/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.2592714]

What will the world look like 100 years from now? What is the political/environmental/economical/technological situation then? What will be the greatest achievements or the biggest damages?

Make an educated guess please.

[Anonymous No.2592720]

>implying that anyone in 1911 was anywhere close to guessing what 2011 would be like.

stupid question.

[Anonymous No.2592719]

>mfw Startrek.

[Anonymous No.2592728]

Something like this, probably.

[Anonymous No.2592726]

>Make an educated guess please.
If I lived in the year 1900 and had tried to predict 2000, any possible guess I could have made would be utterly worthless.

1900 was before cars. 1900 was before heavier-than air-flight. How the hell could I predict the fucking Internet?

Even 50 years ahead is too far. We don't really know.

inb4 pie-in-the-sky futurists who pretend they know what will happen

[Anonymous No.2592730]

>>2592720
There have been articles posted here from 50 or 100 years ago predicting the present. They weren't that far off on some things. Of course, most things they predicted never happened.

[Anonymous No.2592738]

ill tell you what itll be like

barely any scientific breakthroughs will occur

fashion changes will occur, in massive amounts. price fluctuations of objects will occur. gadgets will become more and more compact/efficient.

but there wont be flying cars or some shit.

[Anonymous No.2592745]

>>2592730
What kind of articles exactly? Could you post them here again?

[Anonymous No.2592748]

>>2592738
>barely any scientific breakthroughs will occur
God damn, at least extrapolate from current trends.

[Anonymous No.2592751]

>>2592748

Damnit OP, people cant predict an hour from now, let alone 100 years.

[Anonymous No.2592759]

>>2592751
Not OP, but tell that to >>2592738

[Anonymous No.2592784]

>>2592759
im just extrapolating from past trends

what scientific breakthroughs have happened in the past 100 years? we spent a shitload of money and time building a machine that...collides two particles together.

big whoop. derp de doop.

when we colonize jupiter, let me know.

[Anonymous No.2592790]

>>2592784
This is the most obvious troll I've seen all day. Anyway,
>>2592726

[Anonymous No.2592792]

>>2592726
>How the hell could I predict the fucking Internet?
By good luck and lots of imagination. Jules Verne predicted the submarines and moon missions.

[Anonymous No.2592794]

genetic engineering, custom babies, choose eye color, height, weight, intelligence, super resistent crops
elimination of disease
500 yr life expectancy
super computers the size of a grain of sand
colonization of moon, mars, titan
transhumanism

[Anonymous No.2592812]

>>2592784
>what scientific breakthroughs have happened in the past 100 years?
general relativity
quantum mechanics
expanding universe
big bang theory
DNA
etc.

[Anonymous No.2592813]

SPACE STATION ON THE SURFACE OF THE SUN

[:D !bnigGers.Q No.2592817]

futurism is an artistic movement from the early 1900's , some of them describe our current state fairly acurrate.

Now, i believe that in 100 years our society would look pretty much the same from the outside i.e Our cities, roads, infrastructure in general.

But there're are going to be massive changes on the efficiency of our cars, commercial buildings, houses, public transportation systems etc..
Culturally, would be unrecognizable, "radical" values of today would be the norm in tomorrow. Sex, drugs and other current taboos would be rather trivial discussions.

We might see some improvements in biology, therefore improvements in biomedical engineering and genetic engineering, mostly to deal with diseases or other small issues. Space travel would look pretty much like it looks today. Now it seems rather trivial to set up 100 years.. i think the only way we would see a dramatic changes in our society like the ones seen during 1920-1960, would be only if we manage to commercialize fusion and get it to be more cost/efficient than Hydrocarbons. If we do so, i would expect to see dramatic changes in every aspect.

[Anonymous No.2592822]

>>2592812
uh...those are all theories. im talking about tangible breakthroughs. physical evidence of progress.

[Anonymous No.2592830]

http://www.china-daily.org/Scientific-News/The-United-States-developed-the-world-s-first-programmabl
e-nano-processor-block/


Our computers are about to become the size of a pen

[Anonymous No.2592836]

>>2592822
technological breakthroughs? yeah, there were none in the 20th Century...

[Anonymous No.2592840]

>>2592822
lol. A scientific breakthrough cannot be anything other than a theory. Maybe you mean technological breakthroughs. Not the same thing.

[Anonymous No.2592842]

>>2592822
Those are even MORE plentiful than the major scientific revolutions. I'm not going to spoon-feed you.

