The Future

[Sbbruin 22112]

Where is humanity headed?  What technological breakthroughs are on the horizon?  What about 50 years from now?  100?  1,000?  1,000,000?  I find the topic fascinating.  I think about if you brought some of the great minds from 200-400 years ago forward to today, how completely mindblown they would be.  Or Socrates (insert Bill & Ted), or Da Vinci.  This site is an interesting look at what might be.  One supposition is that eventually, and maybe no more than 100-200 years, we will supplement our brains with AI, where we can meld the two together.  If man could harness the speed of AI with the nuances of the human brain, the possibilities become endless.  Of course, continued population increase may derail that completely.  Anyway, random thought of the day.

https://www.futuretimeline.net/

[Helobious 9786]

Site looks and reads like it was made by a failed sci-fi novelist. 

[idigTexas 2325]

pm futureman

[RDCanecutter 26858]

Flying cars and Esperanto.

[crash_davis 23465]

what is the prediction for porn?  that's all i really care about.

[Tailleur17 361]

2 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

what is the prediction for porn?  that's all i really care about.

[PRONG HORN 3223]

 

Edited July 13, 2018 by PRONG HORN

[Tailleur17 361]

[Buck Strickland 380]

1 hour ago, crash_davis said:

what is the prediction for porn?  that's all i really care about.

Well, I still jerk off manually

[Eastwood 4394]

I remember stumbling across that website back in undergrad while doing some research for a project. Looks like that thing hasn't been updated in a long time. For instance, it said vertical farms will begin to become common in 2025. That is only 7 years from now and I don't see the need or the want to dump money into that, much less have heard about the desire to do so. Back when I originally read that 8 years ago, when peak oil and other Malthusian catastrophes were all the rage, that seemed like a smart, feasible solution? Now? It sounds like a massive boondoggle cooked up by Elon Musk.

[Paper_jam 847]

Everything (transportation, goods and services, government, housing, quality of life) is gradually going to become more crowded, more expensive, yet shabbier, crappier and dumber. Prepare for a "Soylent Green" kind of world by 2100 or 2150.  (Unless you are in the executive, high political, or financial class, who will wall themselves off in private luxury communities.)

 

 

[elfenix 34664]

 

[Gil Bang 26190]

The only thing that I know about the future, is UCLA Football will be on probation for violations under Chip Kelly. 

[Surly Bevo 25663]

 

[Pescado_Rojo 19570]

It's going to be a cross between idiocracy and Wall-E 

[Quagmire 2148]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

Here you go

[ScottishHorn 172]

6 hours ago, crash_davis said:

what is the prediction for porn?  that's all i really care about.

Virtual Reality

[ScottishHorn 172]

3 hours ago, Paper_jam said:

Everything (transportation, goods and services, government, housing, quality of life) is gradually going to become more crowded, more expensive, yet shabbier, crappier and dumber. Prepare for a "Soylent Green" kind of world by 2100 or 2150.  (Unless you are in the executive, high political, or financial class, who will wall themselves off in private luxury communities.)

 

 

Let them eat Soylent...

[ScottishHorn 172]

I'm expecting a period of massive social unrest and complete destruction before the survivors decide on a better world

[Thetexashammer 1062]

 

[futureman 22675]

9 hours ago, idigTexas said:

pm futureman

you’re all fucked. 

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

[Spaulding Smails 1610]

16 hours ago, theCruiser said:

i've seen that screenshot 100 times and never stopped to notice/appreciate "T.J. O'Handjobs" in the TGIF font/logo style.  

Don't forget "Butt-Fuckers" in the Fuddruckers font in the top left corner.  I chuckle every time I see that one.

[clapclapclap 9000]

20 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

The Future

Plastics.

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