Future technology

[Scraby]

So I was looking over the internet and I saw all sorts of things that will be used in the future,like robotic limbs,eyes,brains,walkers and many other technological marvels.So I put up this thread to see what you think,so lets discuss a bit,what do you think earth will look like in 500 years.

[STM]

I imagine that the pace at which technology is being created from scratch will slow down now until such a time that our need for it changes. For example the biggest war on Earth at the time (WW1) required the advent of tanks, the want for a way for us to communicate with each other across the globe brought us IM and MMS. What do we need right now? I can't think of much.

However perhaps there will be leaps made in architecture and city development, with a population tipping 7 billion now, I imagine the technology used to create, taller, more compact living spaces will be in high demand and sky lines of major cities will be dominated by multi-tiered skyscrapers.

[Crashpunk]

I just think about Futurama.

[Wings of Fire]

What do we need right now? I can't think of much.

• Reliable renewable energy sources
• Better computers
• More efficient transport
• A material to replace plastic
• A space elevator
• Better medicine
• Even better medicine
• A lot of stuff I forgot

Conflict breeds progress, but conflict needn't be against other people. The scope of technological advancement is so exponential that it's almost completely impossible to predict where we'll be in fifty or even twenty five years.

[STM]

Oh I should have been more clear, I meant on a level of entertainment.

[Mr. Bungle]

I just think about Futurama.

Same here. I'm still waiting for tube travel.

[STM]

It exists in London.

[Scraby]

Hmm when I imagine the future on earth,dunno why but star wars style earth comes in my mind,like tall skyscrapers,huge flying ships,more practical and smaller jetpacks,fast interstellar travel,anti grav vehicles.Darn I wish I was born in 3120 XD
Oh and plasma blasters.

[Bullet Magnet]

ROBOTS!

[Scraby]

Thats nice,I like robots,lol I could imagine one of those chasing down a thief with a mini stun gun in it XD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppILw...feature=fvwrel

this is robotic arm is quite nice,especialy for those who lost their arms and had to use their existing muscles to move the prothestetic arm.

[Nate]

ROBOTS!

I want those researchers to build a few more, and then set up a game of Space Invaders.

[Havoc]

Why is that when people think about future tech, they always think in the most impractical way possible? Flying cars, personal jet packs, conveyor belts to transport you around the place. How on earth are these things even practical?

It reminds me of a news report I saw back when I was a little kid (on a special kids news show that was aired right before Sesame Street). They had an item on a company that was researching new ways to light freeways and they had all kinds of super nifty designs. Streetlights that are buried underground and come up when it gets dark. Large contraptions that extend streetlights outwards when it gets dark. Even lights that were equipped with rotor blades and flew up in the air.

At the time they were all like, in 10 to 15 years this will be the way streets are illuminated. And me being a kid was all like 'wow that's awesome'. Almost 20 years later the street lighting hasn't changed at all and I'm thinking about the designs they were showing and how completely useless they were. I mean, what is the added benefit of having a streetlight that rises from the ground or one that can hover? It makes absolutely no sense that any money was even put into that project now that I think about it.

And the same still applies. New tech will come in the form of new power sources for cars, newer and faster ways of transport, tech to build higher than ever before. Mostly stuff that improves on what we already have.

One thing I do think is going to make a very big leap forward is mechanical improvements to the human body. Better robotic arms, legs. Robotic eyes, ears. Maybe even complete replacements for the heart or other organs. And if stem cell research ever gets the attention it deserves we have whole range medical advances to choose from.

[skychase2rebirth]

So I was looking over the internet and I saw all sorts of things that will be used in the future,like robotic limbs,eyes,brains,walkers and many other technological marvels.So I put up this thread to see what you think,so lets discuss a bit,what do you think earth will look like in 500 years.

Like this...


I hope not though...

[Scraby]

Well as i know these impractical things and uneconomical ways of travel might work in future,humans will conquer planets like Titan witch are filled with natural gasses and stuff,witch will make this more cheaper.Well flying cars are practical becouse you dont need asphalt to drive on.Jetpacks would be to go on short trips.We all think of it as impossible becouse if we look at todays jetpacks,they look like fridges,but in the future they will be smaller,just as computers did.The first computer was like two huge fridges,and look at em now,you can put em in pockets.

[Havoc]

Titan is a moon, not a planet. And with -180 degrees on that planet I doubt we'll be doing anything there for a long long LONG time.

