Predictions: 2030

Started by Univaded_Fox, November 04, 2010, 09:28:19 PM

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Renwaldo

Anyone here ever see that movie 'Gattaca'? I predict the technologies of test tube breeding in that film becoming a reality in the far future.

How easy would it be to give pregnant mothers special drugs so their kids will come out with certain eye colours? 


Selkit

My 2030 predictions and a couple refutations:

Tablet computers will gradually usurp laptops as a consumer item for the non-tech-savvy, but they will not replace laptops as a whole for professionals.

Gallium or other solar-film technologies will mature, and the oil-energy crisis will be blunted by the availability of cheap solar energy, applicable to any broad rigid surface. Further refinements in the technology may lead to solar nanofiber cloth, paired with nanocouples and induction pads. Your shirt, will be able to generate power for your personal devices and your pants will charge them through a pocket pad. (There are prototypical concepts already underway as of 2011 in this field)

The touchscreen will continue to grow more prevalent as a public access device. Physical displays for restaurants, retailers, transit and other common points of public contact will gradually be replaced. For home use, haptic interfaces will instead begin to grow more prominent for leisure and casual interface purposes.

The break-even point for fusion will be reached, provided funding and efforts remain consistent with their 2011 levels.

In-vitro organ growth for transplantation will be a maturing industry, if the noisy religious groups can be persuaded to sit down and shut up.

Surrey will be a second metropolitan hub in the lower mainland. The cityscape sprawl will extend to Chilliwack unbroken.

Hard storage will divert from trends of scale into trends of speed even further. Capacities will begin to gradually plateau in the terabyte range, while read/write speeds in fractional terabytes per second may be attained through the incorporation of a processing cell lattice within the drive and transfer bus.

Point to point quantum-entanglement communication will have matured fully, enabling real-time interference-hardened communication between Earth and interplanetary or even extra-solar probes. We will see Mars in full natural color without interpolation or analogue distortion for the first time.

Barring legislation to discourage the concentration of wealth, the American middle class will have entirely disappeared. The stratification between classes will be almost unimaginably steep.

There's a lot more that likely can and will change. We likely will not even recognize the sociological landscape of today in two decades; The simultaneous evolution and damage social media causes to human interaction will likely begin to fully mature by that point; The first generation that has never known a world without broadband internet is now growing up in the western world, and by 2020, will be adults themselves, unadapted to a disconnected state. It's going to be very interesting to watch the world between now and then...

drewdle

Quote from: Univaded Fox on November 20, 2010, 10:28:51 PM
Filmmaking will be completely digitized once 8K and 16K cameras replace celluloid.  All theaters will convert to digital projection.  Even basic consumer editing software will be superior to the most current revision of Final Cut Pro. 

Having worked with film and digital mediums, I can promise you film isn't going anywhere quickly. There are many directors who refuse to work with digital media because they do not react the same to lighting, colour, etc. Some have jumped on the bandwagon for production cost reasons (we're quickly approaching digital film making that, even at professional levels, is cheaper than film) or for the effect, a la StarWars Episode II and III.

However, film is art. It's not just an exercise for the consumer masses. As such, directors will continue to use what they feel is artistically relevant, the same way that people today use film cameras for black and white photography, despite 14 years of digital photography advancements.

Lt ReiStark

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Commandment#11: Thou Must Drink Dr.Pepper
Commandment#12: If Thy Dotht Not Shut Thine Hell up. I must Striketh Thy With My Mellenium Rod.
Commandment#15:Thy Cake Ist Thine Lie.
Commandment#17: Thine Who Lovith Hotdogs Shalst Recive Haven.
Commandment#21. Liquor up in frontith, poker ist in thine back.
Commandment#27:Judas Preist must be thy boss beating music in RPGs with bad soundtracks for bosses.
Commandment#28:Renamon Dotht Be thy Divinity In Times Of Terror.

more will be added

drewdle

Quote from: Lt ReiStark on April 20, 2011, 05:01:28 PM
... real furries

This I want to see. Genetically adding things like superior vision, hearing, smell, etc to the human body could be an amazing development. I wouldn't mind a tail, either, to be honest.

