EPTThe Future: Good or Bad? - Page 7
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prOxi.swAMi
Australia3091 Posts
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Kezzer
United States1268 Posts
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AeroGear
Canada652 Posts
I'm surprised nobody brought up the water scarcity, there's plenty of energy sources if you care as much for environmental costs as we do now. If there's one thing you can trust those huge energy corporations of doing, is making the shift to new energy sources or alternatives once they become viable. Until then its gonna be about how high can they set the price of gas until people stop paying at the pump. | ||
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Equalizer
Canada115 Posts
either all the problems that concern us today are solved or postponed resulting in the world continuing to function more or less the same in the future, or one of those problems will fail to be solved/postponed resulting in a cascading effect in which all other pending problems fail to be solved by their deadline leading to a new dark age from which the world will have to be rebuilt. And no I do not want to speculate on the probability of these two possibilities... | ||
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neobowman
Canada3324 Posts
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Vei
United States2845 Posts
On May 06 2010 10:42 mynameisbean wrote: There haven't exactly been that many big strides in science lol????????? take a physics, biology, or chemistry class. take a look at the mechanics behind the LHC. We have discovered penicillin, we have sent people to the moon, we have gone from phonelines to gigabyte-speed internet, we have gone from comprehensive libraries in the big cities to all knowledge available to all people with internet access across entire regions. we have gone from electroshock therapy to brain surgery, we have mass water purification systems, we have surgical breakthroughs on a regular basis. and this is all in the last like fifty years... look at where we are compared to 150 years ago and it's amazing. The travel time from the Americas to Europe has gone from months to hours. | ||
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pavement ist rad
United States226 Posts
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GiantEnemyCrab
Canada503 Posts
its only a matter of time like 50-100 years i bet that world war 3 is gonna start over the limited resources, people all over the world in third world country will be several overpopulated, less water, less resources, world is gonna be fucked over in terms of climate and global warming = natural disaster on regular basis, imo humans have alrdy reaching their peak and the decline will start...its on a matter of time. every great empire eventually crumbles ^_^ sad but hey its not in our lifetimes most likely so what ever | ||
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GiantEnemyCrab
Canada503 Posts
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Vei
United States2845 Posts
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NeCroPoTeNce
United States513 Posts
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Saturnize
United States2473 Posts
On May 06 2010 10:49 BDF92 wrote: I just want to see what sci-fi is like 50 years from now 0.o Hmmm | ||
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LonelyMargarita
1845 Posts
On May 03 2010 20:53 Reason wrote: Some funny pictures man, but you are totally wrong. Nothing is beyond our comprehension. Please describe 18 spacial dimensions to me... There's a lot that's beyond the comprehension of the human brain, just like there is much beyond the comprehension of an ape's brain. Unfortunately, for the most part you can't really name things you can't comprehend since most of them aren't observable or have been incorrectly reduced into things we can comprehend. | ||
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Reason
United Kingdom2770 Posts
What I am saying is if some guy from the future showed me his time machine, his warp drive, his whatever that is probably way beyond anything we will ever achieve I would be like "cool". Show a roman an Ipod and he would be like WTFOMFG... this is the point he was making... that the future to us will be as incomprehensible as the present technological world would be to a caveman... I'm saying uh.. no... it wouldn't be. I can imagine just about anything given sci-fi/the amazing world we live in today. Don't be such an idiot and ask me to describe 18 special dimensions and actually read the posts you are quoting next time, it was perfectly obvious what he was saying and what I was saying. I'm sorry if English isn't your first language and you are unable to pick up what I am actually trying to say and are only capable of seeing the statement "nothing is beyond our comprehension" and then deciding to pick that apart for whatever reason... I forgive you. If however English is your first language I feel it was pretty clear what I meant. Am I not right? I mean even if things get way more ridiculous than is even conceivable, people having their own personal black hole/time machine/teleporter/invisibilityness wrist watches I am still 100% down with that in the present day. Just how fucked up is he expecting the future to become that it would be considered incomprehensible to today? I don't think that can ever happen.. One thing that is really beyond the comprehension of the human brain is how the universe began, the fact that we exist is a paradox because according to everything we know something can't come from nothing.... so if we didn't originate we have been here for eternity which also seems impossible/has evidence to suggest otherwise. I'm very well aware that there are certain things the human brain simply cannot comprehend (not at the moment with given knowledge/thought pattern) but as I've already explained this is not what I meant in my original statement. I meant there will be nothing in the future along the lines of society/technology that will be beyond our comprehension, I can already comprehend systems and technologies that will almost certainly never exist due to their complexity. | ||
