The Future

PostRe: The Future by **Peter Crisp** » Sat Sep 18, 2021 7:18 pm

Apple will fall out of favour and become just another tech company in the next 10 years and be bust within 20.
Hydrogen cars become widely used and overtake pure electric sales by 2035.
The Skylon space plane will revolutionise air travel and become the new Concord.
The PS6 is a massive flop and forces Sony out of hardware.
Steam Deck on the other hand is a huge hit and they force Nintendo to bring out competing high power handhelds.
3D TV has another hotly tipped comeback and yet again fools idiots like me to buy into it and it promptly dies within 5 years and everyone points and laughs at me.

I become a cyborg and run away in a huff about being mocked for my TV choice.

PostRe: The Future by **Moggy** » Sat Sep 18, 2021 7:25 pm

It'll be just like Star Trek, but without Shatner perving over children.

PostRe: The Future by **Zerudaaaaa!** » Sat Sep 18, 2021 8:03 pm

There will be people remembering the good old days, when all you had was Facebook and Twitter. None of this new-fangled Skeewop and Blurmble nonsense.

PostRe: The Future by **Moggy** » Sat Sep 18, 2021 8:07 pm

Zerudaaaaa! wrote:There will be people remembering the good old days, when all you had was Facebook and Twitter. None of this new-fangled Skeewop and Blurmble nonsense.

People are already having pangs of nostalgia for MySpace.

PostRe: The Future by **Zerudaaaaa!** » Sat Sep 18, 2021 8:34 pm

Moggy wrote:
Zerudaaaaa! wrote:There will be people remembering the good old days, when all you had was Facebook and Twitter. None of this new-fangled Skeewop and Blurmble nonsense.

People are already having pangs of nostalgia for MySpace.

Nostalgia for MySpace :lol:

PostRe: The Future by **Herdanos** » Sat Sep 18, 2021 8:39 pm

Microsoft will buy Nintendo

PostRe: The Future by **mcjihge2** » Sat Sep 18, 2021 10:30 pm

Abacus wrote:What do you think the future will be like?

Lots of space helmets and hoverboards, or;

just more of the same but just everything costing a bit more?

Are you OK man?

PostRe: The Future by **Nibble** » Sat Sep 18, 2021 10:50 pm

Threads with an older Reece Dinsdale.

PostRe: The Future by **ITSMILNER** » Sat Sep 18, 2021 10:55 pm

I feel sorry for the likes of my niece, she’s 3 years old now, by the time she’s an adult I wonder how strawberry floated this world will be for her to live in

one of the reasons I won’t have kids myself.

PostRe: The Future by **Peter Crisp** » Sat Sep 18, 2021 11:04 pm

ITSMILNER wrote:I feel sorry for the likes of my niece, she’s 3 years old now, by the time she’s an adult I wonder how strawberry floated this world will be for her to live in one of the reasons I won’t have kids myself.

She'll be busy trying not to get holodeck addiction.

PostRe: The Future by **Tomous** » Sun Sep 19, 2021 6:48 am

Zerudaaaaa! wrote:
Moggy wrote:
Zerudaaaaa! wrote:There will be people remembering the good old days, when all you had was Facebook and Twitter. None of this new-fangled Skeewop and Blurmble nonsense.

People are already having pangs of nostalgia for MySpace.

Nostalgia for MySpace

MSN Messenger, on the other hand...

MySpace > Facebook.

Tom from MySpace never sold our data to the highest bidder and allowed the widespread distribution of misinformation to go unchecked.

PostRe: The Future by **Victor Mildew** » Mon Sep 20, 2021 12:25 pm

God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs. God creates Man, man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs eat man..... Woman inherits the earth.

That and drowning/burning to death/ covid 3.0 covid harder.

PostRe: The Future by **OrangeRKN** » Mon Sep 20, 2021 1:10 pm

~50 years

- The climate crisis will precipitate famine, war, and the rise of reactionary authoritarian regimes in first world countries hostile towards the large numbers of resulting refugees.
- The climate crisis will prompt nation state sponsored geoengineering, likely to have large scale unforeseen effects on the climate and for life on Earth.
- Resource shortages and interruptions to the global supply chain will increase.
- A third of all current species on Earth will become extinct.
- Political trends towards increasing state surveillance, decreasing personal privacy, suppression of opposition, state control of the media and a decrease in democracy.
- Accepted truths, current events and world history will become increasingly fabricated and controlled by state powers.
- Many societies will become increasingly virtual in their functioning and in the lives of people within them.
- Quantum computing will cause vast upheaval in the security of the systems on which modern life depends.
- Miniaturisation of drone technology will allow for arbitrary individually targeted state surveillance and assassination.
- Genetically engineered viruses will be increasingly weaponised with genocidal potential.
- The relative wealth, quality of life and life expectancy for the world's richest will continue to rise.
- Medical advancements will continue to increase the human lifespan and find cures for many of today's illnesses such as cancer.
- Significant chance of deadly pandemic and nuclear war.
- Nuclear fusion is soon to be perfected in the next 50 years, ushering in a new and eternal utopic age of free and near limitless power.

<50 million years

- Large asteroid impact causing mass extinction event.
- Nuclear fusion is soon to be perfected in the next 50 years, ushering in a new and eternal utopic age of free and near limitless power.

~500 million years

- Photosynthesis becomes impossible, loss of plant life precipitates mass extinction.
- Nuclear fusion is soon to be perfected in the next 50 years, ushering in a new and eternal utopic age of free and near limitless power.

~1 billion years

- Runaway greenhouse effect evaporating the oceans, ending plate tectonics.
- Nuclear fusion is soon to be perfected in the next 50 years, ushering in a new and eternal utopic age of free and near limitless power.

