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/sci/, what major milestones are we going to witness in the next fifty or so years?

Just curious as to what wonders I'll experience before I die.

>> No.2049358
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2049358

How about I bump your shit.

>> No.2049363

8 billion people. Wars, famine, disease. Changing climate.

>> No.2049376

dog flu.

>> No.2049383

Asteroid mining.

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>>2049363

And here I was hoping for some good news.

>> No.2049396

The connectome, all the connections of nerves in the brain. Could be psychologys big break?

>> No.2049397

A whole bunch of bad shit. Reorganization of the major countries in some way. Wars. Resource depletion. Some good shit. Probably the advancement of space habitats. A lot of new music. Nanotechnology revolutionizing human civilization. Maybe first contact.

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>>2049397

>first contact.

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Cure for aging.
Space elevator.
Countries with resource-based economies.
Holographic televisions become widespread.
Molecular nano-assemblers.
Moon and Mars Base.
Vacations/travel to GEO in space become more affordable/cheap to residents in resource-based economy countries.
Fading of American power from world scene.

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>>2049417

*sob* Fuck *sob* You *sniffle* BLACK HOLE TUNNELING RADIO ALIENS WILL COME AND SAVE US ALL WITH THE HELP OF A STRONG INDEPENDENT FEMALE PROTAGONIST.

>> No.2049500

bump

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>>2049445

>STRONG INDEPENDENT FEMALE PROTAGONIST.

I'LL TAKE TWENTY.

>> No.2049515

Discover life on extrasolar planets using spectroscopy on alien atmospheres.

>> No.2049532

>>2049421
Resourced based economies would be the most beneficial advancement in the history of human kind. Well besides discovering fire which was the reason our species survived in the first place.

>> No.2049536

>>2049532
And what do you mean by "resource based"?

>> No.2049550

>>2049536
http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy

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>>2049532
>>2049536
>>2049550
All according to keikaku.

>> No.2049566

>>2049550

So... basically socialism.

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2057: all of humanity suddenly comes to it's senses and stops being stupid. Education gets top priority, just ahead of the blossoming space industry and enviromentalism.

2058: an unseen dark comet strikes the Earth, killing 75% of all humans.
2059: humanity is harmoniously beating back the catastrophe.
2060: concentrated on mitigating the after-effects of the impact, no one notices the rest of the approximately 15 trillion galactic disc comets that sweep the solar system clear of all organic molecules.

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>>2049566
More like socialism utilizing technology to not require money as we know it anymore.

>> No.2049574

>>2049566
No, more like basically communism, except this time it's being done in a rich technology advance nation that isn't already struggling with basic needs

>> No.2049586

>>2049570

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture

>> No.2049599

>>2049345
CD's will be able to hold more info...

They will be called CCDD's

L O S T

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>>2049599

>CCDD's

>> No.2049685

Last.fm will take over the music industry. All will be right with the world.

>> No.2049687

>>2049421
lol i always think of that face when I see your name :3
Also, lets start a technocracy!

>> No.2049695

We will:
- land people on mars
- find extraterrestrial life on venus
- have a base on the moon
- fusion power
- planning mission to alpha centauri at 80-90% speed of light

>> No.2049746

>>2049363
Fucking stroke my strudel.

OP: Base on moon, mars. Mach 6 airplanes. Video games long since indistinguishable (visually) from real recordings. Cars are powered by hydrogen. Only gasoline used is by the few performance cars and old ones that people restore/show.

>> No.2049756

Introduction of genetic modification of humans - perhaps only destruction of diseased alleles at first.
The United States will fall economically and scientifically to be like an average European country
Early sex bots
Death of 4chan, but greater reliance on internet for everyday life needs
Maybe discovery of simple life in the solar system

>> No.2049768

Gas will become extremely scarce and unprofitable to gather, forcing us to move onto alternative energies including nuclear fusion.

>> No.2049772

>>2049756
That's only like the next 10 years man.

>> No.2049819

>>2049756
>>2049756

>The United States will fall economically

The US is an economic super power whether it wants to be one or not.

Right now it could spend its entire GDP on cocaine and nothing would change.

It's vast natural resources, decentralized power and large population are a safety net that no matter how dumb fucking stupid the citizenry gets, it will not shatter.

case in point: by the year 1900 America already had a higher GDP per capita than most European nations. And it wasn't even trying to be a world power of any sort.

>> No.2049841

The Demise of Space exploration due to political idiocy.

>> No.2049848

>>2049841
Actually that was 30 years ago...

>> No.2049850

>>2049772
You guys are way too out-there.

Cure for aging?
molecular nano-assemblers?
traveling 80-90% the speed of light?

MAYBE the last one if we master fusion, closer to 2100.

>> No.2049854

>>2049819

>decentralized power
haha, oh wow

>> No.2049861

>>2049819

how can it be ahead economically if it's in an economic crisis and in debt 100 trillion dollars?