10 Years from now, what do you think our world will be like in terms of our use of technology in our everyday lives?
What do you think it will be like, or what would you love to see and use?
Things to think about: Transportation: Cars, Planes, Mass transit Communication: Computers, phones, mobile devices Appliances: refrigerators, etc. Gaming: Anything, Computers, And any combinations of the above.
I think that everyone will have Ipods built into their houses as a sound system. I also believe that we will come up with some more reliable, cleaner fuel source instead of oil. I also believe that the United States will come up with a way to colonize Mars, and make a settlement up there.
Flipski have you seen the "Shift Happens" series at all. I was shown it at school as a "treat" by a maths teacher. Very interesting stuff.
Transportation: Obviously "clean" cars will be more common if not completly used. Planes will be bigger though I'm not sure how innovative the designs will be.
Communication: What can apple do? I think we won't see anything etting any smaller. They don't need to. More interactive. Possibly holograms or something as opposed to video chats. I think they have started with this in conferance calls.
Appliances: Fridges that examine the items you have in stock and come up with recipes exist. I'm not sure if they can team up with the oven and cook it for us as well.
Gaming: Much more power and the graphics will be sublime. Possibly more interactive the "sand box" modes will be much more expansive and allow for more choices. Plus (I hope) much more customisable.
I also believe that we will come up with some more reliable, cleaner fuel source instead of oil.
We will never come up with a new cleaner fuel. Oil companies run the world. They won't give up their resources and power so easily.
I also believe that the United States will come up with a way to colonize Mars, and make a settlement up there.
Hold your horses. The US can barely land anything on Mars without it crashing. There aren't even any plans to have a man step foot on Mars anytime soon.
Hold your horses. The US can barely land anything on Mars without it crashing. There aren't even any plans to have a man step foot on Mars anytime soon.
Actually, plans to land on Mars are likely to be put into action only AFTER the return to the moon. That is probably sometime after the 2020s so ten years is not enough.
We will never come up with a new cleaner fuel. Oil companies run the world. They won't give up their resources and power so easily.
Ten years in my opinion is not enough to produce high quality, substantial renewable fuel sources. Oil companies continue to take in money but eventually they will inevitably collapse.
As far as large scale energy goes I think nuclear fusion is the way forward. Depending on how we go about doing it (spend some money on it and develop it over time or go for broke and spend more and gamble on it being developed soonser) we could get nuclear fusion workinf reliably within 20 years 15 at best. Though at the moment it is looking like 25-30 years.
As far as large scale energy goes I think nuclear fusion is the way forward
Nuclear fusion is a great power source, when you look at needed resources to energy created. But when those spent fuel rods are used up, they stay radioactive for a good period of time (sometimes 20,000 years). Note: the US puts all of its spent waste in the Sierra Nevada mountains, just basically digging a hole and tossing in a green barrel with the radioactive symbol on it. Thinking into the future, if nuclear fusion does become more popular. How many disposal sites can we make? And we certainly can't throw it into the ocean. And we probably won't have the resources to send barrels upon barrels into space.
im hoping for an mmorpg with a full body suit and huge interactivity LMAO WOULD BE SICK LOL.
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We will never come up with a new cleaner fuel. Oil companies run the world. They won't give up their resources and power so easily.
Oil is a finite source of energy. At its ending, the oil companies will be the one paying for researches and patents for reliable and cleaner sources of energy. It is just a new way to make money.
Although the world will end in 2012 =O (It is a joke for those that take it serious).
Cars, will be more environmentally friendly. With regards to aviation, AI seems to be the direction it is heading in. I would not be surprised if the current generation of pilots will be the last of manned aircraft, especially in the military field.
Communication: Computers, phones, mobile devices
Video phones will be the norm, there will possibly be an end to mobile phones as we know them, rather a device that serves multiple purposes. For example in Japan, people's phones can serve as their credit cards too. Technology intergration will be much more widespread, at least in the developed world.
Appliances: refrigerators, etc.
Hmm, not really sure on this one. Possibly more environmentally friendly, apart from that nothing else I can think of.
Gaming: Anything, Computers,
Hopefully technology will be allowed to compress even more data than before, allowing them to have much larger memory drives and be more powerful, although, I have heard that the capacity has been squeezed ou of microchips, and advances will be relatively small, so could we see a completely different type of technology emerge?
Hopefully technology will be allowed to compress even more data than before, allowing them to have much larger memory drives and be more powerful, although, I have heard that the capacity has been squeezed ou of microchips, and advances will be relatively small, so could we see a completely different type of technology emerge?
I do think so. Computers will become more efficient and powerful. Though the speed increase in computers will slow down eventually. We should also note that games will become more realistic and we can expect everything to be more efficient. People will be using one terabyte (or more) hard drives.
those spent fuel rods are used up, they stay radioactive for a good period of time (sometimes 20,000 years). Note: the US puts all of its spent waste in the Sierra Nevada mountains
You are thinking of nuclear "fision". Nuclear "fusion" is a very different thing and much better for the environment.
I do think so. Computers will become more efficient and powerful. Though the speed increase in computers will slow down eventually. We should also note that games will become more realistic and we can expect everything to be more efficient. People will be using one terabyte (or more) hard drives.
Games are already getting close to realism with technologies coming out today,and eventually imagine a world where people can't tell virtual reality from actuality.1TB 20 years from now will probably be seen the same way we do possibly 1KB or maybe 1MB now,so saying that people will be using 1TB hard drives then would be considered probably a joke in my eyes.
You are thinking of nuclear "fission". Nuclear "fusion" is a very different thing and much better for the environment.
This is true,from my understanding the only reason nuclear fusion is not used yet,is because no one has figured out how to get it to work properly,and scientists have been working for decades to figure it out.The thing is the type of Nuclear power we have today is not a renewable energy and so it can not sustain forever,no matter what toll it does on the environment.There is only so much uranium to go around after all.
so saying that people will be using 1TB hard drives then would be considered probably a joke in my eyes.
Yeah My PC at the moment is 1TB. You never know a yottabyte could be along soon. At the current rate of power incresea their will soon be computers with more processing power and space than a human brain. By 2050 this will be available to buy for less than £1000. Should be fun.
I doubt anyone saw that Horizons episode last week about nuclear fussion (a star on Earth or something)Fussion is what stars use to get their power. Though it is not strictly sustainable it is the next best thing. Instead of uranium you have hydrogen and their is a fair bit of that lying around.
hopefully no more of those power plants puffing smoke into the air and maybe cars that don't have exhaust pipes
Have you heard of the person who took algae and turned it in to a clean alternative resource to oil,and the best part is they are breed quickly and they feed off CO2 emissions which there is a lot of in Power Plants,so maybe Clean Coal really is something we may see in the future you never know.