[Scraby]

If we are going in details Titan is a satelite of Saturn.There is liquid fuel there,so in the future machines might harvest that fuel for us.You know when the fuel production companies start to run out of fuel,they would destroy our planet just to find fuel to sell.

[Wings of Fire]

You know when the fuel production companies start to run out of fuel,they would destroy our planet just to find fuel to sell.

Oh man, that's so precious.

[Mudokon_Master]

Just look at Japan. They're probably the most technogically advanced country on earth. The things they invent amazes me every day, reading about things I had no idea existed.
Now, when you think about it, all these mavels have only come in the last few years. Our technology is getting smaller, thinner and more efficient. If we keep it up at this rate, the world will be like Futurama even before the year 3000.

[Slog Bait]

I see flying cars eventually happening. Not some kind of hovercraft like in the Jetsons or anything similar to, that not only seems impractical but nigh impossible to pull off in the real world. Haven't they already made a legitimate flying car? It counts as a small aircraft or something and you can only take off/land in airports.

Prosthetic limbs are bound to grow more and more advanced. It'd be cool if one day people who were unfortunate and lost multiple limbs/entire sections of their body suddenly had fully functional mechanical body parts to work with.

I'm not sure what I'd want out of future technology, though.

[Nate]

Well as i know these impractical things and uneconomical ways of travel might work in future,humans will conquer planets like Titan witch are filled with natural gasses and stuff,witch will make this more cheaper.Well flying cars are practical becouse you dont need asphalt to drive on.Jetpacks would be to go on short trips.We all think of it as impossible becouse if we look at todays jetpacks,they look like fridges,but in the future they will be smaller,just as computers did.The first computer was like two huge fridges,and look at em now,you can put em in pockets.

We may well go to Titan and retreive a cheap supply of natural gas... but it's still going to be cheaper and more convenient to put street lights on poles. No amount of gas is going to change that.


As for flying cars; think about the number of accidents we have right now on the roads. Now imagine that there's a third dimension involved. I don't see that in any way ending well.

[Strike Witch]

Space Colonies. We need to give Earth time to recuperate.

Damned Earthnoids whose souls are bound by gravity.

[STM]

I think colonisation of Mars will happen within the next 600 years. First I suppose we'd live in the kind of stations they have on the moon but I imagine eventually we could terraform the planet, of course we'd require a substantial amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and some cheap way to bond hydrogen and oxygen together to form water. Currently it's not viable to do that kind of thing.

Oh BMMMMMM?

[Scraby]

Well if we were to add the third dimension to driving,cars would be organised in lines,just like normal roads.Yes I do agree that there are much crashes,but most of these crashes come becouse people do not respect the law of the road.

[Wings of Fire]

but most of these crashes come becouse people do not respect the law of the road.

And therefore?

[Scraby]

We would need a robot that drives the car.I saw that technology,they say that in the future this might be useful to keep crashes at minimum and keep traffic lines shorter.

[Manco]

We would need a robot that drives the car.

[Scraby]

That made me lol.Plus rep XD

Well I was thinking something like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Fxp3HK6DI

[Bullet Magnet]

I think colonisation of Mars will happen within the next 600 years. First I suppose we'd live in the kind of stations they have on the moon but I imagine eventually we could terraform the planet, of course we'd require a substantial amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and some cheap way to bond hydrogen and oxygen together to form water. Currently it's not viable to do that kind of thing.

Oh BMMMMMM?

I'd like to see it happen for reasons of awesome, challenge and adventure, but I am unclear on the point of it, beyond those reasons.

But there are things we can't change about Mars. Gravity, for example. And the lack of a significant magnetic field. The vulnerability than caused it to lose its thicker atmosphere has not gone away, and I don't know that that can be rectified. Any teraforming is likely to require maintenance, or else it will be relatively temporary. Even if you can get around that, there are no plate tectonics. This leaves the carbon cycle incomplete, as all the carbon that ends up at the bottom of any oceans when the plankton dies is going to stay there forever. On Earth is ends up become rock such as chalk and eventually being subducted beneath a continental plate, to be returned to the atmosphere by volcanoes. On Mars, plants will starve and temperatures will drop. Again.

[STM]

I imagine we'll perhaps have the ability to drill down beyond the crust of a planet by the time we have the technology to terraform. So maybe we can just clusterfuck the core with like, ten Tsar Bomba sized nukes? Hurpa durp.

[MeechMunchie]

What we do, right, is get loads of buckets of magma from Earth, right, and then we carry them over to Mars and pour them into a big hole --> plate tectonics.