Imagine the future.

i thought about it again and if we don't kill ourselves as a species i actually think we will be able to achieve anything that we have considered science fiction at the present.

unlimited safe power > matter control > FTL travel > inter galactic travel >humans all over the place stinking it up > genetic engineering off the chart. If there are Aliens we will have bumped into them on our travels.

60 fps in Cryisis.
 
I think there will be one big, mixed race. Kind of a whitey, yellowy, browny, black colour. And we'd all speak the same language. All the Earth's languages mixed together. See "Goobacks" a South Park episode.

Dey-tuk-er-jebs!
 
Tefal said:
No power is safe in the hands of man.
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ahh !! but in my universe we have all been genetically tweaked to be nice, and discuss our problems to sort them out over a cup of tea!

Then we get crushed by Klingons cos we are all pussies..
 
Efour2 said:
ahh !! but in my universe we have all been genetically tweaked to be nice, and discuss our problems to sort them out over a cup of tea!

Then we get crushed by Klingons cos we are all pussies..
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But what if we use our power for the good of increasing tea production (to supply our expanding population with top quality brew) and end up making all tea poisonous!!


You sir have just robbed the world of tea! You are a monster and should be ashamed!:mad:
 
I wonder just what the limits of technology are, we often see ideas in scifi that seem possible in theory but i suspect the reality is that its more limited than our imagination.

I see a future where we have improved space travel around the solar system but not beyond, people will have a lot less material stuff in general, things like, tv, displays, computers, consoles etc will be a thing of the past as instead everything gets smaller and more integrated, people will walk around with augmented reality vision and be able to communicate effortlessly with anyone on earth, no doubt with brain machine interfaces at some point, this will be both because of advances and due to limited resources and a higher population, of course this is all presuming nothing really bad happens and things generally keep advancing, i suspect you'll be looking at some sort of minimalist nanotech, environmentally aware age.
 
I don't think we'll last that long, I think we're gonna have some sort of WWIII type nuclear war.
 
meh people will survive.

Mankind has come back from some event that reduced the population down to 10,000 (or 10,00 pairs i forget which).

Supposedly it explains our rather limited gene pool.
 
clv101 said:
One can start by questioning "owing to the exponential increase in technological advancement." It's not a fundamental law!

There have been many occasions when trajectories have stopped and reversed. The Neanderthals (stronger and with larger brains than us) died out. The incredible technological advancements for the Egyptian, Greek and Roman empires faltered and for almost a millennium we lost the technological ability to carve marble like the Greeks could, build large structures like the Egyptians could and proved sanitation/plumbing to a city like the Romans could.

A degree of collapse, a reboot with considerable intellectual loss has characterised human civilisation over and over again. To suggest that no longer happens, that it's different this time is just daft.
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True, it's not a fundamental law, but there is stacks of empirical evidence for it being the case, from computing power and cost to patent numbers and the time taken between big discoveries. I see your point about those civilisations, but none of them were truely globalised as we are today. If Western Europe vanished tomorrow, Asia, the Americas, and Austrailia/New Zealand would not lose their airports, language skills, manual dextirity, computers or knolwedge of all that has gone before them. Their universities and libraries would still hold information on all that has gone before. Even a large scale nuclear war would not totally eradicate all of modern civilisation- it would struggle to dispose of most of it.

We have truely reached a critical mass, and passed any point where it is possible but our knowledge and ability to reverse, unless there is a cataclysmic natural disaster like a super volcano eruption or huge meteor strike (which is possible, I confess!).
 
If we die in the first strike of a nuclear war (ie before we even know the nukes are coming) is it technically in our lifetimes? :p
 
Well this is the time within which we are living our lives so I'd say so.

*Did we all get out the wrong side of bed today?* :confused::mad::p
 
Well, thats the last time I write an 800 word post :p guess it was a bit tl;dr :D

A nuclear detonation on a civilian population within the next 50-100 years is likely I'd say.
 
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