How do you think the world will look like in 2050?
Will there be major wars until then or will the world drift toward peace? Will democracies prevail? Will there be a new world power?
Will global warming and overpopulation finally show their effects? Will we have found efficient ways of creating renewable energy?
How will we be communicating with each other? Will there still be Facebook and Twitter around? Will people still be having a social life in the real world? What are people going to do in their spare time?
Are new forms of art and entertainment going to emerge? Is the music going to sound different? Will YouTube beat television? How might future games look like?
Will there be a robot in every household? Is there finally going to be a robot that cooks for me and cleans up afterwards?
Are we still going to have Smartphones? Wearables? Google Glass? Is everyone going to have chip implants? Will computers become more powerful? Will Moore's law still be in place in 2050?
How will the Internet look like? Will it still be possible to live completely offline? Will governments take over the Internet?
Will there be new ways of transportation? Will the electric car take over the traditional car?
How will technology enable new ways of warfare? Will there be wars at all?
Will women reach equality? Will we still be dating in the real world? How will partners find each other? Will there still be sex?
How many times will the stock markets crash until 2050? Will there be a major change in our economic system? Will the majority of people still be working? Will there still be poverty?
Will we finally be able to treat diseases without side effects? Is there going to be a major breakthrough in the sciences?
What will be the new threats to mankind? Will we be able to colonize other planets by 2050?
Please present your own vision of the future! The questions are only here to give suggestions as to where the discussion might lead to. You can answer some of these questions, or go more into detail on single questions, or just ignore the questions entirely!
So, how do you think the year 2050 will look like? What will be vanished, that is common nowadays? What will be important changes that will affect our lives? What do you wish there would exist by 2050?
How do you think the world will look like in 2050?
Will there be major wars until then or will the world drift toward peace? Will democracies prevail? Will there be a new world power?
Will global warming and overpopulation finally show their effects? Will we have found efficient ways of creating renewable energy?
How will we be communicating with each other? Will there still be Facebook and Twitter around? Will people still be having a social life in the real world? What are people going to do in their spare time?
Are new forms of art and entertainment going to emerge? Is the music going to sound different? Will YouTube beat television? How might future games look like?
Will there be a robot in every household? Is there finally going to be a robot that cooks for me and cleans up afterwards?
Are we still going to have Smartphones? Wearables? Google Glass? Is everyone going to have chip implants? Will computers become more powerful? Will Moore's law still be in place in 2050?
How will the Internet look like? Will it still be possible to live completely offline? Will governments take over the Internet?
Will there be new ways of transportation? Will the electric car take over the traditional car?
How will technology enable new ways of warfare? Will there be wars at all?
Will women reach equality? Will we still be dating in the real world? How will partners find each other? Will there still be sex?
How many times will the stock markets crash until 2050? Will there be a major change in our economic system? Will the majority of people still be working? Will there still be poverty?
Will we finally be able to treat diseases without side effects? Is there going to be a major breakthrough in the sciences?
What will be the new threats to mankind? Will we be able to colonize other planets by 2050?
Wars, No, China,
Yes, Almost,
Like we do now, No, Yes, Sports/eSports/Dating/Hobby's,
Yes, Yes, Yes, Better, augmented reality/3D all the way,
No, No,
No, Yes, No No, No, Yes,
Regulated, No, Yes,
Yes, Yes,
Yes, Yes,
No, Yes, Just like now, Yes,
3 Times, Yes, Yes, Yes,
No, Define "breakthrought" and "Sciences",
Starvation; Infection, We'll get close.
Your questions are all closed and you provide way to little (or way to much) information for discussion, in my opinion. It'd be a better OP if you would sketch your own vision on the world in 35 years, that'd provide the opportunity to discuss to your readers.
The questions are not there to be answered individually. They are just there to give suggestions for the discussion! The actual question is quite clear: What is your own vision of the future?
I hope for realtime photon mapping and flying cars. Also hopefully people will be more united across the world and we can begin to look at space colonization.
