What could the future hold? -

Godlesswanderer · #31 01-18-2011, 10:14 PM

:

In the next 100 years, I will grow old and die.

Now that's what I call foresight.

LDG519 · #32 01-19-2011, 12:17 AM

:

Im just hoping for close ups of Gliese.

same

:

Also, if you apply Murphy's law to your hope, only the good people would die, all the ones left would be dicks and bitches. So me.

Ha.

I guess that means I'm a dead man when it comes

Manco · #33 01-19-2011, 01:56 AM

:

In the next 100 years, I will grow old and die.

Pfft, yeah, and maybe we'll get flying cars too.

Bullet Magnet · #34 01-19-2011, 02:24 AM

:

As far-fetched as it may seem, I want the technology to enter your own mind, like in Psychonauts. I know this sounds silly, and probably wouldn't ever happen (if not, then not for a very long time), but it would be so cool.

Where do you spend your time usually?

MeechMunchie · #35 01-19-2011, 09:13 AM

You might not die, Phylum. In the next 100 years life extension technology could advance a lot.

Wings of Fire · #36 01-19-2011, 09:30 AM

:

You might not die, Phylum. In the next 100 years life extension technology could advance a lot.

OANST · #37 01-19-2011, 09:38 AM

Also, unless we start colonizing new planets it would be extraordinarily irresponsible for us to stop the aging process. This world cannot handle that sort of thing.

Bullet Magnet · #38 01-19-2011, 11:06 AM

Even then, I think. We breed faster than we can get people off the planet.

OANST · #39 01-19-2011, 11:10 AM

Yeah. It just doesn't seem like a good idea all around.

Havoc · #40 01-19-2011, 11:58 AM

I'm assuming that somewhere in the next 100 years we'll find a cure for aids and cancer which will save countless lives around the world, but we'll also start WW3 which will kill much more people than that cure saved, so it's all balanced out.

Nature will continue to be more fucked up every year. Winters will be colder, summers will be hotter and places will flood everywhere.

In about 50 years we won't be using fossil fuels anymore and all be driving electrical cars. The big petrol companies will throw a huge fit and will drag the entire American economy down with it (again).

Stuff like that, prolly.

Elmatto753 · #41 01-19-2011, 01:13 PM

:

In about 50 years we won't be using fossil fuels anymore and all be driving electrical cars.

NOOOO! Hydrogen power is the way forward!

Bullet Magnet · #42 01-19-2011, 01:55 PM

In 50 years we won't be using fossil fuels any more and no one will be able to afford cars at all.

MeechMunchie · #43 01-19-2011, 02:21 PM

I like to think that fossil fuel magnates of today will themselves be used as fossil fuels by another race in a few million years.

LDG519 · #44 01-19-2011, 02:30 PM

:

In about 50 years we won't be using fossil fuels anymore and all be driving electrical cars. The big petrol companies will throw a huge fit and will drag the entire American economy down with it (again).

Stuff like that, prolly.

the big petrol companies would buy the rights to solution that doesn't use fossil fuels, and when fossil fuels finally run out they start selling those solutions, kills 2 birds with one stone, preserves thier business for the present and gives them a fallback plan for when they eventually go out of business.

shaman · #45 01-19-2011, 02:33 PM

Within the next century i will be naked and drunk.

***Nate*** · #46 01-19-2011, 05:33 PM

:

Also, unless we start colonizing new planets it would be extraordinarily irresponsible for us to stop the aging process. This world cannot handle that sort of thing.

Have you read Ringworld, by Larry Niven? Among other things, it's got an interesting analysis of how society would work after humans conquered aging.

Bullet Magnet · #47 01-19-2011, 05:39 PM

I loved Ringworld. I remember the solar-beam flowers.

ziggy · #48 01-19-2011, 08:25 PM

Would you want to live forever if you could?

LDG519 · #49 01-19-2011, 09:28 PM

:

Would you want to live forever if you could?

I wouldn't, life would get boring

RyuuFox · #50 01-19-2011, 09:43 PM

In the next 100 years aliens would come to Earth and enslave us, but we repelled and fought for our freedom, then we all die of hunger.

Daxter King · #51 01-19-2011, 10:50 PM

:

Would you want to live forever if you could?

Forever young, I want to be forever young
do you really want to live forever, forever and ever
Forever young, I want to be forever young
do you really want to live forever? Forever young

***Nate*** · #52 01-19-2011, 11:08 PM

:

Would you want to live forever if you could?

Yes, as long as I could choose to end it when I wanted to.

As for the general discussion topic of this thread, I feel the need to quote from G. K. Chesterton:

:

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games to which it is most attached is called "Keep to-morrow dark," and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt) "Cheat the Prophet." The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. They then go and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun.

Manco · #53 01-20-2011, 03:41 AM

:

Would you want to live forever if you could?

Personally I think being able to see out the entirety of human civilisation would be something pretty amazing. I wouldn't pass up that opportunity.

Dynamithix · #54 01-20-2011, 05:33 AM

In the future, we'll got to get back, back to the past, Samurai Jack, jack jack- WUTTAH!

OANST · #55 01-20-2011, 06:52 AM

:

Have you read Ringworld, by Larry Niven? Among other things, it's got an interesting analysis of how society would work after humans conquered aging.

I have not, but speaking to how a society that has conquered aging would work, you would have to be prepared to give up a lot of personal freedoms. Having children whenever you want would be right out. In fact, a large portion of the population would probably need to be sterilized. Crime would probably be more severely punished, as a population who has seemingly conquered death would be a great deal more fearful of violent death. It doesn't seem like a great life.

As to the question of whether I would want to live forever. Yes. I would want to live forever. I have little desire to return to nothingness, and if most of you are honest with yourselves you will come to the same conclusion. You don't want to die. However, I'm sure most of you are aware enough to know that it isn't a good idea, however much you may want it.

Mac Sirloin · #56 01-20-2011, 07:02 AM

:

Yes, as long as I could choose to end it when I wanted to.

Same here. I really, really want to live forever though.

:

As for the general discussion topic of this thread, I feel the need to quote from G. K. Chesterton:

I don't care about any guesses drawn today. I'm still genuinely excited for the future.

Dixanadu · #57 01-20-2011, 09:58 AM

I'd like to think humans will eventually 'grow up', since we're pretty much still a young race.

OANST · #58 01-20-2011, 09:59 AM

I like to believe in magic.

Dixanadu · #59 01-20-2011, 10:04 AM

You never know...humans could eventually create implants that can create 'magic'.

Your beliefs could become reality.

A shit one.

OANST · #60 01-20-2011, 10:06 AM

Any future with magic will be full of wonderment and joy, you goddamned misanthrope.