The future sure isn't living up to it's promises

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

You know, I'm still ticked off that October 1, 1997 wasn't THE END DAY.

Can you clue me in this reference please?

Skynet, Nukes and T-800's.

[Pulsar_t]

You know, I'm still ticked off that October 1, 1997 wasn't THE END DAY.

Can you clue me in this reference please?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystalis

<< PKD android is awesome. Shame no AI can ever replace that mind of his!

[Hatta]

I have a device I can stick in my pocket and play NES games anywhere I go. The future is pretty sweet.

[toredauei]

I hope we never have flying cars (unless they are automated to go to our specific destinations). Think of all the shitty drivers out there and how many deaths etc are caused by car accidents on one single plane of driving. Now imagine all those ass holes flying around in the air in every possible direction, it'd be a gigantic cluster fuck...

The history channel had a program on sometime last week that detailed the future of medicine etc and said that the first people to live to be 1000 years old could already be 60. I thought that was pretty fucking cool but am naturally sceptical about the figures (not to mention the negative impact this would have on world population, polution, and loads of other things) :/

Like someone said earlier, we just dont notice how amazing the future (now) actually is. Given the technological advances we've gone through since 1950 Id say we're on a pretty good track to living in a place just as fantastic as what was shown to us in movies and whatnot. Just think of the exponential growth rate of technology, it can only get better.

And now on a more whimsical note, think of how much faster technology will grow if people start living to be 1000 years old! Think of the amount that one person can achieve during the current average life span of 80. If that person had the opportunity to work on his/her ideas for 1000 years amazing things would happen methinks.

Sorry for the seperate blocks of text my brain is in amillion seperate places right now.

[MrPopo]

You know, I'm still ticked off that October 1, 1997 wasn't THE END DAY.

Can you clue me in this reference please?

Skynet, Nukes and T-800's.

That's August 29, 1997. Epic fail by Mod Man.

[pepharytheworm]

You are just seeing what we don't have yet when you watch those movies. We have lots that they get wrong. We can have digital downloads instead of hard copies. We use Plasma and LCD TVs and most old future movies show crts and projection. Cell phones. We have devices now that work your muscles for you. Sorry about the flying cars though.

[Luke]

You are just seeing what we don't have yet when you watch those movies. We have lots that they get wrong. We can have digital downloads instead of hard copies. We use Plasma and LCD TVs and most old future movies show crts and projection. Cell phones. We have devices now that work your muscles for you. Sorry about the flying cars though.

Yup, it's all the little advancements. We had cell phones a decade ago, but not ones with 8GBs of memory and could play entire movies. We've got it pretty good, but I'm all for flying cars, or even better, a dependable jet pack.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

I hope we never have flying cars (unless they are automated to go to our specific destinations). Think of all the shitty drivers out there and how many deaths etc are caused by car accidents on one single plane of driving. Now imagine all those ass holes flying around in the air in every possible direction, it'd be a gigantic cluster fuck...

The history channel had a program on sometime last week that detailed the future of medicine etc and said that the first people to live to be 1000 years old could already be 60. I thought that was pretty fucking cool but am naturally sceptical about the figures (not to mention the negative impact this would have on world population, polution, and loads of other things) :/

Like someone said earlier, we just dont notice how amazing the future (now) actually is. Given the technological advances we've gone through since 1950 Id say we're on a pretty good track to living in a place just as fantastic as what was shown to us in movies and whatnot. Just think of the exponential growth rate of technology, it can only get better.

And now on a more whimsical note, think of how much faster technology will grow if people start living to be 1000 years old! Think of the amount that one person can achieve during the current average life span of 80. If that person had the opportunity to work on his/her ideas for 1000 years amazing things would happen methinks.

Sorry for the seperate blocks of text my brain is in amillion seperate places right now.

True, but then you run into the social and existential questions of the value of life etc... that can cause major problems. Not to mention digital downloading of a brain and your psyche along with cybernetics which raises a host of ethical and moral questions that are quite challenging to overcome. Such as are still human after undergoing the procedure? Are you even still able to be considered alive if you choose to upload your brain to a computer which would in turn kill your existing physical body?

For example: What if Hitler, Stalin, Napoleon and whomever else is your evil figure of choice was damn near immortal? It's something you'd really need to think about to prevent the abuse of emerging and future technologies by madmen and those with immortality/God complexes as to prevent them from staring an all out war.

Plus living to a thousand years old would actually drive us all mad as the human psyche processes time in faster and faster increments as you age; so days seem like mere hours and hours seem like minutes by the time you're forty then hundreds of years would seem to by in just decades then years, months and weeks, so on and so forth if you were to live that long.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

You know, I'm still ticked off that October 1, 1997 wasn't THE END DAY.

Can you clue me in this reference please?

Skynet, Nukes and T-800's.

That's August 29, 1997. Epic fail by Mod Man.

Bah, close enough.

[toredauei]

@ Mod_Man can you point me to some source material for the part about the human brain processing time faster as you age? That sounds like some very interesting reading material.

Anywho, Of course there is an abundance of negative side effects of advancing medical technology many of which you touch on. Those problems will no doubt be addressed in very heated political debates in the FuTuRe OoOoOoOoOoO <- ghost voice?