/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11072872
There will be flying cars. Colonies on mars. Teleportation devices. Designer babies. Eradication of death. An iOS app for 4Chan. True AI. 3D printed everything.

Is that what you want to hear?

>>11072882
>No.

>>11072872
1. Artificial wombs. A borderline possible and very underrated technology that will spread like the Pill and similarly change society.

2. Widespread genetic selection of embryos for better health and intelligence. No actual genetic engineering, tough.

3. A Mars colony. Cheap reusable rockets will be the enableing technology.

>>11072872

https://2050.earth

>>11072911
forgot

4. Fusion power. We are slowly but surely getting there, with multiple startups (not ITER) working on plausible designs based on superconducting magnets.

>>11072872

No Mars colony. You get a space hotel instead.

>>11072872
Virtual reality will go mainstream in 2030 or so and everyone will use it.
It's time to get into VR development now before it's too late

>>11072872

Lifes expectancy is raised to 200 years thanks to biometric devices. The downside is that this is leading to the abolishion of privacy.

>>11072872

https://youtu.be/P4p7GJiRuZo

https://youtu.be/jvH-7XX6pkk

>>11072925
VR will always suck because it destroys your retina + gives you motion sickness

>>11072945
>VR will always suck because it destroys your retina
bullshit

>>11072872

https://youtu.be/X9yojxKs_Gc

>>11072913
Thres something about this website thats creepy as fuck for some reason.

>>11072945
git good

>>11072913
New york really will stay the greatest city on earth

>>11072913

>3D Printed Drugs.

OMG

>>11072872
Cars will be illegal, everything will be trains, for rural areas driving will be automated and you will stand on little moving platforms.

>>11072983
kek

People driving themselves is not healthy. I imagine a system where stop signs are replaced with devices beneath/near the road that your self driving car uses to make a logical decision as well as communicating with other contextually relevant vehicles to make an efficient decision instead of relying on cameras to indentify shit via AI

>>11073044
This is too much of a culture shift to happen within the century. It’ll be a harder sell than gun control ever was.

Cars fitted with blackboxes and enforced by insurance policies (absurdly absorbitant without blackbox/limiters fitted) will certainly ring in a draconian age for driving within the next few decades.

>>11072882
nope, unfortantely anon, these are all utopian ideals if our elites were more enlightened but we have a greedy selfish mofos.
The fact that facebook is anywhere near worth half a trillion dollars while the best cancer company is worth a couple billion suggests the issue isnt with technology but with humanity.

money is flowing into vanity life style enhancing projects as well as projects that increase government power and military projection. If we dont nuke ourselves or America becomes a brazil 2.0 due to all the low iq shitskins being imported then our future will be the following

1) the future will be in cosmetic surgery being insurance funded and the tech side will be AI assisted surgeries that will help the surgeon know exactly what and where needs to be cut, filled,stuffed to get a certain look with swelling taken into analysis.

2) robotic military drones, expect police helicopters to be phased out for permanent in the air gliding drones
expect to cops to use a small drones to detach from their vehicles to intercept your cars and shut it down (remotely) for speeding or some other shit.

3)sex bots, (this will be a trillion dollar industry)

4) designers babies i do agree on, how much money would parent pay to have a chad 6'6" child with 200 iq with deep blue eyes and the athleticism of a horse.

5) cultural shifts in what we see as the norm, we are already seeing it with the tranny shit, imagine people replacing their entire bodies, sci fi thinks people will continue to go cyberpunk humanoid but why would they? you could have someone say they want their entire skin to be a liquidish gold with black eyes.

6) expect food bars to be more of a thing and meat to become less of thing in certain parts of the world.

7) memory wiping and also memory warrants

I have to laugh at all these utopian ideas, because they ignore that humans are greedy and selfish psychopaths

>>11073044
Ya from a couple studies I have read 1/3 of people naturally are shitty drivers from terrible spatial reasoning the other 1/3 doesn't have the emotional stability or on drugs. The last 1/3 are trying to survive from the other idiots.
I can see insurance companies pushing it because then they will never have to pay money out with reduced crashes.

People don't like driving anyway especially in a city, then the fact you can party as much as you want and sit in the back seat all comfy.


