The most important advancement of the next 50 years?

pjbetman wrote:

jawa2 wrote:Being able to look at my game playtime on my PS4. Or folders available at launch on new consoles.

Failing that, I think having access to facts is going to become increasingly challenging over the next fifty years. Fake news, deep fakes, control of information, sharing data... all of this is going to become increasingly complicated, especially where people have become accustomed to news and information being "free of charge"; it's going to become harder to have reliable sources and impartiality. As electronic mechanisms develop, I'm not sure that we'll have a way forward for this within the next fifty years.

We've had unreliable and government censored internet for years. Nearly everything you read on google is censored. And by definition, i'd say propaganda. It's 99% main stream media, well, propoganda. This will only get worse.

Hmm, if 99% of mainstream media is propoganda, where do you get your news from?

And censored on Google in what way? Except some porn/18+ content, very little relative to what most people are searching is censored.

The removal of the human factor from governance. Humans are selfish, greedy banana splits and should in no way be responsible for the distribution of wealth and resources to other humans.

Karl_ wrote:I doubt the average person in the UK will experience the benefits of any "sci-fi" technology invented before our generation's deaths in around 50 years. Our society is well on its way to collapse and this will be only hastened by the climate crisis intensifying in the 2030s.

Can we at least wait until the end of the new Dune: The Sisterhood tv series before the collapse of society?

Robotics has quietly been advancing at a fast pace behind the scenes and will be the biggest technological advancement of the century. My 2070 I'd expect neurologically implanted bionics to be a reality as well as household robots to be commonplace.

The lab that made the £250,000 lab-grown burger 8 years ago has got the price down to £9 a patty this year and rather than growing them from cow cells has managed to make them from plant-based ingredients. I'd expect plant-based meat to destroy the beef industry within a decade as prices come down even further. Fat-free, protein packed burgers are the dream!

The beef industry being destroyed would have knock on positive effects for the environment. A 'rewilding tax' on plant-meat will mean rich countries will start paying for reforesting of the Amazon to help support farmers whose livelihoods have been killed by the collapse of the meat industry.

Boris's plan to build enough wind farms to power the whole of the UK will be the only positive thing he is remembered for. Energy independence for the UK is something any government should strive for as oil prices start to rise due to the scarcity of fossil fuels.

Brexit will prove to be a turning point for the UK but not the one it's supporters expect. The hardships it will induce over the next few years will expose the lies of the brexiters for all to see and no amount of PR in the papers can cover up rising food prices. People vote with their pockets and within the next decade Britain will have rejoined the EU which will continue to prosper and remain the model of peaceful international cooperation. This time however the EU demands will be higher. Britain will accept the Euro as it's currency and become fully assimilated into the bloc rather than an outlier. Excess wind farm energy will help sweeten the deal.

The sad death of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022 will have drastic effects for the royal family. Like Charles I and II before him, Charles III's rein will go headlong with the Brexit years. When it comes out that the royal family actively supported the idea the people and media will demand they are stripped of their titles. Britain will become a republic.

The rejoining of the EU and collapse of the monarchy will start what will be known by historians as the 'Polite Revolution' where power is permanently devolved from Westminster and Britain follows the Swiss model of semi-autonomous prefectures. The house of lords will be replaced by a Citizen's Assembly which people are picked for like jury duty and paid for. This gets people more interested in politics.

WFH and Amazon will continue to destroy city centres as shops and cafes decamp to the suburbs. At least one city will start a rewilding project by planting a ton of trees across the city centre turning our old shopping precincts into wildlife parks offering a mix of cultural and educational events.

Realising it's university system is, across the board second to none and a very attractive prospect for foreigners, Britain decides to remodel itself as the 'university of the world' by pushing and expanding its higher education system by making it more accessible.

Oh, and in 2048 we have the first Anti-Gravity racing championships to look forward to!

