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Offline wil3ur

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Re: 100 Years From 2012
« Reply #30 on: March 25, 2012, 11:15:08 PM »
"look at me I am making a derogatory remark to the OP"


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Re: 100 Years From 2012
« Reply #31 on: March 26, 2012, 08:04:31 PM »
Back to the original premise...

Congress will pass a law making it legal for all haircuts to have a happy ending.

Some of you know what I'm talking about, don't spoil the secret.

 Only quoted this post because it was shorter but the post above it is quite interesting take!

    As for the quote,I wont spoil the secret but check out what they just made legal in Canukville!

  I believe it takes effect starting next year.



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Re: 100 Years From 2012
« Reply #32 on: March 27, 2012, 05:43:43 PM »
Still waiting on my personal holodeck.
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Offline Ardy123

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Re: 100 Years From 2012
« Reply #33 on: March 27, 2012, 06:58:59 PM »
What will the world be like?

hmm, well none of us will probably be alive...
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Re: 100 Years From 2012
« Reply #34 on: March 27, 2012, 07:07:51 PM »
Its funny you brought this up... GE today just opened up a 100 year old time capsule.
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Re: 100 Years From 2012
« Reply #35 on: March 28, 2012, 09:31:10 PM »
I think personal computing power will continue to increase exponentially, to the point where a device the size of a phone can be more powerful than anything on the planet today, enabling people to simply be more effective at everything they do.  The user interface will be intuitive and literally all around us.  I'm not convinced that the devices will be merged with the human body but the continued shrinking in size of both computing and input devices will lead to the entire world being saturated with meta-data instantly available through personal computing devices.  Brain-wave input devices may or may not work out, but advances in user interface concepts will be almost as good.

As a side effect, the entire way we do business, all types of commerce, will be changed almost beyond recognition.  Any buyer will be able to instantly connect with any seller, and all information about both the buyer and seller will be instantly available with no middlemen or paperwork messing up the transaction.  Imagine a world full of day traders, except every sale and purchase can be made directly, essentially by simply thinking about something you want/need and approving the final transaction from a seller who could be anywhere in the world.  Like amazon.com plus ebay plus wal-mart plus the NYSE plus any other trading group, all accessible and researchable with a simple thought.

And smart people will still take advantage of dumb people...  That won't change.  And some people will choose to live "off the grid", which will probably become an increasingly unique type of vacation or lifestyle choice.

It's similar to the much talked about "singularity" of human progress, but I think the progress levels off instead of continuing to climb exponentially.  It's still going to be interesting.

Oh yea...  Now for what will really happen.

The average human lifespan will rise to maybe 100 years, but the last 20-30 years will still suck and be very expensive for most people.  Transportation will still be slow and the TSA will have placed naked body scanners every 50 feet on every sidewalk in the nation, because you can never be too safe.  The federal income tax will approach 90%, but the budget will be 99% interest on debt and the remaining 1% will be split between the IRS, TSA, and federal enforcement of the DMCA by the DHS, because copyright theft really does threaten national security.

We will not colonize the moon because most people are selfish cowards and those people vote for things like free needles condoms and birth control pills, not space technology research.

Native Africans will have a continent-wide debate about what to do about all the illegal honkeys...er... undocumented caucasian immigrants, when white North Americans realize that Africa has about half of the world's unused natural resources and start swimming/rowing East in search of a better life.  Australia will put up a wall around the entire country... not to make it one big prison again, but to keep Americans out.  Australians will feel vaguely guilty about this and will respond by trading guns across the border in exchange for cheap recreational drugs.

Russia will slowly dwindle to nothing as their cultural paranoia continues to erode their birth rate well below replacement levels.  They won't trust anyone enough to have kids with them, and of course it's going to be the fault of "the West".  Again.

The Moeller skycar will finally fly and promptly crash, killing it's 150 year old builder who wasn't having much fun being that old anyhow.

Everyone who is anyone will have nukes, except the US.  We will spend Trillions on a large standing army that is widely dispersed and on constant alert because nobody will have any reason to NOT nuke us.  We will want to build more nukes, but we sold the mineral rights to our uranium and other rare metal deposits to China and they won't sell any back to us.  Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me 1000 times, shame on... hey a squirrel!

We will invent a universally low-polluting source of power, that has one possible hazardous failure mode.  After safely using this power for decades, there will be one failure due to a one in a million natural disaster, leading to the death of just one person and a bunch of housepets.  This will cause all responsible nations to immediately abandon that power source and return to mining coal and burning gas/oil, which has a known fatality rate in the hundreds or thousands annually, on top of the environmental damage caused by burning coal, gas, and oil.  This switch will be widely applauded as a mature leadership decision and anyone pointing out the fatality rate in the coal industry will be villified as satan incarnate and accused of trying to steal prescription drugs from the elderly.

