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Hmm. That didn't age too well, did it?

>> No.9827315

>>9827313
When have predictions of future technology EVER aged well? Remember jetpacks and flying cars?

>> No.9827324

>>9827313
>utility fog
what the fuck was this guy on

>> No.9827327

>Standard RAM: +/- 750GB

>> No.9827418
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9827418

So I'm 28 years old. I've been fascinated by future tech/Singularity stuff since I was a kid in the 90's. But I'm finally getting cynical and jaded about charts like these.

Am I supposed to believe that before I retire (late 2050s), we'll have "programmable matter" and "utility fog" and "nanoclouds" that can feed and care for me?

*IF* all this stuff is around the corner, what the fuck is the point in paying into a 401k/Social Security?!?! Current political-social-systems and the US dollar itself would be completely irrelevant in a world of nanofoglets and God-like artificially conscious matter. Time value of money states that every penny I make is worth more to me if I spend it now, so why plug my cash into these economic systems that could be obsolete in less than two decades. Am I missing something /sci/?

The only other conclusion is that gnawing feeling we all have that futurologists are hopelessly naive. A.I. and immortality seem like pipe dreams...

>> No.9827431

>>9827313
>2018
>virtual currencies

spot on if you ask me

>> No.9827433

>>9827324
flying nano machines

>> No.9827509

>>9827313
The AI column is spot-on though...

>> No.9827518

>>9827313
this is actually more accurate than most future tech predictions. most of this stuff is on its way or already in the market.

>> No.9827566

>>9827431
Post that on /biz/

>> No.9827603

The fuck is a "VR-only lifeform"?

>> No.9827608

>>9827313
>cyber-warfare

in other words "meme war"

>> No.9827613

>>9827431
bitcoin existed way before. just wasn't as widespread as now, it was mostly used as a Internet black market currency back then.

>> No.9827661

>>9827313
actually it's pretty damn close so far
everything before 2017 has been done or at least proposed, the stuff on the 2017 line is actually under development

>>9827327
https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1377457&start=160
NVRAM like Intel Optane is going to replace DRAM as you know it

>> No.9827665

>>9827661
>>9827327
wrong link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_XPoint
https://www.zdnet.com/article/will-nvram-replace-ssds-or-dram/

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9827687

Why can't I just neurally interface with an AI to combine ourselves into a single being and access the next phase of consciousness already?

Waiting isn't fun.

>> No.9827938

>>9827661
>Using NVRAM like DRAM.
Enjoy your bad data sectors.
t. Manualcuck

>> No.9828019

>>9827518
yes because it was made in like 2012 and it's easy to gather a few news articles about upcoming tech and draw "predictions" based on them. As soon as those articles end after the 7-8 year mark the predictions become retarded

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9828033

>>9827603
>not knowing about the fast-approaching and glorious waifu age

>> No.9828063

>>9827313
why not?
it's pretty accurate

>> No.9828087

>>9827518
Most of the stuff in this picture up to mid-2020s has already been around in some form for many decades so it's impossible to tell what the hell did author mean by placing it there. "Machine translation" has been around since 1950s, "Sub-orbital spaceflight" since 1940s, "Biomarkers" for something like a century and so on.

>> No.9828093

>>9828063
>it's pretty accurate
Do we have graphene being widely used or "personal fabricators", whatever that means? Also this graphic suggests in 2019 750GB of RAM will be the norm and a $150 hdd will be 200TB (this is a good example of what you get if you just extrapolate an exponential trend)

>> No.9828124

>>9828093
Graphene is being widely used in the research space because there are now historically cheap ways to manufacture it and 3d printers have become a 7 billion dollar industry.

>> No.9828188

>>9827313
a lot of these already exist in some form, just not as consumer products, memey sci-fi drivel.

>> No.9828312
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9828312

Climate engineering is something we (well, any decent sized government) could do right now; picture related require no new technologies and could theoretically block any plausible global warming for $15 to $20 billion a year or so.

And desalination is also a well understood technology, with large scale usage. It is just energy intensive, so the only places that use it widely are the Gulf oil states.

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9828319

If Ol'Musky delivers with the BFR, we might actually beat that Mars Mission prediction.

>> No.9828325

>>9827509
It's not, unless you have a generously narrow definition of "natural language interpretation." Interpretation is harder than translation.

>> No.9828470

>>9827313
Why is there Interplanetary Internet" so long before there are any people on other planets?

Also, enjoy your browsing being laggy as fuck due to lightspeed delay.

>> No.9828473

>>9828312
The fun thing there will be "Ho controls the thermostat?"

Canada's idea of what would be the optimal energy retained in the atmosphere might differ from, say, Brazil's. The US might have a different ideal thermostat setting than would Russia.

>> No.9828476

>>9827313
>Domestic Robots in 2025
That is a weird way of writing ROBOT CATGIRLS FOR DOMESTIC OWNERSHIP

>> No.9828482

>>9827313
The space one was over rated but the others seem good.

>> No.9828490

>>9827313
Biotechnology and Space are the big flops

Everything else is fairly accurate

>> No.9828499

>>9827313
A lot of it is pretty good if it was made in 2011 or earlier.

>> No.9828565

>>9828325
Speech recognition has gotten really good in the last 2 years. It's going to be integrated in luxury cars next year. I'm working in this area so that's how I know this.

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9828583

>>9827324
>>9827324
>>he doesn't know about foglets

>> No.9828646

>>9828583
>muh nano memelets
>one of the only applications its inventors came up with is using it as a seatbelt
>a fucking seatbelt
Kill me now.

>> No.9829732

>>9828476
I don't see the "Anime is real" column anywhere

shit chart 0/10

>> No.9829813

>>9827418
It wont happen in our lifetime.