Society & Culture Future Timeline

[BarneyBent]

Yeah, but by 2031? You never know, I guess

Compare video games now to 20 years ago. If we can do that in 20 years, we can get a man to Mars FFS!

 

[The Big Sticks]

Spent so much time reading that.

Interesting stuff.

 

[bok_party]

As amazing as all of that stuff is, I feel that we are in the best age to live in at the moment. I don't want to get so advanced that we have to talk telepathically while funding could go into ridding the world of poverty. I'd be more interested to see if we could create water ourselves and food without having to use our natural resources, which I would like to eat properly and not through a capsule.

All this technology fascinates me but some of it just really begs the question of do we need it?

 

[The Big Sticks]

All this technology fascinates me but some of it just really begs the question of do we need it?

The same can be said about the technology we have access to these days.

For example, we have mobile phones but do we really need them? No we don't but they have become a normal part of our lives.

 

[vesra]

Our current world is very primative! I feel I'm not as primative as everyone else though

 

[nicky]

As amazing as all of that stuff is, I feel that we are in the best age to live in at the moment. I don't want to get so advanced that we have to talk telepathically while funding could go into ridding the world of poverty. I'd be more interested to see if we could create water ourselves and food without having to use our natural resources, which I would like to eat properly and not through a capsule.

All this technology fascinates me but some of it just really begs the question of do we need it?

Yes we do. If we don't destroy ourselves before the sun dies then we'll need to find another habit-al planet to live on. Given that the distance to our own galaxy is 10,000 light years away we need to advance technologically in order to achieve our space travel goal.

If, as the intelligent species had a calling then i'd argue that it is technological advancement. **** wars, **** consumerism, **** the economy, just use the bare essentials, make art and entertainment and the rest of our energy should be spent on advancing our technology.

 

[FootyJunkie]

So the universe will eventually die... won't be around to see it, not in this lifetime anyway.

Do see us turning Mars into Earth 2 in the next couple of centuries.

The merging of man and machine sounds a bit scary though despite the positives.

Interesting site.

 

[HardCaucasian]

The comforting thought with some of these predictions is that people have not been very good at predicting the future in the past.

 

[Poetic Justice]

As amazing as all of that stuff is, I feel that we are in the best age to live in at the moment. I don't want to get so advanced that we have to talk telepathically while funding could go into ridding the world of poverty. I'd be more interested to see if we could create water ourselves and food without having to use our natural resources, which I would like to eat properly and not through a capsule.

All this technology fascinates me but some of it just really begs the question of do we need it?

http://www.futuretimeline.net/23rdcentury/2200-2249.htm#global-rewilding

Based on that one, in 199 years your request will be fulfilled.

 

[Andre]

I always wondered how sucky it would have been to have lived in the early 1900's when there were no computers, televisions... people in the future will be looking back and saying the same thing. We're going to miss out on so much. .

Those in the early 1900's wouldn't have known any different. And it was really only the second half of the 20th century that the rate of technological advantages went ballistic. So it's only a fairly recent concept to know that the world your grandchildren will grow up in will be a lot different to the one you did.

 

[Hipster Doofus]

Fantastic read

 

[TheGhostOfJohnBelushi]

No flying cars until 2079.

Excellent, just in time for my 100th birthday. With Alzheimers, cancer and the like all curable, I'm totally going to be banging a teenage chick just for the occasion .

 

[Rohan25]

Thanks.

The man mission to Mars is probably the only thing that I feel to be a bit erm... far fetched.

I think it's fairly certain that Man will be on Mars sometime in the 2030's. NASA have officially announced that as their aim, as did Obama last year.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

2087: Richmond declare "time to get serious". Unveil a 5 year plan.

 

[Barry_Badrinath]

2087: Richmond declare "time to get serious". Unveil a 5 year plan.

Meanwhile the Canberra Kangaroos celebrate the 70th aniversary of their relocation to the nations capital.