Physical Crimes (Supposedly) Not Possible By 2025

[Hobgoblin]

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/07...hat-wont-be-possible-in-2025/?intcmp=features

So basically these things will still happen, just by hacking instead of physical force.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

It's Fox News, so you'll understand if I take that with a grain of salt.

Cashless society in a decade? Please.

 

[bullets]

"Pay by Phone" ... While a criminal holds a gun to may head.

 

[Manic]

The only one I really believe is CD/DVD piracy.

 

[Teelie]

It's Fox News, so you'll understand if I take that with a grain of salt.

Cashless society in a decade? Please.

I have an entire shaker for that.

Some of these are possible but none are probable save the DVD/CD one because they'll either be digital or a new physical format past Blu-Ray so DVD/CD's won't exist.

The rest are just flying cars.

 

[DareDemon]

I dunno, futuretimeline.net makes me think the necessary technologies will be available in 2025. Around that time, anyway. And crime has been going down in America since 1991.

I do agree that they could very well be replaced by different but possibly similar crimes though.

 

[The Question]

Are future predictions by non-scientists like this ever accurate?

 

[Teelie]

I predict that they are not.

 

[Duke]

I predict this thread will devolve into sarcasms.

 

[Thundercrack85]

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/07...hat-wont-be-possible-in-2025/?intcmp=features

So basically these things will still happen, just by hacking instead of physical force.

Well some of those, sure, but just cause it doesn't make any sense doesn't mean people won't try.

A century from now you'll have people stealing flying cars.

 

[Manic]

Except there will never be any flying cars. Even if someone develops the technology, there'd only be flying buses and taxis, because a grounded car is already a dangerous enough weapon without the average person taking to the air unsupervised.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Except there will never be any flying cars. Even if someone develops the technology, there'd only be flying buses and taxis, because a grounded car is already a dangerous enough weapon without the average person taking to the air unsupervised.

And yet hundreds of thousands of people have private aircraft (including jets that can take out hundreds of people).

So I don't see why people won't some day have private flying cars. Obviously, there will be strict... restrictions (not to be redundant) on them, perhaps mandatory AI that can override the "driver", but nothing that can't be worked out.

Though really I was just trying to make a point that there will always be things like physical theft.

 

[Teelie]

The only way we'd have practical flying cars is if they were automated and we had a complete revision of air traffic and ground traffic laws to accomodate them. In a century that could happen but not in 25 years.

 

[Shikamaru]

Articles like these make me question sometimes whether or not I have much of a life sometimes. One of my first thoughts after reading the article was that I would sadly never see Batman and Spider-Man stopping bank robberies and carjacking in their comics ever again.

 

[Teelie]

IF this ever came to be, they'd be seen as the equivalent of wild, wild west type crime-fighters depicted (poorly) in a recreation of how people imagined life was like.

 

[KevanG]

It's mostly just a pipe dream filler article from Fox.

 

[DeGenerate10]

You lost me at Fox News.

 

[Manic]

You lost me at Fox News.

http://www.foxnews. "DONE!"