The Future

Jikanu · 05-01-2009, 04:36 AM

What do you guys think lies ahead for the human race in the next half a century? a golden age for mankind? an apoctalyptic wasteland caused by our carelessness towards nature? something better, something worse?

**Yosei** · 05-01-2009, 04:43 AM

I don't think it'll be anywhere near as dramatic as The Day After Tomorrow, or in our life time. But yeah, if we do not become more considerate of the environment, things will fall into place, and screw us over.

**Ivramire** · 05-01-2009, 05:11 AM

Not anything significantly different.

The Global Warming scare was moving things in a positive direction but that's severely weakened by the bottomed oil-prices. The immediate incentive is gone.

Frankly don't see any reason why anything would change drastically.

Jikanu · 05-01-2009, 05:15 AM

What about technological advances, though? i heard that they found a planet that might harbor water... perhaps we'll discover extraterrestrial life if we make advances in how fast we can go in space, though it's unlikely...

**Lirange** · 05-01-2009, 05:16 AM

i think that we'll find another life form
be able to live in another place then earth
cure for diseases
and hopefully a .dothack kind of game x]

**Ivramire** · 05-01-2009, 05:34 AM

New technology will makes things easier and easier, but people will always find ways to complicate things.

**MikeyG** · 05-03-2009, 09:55 PM

YouTube - George Carlin - Saving the Planet

**Hyper** · 05-01-2009, 05:31 AM

India's population will continue to grow at an exponential rate, deplete the world's resources, and basically cause the end of man-kind unless we mind some alternate fuels and way to produce more fresh water.

And space exploration will never happen. Not only could we basically never have enough power to fly fast enough to actually make space travel reasonable, but the chance that we are even remotely close to another planet that has has life grow similarly to ours is near-0.

**Blaaaaaaaah** · 05-01-2009, 05:58 AM

Originally Posted by Hyper

India's population will continue to grow at an exponential rate, deplete the world's resources, and basically cause the end of man-kind unless we mind some alternate fuels and way to produce more fresh water.

And space exploration will never happen. Not only could we basically never have enough power to fly fast enough to actually make space travel reasonable, but the chance that we are even remotely close to another planet that has has life grow similarly to ours is near-0.

Are you for real, Hyper? @_@!!!! I wouldn't completely rule out that possibility.

There are researches going on about the possibility of living on Mars. Pretty much because once upon a time, Mars had the same atmosphere as Earth, just that it's kinda of "frozen over" now. What people are trying to do is (I think) "change" the atmosphere and "warm up" the planet so we can move there if Earth breaks down.

^ In the most simplest term so I can summarise it shortly ^

Of course, I doubt that's gonna happen in the next half a century. It's gonna be a long long long time before they get that going from the looks of it. But, hey, technology do do some crazy things. Just the matter of time.

lamchopz · 05-01-2009, 07:43 AM

Quantum computing. Too early to say anything but it's not impossible. And when it's around the corner, I can't really say what we will achieve. Just know it's something amazing. But for sure, you get a lightning fast computer to start with.

A step closer to time travel, but still a long way to go.

Intelligent robots? We're getting there. The age of "Terminator" may also follow but not before we give them a brain. Machinery evolution will still largely be sci-fi at least in the next 5 years or so?

New cures for old diseases. New diseases to add to our list. Mortality will decrease but will be aided by abusive and ignorant lifestyle.

Advanced technology to help us work, and also help us get lazy. Serious implications for health and wellbeing. I mean, some people take the lift from level 2 to level ... 3 at my uni.

An aging planet and the portending gloom by the current meteorological development. Doesn't matter if we're the ones to blame, we need to work on ways to deal with it and the anti-climate change groups aren't helping. They should get a hobby and stop printing nonsense pamphlets to save some trees.

New species to discover. We still don't know a lot about our own planet yet.

Admittedly, humans evolved to adapt to whatever changes that may occur that's why we're so defenceless in nature but our superior intellect fills in that gap. We need to stop clueless people from making policies, though.