>>11073095
You underestimate the level of peoples laziness and urge for convenience. Self driving cars are going to be huge, people just traded their privacy for a smart phone in just this past decade.

In a related note restaurants a hundred years ago was considered a rich persons thing to go to, they only ever became a thing because on a chefs off days the rich person would just go pickup food from a servant ran "eaterys" with multiple chefs always available.

Normies noticed and didn't care they had to spend a weeks pay to not have to cook and have a professional to cook a much better meal then they could ever make. 100 years later here we are with world wide obesity.
Look at uber we all got chauffeurs at the drop of a hat.

>>11073132
>Look at uber we all got chauffeurs at the drop of a hat.
i call this process "democratization" when something rare to the few becomes ubiquitous to the many.
libraries were only for the elite, now anyone can pick up a youtube or google.
eventually universities will go the netflix route with maybe ivy leagues being the last hold outs.

you mention cars and food with uber and restaurants

ig and youtube can make anyone into a celebrity

and future phone camera tech and computer effects will make anyone into a hollywood movie producer.

fruity loops made anyone into a song producer without needing an entire building worth of instuments.

sex bots will make every man capable of having sex with literally the chick of his dreams(the feminists wont like that...but they will cease to exist in a few years anyway)

uber cheap AI assisted cosmetic surgery will every chick into a hot chick with double dd breasts.

full immersive neural VR will give everyone anything they want and dream of.
wanna skydive in a lambo while a banging a chick...you can do that, wanna be president of the world sure why not, but likely youll have to pay per minute or per hour and people will work the shittiest of shittiest jobs to escape reality into vr heaven

Nothing much will change. People in the 1960s thought we'd have flying cars by now.

>>11072925
Everybody thought so back in the 90's. VR is just too inconvenient for anything more than niche applications.

I believe VR will be the biggest revolution in human development.

I'm old enough to have experienced the first VR boom in the 1990s and it was horrendous and barely worth mentioning. I now own an Oculus Rift and the jump in tech is absolutely insane but it's still not there yet. However it's already good enough to immediately know that this is the future.

Companies like Neuralink developing brain-computer interfaces will make VR inevitable.

It'll be like the Personal computer, internet, smartphone, social media revolution.

Everyone thinks it's just some niche irrelevant shit and before they know it EVERYONE has it and it changes society forever. I'm already working on VR hobby projects from time to time because I know it'll be a big + on my resume in 10 years where I will have a big leg up on my colleagues that never delved into VR.

>>11072911
>Artificial wombs.

Access to this technology means that you can mass produce humans. Governments are gonna keep a tight grip on that shit. And thats assuming they aren't hideously inefficient, requiring half a warehouse and 24/7 monitoring by medical professionals.

>>11074051
>governments tight grip
Governments are extremely weak institutions. They don't have nearly the competence or ability to keep simple technology like this locked down.

The only things able to be "locked down" by a government are insanely expensive to build things like nukes that need a huge amount of capital to be manufactured. Something like an artificial womb will fit within the budget of individuals like smartphones do right now and therefor will never be locked down.

>>11074066
>Governments are extremely weak institutions.

Haha no. Governments still hold a monopoly on armed force. The reason you think they're weak is because civil officials are looking for sweet private sector sinecures once they retire so they let a lot of shit slide.

An organisation that can mass manufacture human beings outside of their control represent a threat and so they will bring the hammer down hard.

Also
>Artificial wombs
>Simple technology
>Within the budget of individuals

Fucking kek. Have you seen the size and cost of a kidney dialysis machine?

>>11072872

>What will be the most drastic changes we are going to see?

Widespread social collapse.

>>11074138
>What will be the most drastic changes we are going to see?

corporations completely supplanting governments due to massive government debts and political grifting

>>11072872
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTJn_DBTnrY

>>11072913
>2050 BERLIN
THE ERA OF AN EMERGING POST-HETEROSEXIST SOCIETY
Oh thats one of those sites

>>11074259
That's Berlin in 2019. Nothing futuristic about that.

>>11074138
Why?

>>11074416
Because i read it in some schizo post on /pol/

>>11074432
Checks out

>>11073044
I imagine they will just end up doing what boston dynamics does and slap qr codes on signs and the back of cars near the license plates, the technology is already there, but for redundancy in the event of vandalism have them able to read as well. I doubt signs are going anywhere. There is also the chance that the self driving car could make a database of signs using google maps, and be able to make live proactive decisions.

