/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.1575349]

Where do you see the world 100 years from now?

[Anonymous No.1575366]

Still stuck on Earth. Bases on moon. Possible base on Mars.

We probably have the technology to accelerate a spacecraft to 0.1c, and a probe is already on the way to Alpha Centauri.

[Anonymous No.1575363]

its a fucking mindfuck to even try to guess.

i mean look at where the fuck we are today, compared to 100 years ago.

[Anonymous No.1575367]

I imagine myself having larger artificial components to my body than flesh.

Android of immeasurable strength and intelligence, etc etc

[Anonymous No.1575372]

not anywhere where we think we would be. no flying cars, no superbuildings, nothing that the current sci-fi depicts.

[Anonymous No.1575386]

>>1575367
if you assume we will have that then you also have to try to guess how that is going to work legally, and how it will influence society.

it would be hard for a socieity to exist where androids and supercomputers are smarter than all of humanity combined.

its just impossible to imagine how these things will interact. change is constant, change is fast, and no one has any clue what the world will be like 100 years from now.

[Anonymous No.1575383]

>>1575372

I would assume we'd have made certain scientific progress or have technology implemented into our daily lives that would at this point seem unexpected or entirely foreign.

A modern day example would be the internet.

[Anonymous No.1575395]

>>1575363
technological evolution is not linear. 100 years ago compared to today is different from comparing now to 100 years from now.

[Anonymous No.1575402]

huge morality debate over technology as "life". Comparable to abortion issues now.

[Anonymous No.1575404]

>>1575395
it is different because the rate of change is increasing. which make my point even more valid.

[Anonymous No.1575409]

>>1575386

I'll obviously be a renegade space explorer.

I'll visit barbaric "Stage 1" planets and assume leadership through self imposed divine right. They will bow before by arm cannon and nano-sword.

[Anonymous No.1575410]

Everyone speaks Chinese, America is a dessert, Europe resembles today's Africa.

Everyone know's were doomed.

[Anonymous No.1575412]

Better.

Hell, most of us will probably still be here.

[Anonymous No.1575413]

>>1575404
exactly what I was saying. the difference will be even more dramatic.

[Anonymous No.1575429]

>>1575363
Fuck 100 years ago, compare it to twenty years ago and there's still a significant enough difference.

[Anonymous No.1575440]

>implying the absence of intelligent interstellar communications does not significantly advance the hypothesis that civilizations that attain a certain level of technological proficiency do not rapidly develop means by which they can destroy their civilization and that the impossibility of limiting the spread of these technologies does not guarantee a universe devoid of technologically advanced lifeforms

[Anonymous No.1575446]

In 100 years:
*there will still be the Internet
*it will still contain atheists and theists trolling each other
*there will be no human base on the moon or mars
*there will be no artificial intelligence
*speech recognition will be essentially "solved" and widely used.
*cancer will be cured
*domestic plants and animals will all be genetically engineered to reduce disease and increase yield, and there will be no controversy over it.
*most technological advances will be in material sciences

[Anonymous No.1575456]

>>1575446

>implying we won't send all Africans and Aboriginals with IQ's below 90 to a moon base named "Ebonicus".

Dear god, you're very impractical.

[Anonymous No.1575460]

I'm 20. Only 100 lifetimes ago, Jesus died.

[Inox !I4rwj6vpbw No.1575463]

inb4 this

[Anonymous No.1575465]

>>1575446
>speech recognition
>no artificial intelligence

stfu

[Anonymous No.1575469]

>>1575446
I'd bet on a rudimentary AI within 50 years. Look at what we've accomplished computer wise in the past 50 years.

[Anonymous No.1575474]

>this thread.
>every ten minutes on /sci/.

we get it, you want us to tell you you'll live forever.

no one knows what the world will be like 100 years from now, shut the fuck up.

[Anonymous No.1575485]

>>1575469
If you're talking about strong AI, we've accomplished exactly nothing in the last 50 years.

If you're talking about pattern recognition, we'll continue our sluggish advance.

