youve gotta MAKE that happen! WEAR your trousers inside out! become a buisiness man and WEAR two ties!wooty said:
Poll: What will the future be?
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In all reality, I'd have to go with more of the same. Sure, technologies will continue to advance and such but as long as humans are humans we're going to keep on going through our little circles of repeating history. On a fairly longer looking scale, I might be inclined to say a 50/50 chance between post-apocalyptic and space travel. Maybe.
Well, I'm extremely optimistic about the future, and I reckon we'll see a boom in space travel within in the next century. There are two reasons for this:
1. The speed of which we discover new technology is currently accelerating rapidly; 92% of all the scientists which have lived, lives today.
2. Nano technology will revolutionize every other technological field, I mean, recently a lab succeeded in creating a fully functional transistor out of only 7 atoms. 7 atoms! That's pretty damn small.
1. The speed of which we discover new technology is currently accelerating rapidly; 92% of all the scientists which have lived, lives today.
2. Nano technology will revolutionize every other technological field, I mean, recently a lab succeeded in creating a fully functional transistor out of only 7 atoms. 7 atoms! That's pretty damn small.
How the hell would the Korean peninsula be united?Mr.Mattress said:
OT:Someone will realize why the universe came into existence and it's so f***ing disappointing that everyone kills themselves.
No, they were aliens. They arrived in Russia when a meteorite hit Tunguska.vrbtny said:
OT; I'd say in a few years it'll be pretty much the same as now. Just people in the 1950's thought we'd be living on the moon by now, will probably be still here, doing the same mundane shit. But with cooler technology.
I was torn between Dystopia and Post-Apocalyptic.
I pick these because war seems intrinsic to human nature, we've been fighting since the dawn of time. With new developments rising along with the tensions due to a depletion or resources we'll eventually lead ourselves to our own destruction because of another intrinsic factor; greed.
Or dystopia. Crime, if anything, has gotten worse in recent years so the world will either end up an uninhabitable wasteland or an inhabitable shithole full of scum.
EDIT: Ultimately, no matter how much we evolve physically or technologically or how united we become Earth will still die out eventually unless we can pull off what Eldar from 40K can do and just build planets.
I pick these because war seems intrinsic to human nature, we've been fighting since the dawn of time. With new developments rising along with the tensions due to a depletion or resources we'll eventually lead ourselves to our own destruction because of another intrinsic factor; greed.
Or dystopia. Crime, if anything, has gotten worse in recent years so the world will either end up an uninhabitable wasteland or an inhabitable shithole full of scum.
EDIT: Ultimately, no matter how much we evolve physically or technologically or how united we become Earth will still die out eventually unless we can pull off what Eldar from 40K can do and just build planets.
Given that by the actual definition of dystopia it's arguable that a rather large portion of the first world is already living in one, I'd say the future is here and all votes are in for dystopia.
Of course, going by the sci-fi definitions of any of these words then we will never live in any of them. The future will be much the same, potentially getting better, potentially getting worse, certainly the next five years in Britain are going to be rather dreary if you're a student, a child, poor or like freedom and democracy, so in fact I may well have to stand by my dystopia vote anyway. I think the new government has a real shot at making 1984 a living breathing reality; possibly with some Norsefire thrown in for good measure.
Of course, going by the sci-fi definitions of any of these words then we will never live in any of them. The future will be much the same, potentially getting better, potentially getting worse, certainly the next five years in Britain are going to be rather dreary if you're a student, a child, poor or like freedom and democracy, so in fact I may well have to stand by my dystopia vote anyway. I think the new government has a real shot at making 1984 a living breathing reality; possibly with some Norsefire thrown in for good measure.
I'd like to think Space Travel, so I picked that option.
My only caveat would be that I highly doubt we would encounter any intelligent aliens. Not for a long time at least. Not to mention the first deep space travel would still be done by robots, manned space travel is ridiculously inefficient. Wouldn't be worth trying for a long time.
If there were any attempt at colonization, it would require lots of cooperation from humanity to be able to pull off a marvel like that. The planet cannot last forever, though- and I think that if we were to send off ships to different planets capable of supporting life, or fully-contained sort of 'seedships' to set up humans on different worlds, we may never know if they would have any success.
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I think all are possible, except Apocalypse and Alien Attack. For the former, those myths and warnings have no validation- won't come true. And I've always thought that any species capable of long, interstellar space travel would be one that had long forgone the violence that would only hinder progress of exploring the cosmos
My only caveat would be that I highly doubt we would encounter any intelligent aliens. Not for a long time at least. Not to mention the first deep space travel would still be done by robots, manned space travel is ridiculously inefficient. Wouldn't be worth trying for a long time.
If there were any attempt at colonization, it would require lots of cooperation from humanity to be able to pull off a marvel like that. The planet cannot last forever, though- and I think that if we were to send off ships to different planets capable of supporting life, or fully-contained sort of 'seedships' to set up humans on different worlds, we may never know if they would have any success.