[Anonymous No.2592843]

[Anonymous No.2592844]

>>2592822
internet, ipods, iphones, mechanical sex dolls, the rabbit, priuses, jet engines, space shuttles, space stations, nuclear power, nuclear bombs, internet porn, 4chan, etc

[Anonymous No.2592852]

>>2592844
out of all of those the only decent ones are nuclear related or space related. the rest are shit and useless in the grand scheme of things.

[:D !bnigGers.Q No.2592854]

>>2592822
Rocketry, Tv, Radio communications, Radio astronomy, Electron microscope, The integrated circuit, Microprocessor, Satellites, Automation, Robotics, Flight, Fertilizers, GMOs, vaccines, Internet.


among many others

[Anonymous No.2592859]

>>2592822

Transistor and integrated circuits (which inevitable lead to cheap micro-computers)
Internet
Mastering the heavier than air -flight
Television
Laser
Mastering of nuclear fission.

Then the obligatory breakthroughs that have been utilized for decades now and which have been covered up in black projects by the government.

Anti-gravity
Faster than light travel
Limitless free energy

That's all.

[Anonymous No.2592860]

>>2592854
Don't forget the fleshlight.

[Anonymous No.2592871]

>>2592822

Transistor and integrated circuits (which inevitably lead to cheap micro-computers)
Internet
Mastering the heavier than air -flight
Television
Laser
Mastering of nuclear fission.

Then the obligatory breakthroughs that have been utilized for decades now and which have been covered up in black projects by the government.

Anti-gravity
Faster than light travel
Limitless free energy

That's all, the significant ones.

[Anonymous No.2592875]

>>2592822

Transistor and integrated circuits (which inevitably lead to cheap micro-computers)
Internet
Mastering the heavier than air -flight
Television
Laser
Mastering of nuclear fission.
Nano-technology.

Then the obligatory breakthroughs that have been utilized for decades now and which have been covered up in black projects by the government.

Anti-gravity
Faster than light travel
Limitless free energy

That's all, the significant ones.

[Anonymous No.2592882]

>>2592852
>out of all of those the only decent ones
The universe is not here to impress you. GTFO.

[Anonymous No.2592884]

>>2592860
Who could forget? Such a beautiful masturbatory revolution

[Anonymous No.2592886]

>>2592852
>the internet
>irrelevant
Full retard

[Anonymous No.2592889]

[Anonymous No.2592894]

China has taken over the world

[Anonymous No.2592897]

>>2592894
.. at least to the degree that the US has now.

[Anonymous No.2592903]

personally i think the world will be a collection of radioactive creators.
but maybe I'm wrong.

[Anonymous No.2592906]

>>2592903
>radioactive creators.
You called?

[Anonymous No.2592925]

It'll be the same with a bit more technology. Shit never changes.

Oh and I'll see y'all in 100 years - we gonna live that long.

[Anonymous No.2592943]

>>2592925
>implying life isn't radically different than it was 100 years ago...

[Anonymous No.2592948]

>>2592906

ha?

[Anonymous No.2592956]

more importantly, will there be more niggars or less niggars?

[Anonymous No.2592968]

>>2592943

>Implying the trivialities really make a difference

100 years ago we were born, we to school, then went on to further study or got a job, found a partner, got married, had sprogs, died.

Same shit 100 years from now.

[Anonymous No.2592981]

>>2592968
And... that bores you? You want that to change somehow?

Kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.2592983]

>>2592981

Can't really see many reasons why not...but hope's a bitch sometimes.

[Anonymous No.2592986]

>>2592956
More, both on an absolute and a relative scale. But a greater proportion of them will probably be in Africa.

[Anonymous No.2592991]

Failing infrastructure, society slowly sliding backwards in terms of standard of living, the first stages of a new dark age underway. Pic related.

[Anonymous No.2593001]

>>2592991

it's always darkest before the sun comes up.
and by sun i mean blinding nuclear light.

[Anonymous No.2593008]

>>2592991
>A Lebanese soldier stands next to a crater following Israeli airstrikes at the main crossroads in southern Beirut, Lebanon.
Nice cherry-picking. Though perhaps you meant the photo to be illustrative rather than supportive of your scenario.

[Anonymous No.2593019]

Why the fuck would we build a tower that looks like a fucking drill

[Anonymous No.2593013]

>>2592903
I'm still interested in these radioactive creators

[Madscientist !!cAPDYI6Eg82 No.2593034]

>>2592854
Vaccines?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Jenner
1796...
nope.jpg

Fertilizers?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertilizer
#History - "Management of soil fertility, however, has been the pre-occupation of farmers for thousands of years."
again, nope.

