Amusing excerpts from the 2000 edition of the DK "FUTURE" book. My, how far we've come in 10 years.
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[QUOTE=StormHammer;30971073]Woah, judging by it's expression, that chair is watching some freaky future porn.[/QUOTE]
I hate future porn
Everything glows neon
It's impossible to predict what things in the future look like, but I'd say they got it fairly accurate.
These are predictions for 2020 so about solar panels and shit things might change.
Excellent to see technology is progressing at good speed.
This was made in 2000?
I have read this book
It says we should have one worldwide currency by now
Oh past
You so optimistic
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;30970884]Shame the damn thing never got finished though.[/QUOTE]
They started finishing it in 2008.
Not bad, we still have a long way to go though
Of course this book is a million times more accurate than what people thought the future would be like even earlier.
I had a book from the 70s and it looked like the author was just completely fucking stoned in his description.
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wow fuckin automerge
We still have a long way to go
The portable TV thing is funny because:
1) It happened.
2) We broke it (no analog broadcasts anymore).
3) I can now watch TV on my phone through 3G.
As a kid, I always wanted to watch TV on my phone.
Now, I can't imagine a situation where I'd watch TV on my phone.
Sounds like most future predictions. They expect all areas of technology to move forward steadily, but we always end up jumping way ahead in some areas and lagging behind in others. The line between phones and laptops is gradually blurring, but there isn't much talk about flying cars.
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;30971540]All that and more is true, but what I'm saying is
a) it's not as good as was predicted in 2000
b) it won't last for long if those numerous bills to censor and restrict the internet go through.
The internet is gradually becoming less globalised and more regionalised. For example, Iran is working on its own, closed off version of the internet so its citizens can't access the outside world. China has its Great Firewall. Australia is trying to block sites left, right and centre.
Furthermore, the part about being able to see atrocities committed in backwaters on the other side of the planet doesn't do much good either. What can you do if you're just sat behind a computer screen?[/QUOTE]
The entire world is battling those things, though. Look at the outrage that the mere mention of censoring causes, look at how many people are appalled by the actions of China and Iran, and see how little support Australia's censorship actually has. Every social issue will have hurdles put in place by people who are afraid of change, but it's too late to disconnect the world, and a connected people eventually topple any obstacle. Keeping people from communicating is the oldest tactic of warfare because keeping people ignorant of what's really going on in the world keeps them from wondering too seriously about why things aren't better, but it's too late to just say, "nevermind, we changed our minds about the internet."
Us sitting and chatting about things might not directly help the people in China access the internet, but we aren't the only ones doing it. There are millions of people across the world doing it, and a lot of those people have the potential to end up in a position to put all of those ideas into play.
[QUOTE=Oppenheimer;30971595]It's impossible to predict what things in the future look like, but I'd say they got it fairly accurate.[/QUOTE]
Thanks for clearing that up, I didn't know.
[QUOTE=little.sparrow;30971694]I have read this book
It says we should have one worldwide currency by now
Oh past
You so optimistic[/QUOTE]
Europe be working on it.
[QUOTE=mobrockers2;30971839]Europe be working on it.[/QUOTE]
Yeah and it isn't working out very well.
[QUOTE=Desolategrunt;30971760][IMG]http://gyazo.com/e10aabffec51868d78af9e8c357fced0.png[/IMG]
wow fuckin automerge
We still have a long way to go[/QUOTE]
There are 3D conferences now. It's just that it's not widely used.
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;30972077]Yeah and it isn't working out very well.[/QUOTE]
U jelly. And what do you mean, it's not working?
This reminds me of that time I was in the DDR museum in Eastern Berlin and it had a video of kids drawing how Soviet tenements would look like in the year 2000.
[QUOTE=mobrockers2;30972148]U jelly. And what do you mean, it's not working?[/QUOTE]
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Not our fault greece is a fucked up country.
[QUOTE=mobrockers2;30972263]Not our fault greece is a fucked up country.[/QUOTE]
whatever man. I'll be enjoying my superior sterling currency while the combined efforts of spain, portugal, ireland and greece drag down the euro
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;30972401]whatever man. I'll be enjoying my superior sterling currency while the combined efforts of spain, portugal, ireland and greece drag down the euro[/QUOTE]
Watch the pound drop like a brick and beg to join the euro, mkay.
Predictions made today always seem likely, but I bet in 10 years we will be laughing at those too.
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;30971390]How can you say that? Nearly the entire world is connected now, and ideas and information and opinions are being instantly exchanged across oceans. Look at me and you, for example: you're from the United Kingdom, I'm from the heart of America, and we're exchanging opinions and ideas across three thousand miles of land and water that would have prevented us from doing that only fifteen years ago. We're both experiencing each other's culture, we're both learning and expanding our minds at a rate that even our parents couldn't have imagined when they were our age.
Look at how "simple" social networking sites like Twitter have taken the strife and oppression in the Middle East and put it on our doorsteps, so that the entire world can see and learn from it, and work to help make things better for everybody. There will probably always be willfully ignorant people, but they're rapidly declining to a very small minority. The "hot ticket social issues" that has our politicians in uproar today will be ugly history in the future because now people can discuss their ideas for making the world better in ways that we never could have imagined before. You can see it in action.
When you read about some social outrage (a gay bash Georgia, a racist policeman in New York, whatever), the people you discuss these things with aren't just the kids on your street anymore. The social ignorance of places that grew up mostly secluded from the rest of world, such as the small towns in the deep American South, is dissipating in the face of our new, connected world. Things are changing for the better, and they're doing it faster than ever before.[/QUOTE]
deep, bro
humans on mars in 2014?
ha
[QUOTE=Zeke129;30971545]I hate future porn
Everything glows neon[/QUOTE]
and everything else is chrome
[QUOTE=mobrockers2;30972449]Watch the pound drop like a brick and beg to join the euro, mkay.[/QUOTE]
If anything the Euro will fall, I don't know how much more the Germans and French can take.
[QUOTE=Mort and Charon;30972902]If anything the Euro will fall, I dont' know how much the Germans and French can take.[/QUOTE]
Enough.
it's 2011, where's our robot security
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