Futuristic future

[Trickster]

Do you believe that by the time of 2050 we will have a nation or even world with hover cars and chrome building, with automatic food beamed to your table, school making learning easier, and teleporters?
We see this thing in cartoons and tv. But will it happen in the years they predict? Its 09' and in alot of media they said we would have some futuristic gadgets that can do other worldy things yet we came close it is not there.
We are in a futuristic society now but do you believe we will have those things in that the media proclams in the near future?

[Skeln]

ot that quickly, but yeah we should have some futuristic technology

[Commander Thor]

Do you believe that by the time of 2050 we will have a nation or even world with hover cars and chrome building, with automatic food beamed to your table, school making learning easier, and teleporters?
We see this thing in cartoons and tv. But will it happen in the years they predict? Its 09' and in alot of media they said we would have some futuristic gadgets that can do other worldy things yet we came close it is not there.
We are in a futuristic society now but do you believe we will have those things in that the media proclams in the near future?

Hover cars & chrome buildings are possible. (Magnetic technology would allow for hovercraft, and chrome, well, we can already chrome things large-scale :p )
Food 'beamed' to your table is fairly impossible. But having it assembled in a sort of 'particle assembler' is possible, pulling elements out of the air to assemble into food (or something else for that matter).
Teleporters in the sense that I'm pretty sure you're thinking of (Just like the food 'beamers') is also not possible, but being able to scan your body, and re-creating it from bare elements elsewhere is possible. (Don't know how they'll transport the information in your brain, brains are fairly universal, but the information they contain is unique.
About the school making learning easier, they are already making implants for blind people, thats attached up to a camera, so they can sorta see (All they can see is sort of blobs and B&W light) but at least we know we can interface with the brain. Once we understand more about the human brain, and how it works, it shouldn't be that long before we can develop a implant to interface with the brain, to be able to 'download' information into it, from say, the internet, to have access to an endless amount of information.

[NeverTooLate]

i think the world will be in ruins

[Skeln]

Way to be optomistic

[INFERNO]

The food being beamed and particle teleporters I believe is not going to happen by 2050. The technology involved would somehow have to take or at least copy image at the atomic level, somehow move it without distorting any of it then somehow reassembling it. We've progressed a lot but I think we aren't that amazing by 2050.

As for the chrome, it's arguable we could do it right now. We can have chromed-up vehicles, so a building could be made in a similar fashion.

School is being easier to go through academic-wise due to the usage of computers. That eliminates sifting through books in a library for something, just hop on google in a few seconds or a database in a few more seconds, search for whatever, get results and in less than 5 minutes you can have pinpointed exactly what you wanted, whereas 50 years ago, you'd have spent 50+ minutes. So I believe it's already getting easier as we speak.

Hover cars may be possible. We have hovercrafts, so assuming a hover car is built along the same lines, then it's possible, possibly we can build something like that already. If you mean a floating car, then we may be able to: use minature, weaker turbines on the bottom and sides and it could work now. It may be hard to manuvre in traffic but I believe we could make one if we wanted to. It may take a bit of time to design it and get the proper parts but it could be done well before 2050.

[Curthose93]

Food teleporters, hover-cars and chrome buildings seem pretty stupid to me. I'd rather have real progress in the more important areas of science, like genetics, energy technology and space travel. Those things you mentioned seem like they were pulled straight from the Jetson's, and I don't think we should be looking back to the 1960's for ideas on what the future should be.

[Talia]

If we even live that long... then yes, I think the future could be a place with so many advances in technology that we never thought were possible. But I think it also depends on how people would react to the things only imagined in movies becoming reality. With the greater technology comes more conflict, as well as more ways and reasons for humans to fight. Also, I'm not against more futuristic stuff but when you think about it, it seems excessive. I think we get by fine they way we are, and some things could even stand to be done away with.

[NeverTooLate]

Way to be optomistic

hey u never know

[Camazotz]

Most of the things you've described is very possible in the near future. I don't want to give a specific time period because I'm probably wrong, but within the next century we will see things people of the past couldn't even imagine.

[Koman]

hey u never know


Well actually we do know that we will still be alive in 2050.

[Dagenadriel]

Well actually we do know that we will still be alive in 2050.

Do we? Or are you just making assumptions?

[INFERNO]

Well actually we do know that we will still be alive in 2050.

Unless you have some time-traveling device you'd like to share with us, how are you certain on this? Or are you just basing it on pure faith than in the next 41 years, we don't manage to devestate this planet even more, which would be a completely random assumption. Or do you actually have some sort of evidence to support your claim?

[Number02]

You're a snippy fellow aren't you?

Perhaps Koman means he knows he'll be alive in 41 years because he's about to be cryogenically frozen? :d

If not, let him have his faith.

[Commander Thor]

You're a snippy fellow aren't you?

Perhaps Koman means he knows he'll be alive in 41 years because he's about to be cryogenically frozen? :d

If not, let him have his faith.

If he's frozen, he won't be tecnically alive.
And if human kind isn't around in 2050 to thaw him out, he'll stay dead and frozen forever.

[Number02]

No, he'll jus have the capability for life. But that's irrelevant. Point is, he knows he'll be alive in 41 years, just like we once knew the Earth was flat.

(Times like these you gotta love MIB!)

[Curthose93]

... just like we once knew the Earth was flat.



Hahaha, no we didn't.

[Perseus]

Hahaha, no we didn't.

Umm.., yes we did. People of ancient times used to think the earth was flat, the sun revolved around the Earth, and the Earth was the center of the galaxy and universe.

[Trickster]

We cant know if mankind will become a memory or just gone in 2050, we cant know that now. There are plenty of events that could have easily shimmered the population to onlt 500 people or less but we didnt and we lived(World wars, Black Plague, Cold War). Then there are events that some people or nations shouldnt have ended up with so little people but things happen accounting on nature, random events, a domino effect or pure ignorance(Holocaust, Irish potato famine, Armenian Genocide, Rwanda). We cant know and were not meant to. If someone knew when they would die, they would do things differently, throwing off the worlds balance and order so then(this is just an example)
That person doesnt die, the people arent sad, the family doesnt invistigate the death and how, the thing that was suppose to kill him is still running wild, 10,000 people die instead of one. We cant know what will happen to the earth in such a time.

[Number02]

Hahaha, no we didn't.

Actually, it was a law. Anyone who suggested otherwise was punished, often severely, with prison, possibly even execution.

They knew the Earth was flat, the same way we know that there's no life on Mars.

Btw, I'm not implying that there is life on Mars, it was just an illustration of point.

[Sachin]

There's a lot of futuristic films in which the world has undergone some sort of apocalypse or huge war - Children of Men, Twelve Monkeys, etc. - and I think it's a popular belief that in the near future that mankind will be destroyed. However, I highly doubt that; we have too many precuations and interest groups at the moment - there has been mass-media coverage over the effect technology has had on the environment ("An Inconvenient Truth"), as well as the formation of human-rights groups such as the United Nations whose soul purpose is to prevent things like the genocide in Rwanda and the Khmer-Rouge rule over Cambodia (two recent examples) from ever happening again.

Hover-cars and huge, huge, HUGE skyscrapers sound cool, however, people would have to find some low-energy solution towards the construction of things like that (which seem like they would require a large amount of energy/materials).