[Anonymous No.1575517]

>>1575440
>implying contradictions

[Anonymous No.1575537]

with any good luck a smoldering crater.

[aether !xewDWpXrpg No.1575536]

i hope not this

[Anonymous No.1575543]

>>1575485
I was referring to computer advancements as a whole not AI related advancements. Still things as insignificant as software like the google bot and humanoid robots are a step in the right direction.

[Anonymous No.1575566]

>>1575410
What kind of dessert will America be? The classic banana split? Maybe chocolate ice cream or cream pie

[Anonymous No.1575590]

A U.S MEXICAN PRESIDENT

[Anonymous No.1575595]

I think the world wont be as different as we think it will be.

Personal electronics and computer power will probably be through the roof and amazing, but as far as macro-science and huge machines and vehicles go, I dont see it happening. Our global economic machine simply wont let it happen.

We will definitely have a base on the Moon within 100 years, but only maybe one on Mars. We will definitely have very efficient engines for our personal vehicles, but alternative energy probably still wont hold a majority of the market. Flying cars, teleportation, anti-gravity, and all of those "stretchy" sci fi goals will most likely not happen. Easier science goals (relative to anti gravity and flying cars) that we will most likely have accomplished within 100 years is fusion energy, very efficient engines and motors, and very quick international travel.

Also, I imagine American society in 100 years will be incredibly liberal compared to American society today.

And if you say:
>implying America will exist in 100 years
then you should know that I kind of agree with you. This country as we know it is going in the shitter fast. Corruption and general apathy and ignorance, man. Shit sucks.

[Bill !///NYEnRAU No.1575604]

By that time we will definitely have harnessed space, but current fossil fuels will be gone. I wouldn't be surprised if we were on Mars or the Moon using some sort of solar power.

Think of the massive population we'd have by then. We'd be well over Earth's carrying capacity.

[No.1575643]

Best: Nano machines have increased resource efficiency to near 100% along with restoring the ozone layer and wiping out almost any form of infections. We are on our way to establishing basing in the outer solar system.
realistic: Something like Neuromancer/Ghost in a shell/Blade Runner.
pessimistic: 90% of the life is dead due to massive fuck ups. We have barely any resources left to maintain moon/mars bases

[Anonymous No.1575646]

Idiocracy comes to mind.

[Anonymous No.1575653]

More technology, but less electricity. Idealistically, we will be light years beyond the current standard of efficiency, but probably more realistically, we will have some increase efficiency due to the dwindling supply of oil, but most poor and middle class people will take a major hit to quality of life. This is why we need to develop alternate energy sources ASAP.

[aether !xewDWpXrpg No.1575688]

I guess if no-one will help me save the world. I'm now the public enemy.

[Anonymous No.1575712]

>>1575410
>America is a dessert
>dessert

[aether !xewDWpXrpg No.1575719]

Terrorism is literally the war on hell. When a suicide bomber, dies, that person dies "Good".

[Anonymous No.1575722]

we will still be using oil like a motherfuck.

[Anonymous No.1575736]

Okay, you base-on-the-moon fags. I hope to God you're right, because I want that advance more than anything, for the science it will allow us to do, and the door it opens to manufacturing spacecraft on the moon.

But who the fuck is going to do that in the next 100 years? The US? Russia? China? India? The EU? Some collaboration? I have trouble finding any plausible scenario where that gets done.

[Anonymous No.1575742]

>>1575410
Don't be foolish. 80% of their population will be elderly within 40 years. That is what happens when you have a major baby boom followed by near draconian child control.

[Anonymous No.1575750]

>>1575742
Duh. Haven't you seen Zenon? They're already up there.

[Anonymous No.1575751]

>>1575595
I don't think there's any way to predict political sentiment 100 years out. There are usually unpredictable events that happen within that timeframe that will change the political landscape drastically.

I'm pretty sure the US will still be around, and I think there's a reasonable change the EU will have become a single nation.

