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Will there be major wars until then or will the world drift toward peace?
Wars. The world will never agree 100% on some views.
Will democracies prevail?
Yes.
Will there be a new world power?
USA World Police. China as our sponsor.
Will global warming and overpopulation finally show their effects?
Yes.
Will we have found efficient ways of creating renewable energy?
Yes. There are already some good ways, it just needs to be implemented more, and developed more.
How will we be communicating with each other?
Through our minds or something. I'm sure technology will make another leap in 40 years to something we'd never expect.
Will there still be Facebook and Twitter around?
A Facebook style website, and a Twitter style website. Those two in particular, no. Social media websites go in waves.
Will people still be having a social life in the real world?
Yes. Humans love human interaction, and many humans (that I know) don't particularly like communicating over the internet. They far prefer to be face to face. I imagine people will still grow up with this mindset, or even develop it later.
What are people going to do in their spare time?
Whatever they feel like. Games, internet, sports, work, gym. How we go about these activities will change, but the general activities won't.
Are new forms of art and entertainment going to emerge?
Yeah I'm sure they will. I remember when I was a kid and I went on a Motion Ride. Goddamn that was the coolest thing ever. Something new will come out and be the standard for entertainment (or at the very least be in addition to the current standards).
Is the music going to sound different?
OH yeah. Music changes a lot every couple years, and I would say drastic changes every 10 years or so.
Will YouTube beat television?
Internet television will beat standard cable television that's for sure. As for YouTube specifically, I don't believe so. YouTube is great, but you can't forget about Hulu, Netflix, and whatever else will come out over the next 40 years.
How might future games look like?
I can't even fathom what the graphics will look like. I'll be real old and probably be frustrated with new games and go back to playing my easy old-school game like Diablo or something.
Will there be a robot in every household?
Likely. Unless they scare people, which could very well be the case. At least something small like a better version of the little automatic vacuum things.
Is there finally going to be a robot that cooks for me and cleans up afterwards?
Probably not in 40 years.
Are we still going to have Smartphones? Wearables? Google Glass?
I would say yes. Just FAR better versions, with tools and styles we can't think of right now.
Is everyone going to have chip implants?
No. Unless people's rights get taken away.
Will computers become more powerful?
Of course! Technology becomes dated every few years. Every 5 years or so it's time for an upgrade and the other stuff is nearly irrelevant.
Will Moore's law still be in place in 2050?
Possibly. Although it will probably change.
How will the Internet look like?
No idea. Web development will be SO different.
Will it still be possible to live completely offline?
Possible, yes. Favorable, no.
Will governments take over the Internet?
Yes. If they want.
Will there be new ways of transportation?
Definitely. Electric surf boards or some shit.
Will the electric car take over the traditional car?
Not entirely, but there will definitely be a lot more of them.
How will technology enable new ways of warfare?
Oh god. I don't have the time to answer this one, but Cyber Warfare is already a thing.
Will there be wars at all?
Yes. There will always be people fighting.
Will women reach equality?
As much as they want it.
Will we still be dating in the real world?
Yes.
How will partners find each other?
Internet, and social gatherings. Very similar to now but with more emphasis with online apps and whatnot.
Will there still be sex?
There will be as long as I'm alive.
How many times will the stock markets crash until 2050?
12? Idfk. I don't follow any of that. Lol.
Will there be a major change in our economic system?
Yes.
Will the majority of people still be working?
Yes. People have to work to survive.
Will there still be poverty?
Yes. People don't want to work, or have life troubles.
Will we finally be able to treat diseases without side effects?
Eventually. 40 years, it'll be better. 140 years, hopefully.
Is there going to be a major breakthrough in the sciences?
Definitely! There are breakthroughs in the sciences weekly.
What will be the new threats to mankind?
Not sure. It'll be a surprise and we'll have to react.
Will we be able to colonize other planets by 2050?
Colonize, no. Make space travel much more viable and possibly available to the masses, maybe.
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On May 09 2014 04:36 Nachtwind wrote:You mean the sexdroids that you can order with any kind of preference you may have in 2050? huehuehu
Girls, Sexdroids... what's the difference. huehuehu
ok... that was really low 
And yet I'm still posting it.
What does this say about me?
What does this say about me in 36years? 
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On May 09 2014 05:37 Big J wrote:Show nested quote +On May 09 2014 04:36 Nachtwind wrote:On May 09 2014 04:24 Big J wrote:The girls will be even prettier.  You mean the sexdroids that you can order with any kind of preference you may have in 2050? huehuehu Girls, Sexdroids... what's the difference. huehuehu ok... that was really low And yet I'm still posting it. What does this say about me? What does this say about me in 36years?
You ask the wrong questions... you need to ask .. will it be able to cook
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Transistor computers are already nearing size-limits. Moore's law is done.
