What do you think life to be like in 30 years?

[The Don]

What do you think life will be like in 30 years from now, in the year 2040? What technological improvents do you think will happen and how do you think this will compare with life today, better or worse?

[Muct]

Well, in Japan (I believe, or another place like that can't remember) there are early stages on robots, so we could have robots in the future lolol.

[=Lizzy]

Well, in Japan (I believe, or another place like that can't remember) there are early stages on robots, so we could have robots in the future lolol.
lol, that would be worth seeing

[sammy]

I agree with Muct, I think there could quite easily be a few robots in that time xD

I'd imagine technology would drastically improve, like everything we have now just like improving if that makes sense.

[Inseriousity.]

Call me pessimistic but I don't reckon much will change. We'll all be older, there may be a few new gadgets out but robots? No... although a small part of me doesn't want them to happen anyway... damn iRobot. :P

However, I do think there may be a few medical advances. Not sure about a total cure but I'm crossing my fingers for a cancer medication that avoids all the terrible side effects of chemotherapy/radiotherapy etc.

[Sharon]

I don't think Apple will be as popular as it is today or Microsoft on that matter.

[Nemo]

holograms n robotz

[-:Undertaker:-]

The pessimistic view; new borns are chipped for national 'security', the United Kingdom is a federal province of a federal Europe, we are all fingerprinted at birth while CCTV cameras line every street and film every detail in the name of 'security'. China is the dominant world player and routinely abuses that status and forces the west into submission over a number of issues. Africa, Europe, South America and North America have all federalised against the wishes of the public at large and without ever asking for permission to do so - democracy is dead, the leaders are not elected as it would risk pulling the whole system apart. The NWO is taking shape and world government is on the cards with the details of every citizen being shared between police forces with abusive powers. The western and developed world is aged with a massive pensions crisis ongoing. (most of this is already being advocated/is occuring anyway today)

The optimistic view is something like today but perhaps a bit better with more cures found and advances in science - provided they are not abused. I dread robots although they may become a part of life i'm not sure really. Robots would have to become incredibly cheap and advanced to have any use.




The future is unknown anyway, Japan was once projected to be the world superpower by 1980 and we once thought that by the year 2000 we'd all be flying spaceships around brutalist style buildings that were the height of modernity. The truth is that modernity is never reached and its impossible to even contemplate the future properly. I'm optimistic about the future anyway, because good always wins over evil.

[The Don]

The pessimistic view; new borns are chipped for national 'security', the United Kingdom is a federal province of a federal Europe, we are all fingerprinted at birth while CCTV cameras line every street and film every detail in the name of 'security'. China is the dominant world player and routinely abuses that status and forces the west into submission over a number of issues. Africa, Europe, South America and North America have all federalised against the wishes of the public at large and without ever asking for permission to do so - democracy is dead, the leaders are not elected as it would risk pulling the whole system apart. The NWO is taking shape and world government is on the cards with the details of every citizen being shared between police forces with abusive powers. (most of this is already being advocated/is occuring anyway today)

The optimistic view is something like today but perhaps a bit better with more cures found and advances in science - provided they are not abused. I dread robots although they may become a part of life i'm not sure really. Robots would have to become incredibly cheap and advanced to have any use.




The future is unknown anyway, Japan was once projected to be the world superpower by 1980 and we once thought that by the year 2000 we'd all be flying spaceships around brutalist style buildings that were the height of modernity. The truth is that modernity is never reached and its impossible to even contemplate the future properly. I'm optimistic about the future anyway, because good always wins over evil.

You have just ruined my day :( I may sound stupid, but why would china be the dominant world player? I know they have a high population, and quite a lot of resources, but they are quite a lot below the current world players, and the population over there is decreasing (Thanks to the one child law, if that's still standing?) I doubt they would become the dominant world players in 30 years ?

[Samantha.]

Really hi-tech!

[j0rd]

Probably lots of robots and really big technologys

[Samantha.]

Probably lots of robots and really big technologys

Robots that do everything for you so you don't have to do anything ;o, it'll be good for a few weeks or so but then you'll just get so bored.

[Sarah]

Hopefully it will be more eco-friendly and just improved technology to make our lives easier! unless the robots went evil and destroyed us..

[Mathew]

Interesting thread.
I really think we should sway against robots. Once you have a robot that can think for itself, who knows what it will do? :)

[RedStratocas]

i think people have the wrong idea of what robots are going to do for us in the future. its not like we're gonna have like, our own robots that do EVERYTHING for us like our servants. Its just that theres going to be specific technologies (robots) for things we usually have humans do, you can already see this happening in the form of robots for surgery, machines that make human-made-quality foods, etc. i very very much doubt there would be a market for human-owned robot-servants. the amount of money it would cost would exponentially outweigh the very little service it can do for you. really if you think about it what would you even have a robot do for you if you owned one? i cant think of anything terribly useful.

also anyone who thinks the world isnt going to change much is insane, progress moves exponentially. technology used to take hundreds of years to develop, but now look at how much its changed in just the past 10-20 years. but our progress is never what you think its gonna be. everyone always thinks of robots and jetpacks when they think of the future, but its always technology you dont expect. like who would have thought of anything like the internet 30 years ago?

[GommeInc]

I can see the medical profession being completely different. So far we have robots doing minor operations like with keyhole surgery. I can see major operations slowly being taken over, if not completely done by just a technician at hand making sure the numbers are correct in the computer - a human barely has to touch another human in the operation theatre :)

Not sure what to think about cars... Another engine may be out that replaces the petrol engine completely with a renewable source that doesn't completely downgrade power.

Other than that, the usual gadgetry and God knows what would happen with Apple and Microsoft. Google might build or buy a planet, or move to the moon.