Just what does the future hold in store?

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Mozzy

New Member
Location
Taunton Somerset
Issac Asimov (think it was him) once said "If we can imagine it; then it can become a reality."

Which I suppose means what we create via a movie etc, will one day become reality. Will time travel ever be a reality though? That one just goes round in circles IF this is the first time around of course. What will become of incomes with mechanisation/automation doing away with the need for real peeps. Will artificial intelligence (walking talking android) be created properly, and if so why? Military/exploration tasks not withstanding.

Seen so many things happen right now that just a few years ago were laughable to consider. I guess travel will become much faster. Will for example taking a holiday be jetless? Will you just go to a place, and step into a machine and have your matter transported just as easily as radio waves are transported?

Will hunger and growth in populace lead to war about food? If so, does that mean the end is nigh; said the sandwich board man :smile:

I find myself thinking that things must surely slow down a bit, but will they? Technology creates technology, and so on. Will the pace just run away with itself now? 'They' suggest individual age will have increased to around 150 years in a century or so. Thing is unless they invent some wonder treatment which keeps this carcass we live in a fit and useful entity, I'd personally NEVER want to be 150! Will they do head transplants as has been suggested. But, better still will they … could they ever take out what is you and pop it into another body? That would be interesting.

I see there is even a Cyberdine systems out there now; probably been around for a while.

If they cure cancer, heart and respiratory disease, what replaces it and why does it stay dormant until ready to pop?

Hmmmm.
 

Globalti

Legendary Member
The next major world war will be fought over water supplies.
 

perplexed

Guru
Location
Sheffield
Isn't it thought that time travel cannot happen, on the basis that we'd have been visited by people from the future?

You could say no, because the future hasn't happened yet. However, if we had time travel now, and went back to say hello to Oliver Cromwell for example, he'd be living in the present as far as he was concerned, and the future hasn't yet happened.

Well, you know what I mean...^_^
 

Kestevan

Last of the Summer Winos
Location
Holmfirth.
I seem to recall some theoretical physicists claiming that time travel was possible, but you could only travel back to a point after the time travel machine had been invented..... Can't remember the details (its been a while), but the travel relied on the creation of a wormhole at point in time A, which then allowed access to itself from the future.

Probably moot anyway, as apparantly the Mayans have said it's all over in 2012 anyway :pump:
 

Globalti

Legendary Member
When you see how people manage to survive in shitty African countries with no decent medicine, no social security and almost never any electricity you realise that we live a sheltered, pampered existence and society and nation could deteriorate a long way and we would still survive.
 
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Mozzy

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Location
Taunton Somerset
When you see how people manage to survive in shitty African countries with no decent medicine, no social security and almost never any electricity you realise that we live a sheltered, pampered existence and society and nation could deteriorate a long way and we would still survive.
Not withstanding of course the billions given to said African areas to ensure they survive.
 
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