[QUOTE=booster;45064547]I've always been a bit speculative towards the "Skyscraper plantation" thing.
Seems like a very ambitious,expensive,complex and inefficient way to grow anything.[/QUOTE]
I don't get how that's supposed to work, wouldn't only one side of the building get light at a time, and wouldn't other skyscrapers block out the sun, not to mention that the rain wont be able to get to all the plants.
[QUOTE=Superkilll307;45067066]I don't get how that's supposed to work, wouldn't only one side of the building get light at a time, and wouldn't other skyscrapers block out the sun, not to mention that the rain wont be able to get to all the plants.[/QUOTE]
If I were building one, It would be large platforms that are slanted, and it would reach up kind of like stadium seats, on a big rotating axis to follow the sun.
Or a cone.
[QUOTE=Impact1986;45064789]But there are flying cars. But nobody buys them because they are fucking expensive.
[IMG]http://www.technovelgy.com/graphics/content08/moller-skycar.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
also because if you've seen how some people drive a car, you don't want to see how some people fly a car
I feel like some of this can already happen. They already make smart fridges, you could probably yourself take that data and have it automatically place orders for you.
Automatic machine translation? That is [B]never[/B] going to happen. Not until you can create a human-like sentient AI.
in 2030 i will hate myself in either exactlythe same amount or a greater amount
16 years isn't going to change shit given our current pace as a world. it will still suck.
Anything that takes driving out of the hands of humans is a 10/10 idea in my book.
This is super optimistic. I reckon society will be closer to this around the year 2050 more likely, if that doesn't take into account corporations holding back tech with patents just for monetary gain, which will most likely happen and fuck over any chance of utopia. I might be just pessimistic, but I see a dystopian future as far more likely.
[QUOTE=Impact1986;45064789]But there are flying cars. But nobody buys them because they are fucking expensive.
[IMG]http://www.technovelgy.com/graphics/content08/moller-skycar.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
this thing isn't even in production, and all the other "flying cars" that exist are just planes that can be driven on roads. nobody buys flying cars because there aren't any practical ones in production.
This is so optimistic it makes me depressed.
I have a feeling that pretty soon we're going to begin to overcrowd and hit district 9 level poverty in many parts of the world. (district 9 in the sense that there's slums, but also insane new technology)
Some of this stuff is possible, some of it is possible but incredibly impractical, and some of it is just dumb.
Windows made of invisible solar panels? They'd get what, 2% efficiency? Why not put them on the fucking roof you idiots.
Translating languages is a hassle even with real people, no way an app could be kept up to date with the slang of every language and accurately translate it.
The trees have fibre in their trunks to make [i]magic[/i].
[QUOTE=Flameon;45064845]Hydroponics is actually an incredibly safer, and cheaper way to grow food. You save a ton of water with it.[/QUOTE]
I don't doubt that, and also you're not gonna have the constant problem of bugs either. But what I'm worried of is for the plants to get the necessary amount of sunlight. If you have plants in the center of a floor, they're going to lose an insane amount of sunlight. Pretty much anything with a roof above it wont grow as well as other plants. Sure we could use grow lights, but that also is a big bill to pay.
But I have a feeling that the products grown in these structures would be very specialized plants, that is efficient enough. And not like wheat or corn.
This sounds like a sort of proto-Star Trek future. Also, automatic translators? Holy shit, that'd be an awesome way to learn how to speak another language! Can I please have this now? I have so much free time on my hands, it's insane what productive things I could actually be doing at this hour.
Remember when the 1939 and 1964 world expo talked about the world of tomorrow and future in the New Millennium? How the talked about fucking nuclear powered cars and shit:
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[QUOTE=godfatherk;45065473] AI drivers are already very good
In the testing of the google self drive car, the only 2 incidents were when a human was driving it and when someone else in traffic jammed the car from the back.[/QUOTE]
yeah. its coming soon at this rate, issue is wide scale deployment and the politics of it.
That video was disturbing and depressing. I'm gonna do whatever I can to avoid living in such a nightmare.
I think the farm towers are the coolest thing in this whole video
[QUOTE=cdBiohazard;45067728]Automatic machine translation? That is [B]never[/B] going to happen. Not until you can create a human-like sentient AI.[/QUOTE]
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, but here: [url]http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/27/5756166/microsofts-skype-translator-will-translate-voice-calls-on-the-fly[/url]
Yeah.
No.
The issue I see is the need for internet. One big solar burst and everything goes down.
Not sure I would put my trust in a Hydrogen powered car that drives itself. If there ever is an accident, it's gonna be really messy.
2030 Spoiler alert:
Phones are going to get cooler. Most tech is going be connected and it'll be really fucking easy to do it, just like, a couple of actions, thats it.
Some people will have self driving cars but definitely not most people. And it'll still run on gas, some cars will be electric, and there will even be electric gas stations in most cities, but only in urban areas.
Nothing is going to change with regards to food. Nothing has changed for 50 years, so in 16 years nothing will change.
The translation thing is actually mostly possibly today, just not in "real-time", and even so, the voice on the other end would suck.
The face-to-face conversation thing is already true, its just nobody uses facetime because its easier to just talk on the phone. See [url=http://kottke.org/10/06/david-foster-wallace-on-iphone-4s-facetime]David Foster Wallace's thoughts on it from way back in 1996.[/url]
And with regards to energy, things will only change when gas becomes more expensive than solar and wind energy. But even then, possibly not, people are fucking dumb.
So yeah, that's 2030. Nothing much will change, shit will become easier, but thats it.
boring where is the augmented limbs and the brain implants that let me browse the internet while i'm dreaming while my body automatically does boring shit that needs to be done while I'm sleep walking
[editline]11th June 2014[/editline]
I hope I live long enough to get my conscious implanted in artificial futanari body
[QUOTE=Impact1986;45064789]But there are flying cars. But nobody buys them because they are fucking expensive.
[IMG]http://www.technovelgy.com/graphics/content08/moller-skycar.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
It's not that. They were just an overall bad idea to begin with. You'd have to train citizens to fly, and for the distance that cars go, it would take more energy than it's worth to get up in the air and land 5 miles out.
[QUOTE=One Ear Ninja;45073219]It's not that. They were just an overall bad idea to begin with. You'd have to train citizens to fly, and for the distance that cars go, it would take more energy than it's worth to get up in the air and land 5 miles out.[/QUOTE]
Plus planes take absolute TONS of maintenance, which also has to be trained, or you can have a mechanic do it and spend a lot of money.
16 years is far too little time to develop a national hydrogen infrastructural grid.
Maybe 2065 but not 2030
I feel like a lot of this is possible, but highly unlikely within the time frame.
I wasn't expecting those many replies
the video is shit, you people have no taste
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