On May 06 2014 22:01 urboss wrote: How do you think the world will look like in 2050?
Will there be major wars until then or will the world drift toward peace? Will democracies prevail? Will there be a new world power?
Will global warming and overpopulation finally show their effects? Will we have found efficient ways of creating renewable energy?
How will we be communicating with each other? Will there still be Facebook and Twitter around? Will people still be having a social life in the real world? What are people going to do in their spare time?
Are new forms of art and entertainment going to emerge? Is the music going to sound different? Will YouTube beat television? How might future games look like?
Will there be a robot in every household? Is there finally going to be a robot that cooks for me and cleans up afterwards?
Are we still going to have Smartphones? Wearables? Google Glass? Is everyone going to have chip implants? Will computers become more powerful? Will Moore's law still be in place in 2050?
How will the Internet look like? Will it still be possible to live completely offline? Will governments take over the Internet?
Will there be new ways of transportation? Will the electric car take over the traditional car?
How will technology enable new ways of warfare? Will there be wars at all?
Will women reach equality? Will we still be dating in the real world? How will partners find each other? Will there still be sex?
How many times will the stock markets crash until 2050? Will there be a major change in our economic system? Will the majority of people still be working? Will there still be poverty?
Will we finally be able to treat diseases without side effects? Is there going to be a major breakthrough in the sciences?
What will be the new threats to mankind? Will we be able to colonize other planets by 2050?
Yes, Crimea looks like it's just about the burst over political issues, and not civil issues. Yes, but not Capitalist democracy; but socialist. No, but China might share the world power with US.
No, global warming is natural according to new theories and overpopulation is starting to decline. Yes.
Telepathically. Yes No Fap. or Starcraft 4
No, art and entertainment are redundant. Yes, going to sound worse. Dubshit is the prime example It already has. A lot less skilled than SC2 because people are becoming little wimpy ass bitches.
No, you're thinking of 2500 Not cook for you, probably clean.
Yes. No. Yes. Yes.
Internet will be something we can actually physically visit. Yes, homeless-ness will always exist in a modern society. No.
Yes. No, 2500 again.
Nuclear launch detected. No, if there was, the world would end.
Women and men will never be equal, but neither is inferior to the other. Yes, got to have some physical connection. Primarily online dating, but mostly work places. Even more sex.
How many times will we keep bailing out the fat cats? Yes, socialism. Yes, but much less incentive to get a decent job. Of course.
No, how else is the medicine industry going to make money? Not when socialism prevails. No private industry = government controlled innovations. Politics =/= Innovation.
Sharknado. No, for the last time you're thinking about 2500.
How does SC2Toastie think the world will look like in 2050?
Government Will there be major wars until then or will the world drift toward peace? + Show Spoiler +
We'll see more wars regarding resources like oil, gas and food. I hope, nearing 2050, we'll have a solution for these problems. As for the fuel type resources, I think solar and water energy can provide the answer on a reasonable term. As for food, with current population growth, we'd need to either have a massive viral outbreak, great wars or way more efficient production and birth legislation.
Democracy in the dutch way (with 23 parties) will not prevail. We'd either go to low count parlemental democracies or towards a model in which companies and/or a select group of representatives will make the law.
I think China and India will overtake the US and EU front with better access to resources and faster (economic) growth.
Environment Will global warming and overpopulation finally show their effects? + Show Spoiler +
Global Warming, hardly. Overpopulation, yes. Food will run low, fuel will run low and the risk of infection/diseases will increase.
Will we have found efficient ways of creating renewable energy? + Show Spoiler +
Yes, I think we will, mostly because fossil fuels will be about to run out by now.
Social Life How will we be communicating with each other? + Show Spoiler +
I don't think a lot will chance in face to face communication.
Will there still be Facebook and Twitter around? + Show Spoiler +
No. I don't think so. You already see the popularity of Facebook slightly decreasing as more and more adults chase their kids off it by going 'with their times'. Twitter might in some form stay around.
