A Vision of the Future - General

[ Thread Music: [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIIA3NKqebg[/MEDIA] ] I have a vision of the future. In the next ten years, Nanotechnology will be a booming field. While it remained highly theoretical until the technology allowed basic applications in the 80's, now we finally have the technology to make the dream a reality. By 2020, advances will allow us to mass-market the products: Cancer-eating nanorobots, ultra-cheap water filters produced en masse and sent to third world countries, high-efficiency solar panels, nanofabrics that reduce cost, increase durability and heat isolation, nanotattos that allow you to have your watch or an entire computer on your screen, chemical catalysts, nano-OLED and nano electronic paper computer screens, carbon nanotubes for construction, integrated circuits with nanoscopic compounds. Nanotech is one of the fastest growing areas of science, and in ten years, we'll have the technology to solve half of this world's problems. If we play our cards right, and I think we will (Because all the Baby Boomers and old, God-fearing Conservatives will have died). When people don't have to worry about their next meal, they can obtain a higher education, or try to just become happy, or think about say, moving to the stars. Nanotechnology will allow us to create megastructures on a scale never imagined. Arcologies that can house billions of people, not ant colonies, but something more of a five-star hotel, self-sustained by Aeroponic hanging gardens, with it's own recycling system to destroy the need of pumping waste into the oceans. Huge Hydroponic farms can be built on the deserts. Nanotech will give us advances in Carbon Nanotube technology, enough to build a Space Elevator and large, ultra-light, scramjet-powered spaceplanes that change in shape as they move through different layers of the atmosphere. We will finally be able to move large amounts of cargo and people into space, and for the first time in years, once we achieve this, the Space Age will begin. Large space habitats, mostly hotels, will be built in orbit. Some of them will be small inflatable modules, while others will be large Bernal spheres that house entire ecosystems and can act as a port for all interplanetary ships. Nanorobots will be sent to the Moon, where they will reproduce using the local resources, and with those same resources they will build an Asimov Array: An array of photovoltaic cells around the lunar equator, several millions of square kilometers in diameter. Enough enrgy to power the entire Earth, and there's still plenty of excess energy to allow industrial growth. And there will still be plenty of excess energy. What to do with that? Underground particle accelerators will manufacture antimatter, and that amount of energy pumped into them will give us a rate of several kilograms per day. Antimatter Valkyries will leave the solar system at near-lightspeed, carrying small human crews to the nearest stars. And they will come back: Microbes from Alpha Centauri, photos of inhabitable moons of gas giants around Tau Ceti, and a book on the biology of a planet in Procyon inhabited by centaur-like beings in the paleolithic stage. We'll colonize the Moon, and Mars, and send some probes to Venus. Interplanetary rockets will carry hundreds of scientists on missions all over the solar system, while hundreds of probes are deployed to explore the small moons we never considered important and find the answer to a million questions we never asked ourselves before. Small nautilus-like and crab-like creatures on the oceans of Europa, and small microbes and some multicellular organisms on Titan. Maybe more. On Mars, nanorobots on Phobos and Deimos will use the moons' resources to build large mirrors and focus light on Mars. The nanorobots on the planet itself will alter the atmospheric composition, either atom by atom or by building the infraesctructure to do so. An asteroid will be disassembled, and turned into a series of solar shades to cool down the Earth, giving it enough time for the ecosystem to, with our help, restore itself. A gigantic disk will be placed in front of Mars, protecting it from solar wind and radiation until we figure out how to restart the core, a gigantic disk balanced by a counterweight and a solar sail. But that's not the end. We'll mine the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud. Particle accelerators will be built on the moons of the gas giants. They will fire streams of droplets at magnetic sails, accelerating the Beamriders to relativistic speeds, carrying the first colonists to a brave new world in some uncharted star. Decades later, they will arrive. The magsail will act as a magnetic parachute, braking them down to a stop, and then allow them to maneuver into a world, let that be a planet or a moon. The solar system will change: Entire asteroids, even moons, and possibly even planets, will be disassembled and turned into large O'Neill like colonies, orbiting the Sun, and the solar system will become a true Dyson Sphere. By that time, Homo Sapiens will be gone. Extinct. But humanity will exist, because to be more than human is to be human. A combinaton of AI research, genetic engineering, nanotech, and robotics, will allow us to modifiy our bodies to survive the extremes of Venus and Pluto, and the unforgiving void between the planets. We will have separated into different sub-species, adapted for each world. And then, the stars will belong to us. Not us, as in humanity, but to as, in in everyone we find: Xenosophonts, Artificial Intelligences created by a race long gone, biologically uplifted animals. We'll go out, bringing life from our homeworld and life we created on the way, to every planet, every moon, asteroid and comet, brown dwarf and gas giant. We will become God, until all the stars go out and Entropy takes everything away. Until then, I propose we turn the universe into a garden.

And in the 70's they said we'd have hover cars by now. Predictions and speculation about the future as far as technological advancements are pointless. And what is the point of this thread? What I see is a bunch of pointless speculation relatable to fanfiction.

I swear to God, we should just have a "What I think will happen in the future" megathread or subforum. These threads have been cropping up a lot lately.

[QUOTE=Nilrus;22379707]And in the 70's they said we'd have hover cars by now[/QUOTE] This, the future probably wont be like we imagine.

[QUOTE=Nilrus;22379707]And in the 70's they said we'd have hover cars by now[/QUOTE] Prototypes were build

Future is always more boring than the numbers show.

[QUOTE=Nilrus;22379707]And in the 70's they said we'd have hover cars by now[/QUOTE] Flying cars were a fantasy created by the mostly uneducated public to entertain itself, anybody who considered it seriously probably didn't mind people crashing cars against buildings. Nanotech and other emerging technologies are actually supported by evidence and extrapolation of our current technology and rate of progress.