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On May 10 2014 04:11 urboss wrote:
Moore's law has been declared dead repeatedly over the last 20 years.
It never turned out to be true.
Has transistor density or computing power/price increased tenfold in the last 5 years? My impression was no and that Moore's law was already "dead", we just needed a few years to confirm it.
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I would hope we could cure cancer and alzheimer and build up our elder care till 2050 but since the research/medical/health/insurance sector itself is a huge industrial complex i doubt there will be any major breakthroughs. Ill people bring in more money to them than healthy ones.
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Moore's law is dead for current computing methods, for sure.
Eventually we'll discover how to replicate that behaviour via a different mechanism, maybe with biologicals or something-something quantum computing, and off we'll go again. Right now, though, we really are at a point where the smooth exponential trajectory has become a much slower refinement gradient with (hopefully) a big jump at some point in the future.
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The standard definition of Moore's law is that the transistor count will double every 18 months.
Intel has platforms designed for 14nm, 10nm and 7nm nodes already. The Ivy Bridge chips that are on the market right now are designed on a 22nm architecture. It will be followed by microarchitectures named as Haswell (22nm), Broadwell (14nm), Skylake (14nm) and Cannonlake (10nm).
The de facto status is that Moore's law will hold true until 2020.
Technological breakthroughs will push that date even further.
Here you can see a chronology of transistor counts:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count
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On May 10 2014 15:33 urboss wrote:
The standard definition of Moore's law is that the transistor count will double every 18 months.
So that means 3.5 doublings in 5 years, or a factor of 11. Look at the article you've linked, the real value is somewhere between 3 and 5.
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Not sure what you mean.
Transistor counts:
2008: 230 million (Core 2 Duo Wolfdale3M)
2010: 1 billion (16-Core SPARC T3)
2012: 5 billion (62-Core Xeon Phi)
2014: still waiting for it...
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On May 07 2014 02:20 Gamegene wrote:
By the year 2050,
There will be more children and more adults who are literate than not.
Poster probably won't see this, but currently the literacy rates among ages 15+ is already estimated at 84.1%.
World
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 84.1%
male: 88.6%
female: 79.7%
note: almost three-quarters of the world's 775 million illiterate adults are found in only ten countries (in descending order: India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt, Brazil, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo); of all the illiterate adults in the world, two-thirds are women; extremely low literacy rates are concentrated in South and West Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa (2010 est.)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2103.html#xx
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On May 10 2014 15:54 urboss wrote:
Not sure what you mean.
Transistor counts:
2008: 230 million (Core 2 Duo Wolfdale3M)
Which is by far the smallest number for 2008 (core i7 ~ 700m would have been a more reasonable choice) and the area is much smaller than for your later examples anyway.
In any case I don't care to defend the claim that Moore's Law is dead. I was just reporting what I read. But it just happens that the wikipedia link supports it too.
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On May 10 2014 00:15 Millitron wrote:Transistor computers are already nearing size-limits. Moore's law is done.
It's quite interesting to think about the power of processors once transistors hit the size limit. I'm not sure if this is possible, but if a one atom size transistor is possible then theoretically the power of a processor will double from the two atom model.
Could be interesting to see.
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Things can only get so small before quantum laws start making everything all messed up.
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On May 10 2014 16:33 bo1b wrote:Show nested quote +On May 10 2014 00:15 Millitron wrote:Transistor computers are already nearing size-limits. Moore's law is done. It's quite interesting to think about the power of processors once transistors hit the size limit. I'm not sure if this is possible, but if a one atom size transistor is possible then theoretically the power of a processor will double from the two atom model. Could be interesting to see.
The problem isnt making really tiny transistors. Its making really tiny transistors cheaply and reliably. Once you get small enough, down to a few dozen atoms, quantum effects start to matter a lot, and your transistors stop behaving like you expect.
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Anyway, how do guys think technology is going to look like in 2050?
Do you really think it's gonna be more of the same of what we already have?
I believe that technology will be the one defining factor on how we will live our lives in 2050.
Politics, economic systems and society change too slowly to be much different from today, I think. There are too many interest groups that want to preserve things the way they are.
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On May 11 2014 04:52 urboss wrote:
Anyway, how do guys think technology is going to look like in 2050?
Do you really think it's gonna be more of the same of what we already have?
I believe that technology will be the one defining factor on how we will live our lives in 2050.
Politics, economic systems and society change too slowly to be much different from today, I think. There are too many interest groups that want to preserve things the way they are.
Problem with technology though is that it´s first in the hand of goverments, nations or simply the industry. So even if a new breakthrough technology would exist that could cure all deseases or food/water problems etc etc in the future you won´t see that technology applied to humanity as a whole.
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