Will people still be having a social life in the real world? + Show Spoiler +
Yes, probably quite close to how it currently is.
What are people going to do in their spare time? + Show Spoiler +
The same things they do now. Go out, date, sports, gaming, etcetera.
Entertainment Are new forms of art and entertainment going to emerge? + Show Spoiler +
New forms of entertainment, art and culture are always emerging, so yes.
Robotics Will there be a robot in every household? + Show Spoiler +
Define robot. A dishwasher etc. are already sort of doing that, If you are talking about the human like programmable robot, it might be possible, but I think it'd be unaffordable.
Is there finally going to be a robot that cooks for me and cleans up afterwards? + Show Spoiler +
These already exist in some way, but again, as for the metal man walking after you all day, nope.
Technology Are we still going to have Smartphones? Wearables? Google Glass? + Show Spoiler +
I think everything will end up being more integrated than it is now/
yes, sadly. Complete equality (especially as per the communist model) is impossible.
Sciences Will we finally be able to treat diseases without side effects? + Show Spoiler +
Probably not, unless gen therapy gets that far.
Is there going to be a major breakthrough in the sciences? + Show Spoiler +
To vague a questions.
Outer Space What will be the new threats to mankind? + Show Spoiler +
As for aliens, I don't think so. They might be, but probably not. Our biggest weakness will be diseases that evolve fast, because we'll live closer together than ever.
Will we be able to colonize other planets by 2050? + Show Spoiler +
Whether it'd be possible, I think yes. Practical? No.
Lastly, I want to propose some more questions. - Will the European Union last? - Will blocks of power be formed, think Americas vs Europe vs Russia vs SEAsia vs Africa? - What will AFricas place in the world be? - What will happen to Antarctica (either melted or still frozen, inhabited?) - Education, do we still go to school in 2050?
On May 06 2014 22:21 urboss wrote: The questions are not there to be answered individually. They are just there to give suggestions for the discussion! The actual question is quite clear: What is your own vision of the future?
I have answered some of these questions which I found interesting. I think it can be a very good discussion if kept civil.
Will we have found efficient ways of creating renewable energy? The main problem with renewables is availability and therefore the storage of the electric energy created with these. Take solar energy for example which is completely renewable in the time period of the humans. Most of the electricity usage is at morning when the sun is rising or at late afternoon/night when it descends but the sun at its top power output at midday when there is drop in energy usage. But the electric energy can’t be stored efficiently nowadays so it must be used right away so it is not really efficient to store the energy created midday until dusk when its needed. In my opinion the long term solution is nuclear energy (fusion). Nuclear power plants can be the backbone of energy supply in 2050. They are available 24/7 and with the addition of gasturbine plants the peaks in the morning and at dusk can be supplied
Will people still be having a social life in the real world? I really hope so. It would be a really dark future without social life.
Is there finally going to be a robot that cooks for me and cleans up afterwards? As a mechanical engineer I am working on it :D
Is everyone going to have chip implants? I think this question has some ethics behind it. It really depends on what kind of implants are these going to be.
Are new forms of art and entertainment going to emerge? I think there will be definitely new art forms. Just looking back in the past 30 years: video games appeared, became a new form of art and entertainment and the public acceptance has grown a lot since most people play some games on phones or on Facebook.
Will there still be poverty? Seeing the trend nowadays as rich people are getting richer and poverty grows constantly I can only assume a constantly growing gap between poor and rich. The mid level will disappear mostly.
Will we be able to colonize other planets by 2050? Not without a second cold war to fasten the development of space exploration. Military is the one main causes of scientifical advancement and in the past 20-30 years without the threat of the USSR every space program has gone low. But I certainly hope that it won’t happen and the private sector will fund space projects thus a peaceful way of space exploration might begin. The closest possibility for colonization is definitely Mars but it is just too far to travel between Mars colonies and Earth regularly. On the other hand I think there will be small colonies or at least a small research station which is constantly manned on the Moon by 2050.
