough energy yet, and there's still a lack of a very efficient storage system for it, which we'd need for hoovercars.

The problem with educational TV is that very few people feel the need to watch it, let alone enjoy it. There's also the possibility of bias by the creators of educational programs, which might misguide their viewers.
And I find that, whilst schools are aiming at more of a social-skills-based education, they're failing horrible at it. The school system needs some drastic changes, no current school system, in my opinion, seems decent enough yet.

And I proposed a limit on the happiness regulator for a reason. If anything, the best use for it would be as a motivational device, rather than a drug. Which I hope will be the aim when brain chips come into production.

 

[bacon]

We should seek happiness in the world around us, not in a microchip stuck in our head.

 

[GODZILLA]

We should seek happiness in the world around us, not in a microchip stuck in our head.

*presses big red button - brain suddenly transported to vat*

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To anybody who thinks that I support eugenics and the holocaust based on my previous post, I assure you that I do not. I dislike the idea of "objective" discrimination based on a person's genes and the idea that people can be quantitatively superior or inferior to others. I tried to sound sarcastic in that post but you know the rule about sarcasm on the internet. :s

 

[Heavenly Spoon]

We should seek happiness in the world around us, not in a microchip stuck in our head.

Says Mr. Alcoholic :O

But seriously, motivational impulses can only help, right? I'm not talking about inducing narcotic effects, I'm talking about speed, but without the side-effects.

 

[bacon]

Alchohol is mainly used as a means to socialise with people. Unless you drink by yourself in which case, uh yeah, you have problems. lol

But I think that if you need to rely on a chip for happiness then there is clearly something wrong with the outside world. : <

 

[Master of the Shadow]

Super computer smarter then the human race. xD

 

[Pokequaza]

What i expect... hmmm a lot xD

From Teleporting to downloading stuff in your brain, from living on other planets to a Robot-like-world in the future... it's all possible, it's like technology is unstopable... the future is the world where fiction becomes reality...