• 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=Hoboharry;30970061]And we still don't have robot servants. :saddowns:[/QUOTE] 2020 my friend.
[QUOTE=FreakySoup;30973220]it's 2011, where's our robot security[/QUOTE] just install a few security cameras and have an internet community watch over the video feed
[video=youtube;JohaSZ7j_00]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JohaSZ7j_00[/video]
oh dam i want nanobots carpet [img]http://files.myopera.com/Fludboy/smiles/yey.png[/img] no more stinky feet
[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] It wasn't the euro that made the financial crisis, and Greece is just fucked up when it comes to working.
It was the Euro that turned Greece's problems into Europe's problems.
[QUOTE=Capitulazyguy;30973667]It was the Euro that turned Greece's problems into Europe's problems.[/QUOTE] It was greeces lying to us that made their problem into our problem.
Get those pictures out of those release tags; your OP will be so much smoother.
[QUOTE=Capitulazyguy;30973667]It was the Euro that turned Greece's problems into Europe's problems.[/QUOTE] True, but it still makes alot of thing easier.
2035 Episode three is Announced.
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;30973709]True, but it still makes alot of thing easier.[/QUOTE] Yeah, it might have fucked over the economies of several countries, but damnit, it's so convenient!
[QUOTE=Capitulazyguy;30973757]Yeah, it might have fucked over the economies of several countries, but damnit, it's so convenient![/QUOTE] Not needing 29 different currencies if you're going to travel 1200 miles. I'd call that a whole fuckload more convenient. Sure, the situation we're in now is a negative side effect of that, but that's mostly caused by Greece's politicians(and politicians everywhere, to be fair) And the criminals called "Bankers".
I have this book on my shelf :>
Palmtop laptop haha.
Where's my actually woman-like lolita doll robots?
[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] although I agree, these things do not make a utopia by any means
Heh, I remember reading this book and thinking "Wow! The future sounds so cool and fancy I want to go there right now" Years later, I'm sitting on a bed with my laptop computer and a phone that would be considered insanely futuristic by their standards. Fuckin' technology man.
[QUOTE=Capitulazyguy;30973757]Yeah, it might have fucked over the economies of several countries, but damnit, it's so convenient![/QUOTE] Wasn't the Euro that started the financial crisis, and Greece's lazy-as-fuck land anyway.
[QUOTE=TBFundy;30974616]although I agree, these things do not make a utopia by any means[/QUOTE] Of course not. A utopia, by definition, is something we can never achieve. It's imaginary. I'm only saying that humanity's come a long way, and that the advent of these new technologies has laid the groundwork for a very bright future.
[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] That's what the internet is supposed to do, but in the end it all boils down to porn. And lots of it.
flippin da traxx
This book's wrong. Everybody knows that EVERYTHING is chrome in the future :D
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;30970977]Makes you wonder how much the world will change over the [i]next[/i] ten years.[/i][/QUOTE] Makes you wonder how much the world will change after 5000 years. Because that time WILL come.
[QUOTE=Gekkosan;31434764]Makes you wonder how much the world will change after 5000 years. Because that time WILL come.[/QUOTE] everyone is dead / boobies
Shit,I think I borrowed that book from my elementary school library once!Also,that videophone! :v:
[QUOTE=Mon;31434887]everyone is dead / boobies[/QUOTE] In the future, everyone will be either a cyborg or a genetically-engineered super-furry.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;31435212]In the future, everyone will be either a cyborg or a genetically-engineered super-[B]dragon[/B]-furry.[/QUOTE] Fixed that for you.
I love how much of these were fulfilled by modern day cellphones. [editline]30th July 2011[/editline] For example... -Video phones -Portable maps -Portable computers
I remember this book.
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;30971054]Their worse prediction is that the technology would automatically lead to a utopia, whereas in reality we're moving towards the opposite of that.[/QUOTE] Even though ti might not look it life is much better today for the average person then it was in the 60s. People are getting healthier, smarter and crime rates are going down. The only problems I see if us not changing with are technology and using outdated 18th century world view to run are 21st century.
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