One Hundred Years From Now

partyatmygaff · 02-05-2013 7:48pm

Joe prim wrote: »

People will have ceased to make ridiculously optimistic forecasts about the future, mainly due to the unfortunate "event" of 2019 which left most of the planet in an uninhabitable state and left the handful of survivors living lives of hunger, fear and insecurity, but which at least were mercifully short ( the lives, not the survivors)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnd1jKcfBRE

Duggys Housemate · 05-05-2013 8:41am

Wibbs wrote: »

Possibly "WTF were they thinking aiming to build intelligent machines". I suspect mobile phones will get a look in on the WTF list. How much sugar were those gobshítes eating? another. You can be sure a few well regarded medical therapies will be thought of as mad Ted.

Do you think mobile phones are going away to be replaced by landlines? Or something better - google glasses with microphones? Because that is mobile.

Chemotherapy will be looked at as barbaric.

Duggys Housemate · 05-05-2013 8:51am

100 years from now.

1) people will live longer. We already know how to cheat senescence in rats.
2) there will be plenty of food. The population is slow growing compared to the 20th century, has about 30% to go until it peaks unlike the 20th century where the population grew by 700% and so did obesity.
3) there will be no AI , unfortunately. Computers will peak between 2020-2030
4) global warming will be contained and reversible.
5) we will have fusion.
6) most cancers will be reversible.

matTNT · 05-05-2013 9:03am

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

100 years from now.

1) people will live longer. We already know how to cheat senescence in rats.
2) there will be plenty of food. The population is slow growing compared to the 20th century, has about 30% to go until it peaks unlike the 20th century where the population grew by 700% and so did obesity.
3) there will be no AI , unfortunately. Computers will peak between 2020-2030
4) global warming will be contained and reversible.
5) we will have fusion.
6) most cancers will be reversible.

+1

KingOfFairview · 05-05-2013 10:12am

The concept of bad language. No words will be taboo.

Toby Take a Bow · 05-05-2013 10:25am

enda1 wrote: »

Currency exchanges

Why currency changes? Are you envisaging a one world type utopia/dystopia or are you thinking of some kind of cashless society?

bobwilliams wrote: »

I will tolerate it but it's not the norm and don't try to to tell me it is.

Of course it's not the norm, I don't think I have ever heard anybody describe gay marriage as the 'norm'. It's a new thing, it's gathering pace, and it will seem normal in a hundred years, or will if society liberalises socially as much as it is now.

05-05-2013 10:34am

Living on one town or in the sticks and driving to another town many kilometres away to work in a car.

Duggys Housemate · 05-05-2013 11:02am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Living on one town or in the sticks and driving to another town many kilometres away to work in a car.

that's unlikely to change unless you mean there are no cars in the future.

I hate modern pessimism about the future. Understandable given the Big Recession I suppose.

05-05-2013 11:19am

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

that's unlikely to change unless you mean there are no cars in the future.

I hate modern pessimism about the future. Understandable given the Big Recession I suppose.

It's the concept of long distance commuting in a car that will go, I'm sure there will still be cars though.

thiarfearr · 05-05-2013 12:21pm

Augmerson wrote: »

We will begin to explore bioengineering, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence and robotics on a massive scale. What I envisage in 100 years is this.

The very wealthy will be able to cheat death. To cheat disease and the fate of genetics. When their bodies die out, they will either migrate or transfer their minds to cybernetic organisms or transplant themselves into new 'harvested' bodies with the same DNA as their original, bodies which were grown for them.

The rest of us will continue to live and die as before, but our breeding will be licensed following the explosion of the human population and the dwindling of natural resources.

If you think things are **** now, imagine an imortal Margaret Thatcher or George Bush or Adolf Hitler.

If something like that becomes available to the rich, it'll eventually come down in cost and be available to the rest of us

markesmith wrote: »

I'd say that eating meat daily, or even regularly, will be frowned upon.
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Why? We've always ate meat

Iwasfrozen · 05-05-2013 1:00pm

thiarfearr wrote: »

Why? We've always ate meat

Too expensive to grow and with a higher world population and greater income equality (meaning less money for us) means people will probably be eating insects. Unless they find a more efficient way to mass produce GM meat.

05-05-2013 1:28pm

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

Too expensive to grow and with a higher world population and greater income equality (meaning less money for us) means people will probably be eating insects. Unless they find a more efficient way to mass produce GM meat.

Plus there wont be enough land available to graze enough cattle for the amount of meat we're currently consuming, and the emissions produced by meat production will incur taxes according to the environmental/biodiversity laws of the future!

sock puppet · 05-05-2013 2:20pm

thiarfearr wrote: »

Why? We've always ate meat

Not really. I think meat has only really been a big part of the average person's diet for the last century or two.

Duggys Housemate · 05-05-2013 2:32pm

true-or-false wrote: »

Plus there wont be enough land available to graze enough cattle for the amount of meat we're currently consuming, and the emissions produced by meat production will incur taxes according to the environmental/biodiversity laws of the future!

They can already grow vat meat as we've discussed.

Either way real meat will be produced in places with pasture land - like Ireland. Vat meat will go in burgers etc.

Marsden · 05-05-2013 2:38pm

Reality fookin tv. It's sucks soooo bad.

thiarfearr · 05-05-2013 2:58pm

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

Too expensive to grow and with a higher world population and greater income equality (meaning less money for us) means people will probably be eating insects. Unless they find a more efficient way to mass produce GM meat.

That shouldn't make it frowned up though, if anything it would make it a luxury

05-05-2013 3:12pm

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

They can already grow vat meat as we've discussed.

Either way real meat will be produced in places with pasture land - like Ireland. Vat meat will go in burgers etc.

I don't remember us having a discussion.

As for vat meat, I never said anything against it? I'm not sure what you're getting at.

KingOfFairview · 05-05-2013 3:16pm

I would imagine prudishness about sex will seem laughable.

05-05-2013 3:22pm

KingOfFairview wrote: »

I would imagine prudishness about sex will seem laughable.

Unisex bathrooms/showers like in Starship Troopers!

Duggys Housemate · 05-05-2013 5:34pm

true-or-false wrote: »

I don't remember us having a discussion.

As for vat meat, I never said anything against it? I'm not sure what you're getting at.

Firstly - read the thread. Secondly if meat comes from vats consumption won't be reduced.

05-05-2013 5:44pm

I don't understand why some people here are getting their knickers in a twist!
After all, it's hard enough to forecast what next year's going to be like, let alone 100 years forward.

Paramite Pie · 05-05-2013 6:31pm

efb wrote: »

Bog roll. There has to be a better way!

There is, it's called a bidet and many countries have used them for years. It basically squirts water up yer arse. Ticklish....:cool:

NakedNNettles · 05-05-2013 10:49pm

100 years from now

...everything will be underwater and humans will have evolved into fish...we'll have gills like.

or we will all be used as organic batteries in a giant machine like contraption controlled by sharply dressed robots in black suits.

tony007 · 05-05-2013 11:20pm

Destroying the planet.

05-05-2013 11:51pm

Hitting the limits to growth!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JRVijo65W0

06-05-2013 12:06am

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

Firstly - read the thread. Secondly if meat comes from vats consumption won't be reduced.

Firstly - I can't read, so that's very rude.

Secondly, 'cultured meat' isn't going to be simply labelled as 'meat' until the great cow/pig/sheep/kangaroo extinction of 2052, when the distinction will no longer matter, and people will be more interested in the new 'Soylent Green' anyway.