Will there still be sex? If I still live I will do it, even if I have to take some medical aid. :D
Will the electric car take over the traditional car? This question boils down to electric energy storage just like the first one about the renewables. If we can find an efficient way to do it I think they will become mainstream.
Will there be major wars until then or will the world drift toward peace? There will be storage wars. Will democracies prevail? Only if we have the courage to drop bombs and launch missiles from unmanned aircraft Will there be a new world power? Mozambique will rise to be the world's largest superpower by 2050, and will annex French Canada
Will global warming and overpopulation finally show their effects? No because we will solve both problems by getting all the stupid people to all walk into a room by telling them they will get free lottery tickets, then convert them into renewable energy Will we have found efficient ways of creating renewable energy? See above How will we be communicating with each other? Italians will still communicate primarily through hand gestures, but we will definitely all be psychics Will there still be Facebook and Twitter around? As long as there is a Biz Stone, there will be some stupid social networking thing Will people still be having a social life in the real world? You mean outside their matrix pod? no, there are only machines out there What are people going to do in their spare time? Jerk off a lot Are new forms of art and entertainment going to emerge? Yeah, there will be a new genre of music which is just a bunch of random static, slamming, screaming, electronic beeps and just completely random shit, and we won't "get it", cuz we're old, but the kids will insist it's really fucking cool and we'll be like "Back in our day, we had REAL artists like Miley Cyrus" Is the music going to sound different? See above Will YouTube beat television? Youtube will be replaced by a new video-hosting site called 28chan How might future games look like? They will be interactive movies that play by themselves, but you can manipulate shit, like anything you want. You can even make the main character slip on an orange and die in the middle of the movie. There will also be a button you can press that says "win", and when you push it, you win
Will there be a robot in every household? Ain't no robot coming into my household, get that metal freak outta my house, Stephanie... you should be dating a human, not some talking hunk of trash. Is there finally going to be a robot that cooks for me and cleans up afterwards? That's pretty much my primary function at the moment beep boop bop beep
Are we still going to have Smartphones? Wearables? Google Glass? We're going to have new surgical tools that can insert stuff right through your skin into your body, because like your skin just opens and the thing goes in, and then it closes up instantly, so we'll definitely have microchips in our anus Is everyone going to have chip implants? Only those who bear the mark of the beast Will computers become more powerful? They will form a minor political party, but it will still be outnumbered by the Alexjonesacrat Party and the Euthanasia Party. Will Moore's law still be in place in 2050? Moore's law will be replaced by Patrick's Law, which states that microchips will get bigger and bigger exponentially, instead of smaller, until they are megachips that stand 9,000 meters tall. How will the Internet look like? Kind of like now, except more creepy weirdos from third-world countries will be able to go online and troll us hard. Will it still be possible to live completely offline? It won't be after the great power-outage of 2056 Will governments take over the Internet? They will try, and then the internet will take over the governments instead.
Will there be new ways of transportation? Most people will ride cloned white tigers around town, but for longer journeys we will just teleport, especially right before the trainer can use a pokeball Will the electric car take over the traditional car? No, we'll have a car that runs on coal, and one that runs by burning wood, and there will also be one that runs entirely on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
How will technology enable new ways of warfare? All wars will be fought on the internet, where the sides try to shut down each other's power grids and stuff Will there be wars at all? Of course there will be, don't be silly
Will women reach equality? Nah, the white males won't put up with that shit Will we still be dating in the real world? Oh definitely not... "dating" will be seen as some old-ass bullshit that people used to do as part of some weird social tradition, but will be discarded as a waste of time How will partners find each other? There will be an app that gets you sex within 12 hours, guaranteed. I'm not joking Will there still be sex? There will be so much sex
How many times will the stock markets crash until 2050? Probably around 10-15 times Will there be a major change in our economic system? Yeah, it will be fucked and there will be mass poverty and packs of wild dogs in the streets Will the majority of people still be working? Work is for robots Will there still be poverty? Yeah, because a majority of people can't be more well off than everyone else if they are a majority because that makes no sense. So there will also be people who are D- noobs (figuratively speaking) and are just worse off than everyone else, and can't even afford a chicken on Christmas for Tiny Tim Will we finally be able to treat diseases without side effects? lol no, the side effects are the best part Is there going to be a major breakthrough in the sciences? In all of the sciences, there will be like 8 breakthroughs and also cats will be able to talk
What will be the new threats to mankind? The biggest threat will be that a single hacker could bring down all the world's economies and turn off all the power grids within a matter of seconds by decoding the encryption codes and haxing the world Will we be able to colonize other planets by 2050? No, we'll still be stuck on Earth because we're too lazy to go outside and get some fresh pure sunlight. PURE sunlight, with gamma rays and everything.