[Anonymous No.2593036]

>>2593019
Egotistical architects, and the people who pay them. We already have plenty of those.

[Anonymous No.2593040]

>>2593013

they will be big.

>>2593008

how the fuck did you even i.d this picture?
I'm not the guy that posted it but my god that is fucking awesome.
do you watch to much news or something?

[Anonymous No.2593047]

>>2593008
Illustrative, yes. A "This is what it will look like", not "this is why this will happen".

[Anonymous No.2593049]

>>2593034
>>2593034
>Fertilizers? Nope
Haber process, bitch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process#History

If you're going to over-generalize everything, cars aren't new either. I mean, it's just transportation. We already had feet for transportation, silly!

[Anonymous No.2593050]

>>2593019
I dunno. Drilling for rain?

[Anonymous No.2593055]

>>2593040
>how the fuck did you even i.d this picture?
>I'm not the guy that posted it but my god that is fucking awesome.
>do you watch to much news or something?

I know it looks awesome, but I found it through a reverse image search.
www.tineye.com

[Madscientist !!cAPDYI6Eg82 No.2593058]

>>2593049
fair enough.
still, vaccination?

[Anonymous No.2593068]

100 years from now? No one can predict this. We can't even predict what life will be like even 5 years from now.

I'd imagine in 10 years life will be like an upgraded super realistic version of "second life" where we all live in a virtual world we can control with our mind.

Past that, god knows (singularity? nobody fucking knows)

[Anonymous No.2593075]

>>2593058
We eliminated smallpox, and have almost elminated polio. Probably the first time in history that humanity ever completely eradicated a disease. It's even a horrifying, highly contagious, and nearly-always-fatal disease too (smallpox).

[Anonymous No.2593092]

>>2593075
And smallpox wasn't a minor disease either, by number of cases.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox#Eradication
>In the early 1950s an estimated 50 million cases of smallpox occurred in the world each year.

[Anonymous No.2593110]

I can see two options;

1: The world is in ruins, after several nuclear snf inter-imperial wars and hundreds of civil wars, nothing remains but bandit salvaging groups here and there killing and eating anything they come across, including humans. It is a desolate wasteland that is scarcely habitable.

2: It's an egalitarian utopia, all class conflicts have been resolved and we live in the dictatorship of the proletariat (at least in a good fraction of all the regions of the world).

Either way, the technocratic capitalist society that most people imagine is impossible and socially absurd.

[Anonymous No.2593117]

100 years from now:

1. Jesus Christ will reign on earth from Jerusalem.
2. A 90 year old will die, and people will console his mother that the child died so young.
3. Someone who will live over 900 years will be born. He will have hundreds of children.
4. Earth will have 900 years of bliss left, without any demonic forces acting against mankind.'
5. Good times.

[Anonymous No.2593124]

>>2593110
>Either way, the technocratic capitalist society that most people imagine is impossible and socially absurd.
Sooooo.... you're saying that communism is one of the two inevitable stable optima, but capitalism is impossible in the future? OK. Zeitgeist much?

[Anonymous No.2593127]

>>2593075
dude, the russians have stockpiles of smallpox, and the vaccinations were only good for 10 years.

no one is immune, and one of the most evil empires in human history has stockpiled biological weapons to use on their enemies.

[Anonymous No.2593132]

>>2593127
The fact remains that the disease has been completely eliminated from circulation. And we can do it again if we need to.

[Anonymous No.2593138]

>>2593127
>the russians
>one of the most evil empires in human history
Wake up bro. It's not the 60's anymore.

[Anonymous No.2593139]

>>2593132
really? you think we're ready for an airborne attack of smallpox? you think we have 300,000,000 doses of vaccine leftover?

lol

[Anonymous No.2593146]

>>2593138
the teens will make the 60's look like a mormon picnic

[Anonymous No.2593150]

>>2593149
and that helps us....how, exactly?

[Anonymous No.2593149]

>>2593127
The russians have a stockpile of it?? Oh shi-

Oh wait... we do too.

Captcha: time/sec

[Anonymous No.2593153]

Europe: A couple of dictatorships a way like the former (/ current) Middle-East.
North-America: A way like today's third world countries.
Middle East: Much more stable than today, however still struggling from ethnic and cultural conflicts, just like it always has been.
South America: Stable states.
East-Asia: Democracy's next step in evolution.