>>11073132
I honestly think it will be pretty difficult to get self driving cars to work in snow or on gravel. I actually don't doubt that they will have 100x more precise control and instant reaction corrective steering when it detects you are sliding on ice, there are already mechanisms in place in vehicles to tell you that.

I imagine in the future truck jobs will just be a minimum wage guy sitting in the cab making sure shit doesnt go south and if there is a problem e.g. hitting a deer, or you needing to refuel they will be there to do that, or there will be station clerks who sit around waiting to refuel them.

>>11072872
2070 predictions. The next 50 years are gonna be some serious. Stuff.

Sea floor farming. 75% of the world’s surface not being used by agriculture. On the sea floor, you’re gonna have sea beets, sea yams, sea cabbage, have ya ever had a sea salad? Have ya ever had sea cheesy baked potatoes that BLEW YOUR SOCKS OFF? Cuz you’re gonna be. 2070 coming up.

Trash economy. The abundance of trash. What are we gonna do with it? Are we gonna put it on an island? Are we gonna make it somebody else’s problem? Or are we going to take the initiative, and take this problem by the horns? Trash economy. You use cubes of trash as money. Everybody becomes rich, it’s a gold rush.

Walk with me. Most of the major cities will be replaced with vast pleasure domes, used exclusively by the excelceites, who are the neo-upperclass. While the displaced hoards of lower-class depth-grobblers will live underground in tiered cities, endlessly toiling away for nuggets of neo-plasmin.

Video games are going to get more realistic.

Super fuel-efficient vehicles getting 80, 100 miles per gallon? It’s not that crazy. You think I’m nuts right now for suggesting something high tech like that? [Looks at person in crowd who shakes head] Flip side of that coin, gas, 10 dollars a gallon. [Flips out and air kicks a couple times in anger] You can’t win them all, but we can make do, cuz we’re gonna have solar power also.

Race riots. Extreme racial tension and unrest. Uh… it’s called the knockout game, and eventually white people are gonna get tired of playing it. That’s all I’m saying.

A new… ah skip that one. Um… oh yeah, got two minutes left, okay. Playing games with me, huh? Can we get the original 18 minutes back on here…? You caught me. I’m unprepared.

>>11074010
I genuinely think computer contact lenses will become the next smartphone. I doubt too many people will be trusting of having things directly placed upon their brain

>>11074939
Now, 2070. Due to the massive birth increase, we’re gonna have a shortage of milk. What this means is, the neo-earth-good-government-league is gonna have to genetically modify all humans, male and female, to lactate once a month. Once every month, you’re gonna be going to a lactation processing center where they’ll hook ya up to all kinds of weird things. Uh, now, due to some fluke, about 3% of the population produces milk, uh, about 500% as much milk. So they’re gonna have to be farmed constantly. And it’s very painful, but they’re gonna be rounded up by FEMA and their milk will serve the greater good.

Guys, what’s the one problem right now that’s not gonna be around in 2070?
The elderly and the disabled. Cuz we’re just GONNA KILL EM! WE’RE JUST GONNA KILL EM!

So we looked at the data. Uhh, we got robots policing the streets, 2070, we got gay marriage. Surprise, surprise, bigots! Okay? Sorry, in 2070, gay people are gonna be allowed to get married. Get used to it.

Make me sick sometimes.

Sodastream will do for soda what 3D printing did for assault rifles.

And I think you’re gonna be seeing a whole lot more of these great Apple products. The iMac.

You’re probably thinking this is some pretty deep stuff, and you’re right.

State enforced homosexuality. I don’t have a problem with that, it’s equal.

Facebook as your birth certificate.

Mac iPads built into every school desk of every child.

3D printers are kid’s toys, and the newest 3D printer your kid is gonna be printing up 3D Muslim barbie dolls.

2070, gay men have actually developed reproductive organs inside of their… area… and a new generation of children are born from inside gay men.

>>11074100
>kidney dialysis machine
I imagine not a whole lot of people in their lives have ever used one of these or needed one. Where as most people will want a baby at some point.

