All I ever wanted from the future was a flying car. Damnit, was that so much to ask?

Kurzweil says the pace of life extension will outrun the passage of years, offering at least the possibility of an indeterminate life span 50 years from now. But trends also point to a decline in average life expectancy, due to the increased incidence of obesity among today's young people

Ah, the eternal question; immortality...or the baconator?

Always in motion, the future is. Difficult to see.

my fearless predictions:

1. we will all be fat
2. duke will still suck

speculation is irrelevant, because by 2034 I will have perfected the technology that allows the source code for human consciousness to be uploaded into a computer. Properly modified, I will spread my thoughts like a virus across the infosphere, absorbing the sum total of human knowledge. In effect I will BECOME human knowledge.

And then I shall remake humanity in my image.

Intelligent design will be the accepted explanation for the diversity of life we see on the planet today.

Weaver95 [TotalFark] 2008-04-20 01:50:38 AM
speculation is irrelevant, because by 2034 I will have perfected the technology that allows the source code for human consciousness to be uploaded into a computer. Properly modified, I will spread my thoughts like a virus across the infosphere, absorbing the sum total of human knowledge. In effect I will BECOME human knowledge.

And then I shall remake humanity in my image.

Dude.... If you're a guy, that means you're going to turn humanity into one giant sausage-fest. That's not cool.

strangeguitar

winner of the interwebs

"People will no longer be able to travel and engage in transactions with anonymity," thanks to surveillance and biometrics, he says. All this will pose "thorny issues" for a post-privacy era.

This doesn't sound like much of a world to live in

People can barely drive attentively on the road as is, do we really need flying cars?

What I dislike are these futurists who not so much estimate the trajectories of fate more trying to guide popular wisdom it into paths that are favorable to the futurists themselves.

/EVERYONE BETTER GET ON A SEGWAY RIGHT NOW, ITS 2008
//apologies for above rudeness

sushicide: People can barely drive attentively on the road as is, do we really need flying cars?

They'll be flown by computer autopilots for sure. Imagine trying to fly a car around in a Fifth Element-esque city.

I must have missed the part where failed to kill Ben Affleck. There's no other explanation for their fascinating insight... right?

/you all know it's his fault...

Doomed: All I ever wanted from the future was a flying car. Damnit, was that so much to ask?

Unfortunately, yes - it is too much to ask. The weather is sufficiently unpredictable to make fully autonomous aircraft that go wherever the operator wants at any time very unlikely. Add the specter of liability when a few of these things crash and the odds of a manufacturer surviving is very slim.

And, as a private pilot, I would rather not have to continually dodge flying cars!

President Drew Curtis is about to deliver the "State of The Union Address"...

unholycode76: "People will no longer be able to travel and engage in transactions with anonymity," thanks to surveillance and biometrics, he says. All this will pose "thorny issues" for a post-privacy era.

This doesn't sound like much of a world to live in

I was thinking "Sounds pretty much like the world we live in now"

small pic, but applicable

So will we be reading the same link in 2058 as part of paeleofuture?

eggrolls: Kurzweil says the pace of life extension will outrun the passage of years, offering at least the possibility of an indeterminate life span 50 years from now. But trends also point to a decline in average life expectancy, due to the increased incidence of obesity among today's young people

Ah, the eternal question; immortality...or the baconator?

Who the fark wants to be immortal? I mean, if you could just lounge and observe, sure, but I bet you have to eat and drink and sleep and work and shiat, so who the hell wants that forever?

Give me a baconator, with extra cheese, and sprinkle some salt on it.

unholymartiangod: my fearless predictions:

1. we will all be fat
2. duke will still suck

Ohhh, here's mine.

1. There will be strife in the middle east.
2. Sand Will be involved

/Not obscure

"International terrorism will be brought under control because governments will realize counterterrorism is primarily a police function rather than a job for the military, says Ronald Noble, the secretary-general of Interpol."

In other words Bush will be out of power and we'll be back to how things were in the 90s.

Trashy:

Lets do it right, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrFgRAcr0jg

not a rick roll

It's going to be just like the movie The Time Machine - fat assed basement dwelling nerds and HWP sun bathing dolts.