For all those who think robots (movie-like robots) are impossible by 2050, I must say, your world moves pretty slowly ;D Advancing in AI and robotics isn't the same as colonizing other planets (that was specifically in response to Advantageous, who placed both circa 2500).
Putting a man RIGHT now can easily be done. We already have all the necessary tools and science advancement to do so. Much like MANY of our diseases are 'cured' already. But the institution are either hiding the tech or they are in the process of testing them accordingly in order to be 100% sure that everything is foolproof. And that will probably take a couple of years and plus to get government's permit takes a long time to process as well.
I think we'll be lucky? to make it to 2050 before something sets off a global conflict that sets most of humanity back to feudal times.
Of course the longer we go before it happens the crazier and more devastating the war is likely to be... Think the before and after of war and the machine gun.
But provided we make it we are going to need even bigger cassettes!?
Sony has just announced a new record-breaking tape, capable of storing up to 185TB on one cartridge--74 times more than current tapes.
The only reason we got men on the moon was because it was politically motivated. After that, interest vaded and NASA is now operating at a fraction of the budget they had available during the space race. Putting men on the moon was a ridiculously complicated and costly operation. If you'd ask NASA to put a man on the moon right now, they wouldn't be able to do it.
A journey to Mars would take something like half a year right now, so we are gonna need better rocketry first. Apparently the goal of SpaceX is to reduce the fly time to one month before attempting it.
On May 07 2014 01:58 GreenHorizons wrote: I think we'll be lucky? to make it to 2050 before something sets off a global conflict that sets most of humanity back to feudal times.
Of course the longer we go before it happens the crazier and more devastating the war is likely to be... Think the before and after of war and the machine gun.
But provided we make it we are going to need even bigger cassettes!?
I think the humanity would abide by Maslow's levels of need before doing anything drastic. I don't think any nuclear weapons would be used in a war unless one nation's cruelty exceed a threshold. Yes people are greedy and selfish in the end, we prioritize our survivability as a SPECIES before anything else.
On May 07 2014 01:58 GreenHorizons wrote: I think we'll be lucky? to make it to 2050 before something sets off a global conflict that sets most of humanity back to feudal times.
Of course the longer we go before it happens the crazier and more devastating the war is likely to be... Think the before and after of war and the machine gun.
But provided we make it we are going to need even bigger cassettes!?
Sony has just announced a new record-breaking tape, capable of storing up to 185TB on one cartridge--74 times more than current tapes.
I think the humanity would abide by Maslow's levels of need before doing anything drastic. I don't think any nuclear weapons would be used in a war unless one nation's cruelty exceed a threshold. Yes people are greedy and selfish in the end, we prioritize our survivability as a SPECIES before anything else.
Feudal society is several levels above survival. We could knock ourselves all the way back to tribal groups and still survive.
The way some people are talking about 'small tactical nuclear weapons' I'm not so sure we'll avoid them altogether but if we made it through the Cuban Missile crisis I think we can at least make it to 2050 without setting off the big ones.
One thing that interests me is how data transfer over the internet and in-person will change to keep up with an ever increasing demand on bandwidth.
Or is there some breakthrough on the horizon in data compression/optimization that will help maximize available bandwidth?
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