Im also not that guy but Id imagine artificial wombs will be like renting an apartment. $$$$ every month + utilities (electric gas ect) and the food.

>>11074138
EXCELLENT

>>11074138

>>11072872
- natural resources depletion (oil, coal, etc)

> 2008 : real estate bubble collapse
> 2040-50 : industrial civilization bubble collapse

- overpopulation and overcompetition

> new generations will have a very competitive and oversaturated economy
> jobs will get cheaper and cheaper

>>11072872
We'll finally see some goddamn terraforming technology when the activist and awareness approach to climate change proves completely ineffective and we start to feel the effects.
Who'd have thought, lobbying to useless politicians produces no useful results. China gets serious, opens the checkbook and the real scientists finally get to play with nature a bit.

Following that the western world, after much deliberation and a decade of discussion, sends a stern letter to China, warning it to not deploy large scale geoengineering projects without global risk assessment, estimated to be completed when we know everything there is to know about biology. Until then, we will continue to reduce use of plastic utensils to sustain the planet. China responds by flipping on every project they've completed in the meantime. Half of them fail due to faulty manufacturing but the rest successfully prevent further ecological collapse of the planet. The western world is furious at this, of course, and sends a second stern letter a decade later.

>>11072927
what happens at 150 years? what is quality of life even like?
why is your life expectancy lower than a 20 year olds?

>>11073188
we do though. just not practical

>>11072872
>How far are science and technology going to advance over the next 50 years?

what if someone patented fire?

>>11073106
>Cosmetic enhancements
>Be anything you want to be
This, you only need to go on VR chat to see how many people deviate from the human form whether it is to be funny or they simply want to look like that. Now that is only a sample of few thousand people, scale it to a few billion and you may start to question 'what is being human?'

>>11074051
>Access to this technology means that you can mass produce humans. Governments are gonna keep a tight grip on that shit

Or they are going to encourage it's use in order to grow their population and thus increase their power.

>>11073106
>food bars
?

>>11072972
too much javascript

>>11072872

Ecological collapse resulting in horrific warfare

>>11074100
Ignore that guy, he's an /r9k/ incel with fantasies about getting back at women for rejecting and humiliating him.

>>11072872
We can't know because it's in the future. This thread is POINTLESS SPECULATION.

>>11074259
They are obsessed with sex, more than trads.

More human than human (tm)
jokes aside, the real evolution is going to be spiritual, hopefully not as a thinly veiled death cult made to attract interdimensional demons such sabbatean frankism/talmudism.

Read "Last and First men"

>>11076794
If a spiritual evolution unfucks the mess that is the entirety of modern philosophy and reels it back in from the ethical implications of hypothetical metaphysics and the nature of debating the nature of debating, I'm all for it.

bump

bump

>>11072882
You forgot "Half Life 3"

>>11072913
>mini-lofts

>>11076794
If anything the world is going the exact other direction. Governments that are explicitly anti-spiritual are getting more and more power while all spiritual trends are dying on average globally.

China is literally genociding all religious and highly superstitious people.

India is electing more and more populist+secular leaders that feel like spirituality should be put to the grave.

Muslim countries are getting more and more secular Tunesia poll claimed 97% were Muslim in 2011 In 2019 54% claimed to be irreligious with just 33% being muslim. Most of the rest being hardcore Atheist.

Similar shifts have been happening in most other Muslim countries. To the point where it's now becoming "trendy" in Muslim countries to be Atheist as a sort of counter culture move. Both Youth (younger than 40) as well as the elite identify as atheist due to it looking stylish and exotic. This trend started in Saudi-Arabia of all places just 10 years ago.

Now you have arab movements claiming "Genocide all religious people" this was unthinkable just a couple years ago and it shows where the world is headed towards.

I'd be surprised if religion was still legally allowed globally at the end of the 21st century. Even "extremist countries" like Ireland, USA and Poland. All known for their extremist religious movements are rapidly and exponentially moving towards atheism.

Some behavioral scientists even claim that movements like ISIS and the Alt-right in the west were reactionary forces that panicked when they realized they were rapidly dying and would be replaced in just a decade or two.

That is reality, spirituality is most likely not going to survive the next couple of decades.