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I think all are possible, except Apocalypse and Alien Attack. For the former, those myths and warnings have no validation- won't come true. And I've always thought that any species capable of long, interstellar space travel would be one that had long forgone the violence that would only hinder progress of exploring the cosmos
the world will probably run out of some important resource, like oil which is already running kinda low. or maybe global warming will kill off a bunch of crops? not really important which one, what is important is that this will cause society to crumble. slowly at first then rioting and chaos. when the smoke clears those who survived will now have to make new lives for themselves in a violent new world......
..or zombies. one of those two...
..or zombies. one of those two...
Well how far into the future?
Given there's more than a quarter of a billion guns out there if there is the massive volatility of civil governance there could be a decade long conventional war ... but we already have instances of decade long conventional conflicts around the globe.
I would like to see a new age of philosophical pursuit. Screw technology
Current technological standards (apart from the scientific fields into renweable energy sources) are already sufficient to combat most forms of infection and can guarantee in most instances a 'life lived long enough' as well as an unbderstanding of the basic scope of the universe.
I personally believe that Humanity should have a 'break'. Take one step backwards to completely view what we have right now, and analyse where exactly we should devote greater efforts with a careful exploration of metaphysics, ethics, and the subsequent renewal of the arts and culture.
If we were to do this I think Humanity could quite possibly achieve a Utopian state of grace for most people, rather than the continual descent into a bleak, cold, and largely unknowable technocratic world society.
Given there's more than a quarter of a billion guns out there if there is the massive volatility of civil governance there could be a decade long conventional war ... but we already have instances of decade long conventional conflicts around the globe.
I would like to see a new age of philosophical pursuit. Screw technology
Current technological standards (apart from the scientific fields into renweable energy sources) are already sufficient to combat most forms of infection and can guarantee in most instances a 'life lived long enough' as well as an unbderstanding of the basic scope of the universe.I personally believe that Humanity should have a 'break'. Take one step backwards to completely view what we have right now, and analyse where exactly we should devote greater efforts with a careful exploration of metaphysics, ethics, and the subsequent renewal of the arts and culture.
If we were to do this I think Humanity could quite possibly achieve a Utopian state of grace for most people, rather than the continual descent into a bleak, cold, and largely unknowable technocratic world society.
Every technological advance will be made except faster than light travel and war will decimate 50% of the population before we band together.
The world ain't gonna remain the same. Look at the huge volume of change that's occured in just the last century. Think, we went from the Wright Brothers to landing on the moon in less than a century. Technology increased enough that we can now provide for like two thirds more people than the world could sustain in the 1800s (that's not saying everyone has enough of course). No, things will change for sure.
I think space travel is a way off yet and we'll never have a Utopia, but I also think the future will be better than the past.
I think space travel is a way off yet and we'll never have a Utopia, but I also think the future will be better than the past.
Humanity will collapse under it's own weight. Much like sabertooth cats have independently evolved at least six times and then gone extinct due to hunting their prey till there's not enough to feed off of. We are so successful and so proliferate that we can not support our numbers. Through pollution, global warming, religious extremism related terrorism and piss-poor resource management we will either drive ourselves to the brink of extinction and then end up spacefaring (or something) after hundreds of years of rebuilding or we will go totally extinct.
Also, to really be spacefaring we have to get past that pesky speed of light thing. Space is big, no, really, I mean it, it's unimaginably immense> So big that the speed of light is just far too slow. Also, keep in mind that we can't even go that fast with conventional engines no matter how much fuel they have. It seems to be quite a problem though one we may not last long enough to address.
Also, to really be spacefaring we have to get past that pesky speed of light thing. Space is big, no, really, I mean it, it's unimaginably immense> So big that the speed of light is just far too slow. Also, keep in mind that we can't even go that fast with conventional engines no matter how much fuel they have. It seems to be quite a problem though one we may not last long enough to address.
I'm guessing dystopia. All the corporations merge together under one banner, make and train a military strong enough to take down all world powers, and declare the world theirs. Totalitarian rule ensues, every civil right, constitution, and human right gets crushed to dust and snorted, and those who either refuse to obey the new world order and/or rebel would be captured and have their organs harvested while they're still alive, and the rest of them converted into nutrients to help the soil stay alive, or they would be converted into a meat product no one has any idea what it is, but it will no doubt taste good and be popular. Military police and surveillance would be constant, and if people wanted to serve in said military, they'd go through a possibly life-threatening training process, and failing any part, they become live targets to those that can succeed. Religion would no doubt be all but completely destroyed within the confines of corporate rule, with active practitioners locked in gulags and actively experimented on.
That's my prediction on what may happen. Either that, or the UN would split and nuke each other, creating a Fallout-esque scenario.
That's my prediction on what may happen. Either that, or the UN would split and nuke each other, creating a Fallout-esque scenario.
