A look at the future

[neorichieb1971]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38

Its a believable future if you take criminals out of the equation. Glass breaks easily.

Wonderful outlook of the future though. I am sure once that level of reality is reached nobody will have jobs though


Anyway thought i'd share.

[Evilmaxwar]

Next thing after that : invisibility personal armor, i can barely wait.

[Elixir]

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this is going to suck for people without fingers, or who have arthritis.

[Daigohji]

The in-car concepts seemed oddly conservative. I would have expected them to have GPS and HUD elements on the windscreen.

[Blackbird]

A future with more useless gadgets that provide yet more means for corporations to invade your privacy and bombard you with advertisement.

Is this really the best future we can imagine? A future where the wealthy play with gadgets that invade their privacy and spam them with ads?

Assuming we don't destroy our species first, my vision of the future is much grander:

- New energy sources (perhaps fusion, among others) have been mastered, generating nearly limitless energy from only a few discrete locations. If you ever need to power your vehicle, heat your home, or charge your gadget, you simply tap into the power grid and fill your batteries. There is no need for the general populace to burn anything and there are very few power plants, so human energy production has little to no effect on the environment.

- Nanomachines in our bodies ensure that the regenerative processes that occur naturally when we were young continue to be just as, if not more effective into old age. Once adult, people remain the same age, and the elderly can become younger if they wish. Failing that, at least a quality of life that is good right up until the end, rather than the suffering that comes from slowly deteriorating health.

- Genetic engineering means that no one is born deformed or with genetic disease. Resistance to other diseases later in life is increased by more robust genetic code.

- Improvements in health have reduced the need for constant population growth. Governments cap(?) the population at a level where the Earth's resources can sustain it's population indefinitely.

- Improvements in transportation (largely thanks to the energy revolution), logistics, and breeding have enabled enough food to be cheaply produced and distributed where needed. No one has to go hungry, even the poor.

- The solutions to many basic human needs worldwide greatly reduces the frequency of war and strife. There are no more wars fought to secure limited supplies of energy sources like petroleum.

...and I'm not even particularly imaginative.

[Ganelon]

I guess for Corning, this would be the best thing that could happen. This is a pretty depressing future though. Most of these devices can be mimicked using modern technology already but they just won't look as sleek now.

I hope we'll be able to expand further in hand-movement or neuron-reading rather than having to still depend on tactile devices for everything. Who wants to walk up to a TV to change the channel or touch a board that millions of others have already? This video is soothing and well produced but I doubt it'll convince many investors that glass is such an integral part of the future.

[BryanM]

You have to use your hands? That's a baby's toy!

[TarkanX]

I didn't see the video, but as for what the future will be like, if corporations aren't making money off of it, then it probably won't be widespread.

A future with more useless gadgets that provide yet more means for corporations to invade your privacy and bombard you with advertisement.

Is this really the best future we can imagine? A future where the wealthy play with gadgets that invade their privacy and spam them with ads?

Assuming we don't destroy our species first, my vision of the future is much grander:

- New energy sources (perhaps fusion, among others) have been mastered, generating nearly limitless energy from only a few discrete locations. If you ever need to power your vehicle, heat your home, or charge your gadget, you simply tap into the power grid and fill your batteries. There is no need for the general populace to burn anything and there are very few power plants, so human energy production has little to no effect on the environment.

- Nanomachines in our bodies ensure that the regenerative processes that occur naturally when we were young continue to be just as, if not more effective into old age. Once adult, people remain the same age, and the elderly can become younger if they wish. Failing that, at least a quality of life that is good right up until the end, rather than the suffering that comes from slowly deteriorating health.

- Genetic engineering means that no one is born deformed or with genetic disease. Resistance to other diseases later in life is increased by more robust genetic code.

- Improvements in health have reduced the need for constant population growth. Governments cap(?) the population at a level where the Earth's resources can sustain it's population indefinitely.