>>11079576
the disconnection with ones "inner-self" has been a long thing coming, the extension of self is now possible through the mean of SM and the internet. we're already a very slight cyborg, but this integration of technology and self is going to be the future IMO.

VR and online simulations are going to become so common it might just become the new reality.. maybe we're all going to be plugged in playing the person we create, completely erased of ones true self.

>>11079596
>maybe we're all going to be plugged in playing the person we create, completely erased of ones true self.
This is definitely going to happen. However does that really matter? Your self is just the consciousness deciding it wants to do those things. By doing them you are exactly embracing yourself. There's no room for spirituality anymore it's been replaced by superior things.

>>11079601

yeh I think it matters.. you shouldn't be able to just materialise your self into what you want. that seems to be a very egotistical reality, stroking vanity and self worth..

>>11079614
And? if vanity and self-worth results in a higher happiness and life-satisfaction than what does it matter?

Why do people NEED to be humble, reserved or "learn through suffering". In the near future we'd have the technology to let humans do whatever they want to do without limits in VR. We should grant them that without feeling any regrets or remorse for it. We don't lose anything at all and people should be able to choose what they want to do with their own personal lives.

We never chose to be born after all. The only thing we can choose is how to spend our lives.

>>11079621
im on the fence, you do make a compelling argument. I agree the ability to construct your own reality with no bounds is inconceivable, but im not sure if its going to ultimately be beneficial to the human race...

She has barely ever been in a car, and never eaten meat or flown. Now 31, she lives on the 15th floor of a city centre tower from where she can just see the ocean 500 yards away on one side and the suburbs and informal settlements sprawling as far as the eye can see on the other.

Life is OK in this megacity. She earns the exact median income and is as green as she feels she can be: she has no children yet, her carbon footprint is negligible, and her apartment, built in the early 2000s, has been retrofitted for climate change with deep insulation, its own solar air-con and heating systems.

It has a “living” wall of plants and a balcony where she grows a few vegetables. Waste is automatically sorted or composted. Outside it may be roasting, with temperatures often higher than 40C. Inside, she’s cool.

>>11079976

She loves where she lives, even though the water tastes slightly salty sometimes and there are often electricity outages in the summer months because of the frequent droughts affecting reservoir levels. Her windows catch the breeze, and because the mayor has adapted to climate change by banning cars across the whole city centre and no fossil fuels are burned nearby, there’s little air pollution. She feels healthy.

Food is expensive because of the massive floods and droughts that have affected the world’s main food-growing areas, but most of hers is organically grown and is delivered by drone from the nearby 20-storey “farmscraper” built 10 years ago. Most cities of this size grow as much of their own food as possible these days, as a way to reduce transport emissions.

To make extra money last year, she traded in her annual government carbon and meat quotas. Short-haul flights have been stopped anyway, and like everyone her age, she is allowed just one return flight a year.

But she doesn’t need to travel much now. The city authorities have thrown money at protecting infrastructure and helping people adapt to the higher temperatures and ever more frequent storms. The green spaces have been re-wilded. She can walk safely down the shady, tree-lined streets, cool off in the lido, or visit the urban forest, which the far-sighted city mayor started 20 years ago on wasteland.

>>11079978
But now she really worries. She may have adapted her own life as far as possible to climate change, but so much is out of her control. The world’s population has grown by 2.5 billion people since she was born in 2019, and carbon concentrations reached the 550 ppm (parts per million) milestone last year – just as the IPCC scientists had forecast they would. They were just 407 ppm when she was born.

Despite some international action on climate change, global warming passed the 1.5C mark – considered the maximum for long-term safety – in 2040 and is now heading inexorably for 3C or 3.5C, possibly within 100 years. That is really dangerous and means food and water will be scarcer, the rains will be heavier, and even more people will flood in from rural areas to the city.

Worst of all, the continuing loss of ice at the poles and in the great mountain ranges means sea levels are rising faster than most would have believed possible 30 years ago. The last great superstorm, caused by extraordinarily warm temperatures in the Arctic, flooded miles of coastal settlements and forced the permanent evacuation of dozens of expensive ocean-side apartment blocks. Waves crashed 100 metres beyond the new, higher sea walls. That’s when her water started to taste salty.

I have the power to establish Law in infinite vectors of reality!

NIN!!!!!

