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(MSNBC) Interesting Deep thinkers see how things will be in 2058. Oddly, flying car not on list   (msnbc.msn.com) divider line 149
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Doomed 2008-04-19 09:17:51 PM  
All I ever wanted from the future was a flying car. Damnit, was that so much to ask?

 
strangeguitar 2008-04-19 10:12:23 PM  
i227.photobucket.com

 
eggrolls [TotalFark] 2008-04-19 11:53:09 PM  
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?

 
GAT_00 [TotalFark] 2008-04-20 12:56:38 AM  
Always in motion, the future is. Difficult to see.

 
unholymartiangod 2008-04-20 01:13:32 AM  
my fearless predictions:

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

 
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.

 
zeph` [TotalFark] 2008-04-20 02:01:44 AM  
Intelligent design will be the accepted explanation for the diversity of life we see on the planet today.

 
skinink 2008-04-20 02:03:29 AM  

Sure, but can they tell us how things will be ... in the year 2000?


yankees-chick.com


 
garfank [TotalFark] 2008-04-20 02:03:47 AM  
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.

 
Lincey 2008-04-20 02:05:30 AM  
strangeguitar

winner of the interwebs

 
unholycode76 2008-04-20 02:05:40 AM  
"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

 
sushicide 2008-04-20 02:05:49 AM  
People can barely drive attentively on the road as is, do we really need flying cars?

 
berylman 2008-04-20 02:07:21 AM  
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

 
zeph` [TotalFark] 2008-04-20 02:07:47 AM  
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.

 
jfreak4031 2008-04-20 02:08:48 AM  
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...

 
Mensan 2008-04-20 02:09:44 AM  
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!

 
polarisTheArcticRescueMoose 2008-04-20 02:10:33 AM  
President Drew Curtis is about to deliver the "State of The Union Address"...

 
ArrogantGod 2008-04-20 02:11:03 AM  
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"

 
Trashy 2008-04-20 02:11:06 AM  
small pic, but applicable

www.onerandomthought.com

 
fb-'s grown sperm 2008-04-20 02:11:32 AM  
So will we be reading the same link in 2058 as part of paeleofuture?

 
RemyDuron 2008-04-20 02:11:53 AM  
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.

 
Korzine 2008-04-20 02:11:55 AM  
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

 
ArrogantGod 2008-04-20 02:13:17 AM  
"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.

 
spin359 2008-04-20 02:13:55 AM  
Trashy:

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

not a rick roll

 
tehotherbilly 2008-04-20 02:14:54 AM  
It's going to be just like the movie The Time Machine - fat assed basement dwelling nerds and HWP sun bathing dolts.

 
Wareq 2008-04-20 02:15:25 AM  
My hopes are best expressed here.

 
Zamboro [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-04-20 02:15:50 AM  
zeph: "Intelligent design will be the accepted explanation for the diversity of life we see on the planet today."

i63.photobucket.com

 
Digital Mermaid 2008-04-20 02:16:33 AM  
Trashy: small pic, but applicable

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

 
Now That's What I Call a Taco! 2008-04-20 02:17:19 AM  
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!"

 
EL_FABREZ 2008-04-20 02:18:44 AM  
I'll be 79, leaching off of social security and tending to my lawn.

 
Archie Goodwin [TotalFark] 2008-04-20 02:21:25 AM  
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!

 
Anita-Louise 2008-04-20 02:21:30 AM  
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)

 
Zamboro [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-04-20 02:21:50 AM  
I'll be 74, fortifying the perimeter of my lawn with plasma turrets.

 
NSA Red Flag Brigade 2008-04-20 02:22:46 AM  
Ow my balls!

 
CheetahOlivetti [TotalFark] 2008-04-20 02:23:55 AM  
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.

 
Tofino 2008-04-20 02:28:39 AM  
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!

 
Software2 2008-04-20 02:30:44 AM  
Pfft. Flying cars are so 2000. We're past that now.

 
DeRosso 2008-04-20 02:31:03 AM  
Apparently they foresee annoying pop-up-ads for Blackberry on web pages.

Who would've thunk?

 
thekickassduke 2008-04-20 02:33:46 AM  
Hopefully my kids will be property of Carls Jr. , Carls Jr. f*ck you!

 
Brian1250 2008-04-20 02:35:18 AM  
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.

 
Sandwyrm 2008-04-20 02:35:55 AM  
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*

 
Rakishi 2008-04-20 02:36:13 AM  
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.

 
danduran 2008-04-20 02:36:52 AM  
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."

www.theavanti.com

 
One F Jef 2008-04-20 02:37:50 AM  
FTA: All this will pose "thorny issues" for a post-privacy era.

COLD

DEAD

HANDS

ASSHOLE.

 
T-Luv 2008-04-20 02:37:59 AM  
www.joystiq.com

What? No Dick Clark?

 
Brian1250 2008-04-20 02:38:32 AM  
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.

 
bennifer 2008-04-20 02:39:09 AM  
So, a guy who thinks gerbils and cats are giving us Alzheimer's and schizophrenia is a "deep thinker"?

 
spazzm 2008-04-20 02:45:51 AM  
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.

 
Insolent 2008-04-20 02:58:05 AM  
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.

 
pup.socket 2008-04-20 02:59:29 AM  
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.

 
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