Too bad none of this will ever happen if man kind keeps deciding we're our own worst enemy

Moon was such an outstanding movie

[QUOTE=Eudoxia;22379788]Flying cars were a fantasy created by the mostly uneducated public to entertain itself, anybody who considered it seriously probably didn't mind people crashing cars against buildings. Nanotech and other emerging technologies are actually supported by evidence and extrapolation of our current technology and rate of progress.[/QUOTE] Fine, then what data did you base this on? "in ten years, we'll have the technology to solve half of this world's problems" according to who? As I said, all I see is a bunch of pointless speculation with no base or merit.

[QUOTE=Eudoxia;22379788]Flying cars were a fantasy created by the mostly uneducated public to entertain itself, anybody who considered it seriously probably didn't mind people crashing cars against buildings. Nanotech and other emerging technologies are actually supported by evidence and extrapolation of our current technology and rate of progress.[/QUOTE] you just contradicted yourself by saying that uneducated people made speculations of what the future would be like.. aren't you doing the exact same thing here?

[QUOTE=Redsun;22379881]you just contradicted yourself by saying that uneducated people made speculations of what the future would be like.. aren't you doing the exact same thing here?[/QUOTE] Where's my zing rating?

[QUOTE=Nilrus;22379843]Fine, then what data did you base this on? "in ten years, we'll have the technology to solve half of this world's problems" according to who? As I said, all I see is a bunch of pointless speculation with no base or merit.[/QUOTE] Here: [url]http://www.futuretimeline.net/subject/nanotechnology.htm[/url] And Ray Kurzweil :v:

Rate this man optimistic.

i'm guessing you read the killing star at one point?

Oh, and by the way, the site I linked to is not some crackpot website (As far as I know :ninja: ), there are links at the bottom. About Nanotech solving the world's problems, I suggest you guys to read Engines of Creation by Eric Drexler. It's about nanotechnology and stuff like that. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engines_of_Creation[/url] Also, the stuff on Next Big Future... Man, all those news about that. Sorry if my Optimistic count breaks the forum :h:

If i dont own a flying car before i die i will not rest in peace >:(

All that I know for definite by 2020 is computers will be 32 times as cheap, more powerful, we have some some more people in space and we will be using less oil/coal.

And I said "We will" because it sounds better. Not saying that's how the future will be like (That's why the title says 'vision' :downs: ). The accuracy falls of with time, but at least a few of the first things, mostly the ones involving nanotech. It's kinda odd, because a few months ago I wrote some emo faggot poem (Please don't judge me, I repent, I didn't even know what I was doing) and now I write optimistic stuff. Guess people change :shobon:

1955: 1986 WILL HAVE TOMORROW LAND STUFF! AWESOME 2010: Still waiting for those flying cars... I still think the future would be awesome if we used Walt Disney's ideas. He had a fucking plastic house...A FUCKING PLASTIC HOUSE! IT WAS AWESOME! HE INVENTED FLYING SAUSERS! But did we use them? Nooooooooo

Space 1999.

it seems as if everything gets better when its tinier so why doesn't that rule apply to my penis? :(

New York 1997: [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckvDo2JHB7o[/MEDIA] I kinda wish thats how it turned out, at least we would have bad-ass syn-th and Mac-10's with Telescopic sights and colossal silencers. [Media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMH3yKfj6Cg&feature=related[/media]

[QUOTE=Nilrus;22379707]And in the 70's they said we'd have hover cars by now. [/QUOTE] The skyway is jammed!

I would love to see all this happen; this is basically my dream future.

It's a rather hopeful view of the future, although it's not exactly a view so to speak, more of a musing over the current rate of things, and speculating about which direction they'll go and at what speed. But then again, aren't all "predictions" like this? No mortal may look along the timestreams of the universe, at least not with any true clarity or proven potential to do so. I have, on occassion, recalled seeing certain things of the present in past dreams, although I sometimes doubt whether it was true clairvoyance or just "deja-vu". But this isn't really the place to discuss paranormal phenomena, this is for speculations of what might be. As we do not know our fate, we are constrained to our linear path, and with uncertainty tap-dancing on the bathroom walls, we can only imagine what lies ahead in the shadows of the future. Since we don't know, anything could happen in the future. For all we know, the Earth could be wiped clean of life in a few days, or our race could encounter some advanced entity, or the walls of the universe could open up before us, revealing a terrifying void of unreality from which untold horrors pour into our world, devouring humankind and claiming the Earth as their own. Or we just get retractable bottle-opener augmentations by 2030. We don't know, simple as that.

My apologies....My bottle opener is augmented.

There will be no future..Zombies.

[QUOTE=Redsun;22379881]you just contradicted yourself by saying that uneducated people made speculations of what the future would be like.. aren't you doing the exact same thing here?[/QUOTE] Nice job calling someone uneducated when you don't know what the hell you're talking about. If anybody asked me, or 90% of FP for that matter, we'd say that Eudoxia is one of the most educated people here. He knows his shit.

[QUOTE=Meatmuppet;22384879]Nice job calling someone uneducated when you don't know what the hell you're talking about. If anybody asked me, or 90% of FP for that matter, we'd say that Eudoxia is one of the most educated people here. He knows his shit.[/QUOTE] I don't know what i'm talking about in what sense? please let me know because your just another moron on here that makes accusations without thinking. Also.. i stated he is contradicting himself because he is stating what HE thinks the future will be like at the same time calling other people uneducated for having the same ideals. you ignorant... incompetent fool.