Where will humanity be in the next 10 years?

[Thundercrack85]

I think you'll start seeing them in the late 2020's. They'll be very expensive, but we might start seeing economic models in the 2030's.

I also think Google Glass and similar mounted displays will become popular. Maybe the smart phone of the decade.

Augmented reality in general is something that I think will become common, in cars, for example.

 

[KevanG]

So, yeah, technology will be better, but humanity will be as it has always been.

What does that even mean?

I believe the point SF is trying to make is that no matter what we do in life and how far we advance as a society, people will always be people. Take a bunch of people from 500 years ago and put them in the same area. Over time they'll form a society and you'll see that they'll behave similar to what we do now. They'll fight, get drunk, have affairs, be jerks, be good and so on.

Society can and will change due to geography, technology levels and education but on a person to person level we all stay the same. We get changed by how we grow up and what information we receive while growing up and while as a whole the format of how we live and act can vary wildly throughout time if you look at us on a smaller level we never really change. Some people will always have some sort of prejudice, some people will be unfaithful to their loved ones, some will be greedy selfish evil jerks, some will be saints. In the end people are people no matter what.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Though that does assume people will still be people the way they are today.

Genetic engineering, and cybernetics, might change that.

Well, not in ten years obviously, but in a century or more... who knows. We'll have variables we've never had before.

Just a thought.

 

[KevanG]

We can't really guess how any type of genetic engineering or cybernetics could impact a society. At best we have our fiction that theorizes what could happen, but until it does who knows?

Of course the issue then could be some sort of division between those enhanced by either of those and those who aren't.

 

[The End]

I think you'll start seeing them in the late 2020's. They'll be very expensive, but we might start seeing economic models in the 2030's.

I also think Google Glass and similar mounted displays will become popular. Maybe the smart phone of the decade.

Augmented reality in general is something that I think will become common, in cars, for example.

I'd be surprised if it takes that long considering the success companies like Google are having with testing driverless cars. I'd be surprised if they're not commercially available within 5 years. States in the USA are already making new laws for autonomous vehicles.

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[RetrogradeOrbit]

I believe the point SF is trying to make is that no matter what we do in life and how far we advance as a society, people will always be people. Take a bunch of people from 500 years ago and put them in the same area. Over time they'll form a society and you'll see that they'll behave similar to what we do now. They'll fight, get drunk, have affairs, be jerks, be good and so on.

Society can and will change due to geography, technology levels and education but on a person to person level we all stay the same. We get changed by how we grow up and what information we receive while growing up and while as a whole the format of how we live and act can vary wildly throughout time if you look at us on a smaller level we never really change. Some people will always have some sort of prejudice, some people will be unfaithful to their loved ones, some will be greedy selfish evil jerks, some will be saints. In the end people are people no matter what.

Very well said, exactly what I think, could not have gotten it any better.
This applies just as much (if not more so) to the "Humanity in 300 years" thread

 

[KevanG]

That is pretty much what I wrote in the 300 years thread. I just changed a bit but the ideas the same.

 

[NickNitro]

Holographic screens will be awesome

 

[Teelie]

I'll just link to my 300 years post to reiterate how negative some of you are.

More in line with this thread, we'll probably have some more previously only science fiction gadgets become reality. Holographics I can see as becoming a reality although in 10 years time it may still only be for the rich.

 

[NickNitro]

I think you pointing out the negativity is more negative. Stop it Teelie!

 

[Teelie]

I can't help it. I'm trying to be uplifting and positive by showing all you how terrible you are.

 

[NickNitro]

If we can really reach a level of cognitive thinking that surpasses all form of primal territorial obsession, racial bigotry, and persecution and live on this Earth as a species, helping one another to thrive, that is a future I would fight for.

Almost everything, leading up to this point, 2014, seems to have been for personal gain and wealth. Once we collectively transcend the mindset of "I" and accept the "we" I don't think we can progress.

 

[The End]

I'll just go ahead and post this again.

Other indicators of progress - literacy, access to energy, etc, are all higher today than at any other point.

A lot of you are so negative, but its also negativity that doesn't fit the facts.

 

[NickNitro]

And yet there is still the Westboro Baptist Church

 

[Superwoman Prime]

If we can really reach a level of cognitive thinking that surpasses all form of primal territorial obsession, racial bigotry, and persecution and live on this Earth as a species, helping one another to thrive, that is a future I would fight for.

Almost everything, leading up to this point, 2014, seems to have been for personal gain and wealth. Once we collectively transcend the mindset of "I" and accept the "we" I think we can progress.

I agree with you. Surreal to see the Nitro from the Kanye West thread make a post like this.

 

[NickNitro]

I am a Rubix cube of emotion and thought SP. Stick around, I'm here all week.

 

[KevanG]

I'll just go ahead and post this again.

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Other indicators of progress - literacy, access to energy, etc, are all higher today than at any other point.

A lot of you are so negative, but its also negativity that doesn't fit the facts.

Of course it's higher. Due to the nature of our current technology it's far easier for all of those things to be far more widespread than any time previous. All I'm stating is that due to the nature of the technology as well the consequences of a massive screw up, where before it would be limited to the surrounding area and some distance beyond, are far more extreme than before. Where before if a country would have hostile relations with another they would send troops over the border to attack, now we have missiles and atomic weapons that could be used which would have far reaching consequences not only to the countries themselves but also to the entire world. After all, there's only one country that has ever used nuclear weapons against another and that was seventy years ago now.

The potential for greatness for not only the individual but also for the entire planet has never been higher but the potential for our own destruction has never been higher as well which leads to more sobering thoughts as opposed to looking only at the positives.

 

[Teelie]

We're always going to have a Westboro Baptist Church. We're always going to have anarchists, haters, -phobes of every kind and a side of humanity no one wants to admit exists but its size shrinks a little bit at a time. They are becoming the extreme minority, not a growing majority.

 

[NickNitro]

Why can't we merge this thread with the 300 yr thread.

I am confusing the two

Don't you say that Teelie! WBT will be gone in 10 yrs hopefully

 

[Teelie]

That group, sure, but another group will take their place. Then be put in their place like WBT keeps getting done to them.

 

[KevanG]

I think the two threads should be merged but then you'd see multiple posts from me arguing the same points multiple times and that would just look weird.

 

[Teelie]

And people being confused how in 300 years we've managed to advance only a decade.

 

[KevanG]

Boy I hope in 300 years we get some sort of holographic windshields. That'd be really keen!

 

[NickNitro]

And people being confused how in 300 years we've managed to advance only a decade.

Or how in 10 years we've advanced 3 centuries.

I think we can join the two without mass hysteria.

 

[KevanG]

Actually compared to our previous technological development in the past 150 years I'd say we've advanced far more than three centuries worth in that timeframe.