My hopes are best expressed here.

zeph: "Intelligent design will be the accepted explanation for the diversity of life we see on the planet today."

Trashy: small pic, but applicable

Damn he did a couple amazing commercials for IBM. Only reason I liked DS9, back in the day, too.

The guy blaming alzheimers on pet cats was pretty good, but they should have had at least one certifiable whack job do this- "In 2058 The Great Cabbage Soup Wars will commence! 'Honky Tonk Bedonkadonk' will be the only form of human verbal communication! Everyone will have to settle for manufactured sand, since the real stuff will be too expensive! Cars will run on spoon reflections!"

I'll be 79, leaching off of social security and tending to my lawn.

RemyDuron: eggrolls: Kurzweil says the pace of life extension will outrun the passage of years, offering at least the possibility of an indeterminate life span 50 years from now. But trends also point to a decline in average life expectancy, due to the increased incidence of obesity among today's young people

Ah, the eternal question; immortality...or the baconator?

Who the fark wants to be immortal? I mean, if you could just lounge and observe, sure, but I bet you have to eat and drink and sleep and work and shiat, so who the hell wants that forever?

Give me a baconator, with extra cheese, and sprinkle some salt on it.

Especially when there can be only one!

I wonder what would happen to our water resources if everyone in developed countries went to the extent of saving water as the Australians do. (That said, I am basing this on my experience of Switzerland, Germany and the US)

I'll be 74, fortifying the perimeter of my lawn with plasma turrets.

Ow my balls!

I'll be 88, smoking a pipe, eating fudge, driving a 70's Lincoln Town Car with the left turn signal on, and going home to my 20 or so cats.

I liked the whole "dogs have been pets for so long we're immune to their shiat!" Because cats as pets are a new innovation!

Pfft. Flying cars are so 2000. We're past that now.

Apparently they foresee annoying pop-up-ads for Blackberry on web pages.

Who would've thunk?

Hopefully my kids will be property of Carls Jr. , Carls Jr. f*ck you!

The Red Sox will have won their 27th World Series of the century! Surpassing their rivals. Of course the Cubs will have continued their droughtm losing a World Series or 2 to Havana and Ecuador.

Tofino: I liked the whole "dogs have been pets for so long we're immune to their shiat!" Because cats as pets are a new innovation!

Cats are evil farking bastards. They're not our pets, they just decide to live with us and let us feed them.

Bastards.

Sharp-ass claws too.

/ouch *whimper*

unholycode76: "People will no longer be able to travel and engage in transactions with anonymity," thanks to surveillance and biometrics, he says. All this will pose "thorny issues" for a post-privacy era.

This doesn't sound like much of a world to live in

Pretty much, terrorism won't be a problem because everyone will be too busy worrying about their oppressive totalitarian government spiriting them away in the middle of the night to a painful slow death.

FTA: "People will have to think harder about whether they want to have kids the old-fashioned way," he said. "Why would you choose to take a random chance, knowing that your child would have a chance of having a defect but going ahead anyway? You start to get into blame and guilt about disability in a way that we don't really do now."

FTA: All this will pose "thorny issues" for a post-privacy era.

COLD

DEAD

HANDS

ASSHOLE.

What? No Dick Clark?

Brian1250: The Red Sox will have won their 27th World Series of the century! Surpassing their rivals. Of course the Cubs will have continued their drought, losing a World Series or 2 to Havana and Ecuador. added comma.

So, a guy who thinks gerbils and cats are giving us Alzheimer's and schizophrenia is a "deep thinker"?

FTFA: "Diseases ranging from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder will be shown to be caused by infectious agents that take advantage of genetic predisposition"

Read more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis#Toxoplasma.27s_role_in_schizophreni a (new window)

Caturday will never be the same.

If I'm not dead by then, I'll be groping young women. If the planetary police force arrests me, I'll use the "I'm old and confused, I don't know what I'm doing" excuse.


/More likely than not however, I'll be in a hospice- sitting in my own poo.

i'll be tending my orbital garden in a perpetual sunset geostationary orbit, living with a nubile and agile four-limbed bio-engineered female. and she'll be nice, too.