Something to keep in mind though: "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat." I'm pretty sure Mark Twain was right about that.

Mattfolx

Personal Rocket or Jet Technology

(such as Jet packs or Rocket boots)

.....or else Genetic Fursonafication
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Selkit

Quote from: Mattfolx on April 26, 2011, 10:59:08 PM
Personal Rocket or Jet Technology

(such as Jet packs or Rocket boots)

Possible today. Main issue is that only nuclear fuels have the necessary energy density to be useful for more than about a twenty second flight, within the limits of what a single human being can carry. Stretching the definition of "personal", there's small ducted jet powered VTOLs that use ordinary jet fuel available now (for a quarter million dollars) that weigh about 700 pounds, and are essentially jet-pack shaped, at the size of a small car. Flight time is still measured in minutes, however. Until someone figures out how to make a fuel with about thirty times the energy density of Jet B or hydrazine's toxicity, which isn't highly radioactive and/or prone to subcritical nuclear reactions, we're kinda SOL on that. Naquadah, maybe?

Mattfolx

Quote from: Selkit on April 27, 2011, 02:29:14 PM
Possible today. Main issue is that only nuclear fuels have the necessary energy density to be useful for more than about a twenty second flight, within the limits of what a single human being can carry. Stretching the definition of "personal", there's small ducted jet powered VTOLs that use ordinary jet fuel available now (for a quarter million dollars) that weigh about 700 pounds, and are essentially jet-pack shaped, at the size of a small car. Flight time is still measured in minutes, however. Until someone figures out how to make a fuel with about thirty times the energy density of Jet B or hydrazine's toxicity, which isn't highly radioactive and/or prone to subcritical nuclear reactions, we're kinda SOL on that. Naquadah, maybe?


Huh...would've never thought of that.
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Drake Wingfire

Quote from: Lt ReiStark on April 20, 2011, 05:01:28 PM
... real furries

Haha I remember people going on about this way back in the early 2000's XD Even then there were some who had surgery to try and look more like their fursona. I would love genetically engineered limbs that the body would not reject, like say being able to surgically attach lab-grown ears or tails?

I would love to have Horns bolted to my skull and a decent sized dragony tail, something manageable at least.

Univaded_Fox

The sight of children operating computers will no longer turn heads.  This past year alone I have seen babies cradling iPads.  Learning how to use a computer will be taught alongside reading and writing.  By the fifth grade, every child will know how to operate a laptop and seek out information on the internet.  It will not only be easy to teach kids how to use computers but it will also be necessary for their future careers. 

Selkit

Quote from: Drake Wingfire on December 11, 2011, 11:49:55 PM
Haha I remember people going on about this way back in the early 2000's XD Even then there were some who had surgery to try and look more like their fursona. I would love genetically engineered limbs that the body would not reject, like say being able to surgically attach lab-grown ears or tails?

I would love to have Horns bolted to my skull and a decent sized dragony tail, something manageable at least.

You may actually be in luck about the horns part. It wasn't too long ago they figured out how to simulate an interface between bone, skin and an implant not too unlike a deer antler's method of attachment. Their main aim was to make implantable, neuroprosthetic limbs that wouldn't require anti-rejection medication or continual doses of antibiotic. On that note, I predict fully internal neuroprosthetic controls by 2030, given that they're also now working out how to make a glial-mass biochip that won't be rejected. Adam Jensen may yet be possible. Main problem with a directly interfaced neuroprosthetic right now is that they have to use control probes that are stiffer than surrounding brain tissue; Any kinetic shock can dislodge them fairly easily, or worse, cause small localized tears.

Twenty years is a long time for the technology being tested right here and now to leave the prototype stage, though, and in twenty years of mechatronic advancement, the replacement limbs might even end up being better than the originals...

RooThing

Quote from: Univaded Fox on November 04, 2010, 09:28:19 PM

The iPad and HP Slate will herald the demise of the laptop.


How will I play hardcore FPS Shooters now? lol

kayfox

In 2030:

People will be disappointed their predictions are nowhere near coming true.

People will continue to make predictions without any understanding of history or the technology related.