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LonelyMargarita
1845 Posts
On May 06 2010 21:24 Reason wrote: Ok you are just going out of your way to disagree with my point.... What I am saying is if some guy from the future showed me his time machine, his warp drive, his whatever that is probably way beyond anything we will ever achieve I would be like "cool". Show a roman an Ipod and he would be like WTFOMFG... this is the point he was making... that the future to us will be as incomprehensible as the present technological world would be to a caveman... I'm saying uh.. no... it wouldn't be. I can imagine just about anything given sci-fi/the amazing world we live in today. Don't be such an idiot and ask me to describe 18 special dimensions and actually read the posts you are quoting next time, it was perfectly obvious what he was saying and what I was saying. I'm sorry if English isn't your first language and you are unable to pick up what I am actually trying to say and are only capable of seeing the statement "nothing is beyond our comprehension" and then deciding to pick that apart for whatever reason... I forgive you. If however English is your first language I feel it was pretty clear what I meant. Am I not right? I mean even if things get way more ridiculous than is even conceivable, people having their own personal black hole/time machine/teleporter/invisibilityness wrist watches I am still 100% down with that in the present day. Just how fucked up is he expecting the future to become that it would be considered incomprehensible to today? I don't think that can ever happen.. One thing that is really beyond the comprehension of the human brain is how the universe began, the fact that we exist is a paradox because according to everything we know something can't come from nothing.... so if we didn't originate we have been here for eternity which also seems impossible/has evidence to suggest otherwise. I'm very well aware that there are certain things the human brain simply cannot comprehend (not at the moment with given knowledge/thought pattern) but as I've already explained this is not what I meant in my original statement. I meant there will be nothing in the future along the lines of society/technology that will be beyond our comprehension, I can already comprehend systems and technologies that will almost certainly never exist due to their complexity. You're flat out wrong if you believe that. Just as there are many things a pre-human brain cannot comprehend that we can, there are many things that whatever-we-evolve-into will be able to comprehend that we can't. It's pretty dense to think that you've evolved as much as any species will ever evolve. Don't get so defensive about being wrong man. | ||
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KurtistheTurtle
United States1966 Posts
and whose to say we can't understand concepts? airplanes to a pre 20th century person: a giant building turned on its side which can carry people into the sky and travel at speeds greater than any ship or horse sounds pretty fucking ridiculous BUT you can understand the concept of it | ||
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jello_biafra
United Kingdom6641 Posts
On May 06 2010 21:48 LonelyMargarita wrote: You're flat out wrong if you believe that. Just as there are many things a pre-human brain cannot comprehend that we can, there are many things that whatever-we-evolve-into will be able to comprehend that we can't. It's pretty dense to think that you've evolved as much as any species will ever evolve. Don't get so defensive about being wrong man. No one's talking about pre-humans or post-humans, we're talking about technology...if you know what electronic technology is then you're going to be able to comprehend, at least at a basic level, stuff that's way more advanced than what you've seen because it's still the same basic kind of thing. | ||
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exeexe
Denmark937 Posts
But once oil runs dry we cant defend earth anymore, the aliens are coming because we are living in an unsustained way and the aliens will kill everyone until there is only 1 billion ppl left, then they leave. What are the humans doing when they see that there are too many birds in a forest? They kill them to prevent overpopulation. | ||
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KurtistheTurtle
United States1966 Posts
what else is gonna happen exeexe | ||
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exeexe
Denmark937 Posts
Because if overpopulation should happen again the aliens can come again. | ||
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