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What do you think the world will be like in 100 years?

Being to break down and rebuild matter at an atomic level means you will be able to recreate/produce any food/shelter without any harmfull waste products.
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i hope i will not see the day when food becomes completely devoid of nature. disgusting thought imo.
 
a really boring effortless place full of incapable old people demanding the younger generation to work even harder to support their inability to be self sustaining making everyone poor as shit. all of whom are scared shitless to take any type of risk deviating from a more developed standard model on how to live.
we'll probably continue to eat shittier food, drink less water, and avoid more sunlight giving rise to an overall lack of wellness and hopefully some plague or genocide will control the population. the earth can only harvest so much energy.
 
Bagseed said:
i hope i will not see the day when food becomes completely devoid of nature. disgusting thought imo.
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No need for that. But there would be no shortage of fertilisers, farming equipment etc. The ability to 100% clone a natural apple for instance and feed two people rather than one is better than what we have now when one person must miss out.
 
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I do see it being a little like digital vs analogue though. A natural approach will no doubt have more "soul" and probably taste better but you can't bitch about the poor dying on one hand while not embracing such technology.

I would like to see men wearing skirts and dresses in 100 years, particularly in warmer climates. I still can't seeing us all wearing the same uniform like Star Trek in the future though, unless jeans and a t shirt count.
 
^clothes? at all?

as for real versus artificial foods, i agree it can't be the same. however, this is purely intuitive, and i can't explain why.
 
Unless we embrace eugenics and create a race of truely beautiful ( and introduce an extirmination age) I do not want to live in a nudist society.

No man should operate heavy machinary such as jack hammers without some sort of covering.
 
everyone is beautiful, professor nofun

and sans coverage is the best way for jackhammerage. jingle all the way.
 
I do see it being a little like digital vs analogue though. A natural approach will no doubt have more "soul" and probably taste better but you can't bitch about the poor dying on one hand while not embracing such technology.
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it depends on how far we get. i'm sure, at first, the "resolution" (so to speak) of the "molecular copy-er" may be lower than perfect.

eventually, i don't think there will be any difference in food quality between replicator and organic-farmed. a molecule is a molecule, we'll pin them down eventually.
 
qwe said:
it depends on how far we get. i'm sure, at first, the "resolution" (so to speak) of the "molecular copy-er" may be lower than perfect.

eventually, i don't think there will be any difference in food quality between replicator and organic-farmed. a molecule is a molecule, we'll pin them down eventually.
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But is a molecule small enough? When digital audio came out it was argued that the sound was clean and pure recording but reality is you mis out on the "haze" that often gives analouge it's warmth and depth. Our current understanding of taste is at a molecular level but I would not be surprised if there is more layers to flavour than just an atom. A 100 years might not be long enough to dive deep enough into quantum physics.
 
I am one, of many I'm sure, who aspire to write a science fiction book about where we are headed in the next century and then following, many centuries later. I think robots will one day rule over us. Yet, I think that we will actually be slaves to our own desire to create escapisms for ourselves rather than seek true and clear conceptions of our reality. One really big premice I hope to incorporate into the plot is the concept that, deluding ourselves into believing that spiritualism is not real will only accomplish one thing. We will become wholly blind to it's presence. Despite that it is there ruling our lives, we will continue to deny it until the end. (that is, if we make the choices that I see us making in the book I want to write) :)
 
ParappaTheRapper said:
What about the theory that our ancestors were much more intelligent and had better technology....used it to build the pyramids etc etc....?

What if us in 1oo years is actually us time traveling thousands of years ago to build things and we are now us back then from the future?
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lol @ lunology.
 
Something like Ghost In The Shell except we'll be spending more time in virtual environments than "reality" which will become pretty much become an entirely meaningless pursuit once we figure out it's possible to have the same experiences virtually thanks to the major advances in biotech and computing tech.

Right now there are teams making all kinds of breakthroughs in connecting digital information with human brains. So far it's just about better robotic arms but very soon we will have the technology to put a chip in our head that connects to our brain as a calculator and we will get it to stay competitive with all the people who get it right away and we will become used to spending time in virtual environments. These things are completely certain, the uncertainty lies in just how digital we become and whether or not we will see a point in holding onto our corporeal forms.

IMHO trying to frame life in a hundred years in a human context is futile because we will be beyond that. In the past we have been chained to natural evolution so change was so gradual it was imperceptible. We are now forging our own evolutionary pathways and it may lead us down more than one path and split us into different "species", so to speak, but it will be something beyond what we can even imagine. That's especially true if the chip-in-our-heads deal comes within the next 20 years, if you pay attention to tech news at all that seems to be a stretch it's likely to happen even sooner.

Don't you ever feel like the information available to us now is overwhelming? Well then, you will be one of the first to get a chip in your skull that can process information to the tune of billions of floating point operations per second. That's like a billion people on a billion calculators doing a billion unique calculations at once. That's insane. That's inconceivable. That's already in the pipeline. Just imagine how fast progress will accelerate once we have that capability. Or at least, sleep on it for now and try to imagine it after you get chipped. It'll be a lot easier to do then.
 
If we carry on as we are, in a 100 years, we will have probably killed each other over resources.
 
Busty St Clare said:
Unless we embrace eugenics and create a race of truely beautiful ( and introduce an extirmination age) I do not want to live in a nudist society.
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THANK you. It's funny when people get sensitive about eugenics, no not everyone is beautiful. There are lots of genetic mistakes/mutations walking around that should have been tossed over the Spartan cliff. I may not be genetically pure myself, but I would completely agree to a systematic engineering of future generations. I'm not talking about ethnic cleansing, I'm talking about impeccable specimens of every ethnicity and any mixture.

Has anyone mentioned microchipping? Like used for credit accounts/currency, identification, etc. That's what was spilled somewhere from some unknown top businessman during the wake of 9/11
 
house, make the walls red. join the two adjacent rooms into one. and bring me a cup of tea. earl grey. hot.

car, with your computation integrated with your engine, take me to the park.

heads up display built into the eye.

technological telepathy within 60 years imo... we can already insert feelings into people, extract what they're seeing or thinking visually. we already have robots small enough to go inside of us.
 
- USA will be under a new government/new asabiyya.
- Sub atomic particles will be taught in schools
- Robotics will take over industry.
- Cancer and aids will be history.
- Life expectancy's will be far higher due to cybornetics.
- We'll learn to integrate neuroscience with technology -> computers can pick up thought and probably replace keyboards lol (think "bluelight" and you'll be instantly taken to this forum), lie detectors will be replaced with electronic mind reading, perhaps even telepathic communication via electronics.
- Less corrupt judicial system and more power to the people.
- Gasoline won't be available to the people.
- Technology will have a whole new image. We'll be even more secluded to our virtual realities, we'll have entertainment and tools alot more nifty than television and computers.
- More efficient space exploration - hyperspace :P.
- We'll be able to teleport whole systems of cells, rather than just one molecule (what we're capable of right now).
- Most drugs will be legal or at least utilized in the medical and psychiatric field (in the usa) or drugs will be completely outlawed.
- Weapons will no longer fire bullets and metal but moreso shit you'd see in halo (plasma gun/whatever).
- Harness gravity to create energy (gravity powered powerplants)
- Human interaction will be based upon unconditional trust and civility once more... WORLD PEACE
- Advances in philosophy and social sciences.
 
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