[Anonymous No.1575783]

>>1575410

[Anonymous No.1575793]

A conservative religious (superstitious for lack of a better word) shit hole after the world economy collapsed after the US-China annihilate each other in WWIII.

[aether !xewDWpXrpg No.1575834]

I like chinese. They're the most organized, easilly. Also they all know martial arts. Most of them are gold-sellers/power-levers on WoW though.

[Anonymous No.1575872]

>>1575566
FUCKING LOL
was waitan for this lolol

>>1575712
lol

>>1575783
have the picture with notext?

[Anonymous No.1575887]

>>1575349
A Post-Scarcity Economy, created by the Technological Singularity.

[Anonymous No.1575900]

Large sections of the Earth will be a polluted wasted due to overpopulation. Overpopulation will be humanity's biggest issue in the future.

[Anonymous No.1576397]

Hey, faggots, know what? We plan to send a man TO Mars by 2030, that's 20 years from now, which is 5x less than a 100 years. Do you think in 80 years we will build a base there? Sure is 1970's in here.

[Anonymous No.1576412]

TOUCHSCREEN TECHNOLOGY ON STEROIDS

[Anonymous No.1576414]

>>1576397
We're not sending appreciable numbers of people into space until automation has reached a level which will already guarantee our extinction. Not sure why people are so optimistic, the Earth will be an almost lifeless wasteland before 2050.

[Anonymous No.1576434]

>>1576414
>automation has reached a level which will already guarantee our extinction

wat

I'm no optimist, I'm a peak oil guy, but, what the hell?

[Anonymous No.1576444]

some people will want to get high and fuck and some people won't - just like always

[Anonymous No.1576447]

>>1576414
You've been watching too much Terminator, bro.

Automatons will never rise up and wipe out man. That's a silly science fiction plot device.

[fizx !d75etXAowg No.1576482]

I would think anything much more intelligent than humans would also be quite nihilistic and would therefor have little motivation to wipe out humanity. The only reason they would kill us is if we programmed goals into them that included wiping us out, and even then we still have the AI's we hadn't programmed in such a way to help us out.

[Anonymous No.1576525]

>>1576447
>implying artificial intelligence is a prerequisite for our extinction when mindless self-replication will do the job just as well

[fizx !d75etXAowg No.1576537]

>>1576525
I'll design replicators to eat the replicators.

Anything SCIENCE! screws up SCIENCE! can solve.

[Inurdaes !lololSGJBw No.1576561]

>>1575887

[Anonymous No.1576605]

The disclosure has happened and we are all being sold as slaves.

[Anonymous No.1576617]

>>1576605
Is this some sort of conspiracy theory?

[Anonymous No.1576628]

>>1575349

In a hundred years...

-Wireless energy satellites harvest electricity from geosync orbits and transmit it to the US. US becomes a huge energy exporter as a result of this.

-Because of the massive jump in energy output as a result of this system, robotics is a viable technology branch for all facets of production.

[Anonymous No.1576659]

in 100 years,

We will all be dead.
Because life-extension never actually panned out as we hoped.

:-/

[Anonymous No.1576663]

This islamic bloc of africa and europe will launch a surprise attack on the christian bloc of the americas, starting WW3.

[Anonymous No.1576672]

U.S will be at war with several nations. Hopefully, I move to Canada in time. Also technological advancement should be significant.

[Anonymous No.1576719]

phones that you flick out between your pointer and thumb. like a finger gun. fuck year!

[Anonymous No.1576725]

>>1576672
>Also technological advancement should be significant.

hurrr durrr

[Anonymous No.1576771]

>>1576617
Nah, the US president will announce that they've been dealing with aliens the whole time and when it's common knowledge the aliens will enslave us all.

[Anonymous No.1576784]

Chinese cloned sex dolls GM to be docile, obidient, and perpetually aroused.

[Anonymous No.1576789]

>>1575463
>mfw when I missed Utopia by 100 years

[Anonymous No.1576791]

>>1576672
>implying you'll be alive 100 years from now

[No.1576800]

>>1576672
When was that picture taken?