>>11079979

Perhaps the time has come for her to sell up and migrate to higher land, she thinks. She has been told that the underground water supplies to her tower block are beginning to be polluted with seawater and might only last 10 years, and that her tower could be deemed unsafe to live in within 20 years because of flooding. But it’s far worse in most parts of the city. There the extremely poor don’t live in strong houses, and can’t build higher walls, relocate, borrow money or adapt so easily.

But if she left, where would she go? Every year her apartment is worth less because it is so close to the ocean; property on higher ground now attracts premium prices. Her city has grown vastly in the previous 20 years, as droughts and floods have made farming less profitable and hundreds of thousands of climate-affected people have migrated in from rural areas. Many of them live with only patchy public transport, and endure dreadful air pollution and heat.

This is the climate breakdown reality she was warned about at school, and why she skipped classes to join the great demonstrations of the 2030s. Back in October 2019, the C40 group of 94 global megacities had used IPCC and World Bank figures to forecast that 1.6 billion people living in over 970 world cities would be regularly exposed to extreme high temperatures by 2050.

It said another 800 million people living in 570 cities would be vulnerable to sea level rise and coastal flooding, including the world’s great coastal cities. And it also said that 2.5 billion people (or nearly one in four people on Earth) would be living in the over 1,600 cities where national food supplies were threatened by the climate crisis – including supposedly richer cities such as Athens, Barcelona, Istanbul and Los Angeles. These predictions proved to be accurate.

>>11079982
Her city did its best to adapt, inspired perhaps by a report from the Coalition for Urban Transitions, backed by some of the world’s leading economists, that showed that governments that invested in low-carbon cities could not just help mitigate the effects of the climate crisis but could also massively enhance economic prosperity, attract the most talented people – and, not incidentally, make cities far better places to live.

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Permanently cutting 90% of urban emissions in 2019 would have cost the world $1.8tn but would have been generating annual returns of $7tn by now, it said.

“Cities are engines of growth, innovation and prosperity,” António Guterres, then UN secretary general, had said. “It is possible and realistic to realise net-zero emissions by 2050. But to get there we will need the full engagement of city governments combined with national action and support.”

Sadly, most governments did not pay much attention. It’s easy to be wise in retrospect, but money spent then would have been the best investment ever made, she knows. Now the figures seem conservative. Now it is a race against time.

>>11072882
>An iOS app for 4Chan
lmao good thing I won't be around for those 50 years
seeing how I'm a software dev though I might just make one, just to see this shithole burn once and for all

>>11072872
>advance

it'll regress

>>11072872
Elysium + idiocracy + wall - E

Speaking of water, desalination is going to be a lot more affordable.
It's a more permanent solution than trying to pump it from the largest lake in the nation, like when California realized they had a shit-ton of people living in the desert and wanted to build a pipeline to the great lakes.

With water, tidal power grids will brighten up cities along the coast.
Also a lot more solar and wind power will become commonplace.

Hopefully we have a space elevator by then and a staging facility on the moon and a colony on Mars.
We'll have found a new planet that is pretty Earth-like years ago, but the concept of FTL travel isn't an easy one to fix. The answer is there, but there's some massive limitation and people won't understand that we're not hoarding aliums in area 51.

We'll have 'clean' nukes or something so when skynet does take over it doesn't kill with radiation, and also because governments are fucking retarded with the weapons they decide they want.
They will find their way into African Warlords' hands, and war in Africa will be over really quick because they all nuked each other. Turns out the 'clean' nukes were for a purpose, and conspiracy theorists will go wild with the idea.

Cancer won't be cured, but it will be much more manageable. The average lifespan of the rich will be getting close to 100, since cloning organs will be piss-easy, if expensive.
The class revolution happened in some countries, and others were quick to placate the masses with tax cuts, which almost everyone decided was good enough, while those that wanted real reforms gradually go off the sanity scale and into 'nutjob' territory.

Smartphones are now all tablet sized and they are fucking stronk. Smaller phones are viewed as just regular phones, despite being able to run Crysis on Ultra High.
Smart cities are realized in large cities, but in the boonies no one still has any signal.
VR still has no tactile feedback and is STILL called the future of gaming.