- Improvements in transportation (largely thanks to the energy revolution), logistics, and breeding have enabled enough food to be cheaply produced and distributed where needed. No one has to go hungry, even the poor.

- The solutions to many basic human needs worldwide greatly reduces the frequency of war and strife. There are no more wars fought to secure limited supplies of energy sources like petroleum.

...and I'm not even particularly imaginative.

I like this, especially the ones about improvements in health (which correlates to less children), transportation, nanomachines (being at your prime for a very long time), and genetic engineering. I believe that as long as there is a lack of resources to go around, there will always be war. Lack of resources lead to oppression, oppression leads to revolting, etc.

[Evilmaxwar]

A future with more useless gadgets that provide yet more means for corporations to invade your privacy and bombard you with advertisement.

Is this really the best future we can imagine? A future where the wealthy play with gadgets that invade their privacy and spam them with ads?

Assuming we don't destroy our species first, my vision of the future is much grander:

- New energy sources (perhaps fusion, among others) have been mastered, generating nearly limitless energy from only a few discrete locations. If you ever need to power your vehicle, heat your home, or charge your gadget, you simply tap into the power grid and fill your batteries. There is no need for the general populace to burn anything and there are very few power plants, so human energy production has little to no effect on the environment.

- Nanomachines in our bodies ensure that the regenerative processes that occur naturally when we were young continue to be just as, if not more effective into old age. Once adult, people remain the same age, and the elderly can become younger if they wish. Failing that, at least a quality of life that is good right up until the end, rather than the suffering that comes from slowly deteriorating health.

- Genetic engineering means that no one is born deformed or with genetic disease. Resistance to other diseases later in life is increased by more robust genetic code.

- Improvements in health have reduced the need for constant population growth. Governments cap(?) the population at a level where the Earth's resources can sustain it's population indefinitely.

- Improvements in transportation (largely thanks to the energy revolution), logistics, and breeding have enabled enough food to be cheaply produced and distributed where needed. No one has to go hungry, even the poor.

- The solutions to many basic human needs worldwide greatly reduces the frequency of war and strife. There are no more wars fought to secure limited supplies of energy sources like petroleum.

...and I'm not even particularly imaginative.

Im still hoping for the invisibility armor.
No just kidding, i pretty much agree the reality depicted in the video is somewhat silly. Humanity needs to work on more fundamental stuff if we are to be successful at not becoming a mass extinction success story.
Those things you listed are all great points.

One technological advance im really looking forward to is widespread use bio-reactors or advanced bio-digestion machines as a mean to process wastes into resources and energy. Its possible imo to use bioengineering in a way that we could automate the process of recycling all kinds of wastes or byproducts at a molecular level. You eliminate toxic wastes, recycle it into useful resources while producing significant amount of energy. This is possible and its the kind of things we need to work more on.

Obvious problem is there is no money to be made there in the mid-short term so progress is slow. Burning fossil fuel and dumping our crap in landfills is so much more convenient.

However this is still slowly starting:
Bioreactors, hi-tech composting, Bio-remediation, landfill gas recycling etc is the very beginning of this kind of technology. I spent alot of time thinking about it and im convinced genetically engineered microorganisms are extremely promising. When you mix this with advances in nanotechnology... This can get very very very far. Living factories and stuff like that. It can be scary to think about it, but also could be a salvation for mankind.

[LtC]

This site has pretty interesting predictions about the future. Most predictions are based on current trends like Moore's law and there's a lot of stuff negative stuff waiting. And most of these things will probably never happen but it's still an interesting read.

[Mortificator]

The woman in the video wakes up, brushes her teeth, showers, gets dressed, does her hair and makeup and is out the door within 20 minutes.

The future can't come fast enough.

[Lloyd Mangram]

A Day Made of Greasy Fingerprints.

[brokenhalo]

Next thing after that : invisibility personal armor, i can barely wait.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc7c-K5xHQ0

your wait is almost over, seemingly.