The Future timeline, yay or nay? - General

Just looking for the opinion of the people of Facepunch on this website: [url]http://www.futuretimeline.net/index.htm[/url] Now, i think that some of the stuff looks possible but the later in time you get the more and more impossible it seems to become, of course this could just be because we have not reached a stage when these things seem possible or just because it is impossible but that is just my opinion. So what is Facepunches opinion on this website.

Probably only 1 or 2 will be correct but that's it.

I always have a creepy feeling while reading the more distant ones in timelines like this.

The distant ones are freeky.

I've been looking for this for weeks. Thanks man.

What the fuck is tosh?

[QUOTE=Aerkhan;26568099]What the fuck is tosh?[/QUOTE] you have the whole internet at your disposal, why would you ask for the definition of a word? [url]http://www.answers.com/topic/tosh[/url]

Too bad the world ends in 12 months.

some of the near future ones are realistic, but like all future predictions throughout history, it breaks down into pure fantasy once it gets out to more than a few decades.

[quote]The universe continues to expand forever... but is essentially dead.[/quote] This sounds so depressing

The site keeps crashing chrome.

Also most of it is almost as dumb as Baba Vanga's predictions

[QUOTE=cosmic duck;26568408]The site keeps crashing chrome.[/QUOTE]Works fine on mine

[QUOTE=Laserbeams;26568397]This sounds so depressing[/QUOTE] There's some theories that there was multiple big bangs so I'd assume that it'd be in a cycle.

Some of that stuff made me make a weird noise of satisfaction. Like, kinda like straining to push a large poo out, and a laugh.

I think that from right now, most of these are possible, but just might not happen because we evolve in a different way, like they thought we would have flying cars right now, but instead we have the internet.

Reading stuff like this just makes me sad that I was born too soon to experience the really cool stuff, or to live longer than 60-80 years.

This site assumes so many things, if you read it it mentions matter replicators, teleporters, perfected virtual reality, among other things. I just dont see these things happening that quickly if at all, some of the stuff described is literally at the edge of what engineering is capable of.

Good news guys! [quote]22,000 AD - The Chernobyl disaster site becomes fully safe [/quote]

Or it could just go all out Demolition Man like: [URL="http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.virtual-history.com/movie/photo/03/large/03548.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.virtual-history.com/movie/image/3686&usg=__JG8dDCXNbYloUsF7zKtdAkwy50A=&h=427&w=600&sz=60&hl=en&start=62&zoom=1&tbnid=6jr765wcJ9qrFM:&tbnh=110&tbnw=149&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddemolition%2Bman%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1G1GGLQ_ENUS410%26biw%3D1920%26bih%3D904%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=817&vpy=363&dur=732&hovh=189&hovw=266&tx=141&ty=122&ei=bvb_TPaRHIe6ngfm_7DlDQ&oei=bPb_TIj8HsqVnwflxJ3oDQ&esq=2&page=2&ndsp=77&ved=1t:429,r:5,s:62"][IMG]http://www.virtual-history.com/movie/photo/03/large/03548.jpg[/IMG] [/URL] [editline]8th December 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=spog;26570254]Good news guys![/QUOTE] And just in time! Phew, thought I'd never be able to move there.

In the perfect world, it could be true. But these developments could suddenly stop at any time for several reasons (no fund, accidental deaths, war, etc) [editline]8th December 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=shatteredwindow;26569878]I think that from right now, most of these are possible, but just might not happen because we evolve in a different way, like they thought we would have flying cars right now, but instead we have the internet.[/QUOTE] The internet is better :colbert: [editline]8th December 2010[/editline] fucking automerge

[QUOTE=thekinglichs;26570416] The internet is better :colbert: [/QUOTE] I didn't say it wasn't, I actually agree, but my point was, if we researched, we might have flying cars by now, but instead we picked this route, and I think for the better.

[QUOTE=thekinglichs;26570416]In the perfect world, it could be true. But these developments could suddenly stop at any time for several reasons (no fund, accidental deaths, war, etc) [editline]8th December 2010[/editline] The internet is better :colbert: [editline]8th December 2010[/editline] fucking automerge[/QUOTE] They thought we'd have flying cars by 2000, and they'd be affordable too. Way I see it, nothing past 2020 will happen, everything before that, maybe.

This is so interesting, I love this kind of stuff! :monocle:

[quote=UniverseTimeline]The universe continues to expand forever... but is essentially dead. [img]http://www.futuretimeline.net/images/universe_dark_era.jpg[/img] [/quote] So this is how the world will eventually come to be, according to this time line. Awfully pessimistic, but engulfed in realism at the same time.

I hope this is accurate, even though it won't be. If it's true, I'll still have about twenty years left on my life (assuming I live to 100) and I will be able to get artificial organs and whatnot that never fail. Then, once a few hundred more years pass, I will become a cyborg, then a full AI, with my brain inside of a chip or something. I can hope....but thinking about this stuff, and along with the fact that I won't be around to see it, makes me really sad. Why can't we have immortality already? [quote=future]The vast majority of humans have long since abandoned these primitive biological forms, making the transition to machines or other substrates, achieving practical immortality. The entire Milky Way galaxy has been explored by these transhumans and their sentient ships. Faster-than-light travel is now possible using Alcubierre drives, which cause the fabric of space ahead of a spacecraft to contract, while the space behind it expands. This bypasses the laws of relativity, allowing travel to even neighbouring galaxies such as the Andromeda and Triangulum.[/quote] I want it nooooow.

It says USB 3.0 is available in 2011. One year off

[QUOTE=Zorus;26570767]So this is how the world will eventually come to be, according to this time line. Awfully pessimistic, but engulfed in realism at the same time.[/QUOTE] That's what will happen, at the end of the universe, but don't worry, humanity will be long dead before that.

When I think of stuff like this, nothing seems worth doing because what I do will have pretty much no impact on the world in a few hundred years....and this goes into the millions.

Now that's a future I'd like to see. I only keep hearing that 2012 will be the end and nothing more.