Universal Basic Income

Carlos wrote:The sad death of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022

Advancements to help prevent further climate change and circumvent the damage already caused by the time those advancements come around.

The Queen needs to keep on trucking until at least 2023 as we're getting another extra Jubilee bank holiday in 2022 already.
2023 is fine as we'll then get a couple of extra days for the funeral and coronation stuff and then Charles can abdicate in 2024 for some extra days that years as well.

Carlos wrote:Robotics has quietly been advancing at a fast pace behind the scenes and will be the biggest technological advancement of the century. My 2070 I'd expect neurologically implanted bionics to be a reality as well as household robots to be commonplace.

The lab that made the £250,000 lab-grown burger 8 years ago has got the price down to £9 a patty this year and rather than growing them from cow cells has managed to make them from plant-based ingredients. I'd expect plant-based meat to destroy the beef industry within a decade as prices come down even further. Fat-free, protein packed burgers are the dream!

The beef industry being destroyed would have knock on positive effects for the environment. A 'rewilding tax' on plant-meat will mean rich countries will start paying for reforesting of the Amazon to help support farmers whose livelihoods have been killed by the collapse of the meat industry.

Boris's plan to build enough wind farms to power the whole of the UK will be the only positive thing he is remembered for. Energy independence for the UK is something any government should strive for as oil prices start to rise due to the scarcity of fossil fuels.

Brexit will prove to be a turning point for the UK but not the one it's supporters expect. The hardships it will induce over the next few years will expose the lies of the brexiters for all to see and no amount of PR in the papers can cover up rising food prices. People vote with their pockets and within the next decade Britain will have rejoined the EU which will continue to prosper and remain the model of peaceful international cooperation. This time however the EU demands will be higher. Britain will accept the Euro as it's currency and become fully assimilated into the bloc rather than an outlier. Excess wind farm energy will help sweeten the deal.

The sad death of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022 will have drastic effects for the royal family. Like Charles I and II before him, Charles III's rein will go headlong with the Brexit years. When it comes out that the royal family actively supported the idea the people and media will demand they are stripped of their titles. Britain will become a republic.

The rejoining of the EU and collapse of the monarchy will start what will be known by historians as the 'Polite Revolution' where power is permanently devolved from Westminster and Britain follows the Swiss model of semi-autonomous prefectures. The house of lords will be replaced by a Citizen's Assembly which people are picked for like jury duty and paid for. This gets people more interested in politics.

WFH and Amazon will continue to destroy city centres as shops and cafes decamp to the suburbs. At least one city will start a rewilding project by planting a ton of trees across the city centre turning our old shopping precincts into wildlife parks offering a mix of cultural and educational events.

Realising it's university system is, across the board second to none and a very attractive prospect for foreigners, Britain decides to remodel itself as the 'university of the world' by pushing and expanding its higher education system by making it more accessible.

Oh, and in 2048 we have the first Anti-Gravity racing championships to look forward to!

This is apparently not the case. Academic Twitter has been collapsing in on itself all day as Americans gooseberry fool all over the British university system for being too lax and easy to graduate with a degree from.

Peter Crisp wrote:The Queen needs to keep on trucking until at least 2023 as we're getting another extra Jubilee bank holiday in 2022 already.
2023 is fine as we'll then get a couple of extra days for the funeral and coronation stuff and then Charles can abdicate in 2024 for some extra days that years as well.

With covid and Brexit, we'll all be out of work anyway

Generally biotech
Couple of things I'd focus on here. First is personalised medecine, expensive at first sure, but if the social health care systems survive this decade then we'll see much better results per case for all people.

The other is the integration of tech with man. Bionics, brain chips, interfaces ect. They pose a number of risks and ethical problems but they represent the most logical next step in our evolution, as driven by our own will.

The Last of Us 2 Multiplayer becoming 10 times more popular than the Premier League will be pretty important.

The most important will have to be geoengineering technologies or carbon capture as the climate crisis intensifies over the next few decades.