It will turn out that climate change really IS cyclical just like the last bobillion years of geological evidence shows, and we're going to be needing lots of thick coats and wool socks.  People who invest NOW in next-generation snow shovel technology will be the next gazillionaires.

Bill Gates' will activate and switch to his 5th clone following his second consecutive death from a sporting injury, this time falling off the top of mount everest because his climb-o-matic self stabilizing hiking boots suffered a BSOD when he reversed direction and started back down.  Next time for sure he'll have his guys run boundary checks and trap overflow errors during QA testing.

quite possibly the funniest thing I've read in a long time thank you sir. :rofl

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Re: 100 Years From 2012
« Reply #36 on: March 28, 2012, 10:00:33 PM »
The idea of living forever is daunting to me, sure i'd like to live for a super long time, but the world would only be able to handle so many people, we would run out of room and starve to death
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Re: 100 Years From 2012
« Reply #37 on: March 28, 2012, 10:08:21 PM »
There will be Gatorade.

See: Idiocracy.

Gatorade? Screw Gatorade.

It's BRAWNDO.... the Thirst Mutilator!

It's got the electrolytes plants NEED!

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Re: 100 Years From 2012
« Reply #38 on: March 28, 2012, 10:13:44 PM »
I think personal computing power.....


 :rofl :rofl :rofl :cheers:

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Re: 100 Years From 2012
« Reply #39 on: March 28, 2012, 10:18:45 PM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMkrJOOTjj4&feature=related

Just the first 3:30... watch it... just the first 3:30.... the future of mankind.
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Re: 100 Years From 2012
« Reply #40 on: March 28, 2012, 10:20:10 PM »
You're very welcome :)
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Re: 100 Years From 2012
« Reply #41 on: March 28, 2012, 10:27:12 PM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMkrJOOTjj4&feature=related

Just the first 3:30... watch it... just the first 3:30.... the future of mankind.

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Re: 100 Years From 2012
« Reply #42 on: March 28, 2012, 10:34:29 PM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMkrJOOTjj4&feature=related

Just the first 3:30... watch it... just the first 3:30.... the future of mankind.
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On a serious note I have to agree with the top comment, i'ma watch this whole thing tomorrow it looks friggin hilarious

Edit: my god this movie scares the crap out of me, Cause I can see people being this stupid..
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Re: 100 Years From 2012
« Reply #43 on: March 28, 2012, 11:54:48 PM »
     The concept of cloud computing completely takes over as wireless data transmission speeds negate the need for a home based processor.
     Passwords will disappear (since none of us can remember the 1000s that we currently need) and switch to something more akin to facial recognition.  Unfortunately it does not work with Silat for some reason.
     The wireless phone morphs into your camera, communication device, wallet, advisor, gps, entertainment device and access point for you to interact with the rest of the world.  It essentially becomes "YOU Connected"  <--I should trademark that.
     Wireless charging of electronics becomes commonplace leading to mass marketed implants.  This will still be known to possibly, maybe perhaps cause cancer in small irrelevant (and now simulated) animals like mice in the state of California.  Such implants would augment or replace cellular devices, and would also be used for fashion and entertainment.
     You will be able to visit space for the cost of a typical weeks vacation.  You can orbit the earth for the cost of a typical years salary.
     Computing power (now that everything is essentially interconnected) will start to show concrete signs of reaching a possible singularity, but will fail to actually reach it.  (For example...if everything that has computing power, including your coffee maker is connected to everything else wirelessly, that basically makes just one massive computer)  <--kinda like skynet...or google... :uhoh
     "gaming" in a persistent online world will become a viable career and seriously blur lines along reality and augmented reality.  EVE online is very much already starting to enter into this realm.  They have CEO's...that actually act and "work" as CEOs even now.
     Solar and wind farming will increase dramatically and then diminish as their ability to produce massive amounts of power do to a massive increase in demand causes them to be regulated for non primary sources, but will still remain common. (kinda like how we see those roadsigns with a solar panel telling us we're driving too fast)
     Printable oled's become common place in fashion and is embedded in clothing, making us at best look like we're all from Tron, or at worst Lady Gaga.
     AH Version 80.0.4 is added.  It is so realistic it actually hurts when you get shot.  Sheep were added and then immediately removed when Mrs. Cooper from Salt Late City caught her son Timothy Cooper...um...experimenting.. .and complained.  You can now actually smell the exhaust from your tank, and feel the recoil when you fire, but you must be careful not to brush up against a sapling.   Oh they added the PBY too...but no one flys it because it's still a stupid idea.
     Oh, and since this is going to be in the net forever (It will too)  I predict this in the next 50 years, with most of it in the next 20. :D
     
     
     
     
     
     

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Re: 100 Years From 2012
« Reply #44 on: March 29, 2012, 12:39:19 AM »
I think they will finally clone humans and you can have yourself cloned to get out of work by making your clone work for you.
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