Mind Boggling Future Technologies

[lazur]

I watched an interesting show on The Discovery Science Channel last night that got me to thinking about the kinds of things just a few hundred years from now could yield for humankind. In the show, they talked about how with current technology we could actually terraform Mars into another habitable planet like Earth, but that it would take probably a couple hundred years to do so IF we went there now. We'd have to set up green house gas stations that would literally cause the particles in the air of Mars to heat up and melt the ice, and from there on we begin introducing various plant forms to the planet, which would thrive on the carbon dioxide the green house gases would create, and then it's a waiting game until the plant life transforms the atmosphere into breathable oxygen.

Anyway, some of the other technologies I don't think are unreasonable given 500 years:

- A super suit, which fits like skin-tight lycra, perhaps composed of nano technology, which, perhaps incorporating some type of electro-magnetic shielding, makes the wearer impervious to harm, and provides super human strength. Heck, maybe by then it'll even allow the user to fly somehow. Makes me wonder what will become of 'super heroes' if anyone is able to essentially be a super hero with such a suit!

- Flying cars is a given by then, but I suspect there will be personal travel options to reach the moon and the newly terra formed Mars.

- Inter solar system space travel. Not so sure we'll be able to traverse galaxies by then, but it'd be neat to find other planets in other solar systems of our galaxy to terra form, and it's probably not all that unreasonable that we'll be able to reach those planets in 500 years.

What other technologies do you think we'll see in 500 years? I'm also a big believer in reincarnation (the Universe recycles everything, and I don't think our 'essences' are any different), so I believe we'll all literally be around to see all of this stuff, just not in our current forms.

Anyway - my random thought for the day.

 

[Nepenthes]

3D Printers that can 'build' most types of objects layer by layer in our own homes. This will be in the next 100 years and will totally fu*k up entire industries like transport and retail. Instead of buying something you just download the designs over the internet and it appears in a magic box in your house.

Virtual reality, the internet will actually be a place you can move around in. Basically everything is Second Life. Eventually computers can even make you feel drunk or have orgasms by messing with your brain levels, and once food pills and sleep machines are invented rich people can live their entire lives in online fantasy land. ha ha the future sucks

 

[PLAS]

does anyone think we'll still be around in 100 years? honestly?

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Teleportation, dudes.

 

[Liquid Snake]

Who cares? Its all an illusion. Most people 500 years ago thought earth would be heaven now but its completely the opposite. Evolution doesn't mean elevation.

 

[jaguarr]

3D Printers that can 'build' most types of objects layer by layer in our own homes. This will be in the next 100 years and will totally fu*k up entire industries like transport and retail. Instead of buying something you just download the designs over the internet and it appears in a magic box in your house.

They're already using this technology for proto-typing, and it works surprisingly well. I wouldn't be surprised to see these types of units become available on the consumer level in the next 25 years.

Wanna really fry your brain? Read up on some of the things they're doing with nanotech and biotech. If you've got investment dollars burning a hole in your pocket, those are the industries to be watching.

jag

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Who cares? Its all an illusion. Most people 500 years ago thought earth would be heaven now but its completely the opposite. Evolution doesn't mean elevation.

It isn't the "opposite of Heaven".
500 years ago, if you have a bad liver, tough s***, so long.

If a guy raped and killed your wife? Welp, no clues left behind. Just a puddle of semen. Shoot, looks like he got away with it.

A person 500 years ago would give their hair and teeth to talk to someone on the other side of the planet.

500 years ago, they'd've crapped their pants just to have an electric fan in the heat of summer.

 

[Darthphere]

They're already using this technology for proto-typing, and it works surprisingly well. I wouldn't be surprised to see these types of units become available on the consumer level in the next 25 years.

Wanna really fry your brain? Read up on some of the things they're doing with nanotech and biotech. If you've got investment dollars burning a hole in your pocket, those are the industries to be watching.

jag

In the eighties one of my dad's buddies told him he should invest some money into Apple, my dad said that was poppycock. I could be rich right now, I hate my dad, well not really.

 

[DorkyFresh]

does anyone think we'll still be around in 100 years? honestly?

lol, i was thinking the same thing. the way our planet is acting we might not even be around for 50 years...

...anyway, if we survive 500 years i suspect we'll see the average lifespan grow to 150, robots operating fast food, and bullet proof clothes that can read your vital signs. i also wouldn't be surprised if they've developed a form of mind reading or brain wave manipulation by that time. our technology is only about 100 years old and growth has been dramatic for the last 10 years. multiply that by 5 and you'll have 500 y/o technology....

 

[Liquid Snake]

It isn't the "opposite of Heaven".
500 years ago, if you have a bad liver, tough s***, so long.

If a guy raped and killed your wife? Welp, no clues left behind. Just a puddle of semen. Shoot, looks like he got away with it.

A person 500 years ago would give their hair and teeth to talk to someone on the other side of the planet.

500 years ago, they'd've crapped their pants just to have an electric fan in the heat of summer.

So you think we can get pleasure out of these technological advances forever? Most of what you said aren't nessesities for living. Communication and crime and diesease are in abundance but i agree with you, to a certain point control over nature is an advantage that modern man has but this does not mean that quality of life will get better.

 

[Lord Valumart]

i await the time of space pirates...with open arms i shall become one of them and do all that crap i wanted to last week...but in space

and on a serious note...proper scifi style clones and some cheese that lookes like cheese, smells like cheese, but tastes like ham.

 

[PLAS]

lol, i was thinking the same thing. the way our planet is acting we might not even be around for 50 years...

