In the year 2100

Minusorange · 20 Feb 2020 at 22:53

We all will likely be dead, will the forum be around ? Maybe it will just be a part of the internet archive ?

OCUK celebrates being 20 this weekend, will it make to 100 ?

80 years is a lifetime away

We're just getting to 2 months into 2020 and we've already nearly had ww3 with Iran and the US, we've had a deadly coronavirus infect China and get a little bit around the globe, we've had Iran shoot a passenger jet, Turkey are trying to have a war with Syria & Russia, parts of the UK getting flooded, a very mild winter, T-shirt weather in Antartica, Australia literally on fire, etc etc

This first 2 months of the year have been crazy

Maybe we won't last a year ?

Zefan · 20 Feb 2020 at 22:59

We're in the best position we ever have been to survive and thrive as a species. The drama you list is frankly child's play compared to what was going on for most of the 20th century.

As for the forum, it's already essentially a relic of a bygone era, I don't see why it shouldn't hang around for a long, long time.

Loki · 20 Feb 2020 at 23:09

John Titor will welcome us with open arms

The_Abyss · 20 Feb 2020 at 23:12

Zefan said:
We're in the best position we ever have been to survive and thrive as a species. The drama you list is frankly child's play compared to what was going on for most of the 20th century.

As for the forum, it's already essentially a relic of a bygone era, I don't see why it shouldn't hang around for a long, long time.

This. As are the views of many of the members.

tom_nieto · 20 Feb 2020 at 23:12

Zefan said:
As for the forum, it's already essentially a relic of a bygone era, I don't see why it shouldn't hang around for a long, long time.

I’m looking forward to the “spec me a nursing home” and “The Big OcUK bowel movements” threads as we all age gracefully.

Minusorange · 20 Feb 2020 at 23:16

Zefan said:
As for the forum, it's already essentially a relic of a bygone era, I don't see why it shouldn't hang around for a long, long time.

80 years though ? Surely by then everyone will all be on internet 2.0 which I'd imagine would be vastly different to how our archaic internet works and as such a message board will no longer be fit for purpose ?

Zefan said:
The drama you list is frankly child's play compared to what was going on for most of the 20th century..

It's only really 2 world wars that make it child's play, take those away and it's much the same no ?

dowie · 20 Feb 2020 at 23:16

I guess traffic might well die off a bit, I guess it is possible the owners might pull the plug in say a decade or so - I mean it's not longer a business run by one guy who also posts on the forum etc.. you don't know what might happen to the company/parent company over the next 10 years etc..

I do think these sorts of forums are pretty useful for sharing information especially relating to say tech/hobbies/interests etc.. the likes of Facebook doesn't really replace that and not everything needs to be replaced with some reddit/subreddit thing.

jsmoke · 20 Feb 2020 at 23:17

Personally I think the things you've mentioned are small fry compared to what could happen, think about the bubonic plague, nuclear war, an asteroid, global warming, heart disease.

I'm not worried, I've read too many scare stories to realise no point in worrying about what may happen.

Malevolence · 20 Feb 2020 at 23:17

The Project v New Paradigm. Bring it on.

dowie · 20 Feb 2020 at 23:18

Minusorange said:
80 years though ? Surely by then everyone will all be on internet 2.0 which I'd imagine would be vastly different to how our archaic internet works and as such a message board will no longer be fit for purpose ?

Chance of any random small/medium sized business being around in 80 years time itself is probably quite low.

Maybe the mod team or anyone else for that matter could set up some independent overclockers forums if/when the plug were ever to be pulled.

chroniclard · 20 Feb 2020 at 23:21

Will we finally get hover boards.

CaptainRAVE · 20 Feb 2020 at 23:31

Maybe it won’t change that much, maybe, just maybe, like the smart phone, we’ve peaked.

chroniclard said:
Will we finally get hover boards.

It’ll need to be a zimmerboard, but we can only hope.

Sheff · 21 Feb 2020 at 00:12

It's fine, we can just introduce our kids to the forums when they come of age - a bit like the Freemasons.

Mcnumpty2323 · 21 Feb 2020 at 02:03

Minusorange said:
80 years though ? Surely by then everyone will all be on internet 2.0 which I'd imagine would be vastly different to how our archaic internet works and as such a message board will no longer be fit for purpose ?

It's only really 2 world wars that make it child's play, take those away and it's much the same no ?

Only 2 world wars?
How about a comparison to
Corona virus since it was mentioned
In 1918 Spanish flu
Infected approx 500 million people
And killed up to an
Estimated 50 million
That's not exactly child's play

Minusorange · 21 Feb 2020 at 02:38

Mcnumpty2323 said:
Only 2 world wars?
How about a comparison to
Corona virus since it was mentioned
In 1918 Spanish flu
Infected approx 500 million people
And killed up to an
Estimated 50 million
That's not exactly child's play

Over 2 years, we're only at 2 months with covid

Mcnumpty2323 · 21 Feb 2020 at 03:22

Minusorange said:
Over 2 years, we're only at 2 months with covid

True
And medicine wasn't as
Advanced back then
But just think in 1918
No one flew anywhere except some
Intrepid aviators
People didn't tend to go abroad
In any great numbers
Except for wars
No package holidays to ibiza lol
Makes the Spanish flu statistics
Even more impressive really

BUDFORCE · 21 Feb 2020 at 08:06

Minusorange said:
We all will likely be dead, will the forum be around ? Maybe it will just be a part of the internet archive ?

OCUK celebrates being 20 this weekend, will it make to 100 ?

80 years is a lifetime away

We're just getting to 2 months into 2020 and we've already nearly had ww3 with Iran and the US, we've had a deadly coronavirus infect China and get a little bit around the globe, we've had Iran shoot a passenger jet, Turkey are trying to have a war with Syria & Russia, parts of the UK getting flooded, a very mild winter, T-shirt weather in Antartica, Australia literally on fire, etc etc

This first 2 months of the year have been crazy

Maybe we won't last a year ?

I know right crazy!

To add to all of this, the other day the handle on my Ikea cheese grater snapped.

Pawnless Endgame · 21 Feb 2020 at 08:14

The biggest threat to mankind is AI - the technological singularity. That will happen before year 2100.

BUDFORCE · 21 Feb 2020 at 08:26

Pawnless Endgame said:
The biggest threat to mankind is AI - the technological singularity. That will happen before year 2100.

Really???????

Admittedly Google knows a lot about us, but even if AI became intelligent, self aware and on top of all that wanted to kill us, I think it's pretty far fetched, it would just crash to desktop at a crucial moment!

But...... On the same lines, something like a massive IT failure in IT, say for example, the world's banking records all got wiped, the knock on effect could be nasty.

Yaayuh! · 21 Feb 2020 at 08:30

Fingers crossed we'll barely or won't exist as a species by then. These viruses need to up their game.