[Anonymous No.2593173]

>>2593139
>airborne attack of smallpox
Yeah, you don't know as much as you think you do. At any rate,
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/intro/bio_smallpox.htm
The threat is there, but it would not be the end of western civilization, and Russia is not evil incarnate.

Anyway, this is off-topic. The point is that the elimination of smallpox in the wild is one of humanities greatest triumphs, and it happened in the last 100 years.

[Anonymous No.2593176]

>>2593150
the smallpox virus is very interesting. it was discovered that somehow, it had replicated human genes and spliced them into itself. this is goddamn freaky, and how and why it did this is to my knowledge hitertho unknown. so it's definately valuable for research.

[Anonymous No.2593177]

>>2593173
wheeee, we eliminated smallpox, except for the massive stores held by the major powers involved in the cold war, which is heating up rapidly.....

yeah, that's some accomplishment. oh, and people still have polio, just not in your neighborhood.

[Anonymous No.2593178]

>>2593153
>Implying the U.S. won't unite the world into a glorious utopia.

[Anonymous No.2593179]

>>2593146
You seriously talking about Russia starting WWIII, and using biological weapons? lolno

We've already agreed that biological weapons count as WMDs, and will be met with the use of nuclear weapons. That's why we've been able to give up our biological warfare program.

[Anonymous No.2593182]

>>2593153
>Middle East: Much more stable than today, however still struggling from ethnic and cultural conflicts, just like it always has been.
I don't see the Middle East not collapsing after oil is not the world's energy source anymore.

[Anonymous No.2593185]

>>2593177
>the cold war, which is heating up rapidly....
Delusions everywhere

> people still have polio, just not in your neighborhood.
I never claimed it was eliminated. Only almost eliminated.

[Anonymous No.2593221]

>>2593182

only the parts of the middle east dependent on selling oil will collapse.

and even they will take their time given the crazy amount of money they are making.

[Anonymous No.2593357]

>>2593185
yes, because Iran would never destabilize the middle east, with the help of mother russia fueling her nuclear ambitions

oh wait

[Anonymous No.2593363]

>>2593185
"almost pregnant" = "almost eliminated"

[Anonymous No.2593516]

According to a Discovery Science Documentary, the Japanese proposed Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid could be complete sometime in this decade, most likely 2110.

[Anonymous No.2593570]

hmmm there will probably be a huge reining-in of the internet. There will probably be a lot of censorship as AI tech becomes capable of monitoring everyone in real time. It'll be done as part of a moral crusade.

The gap between the richest and poorest will get bigger. While there is a lot of optimism regarding technology and falling birthrates, the means of production remain in control of private cabals who work, if not concertedly so, in their own best interests.

Expect to see major deregulation. This will be irreversible; companies are not limited by country anymore, so no government will be able to tell them to fuck off and act right without risking losing their tax base to a foreign power. Corporations will become sovereign entities. They will not, as sensationalists claim, become militarized. It's a waste of capital when other deals could be made.

Expect more of the things you buy to be cheaper, more mass-produced. Expect them to break more easily and not last as long, requiring you to buy more products. Consumption becomes all-important. Even governments will implore you to do so.

On the plus side, many technologies will as a matter of necessity reduce their impact on the environment. We will almost certainly have electric cars. Solar energy, at least in the long-term, seems like a pretty low-hanging fruit.

[Anonymous No.2593596]

>>2593516
>sometime in this decade, most likely 2110
I slept through a century? Again?

[Anonymous No.2593629]

>>2593570 They will not, as sensationalists claim, become militarized. It's a waste of capital when other deals could be made.
Also, a lack of an actual population base to draw from makes this impossible barring some sort of robot army.

[Anonymous No.2594386]

>>2592792
>Jules Verne(b1828) predicted the submarine
>The first submersible with reliable information on its construction was built in 1620 by Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel, a Dutchman in the service of James I of England

[Anonymous No.2594406]

Things will get better, or not.
Things will be cheaper, or not.
Certain things will happen, and certain things won't.

Virtual Reality Porno.

[Anonymous No.2594494]

>>2592817
>Sex, drugs and other current taboos would be rather trivial discussions.
NOPE

Barbarous radically conservative third-world'ers are flooding into the West at the same time the native populations are aging and shirking. Statist collectivist trash like China are rapidly rising in power. The next hundred years will see a massive fall in both social justice and social liberty.

[Anonymous No.2594512]

>>2593596
Weren't we talking about the world in 100 years?

[Anonymous No.2594523]

>>2594406
This