[Anonymous No.1576801]

Probably much worse then we are now, with much the same problems and issues everywhere.

[Anonymous No.1576825]

>>1575410
>>1575410
>>1575410
So basically....FUCK WHITEY?

[Anonymous No.1576845]

I hope we'll have some sort of brain interface for gaming. Artistic possibilities would be endless. Nobody would ever want to do anything else and the world economy would start constructing itself around it.

Well, at least I hope we'll have somewhat realistic AI for NPCs in games and a decent voice recognition interface, so you can talk to them.

[Anonymous No.1576879]

>>1576800

hurrrrrr durrr

[Anonymous No.1576883]

Einstein quote, paraphrased: I don't know what kind of weapons world war III will be fought with, but world war IV will be fought with rocks and sticks. Think about it.

[Anonymous No.1577012]

>>1576784
Your post made me hard

[Anonymous No.1577030]

>>1575349
everyone has either common earth material photovoltaics attached to everything, personal thorium fission reactors or we finally have fusion

also, everyone has replicators. only on an atomic level, however. we're still working on the ability to manipulate quantum particles/pure energy so we can transmute between energy/matter

i'd imagine if cellphones havent entered our body by that point, they at least have amazing capabilities. im thinking like tricorder level capabilities, and nearly everyone who wants one has one. they might even have small phasers for defensive purposes. oh, and you wouldnt be paying verizon/at&t shit, there would be a massive peering network all across the globe. with switched digital communications on nearly every frequency that is suitable for it and fiber penetrating the earth like mycellium

tl;dr; star trek following our physical laws

[David !4changtcqk No.1577039]

>>1576883
wow man, you're sooo deep, maaaaannn

[Anonymous No.1577041]

about the same place, just 100 times more rotated about the sun.

[Anonymous No.1577051]

The population will be less than 100 million and half of them will have cancer because of atomic bombs. That's because of Christians and Muslims: they will exterminate atheists and then they'll nuke each other.

[Anonymous No.1577054]

>>1576883
Einstein wasn't around for a worldwide, instantaneous, civilian accessible communications network.

I'm not suggesting it will magically fix everything overnight, but when was the last time you invaded your neighbor's house and killed his wife?

[Anonymous No.1577058]

>when was the last time you invaded your neighbor's house and killed his wife?
Last saturday.

[Anonymous No.1577060]

>>1575372

A hundred years ago, sci-fi depicted space travel, submarines and the internet.

So what makes you say what you say?

[Anonymous No.1577066]

>>1577060
Oh yeah! Well I found another futurist from that era suggesting we'd all have helicopter helmets! This surely negates all future predictions ever made, right?

[Anonymous No.1577068]

>>1577060
The only sci fi 100 years ago was HG Wells who wrote about total radioactive destruction or socialist utopias.

[Anonymous No.1577074]

>>1575349

Interstellar travel and relations with several alien race what has already been done for 50 years will be public knowledge and part of everyday life.

[Anonymous No.1577076]

>>1575349

Interstellar travel and relations with several alien species, that has already been done for 50 years will be public knowledge and part of everyday life by then.

[Anonymous No.1577084]

There is a globel political order, divided into regions, that is divided into sub-regions and so on.

Oil/gass wells are empty, coal is running low. All electricity is either nuclear or renewable, and uranium resources are getting scarce as well.

There isn't enough energy to support 7billion people, as oil/gass/coal is running low, so the population has stabilized at ~4-5billion.

Global warming will make a lot of tropic areas inhabitable and a lot of environmental refuges from Asia/Africa/South America will populate Europe, USA and Canada.

Buildings won't get as high-tech looking as we want them to be. They will be practical and energy efficient. They will have greenhouses on the roofs to grow food. Rain will be used in toilets and showers, while clean water will be reserved for drinking and food.

There is no utopia, as Asia cannot give us extremely low prices for consumer products, and we will have to work long and hard to keep a low standard apartment compared to todays standards.

Again we will have working class and an elite. Also there is "Democracy".