PostRe: The Future by **Knoyleo** » Mon Sep 20, 2021 1:47 pm

I don't really have the energy to type out my specific thoughts on what the future will look like, but suffice to say, I think the future will be incredibly bleak. The climate crisis will not be stopped, economic inequality will continue to grow, especially the gulf between the global north and south, exacerbated by the climate. Corporate consolidation will see a handful of companies increase their control of all natural resources, the global economy, and eventually become indistinguishable from the operation of governments, who will become increasingly subservient to the power of global business. We will see more pandemics, more infectious and more deadly than Covid. Antibiotics resistance will become even more common among these diseases, and people will die in huge numbers of previously preventable infections. Any and all of the above will also lead to varying levels of authoritarian regimes on the rise, societal decay, and violent conflict.

Probably all within about 50 years.

PostRe: The Future by **Green Gecko** » Mon Sep 20, 2021 2:49 pm

I think this is a suitable point after which to axe the rest of the database and reflect on this in the next 10 years.

PostRe: The Future by **Moggy** » Mon Sep 20, 2021 2:51 pm

We really are a happy and optimistic bunch aren't we? :lol:

PostRe: The Future by **Imrahil** » Mon Sep 20, 2021 3:11 pm

Moggy wrote:We really are a happy and optimistic bunch aren't we?

My one seemed to be the only one which wasn't WORST CASE SCENARIO! :lol:

The chances are the reality will fall down somewhere between Utopian paradise and We're all gonna die.

PostRe: The Future by **Return_of_the_STAR** » Mon Sep 20, 2021 3:17 pm

We will find new sources of 'super' antibiotics hidden inside sewage formed from the mixing of used antibiotics in human and animal waste.

Cures for most cancers will be common place in the next ten years however the Tory government refuse to pay for the treatment saying that 'market forces' will ensure that everyone gets the treatment at a fair price.

Covid will be eradicated once the microchips that were injected into our bodies are switched on.

McDonald's will bring back the McRib again as a one month special in 7 years time.

The Taliban will have a sudden change of heart and ban all men from holding government, receiving education and driving cars.

President Putin will pass away at the age of 86 whilst still president. His will states that he must have a rainbow flag on his coffin.

Gareth Southgate receives a knighthood when he resigns as England manager in 2040. He is proclaimed as nearly our greatest manager after all time after nearly winning a few tournament but acknowledged as being a really nice guy who wasn't afraid to speak out against racism and homophobia.

Prince Charles becomes king for 1 and a half years before Prince Harry returns from Hollywood with an army of cyborgs he borrowed from a Netflix movie as part of his studio deal. He uses the cyborgs to take the crown from Prince William.

The year is 2076, North Korea insist that Kim Yong-Un is still alive and well, and in charge of the country despite not being seen in person for 50 years.

PostRe: The Future by **Curls** » Mon Sep 20, 2021 3:44 pm

China definitely gonna invade Nepal guys.

That's my only prediction.

PostRe: The Future by **OrangeRKN** » Mon Sep 20, 2021 3:47 pm

Ignorance is bliss, but I'm that kind of intellectual egotist who would rather be correct than happy :toot:

Imrahil wrote:I think they'll invent atmosphere regulation technology on a massive scale which will let the human race 'off the hook' to some extent, averting all the worst case scenario stuff. Also, they'll work out how to grow sustenance cheaply in synthetic farms so famines will be a thing of the past. In general, understanding of what the body needs to survive will dramatically increase, and the physical amount of food we consume will fall significantly.

I think you're right on the latter two points technologically, the problem is in real world distribution. Globally we already produce more than enough food for every person on the planet, and yet regional famines, malnutrition and starvation are still real issues that affect millions. Even without new technologies such as artificial meat and vertical farming we could provide for everyone, but our global systems aren't set up to prioritise that - there isn't particularly reason to think that the emergence of new technologies will magically solve that.

When it comes to geoengineering efforts (that are all essentially about regulating the atmosphere), there are huge uncertainties around any potential technology and its application. The climate and the Earth's ecosystem are hugely complex and inherently chaotic, so I think we should expect significant unforeseen side effects from any serious geoengineering effort. Almost all of the proposed technologies that get seriously discussed are very controversial, and its likely one or several nation states will be forced in reacting to the effects of climate change to jump into one without knowing all of the risks. It may even be adversarial - engineering a beneficial climate in one region may adversely affect another, for example in changing patterns of rainfall making one region wetter but at the expense of another that becomes drier. There are already real-world analogs to this where rivers and lakes cross borders and where projects such as water use and damming are beneficial to the country implementing those projects but harmful to others.

Imrahil wrote:I guess the bigger problem will be sheltering all the humans on this planet. And what quality of life there might be when it gets truly crowded. How will humans cope psychologically when hundreds of millions of citizens live in the same geographical area that dozens of millions currently do?

Contrary to popular belief the rate of world population growth is in decline. According to the UN (and me just looking it up on Wikipedia) world population growth peaked in 1968 and world population is expected to peak around 2100 at only 11 billion (we're at 7.8 billion right now). So this is actually less of a problem than you might think! It is a problem for capitalism though, being a system built on the premise of never ending growth.

Imrahil wrote:Preventative healthcare will be incredible. The concept of disease and infection could become a thing of the past. They'll probably fully understand the formation of cancer and nullify it before it even develops, etc.

I agree that we will continue to see huge and beneficial strides in medicine! Preventative healthcare is a bit less certain because that comes down to political will as much as medical breakthroughs. We're already overdue a preventative healthcare revolution - many health issues today could be tackled with preventative healthcare that is already possible, but isn't done, like having people routinely screened and given health check-ups.

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