Japan made robo-waifus.

people really overshoot the progress of technology, like somehow every revolutionary technology is always 5 10 or 15 years in the future, mostly by people that want to sell you their books, podcasts or politics or profit from making you really scared of whats to come.

the truth is technological progress is very incremental and slow paced, things don't always scale exponentially and are influenced by many other factors like economics.

I think the world in 50 years wont be much different from today, if you think about it the 80's were 40 years ago, i know now you have email, cameras on phones and video on demand but for most people life is not that different from back then, you wake up in the morning by an alarm get in your car, commute, do an 8 hour work day and go back home and that's after 40 years of tech progress

i really wish that there was a little bit more skepticism about things like the singularity, AI, transhumanism etc.

>>11072882
we're probably going to eradicate death desu, and good riddance
i don't want to die, there's so much to do and see

>>11074066
you would be disappointed at how easy it is to get hold of non-depleted uranium and how some kid named cody was able to convert ore to metal in his garage and all he was missing was a centrifuge. nuclear weapons are like a gun on a table in an old western bar full of outlaws and everyone is eyeing each other up before the shootout. The gun is on the table and there is no taking it off the table. stopping another country from making nuclear weapons is like stopping someone from making a pbj sandwich on the other side of the planet.

>>11081403
so why doesn't iran have nukes yet.
If they had nukes they could strap on to their missiles which actually have a good reach then they'd be immune to invasion by america.
Just repeat for every middle eastern country and we suddenly have peace.

>>11073044
Will the insurance industry plan an attack on self driving cars? If they don't, and self driving cars take off and reduce crashes to near 0% , then car insurance is pretty much dead

>>11080366
This. All those gullible anons who listen to futurists like Ray Kurzweil will be very disappointed in 40 years when things are basically the same.

>>11082224
>so why doesn't iran have nukes yet.
Probably because they don't have a nuclear weapons program.

self driving cars will kill millions of jobs

>>11072872
Unfortunately nowhere as long as powerful entities and megacorps continue to withhold scientific breakthroughs from the public and by doing so cause technological development and quality of life to stagnate. Ethics committees aren’t helping either. Nearly 80 years ago mankind created a weapon that could level cities in a matter of months. If that was achievable then than think for a moment what could be done in the current age over that period of time.

>>11073020
and that's a good thing

bumping

>>11080366
>life is just waking up, going to work, and coming home
This is the thought process of an NPC. We’ve made amazing technological advances but you don’t care to notice because you do not do anything outside of work. There is so much different about today from the 1980s. Scripted movies compressed into 90 minutes is not an accurate depiction of everything in the 80s.
Also, if you REALLY think 40 years does not make a difference, compare 1980 to 1940.

>>11072872

Progress will slow down after digital technologies mature. Science boom over last 70 years is due to computers.

Surprised nobody posted this (outdated) infographic yet. It's kinda cool looking back at futurists and seeing what wound up ahead of schedule, what's well behind, and what we still don't know on.

>>11076239
maybe he means onions but in bar form

>>11072872
I really do hope we solving aging and cancer in the next 50 years... maybe gen AI will come true and speed up our technology research a thousand over?

>>11086282
you wish buddy, enjoy your life while it lasts

>>11079621
People are kinder when they are humble.

>>11072872
It hasn't advanced in the past 10 years. We've had this science and tech all along, we just haven't been doing jack shit with it until now.

>>11072882
>flying cars
Airplanes and helicopters are a thing now.

>Colonies on mars
JELLO BABIES!

>Teleportation
sci-fi

>Designer babies
Already a thing in China

>Eradication of death
sci-fi so long as life still exists

>iOS app for 4Chan
Already a thing, newfag.

>True AI.
Sci-fi

>3D printed everything
Already a thing, even electronics, plants, and human organs.

>>11074939
Based

>>11086433
>True AI.
>Sci-fi
Why is this impossible? The brain works on physical principles, it then must be possible to duplicate. Not that its easy, but there's no reason for it to be sci-fi

Pretty much every time the human had dreamt up something that dream has eventually become reality. So who is really in control of all this shit???

>>11080366
>>11082260

Nothing can ever happen until it happens. Sure Kurzweil was a bit optimistic but his basic points are sound. 1980 is 39 years ago. Back then things were pretty fucking different.