...anyway, if we survive 500 years i suspect we'll see the average lifespan grow to 150, robots operating fast food, and bullet proof clothes that can read your vital signs. i also wouldn't be surprised if they've developed a form of mind reading or brain wave manipulation by that time. our technology is only about 100 years old and growth has been dramatic for the last 10 years. multiply that by 5 and you'll have 500 y/o technology....

that's exactly why I don't think we'll be around by then

we've advanced technologically more in the last 40 years than the last 400, yet it seems we have not yet reached a point of universal enlightenment to properly wield the power levels we are reaching

for us as a race to actually advance more without wiping ourselves out we first need to reach a certain level of consciousness and awareness, and the way things are going, it seems unlikely

there's a reason why cows don't fly and we can't read thoughts

 

[Lord Valumart]

there's a reason why cows don't fly and we can't read thoughts

it works the other way around though

 

[PLAS]

it works the other way around though

I wouldn't like cow**** raining down

 

[DorkyFresh]

that's exactly why I don't think we'll be around by then

we've advanced technologically more in the last 40 years than the last 400, yet it seems we have not yet reached a point of universal enlightenment to properly wield the power levels we are reaching

for us as a race to actually advance more without wiping ourselves out we first need to reach a certain level of consciousness and awareness, and the way things are going, it seems unlikely

PLAS, you are truely a breath of fresh air. i wish i knew more people who think that way. i've been saying that for years...

...we are infants and technology is a gun.

 

[CyberFaust]

PLAS, you are truely a breath of fresh air. i wish i knew more people who think that way. i've been saying that for years...

...we are infants and technology is a gun.

so we shoot ourselves in the head and then people call us arseface

 

[PLAS]

so we shoot ourselves in the head and then people call us arseface

the thing is that once we pull the trigger nobody will be there to call us areseface

 

[DorkyFresh]

actually...aliens will be around long after we're gone. they'll be the ones calling us arseface...

...if they're not already, hehe.

 

[Kyalesyin]

I wonder if we'll have cured stuff like Diabetes and Celiac's disease, and if we'll have a whole new bunch of diseases gnawing away at us by then...

 

[CyberFaust]

whenever i think future, i think transmetropolitan

 

[DorkyFresh]

I wonder if we'll have cured stuff like Diabetes and Celiac's disease, and if we'll have a whole new bunch of diseases gnawing away at us by then...

i'm convinced that we have cures, or at least vaccines and permanent treatments, for diabetes, AIDS, and even cancer. think about it...we have the technology to decode human DNA and clone just about everything under the sky but we can't cure AIDS or cancer??? not to mention....what was the last disease that we had a real cure or vaccine for?

my mentor told me that it's likely the medical industry (along with the government) is purposefully keeping these cures from the public because there's no money in CURING people. the money is in treating people who are sick. they keep the cures from us, so we remain sick and have to keep giving them money.

whoever came up w/the saying "money is the root of all evil" couldn't have been anymore correct...

 

[Lord Valumart]

I wonder if we'll have cured stuff like Diabetes and Celiac's disease, and if we'll have a whole new bunch of diseases gnawing away at us by then...

we'l have Reavers to worry about in that thar future

 

[Liquid Snake]

Things like diseases, crime, will never be wiped out entirely (obviously). Diseases are natures way of trying to keep balance, and relying too much on technology has and will make humans more vulnerable.

Ten years from now I would've done anything to be alive 100 years from now and see what the world is like, but now I'm content with knowing that people in all ages have had and will have the same ****ing problems.

 

[Kyalesyin]

i'm convinced that we have cures, or at least vaccines and permanent treatments, for diabetes, AIDS, and even cancer. think about it...we have the technology to decode human DNA and clone just about everything under the sky but we can't cure AIDS or cancer??? not to mention....what was the last disease that we had a real cure or vaccine for?

my mentor told me that it's likely the medical industry (along with the government) is purposefully keeping these cures from the public because there's no money in CURING people. the money is in treating people who are sick. they keep the cures from us, so we remain sick and have to keep giving them money.

whoever came up w/the saying "money is the root of all evil" couldn't have been anymore correct...

Be careful- sure, we can replicate DNA, but the HIV virus changes so rapidly that by the time something is worked out to treat it, its mutated.

Same with diabetes- Sure, you probably could reprogramme someone's body to only produce the healthy, non-diabetic cells. If the person is sick, the effort of changing everything over could kill them. How do we know if we have the new DNA right? What if we don't and they end up worse off? Messing with people's bodies is a minefield.

As for the cost thing- over here, they want you to be unsick as quickly as possible. If the cures were out there, we'd be handing them out like candy to get people off treatment.

 

[DorkyFresh]

Be careful- sure, we can replicate DNA, but the HIV virus changes so rapidly that by the time something is worked out to treat it, its mutated.

Same with diabetes- Sure, you probably could reprogramme someone's body to only produce the healthy, non-diabetic cells. If the person is sick, the effort of changing everything over could kill them. Messing with people's bodies is a minefield.

i'm not exactly sure how HIV/AIDS and diabetes work but my question still remains...what was the last major virus or disease that was cured and why?

As for the cost thing- over here, they want you to be unsick as quickly as possible. If the cures were out there, we'd be handing them out like candy to get people off treatment.

i'm not sure where you are but i know that the people who run and supply these treatment centers are HUMAN. i know not everyone is an evil conniving bastard but i also know that if there's a cure or vaccine for aids, diabetes, cancer, etc. that the drug industry would take a tremendous blow (one of the few reasons why weed isn't legal in the USA) and i also know that there are people who are willing to do ANYTHING for money...