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What big, world-changing shit do you think is likely to happen in the next 10yrs, or in your lifetime? I don't mean like Aphex bringing out a shitty EP of Outside Kickass Violin Solo, I mean like biotechnology making it possible for humans to photosynthesise, and shit like that. |
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I think if we manage to get through the next 10 years that'll be pretty amazing. |
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i think a nearby future will involve robots that can do your day-job, in a way where they become an investment in your life - like a house or a car. the robot does your job, and you get it's salary so you don't have to work, or can take care of your hobby, family, or like. somehow it's not far from a farmer that is renting out his tractors to other firms. |
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Isn't there some shitty law of economics that explains why that doesn't happen or something? People always said everyone would have fucktonnes more free time when computers went mainstream but that's clearly not happened. Or is it just because the population keeps rising? Stupid economics |
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we're all fucked. we even have computers to make music now. humans are redundant. i mean fucking hell, have you heard confield? and now we've done the full circle, right back to the title of the thread. |
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You can enjoy the present world to a great degree and take-in all hi-techness, by remembering your childhood dreams. I remembering talking to my dad in early elementary school about handheld games (before GameBoy came out) and wondering why they were b/w, if they would ever be in color. I had a lot of LCD games. I remember thinking it would be AMAZING if it had color, and I never dreamed that I'd be able to play shit that's better than the arcade games at that time, in the palm of my hand now. Handheld games now are so good, massive computers couldn't even pull off that shit in the 80's. As for the phuture phuture, we'll be doing CRAZY SHIT, like posting at xlt, doing awesome lazer wanking, and taking hologram drugs. |
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Within 10 years we'll probably get close enough to Personal Memex levels of sound/video recording using google glass/similar that a lot of the ethical quandaries and societal changes predicted in the discussions of this technology will become real things to deal with. It's also possible that we will get to the stage that facial recognition and biometrics becomes so good and portable "smart" devices (in whatever form they take) that authentication will become both transparent and continuous. I'm not just talking for logging into Facebook, I mean walking through airports, getting charged for travel on the underground, etc. Although personally, I think it'll take 20 years before the technology becomes ubiquitous enough to be relied upon as the sole, or at least primary, means of authentication. Longer term again, but mapping a (still living) brain to a cellular level of resolution and being able to replicate it in software will be a huge change and probably the most likely way we'll reach something approximating immortality. This would probably represent the start of post-humanism, true machine conciousness, etc. |
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The prevailing prediction, back in the 60s, was that mechanisation etc. would significantly reduce the work day/number of days work in the foreseeable future. My father can remember debates at college focussed on what we would do with all the spare leisure time, whether there'd be an increase in crime/depression, etc. as people were bored/unoccupied too often. The most common explanation for "what we got instead" of this additional leisure time that mechanisation was supposed to bring is cheap consumer goods. The rationale being, that things have become cheap enough that you could in fact live in a 1960s level of materialism today, from the money you could earn from a part time job. Of course, most people choose not to and in general, work longer hours than their 1960s counterparts. The other problem about this allowing for a 'choice' in the matter for the individual is that if you elect to work fewer hours, whilst you are able to leach the benefit of cheap consumables from those working themselves to death, there are certain, more finite things that you will struggle to afford. Land/property being the most obvious. Increased populations equate to a greater need for housing and so housing costs go up. If you're working part time, a huge proportion of your income will be spent in order to be competitive against the offers made by those working full time. So perhaps there's less choice than there might at first appear. |
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This would tick all the world-changing shit boxes for me... |
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i agree with ceri. it's difficult and expensive to buy a house, but if you live on the cheap, you're pretty much stuck renting. core problem is that technology can't cram more people into less square feet unless we want to live in places like the alice garden pods in deus ex: human revolution. i imagine once VR / brain links become a good enough escape from reality, many people actually will live in 3x3x8ft pods... especially in places like new york city, where lots of young broke idiots go to have their hopes and dreams crushed. a better answer is to develop some source of income that's not tied to locale, and move where land is cheap. |
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Land where there's not freedom preventing regulations.. anchor your boat and live in it ILLEGAL, live in your car ILLEGAL, live in some self made cabin, oh you don't have the correct approved plumbing ILLEGAL.. because they want you, and make you, either in the system or in prison, which is also part of the system. In the future everyone will be in prison, retroactively punished for anything they ever posted on the internet, except the elite wealth hording masters, and working in sweatshops for 3 cents a day following the downward spiral of Chinese slave labor. Of course the only job available to humans by then will be serving other humans to the robots as food or being the food, or being an experimental guinea pig like letting the robots test how biological weapons spread. The robots will be trillions of times smarter so the "ethics" of this will seem irrelevant to them. And if the machines spawn from the current elite who were naturally selected for ruthlessness, sociopathy and lack of empathy, becoming transhuman, the robots will be evil. Or not. |
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oh, stop whining. if you want to bitch, consider the fact that we're equivalent to bacteria when you scale out to view the entire universe, and we're trapped in it. similarly, whether you like it or not, you're probably going to have to pick a country to live in. most people can't be dean kamen, inventor of the segway, owner of a private island country off the northeast coast of the US, in which the unit of currency is Pi (instead of dollars or pounds or euros). RDJ, eat your heart out. this shits all over your tank in any case, we're all born into a stupid giant impossible contraption we have little to no control over. our best hope is to focus on the here and now, and inflict what irrelevant changes we can on our immediate reality. this comforts us; distracts us from our cosmic irrelevance, etc. also, i don't view governments as necessarily evil and oppressive. a lot of people are idiots, and i'm glad there are laws to keep idiots from getting stupid all over my shoes. |
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the one that my friend will take. he takes the biggest shit's i have ever seen. holy guacamole. and they're smelly too. -dawshisher the optimist |
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The dat or minidisc (or wtf it was) Richie lost on the plane will be discovered and leaked. v2 will be released |
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but what if he leaked the dat into the toilet!!! then it would never be found |
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Well, really possible to live anywhere one wants nowadays. Positive aspect of the present (ease of travel). I lived in Cairo for a year, and I lived extremely comfortably on almost nothing, had maids, cheap hash, etc. 'Twas great. If one has the ability to move, no need to complain, mang! I've lived in Canada, America, Egypt, and Japan in the past 2 years, and one thing I've learnt from that is: every country has huge potential for different lifestyles and every country has different possibilities. The "American dream" kind of opportunities lasts in many countries, still. Learn the world, move around, make the world work for your benefit. Oh, and FUCK THE SYSTEM. |
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More wankers. |
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