We have almost unlimited access to the world's media, on demand in our rooms. We have computers. We have much better communications. Medicine improved. China went from shithole to second-greatest power.

By 2059 we'll probably have GAI's and a Dyson sphere under construction. Humanity may have been destroyed entirely. The world will be incredibly different.

youll be able to download farts and sniff them
everyone will be doing it all the time
well anxiously await the freshest fart scents
there will be fart celebrities known for producing the most exquisite complex scents

>>11086574
>By 2059 we'll probably have a Dyson sphere under construction.
That's perhaps a bit ambitious, but agree with you that we will have seen some extreme change by then.

>>11086574
>GAI
probably

>Dyson sphere under construction
no

>>11072872
I may be a racist 22 year old boomer, but it HURTS how we would have been OBJECTIVELY decades ahead in research if we had a third of the niggers and spics in America. At least Jews work within science sectors, even if some of it can be pseudo-science.

>>11087547
how exactly? You are a retard and don't call yourself a boomer youngshit

>>11072872
>What will be the most drastic changes we are going to see?
slim americans

>>11072882
>flying cars
you mean airplanes and helicopters? we have those. what makes you thinkk sticking more wheels on an airplane and having people fly them in lots aroudn the city will make them eany better

>>11072882
>Colonies on mars.
a small scientific colony yes, between 10 and 50 anything more thant hat is delusional

>>11072882
>Designer babies
maybe in 100 years and only for the extremely ultra rich

>>11072882
>Eradication of death.
maybe in 100.000 years if its possible at all.

>>11073095
>This is too much of a culture shift to happen within the century. It’ll be a harder sell than gun control ever was.
just make it happen by zones, initially it will be only within the cities.

Evolutionary AI designing everything, in aerospace it's already coming up with designs lighter and stronger than human engineers because while a human might try 3 or 4 designs it can try thousands in the same time.
Combined with metal printing so eloborate designs can be cheaply produced this is effect every machine and structure in the coming decades.

>>11087955
>maybe in 100.000 years if its possible at all.
Humanity won't last that long. We maybe have 10,000 years, best case scenario

>>11072872
Idiocracy on earth.
Off earth = ?

>>11087955
>100,000 years
By that time we won't even be humans anymore. We'll be some kind of super hivemind creature made of positive feelings and controlling supernovas.
That's 3000 generations, roughly. The amount of advancement that comes around in just one is already too much to catalogue effectively.
It's impossible to even imagine where we'll be in 100,000 years.

>>11086522
How would you know if you had created a conscience or just a machine so good it's capable of replicating it? It's basically the problem of solipsism but on a different level

>>11087955
>maybe in 100.000 years if its possible at all.

Is eradication of aging and biological death really that difficult. It sounds impossible because of how central the concept of death is to all facets of life but when you rephrase that as say "the development of technology that prevents DNA damage at the cellular level and augments the the body's ability to repair itself" it doesn't sound nearly as unlikely that it would take 100,000 years to develop

>>11086522
No matter how hard you try, you'll never recreate consciousness. It's just gonna be an AI that does things within the framework you created. At the end of the day, it's still a piece of machinery, and the amount of elaborate tasks it can do doesn't make it any more human.

>>11072872
>What will be the most drastic changes we are going to see?

With physical labor all but free because of humanoid robots, the future is spotlessly clean.
Food, housing, clothing, energy, transportation, medical aid, water, all is in massive abundance, all your physical needs are taken care of.
From your birth to your death, you have no physical wants, even your sexual desires are satisfied with sexbots.

>>11072872
I predict the earth will have been made into a ring-world or some kind of supercomputer by an ai driven technological singularity.

bümp

>>11074912
We will have self driving electric cars that hover above the ground. Roads will be replaced with fields of grass.

>>11074939
>The abundance of trash. What are we gonna do with it?
Launch it into the sun. Duh.

>>11076789
>enjoyable speculation
ftfy

a social credit system will be implemented in the EU as they approach late stage socialism as china does

>>11086081
>Standard RAM - 2019
> +/- 750GB


I wish

>>11091137
Can be done, in theory, but there's no reason for it. People with 32GB rarely every touch that number.

The processors also aren't fast enough to use almost a TB of data of RAM.

brumpf