What will the next 150 years be like?

[sikander]

Originally Posted by PoT:)REvOuLTioN

3 words: Perscription THC pills!!!! hahahah who cares if the world is crazy as long as they got that, I can deal. >=]

The Future is Now!

[Kodiakdan]

The future doesn't look bright, that's why we live for today.

We have been molded to hate each other instead of helping each other. We have been given reason and this is what we choose. Little hope for humanity is left in me. Until we learn to think for ourselves and truly be free, we will never see change, more than likely we will see chains.


We let the monsters of the world control us, and until we wake up and take our lives back, then the future generations will be governed by the same monsters. We will be known as a generation of cowards. The future generations will never forgive us. Don't be afraid to speak out, you might never get another chance.

[smith26]

there will be a product that blows shamwow out of the water.....

but seriously

there has been more technological advancement in the last 100 years, than in the last 1,000 years. And there has been more advancement in the last 20 years, than in the last 100. The growth is exponential, not linear, so following current trends I'm sure the difference will be huge.

Somone mentioned AI, and what I find most fascinating about AI is that the instant a computer system becomes capable of improving itself, it would continue to improve itself until it's more or less infinitely wise and infinitely fast, and it may all happen within a matter of seconds.

[420Grower420]

These are a few of the predictions Ray Kurzweil has made. He has been making future predictions for decades and almost all of them were accurate so far.

2030s

• Mind uploading becomes possible.
• Nanomachines could be directly inserted into the brain and could interact with brain cells to totally control incoming and outgoing signals. As a result, truly full-immersion virtual reality could be generated without the need for any external equipment. Afferent nerve pathways could be blocked, totally canceling out the "real" world and leaving the user with only the desired virtual experience.
• Brain nanobots could also elicit emotional responses from users.
• Using brain nanobots, recorded or real-time brain transmissions of a person's daily life known as "experience beamers" will be available for other people to remotely experience. This is very similar to how the characters in Being John Malkovich were able to enter the mind of Malkovich and see the world through his eyes.
• Recreational uses aside, nanomachines in peoples' brains will allow them to greatly expand their cognitive, memory and sensory capabilities, to directly interface with computers, and to "telepathically" communicate with other, similarly augmented humans via wireless networks.
• The same nanotechnology should also allow people to alter the neural connections within their brains, changing the underlying basis for the person's intelligence, memories and personality.
• Human body 2.0 (as Kurzweil calls it) is incrementally accumulated into this decade. It consists of a nanotechnological system of nourishment and circulation, obsolescing many internal organs, and an improved skeleton.

2040s

• Human body 3.0 is gradually implemented during this decade. It lacks a fixed, corporeal form and can alter its shape and external appearance at will via foglet-like nanotechnology.
• People spend most of their time in full-immersion virtual reality (Kurzweil has cited The Matrix as a good example of what the advanced virtual worlds will be like, without the dystopian twist).
• Foglets are in use.

2045: The Singularity

• $1000 buys a computer a billion times more intelligent than every human combined. This means that average and even low-end computers are vastly smarter than even highly intelligent, unenhanced humans.
• The Singularity occurs as artificial intelligences surpass human beings as the smartest and most capable life forms on the Earth. Technological development is taken over by the machines, who can think, act and communicate so quickly that normal humans cannot even comprehend what is going on. The machines enter into a "runaway reaction" of self-improvement cycles, with each new generation of A.I.s appearing faster and faster. From this point onwards, technological advancement is explosive, under the control of the machines, and thus cannot be accurately predicted.
• The Singularity is an extremely disruptive, world-altering event that forever changes the course of human history. The extermination of humanity by violent machines is unlikely (though not impossible) because sharp distinctions between man and machine will no longer exist thanks to the existence of cybernetically enhanced humans and uploaded humans.

Post-2045: "Waking up" the Universe

• The physical bottom limit to how small computer transistors (or other equivalent, albeit more effective components, such as memristors integrated into Crossbar latches) can be shrunk is reached. From this moment onwards, computers can only be made more powerful if they are made larger in size.
• Because of this, A.I.s convert more and more of the Earth's matter into engineered, computational substrate capable of supporting more A.I.s. until the whole Earth is one, gigantic computer.
• At this point, the only possible way to increase the intelligence of the machines any farther is to begin converting all of the matter in the universe into similar massive computers. A.I.s radiate out into space in all directions from the Earth, breaking down whole planets, moons and meteoroids and reassembling them into giant computers. This, in effect, "wakes up" the universe as all the inanimate "dumb" matter (rocks, dust, gases, etc.) is converted into structured matter capable of supporting life (albeit synthetic life).
• Kurzweil predicts that machines might have the ability to make planet-sized computers by 2099, which underscores how enormously technology will advance after the Singularity.
• The process of "waking up" the universe could be complete as early as 2199, or might take billions of years depending on whether or not machines could figure out a way to circumvent the speed of light for the purposes of space travel.
• With the entire universe made into a giant, highly efficient supercomputer, AI and human hybrids (so integrated that, in truth it is a new category of "life") would have both supreme intelligence and physical control over the universe. Kurzweil suggests that this would open up all sorts of new possibilities, including abrogation of the laws of Physics, interdimensional travel, and a possible infinite extension of existence (true immortality).

[xfrenchfrymanx]

I don't think we will still be arround. We will have blown ourselves up long before.

[NorthLaneSmokey]

Originally Posted by 420Grower420

Post-2045: "Waking up" the Universe

• The physical bottom limit to how small computer transistors (or other equivalent, albeit more effective components, such as memristors integrated into Crossbar latches) can be shrunk is reached. From this moment onwards, computers can only be made more powerful if they are made larger in size.
• Because of this, A.I.s convert more and more of the Earth's matter into engineered, computational substrate capable of supporting more A.I.s. until the whole Earth is one, gigantic computer.
• At this point, the only possible way to increase the intelligence of the machines any farther is to begin converting all of the matter in the universe into similar massive computers. A.I.s radiate out into space in all directions from the Earth, breaking down whole planets, moons and meteoroids and reassembling them into giant computers. This, in effect, "wakes up" the universe as all the inanimate "dumb" matter (rocks, dust, gases, etc.) is converted into structured matter capable of supporting life (albeit synthetic life).
• Kurzweil predicts that machines might have the ability to make planet-sized computers by 2099, which underscores how enormously technology will advance after the Singularity.
• The process of "waking up" the universe could be complete as early as 2199, or might take billions of years depending on whether or not machines could figure out a way to circumvent the speed of light for the purposes of space travel.
• With the entire universe made into a giant, highly efficient supercomputer, AI and human hybrids (so integrated that, in truth it is a new category of "life") would have both supreme intelligence and physical control over the universe. Kurzweil suggests that this would open up all sorts of new possibilities, including abrogation of the laws of Physics, interdimensional travel, and a possible infinite extension of existence (true immortality).

That is fucking MINDBLOWING!

[julianqm2]

Originally Posted by NorthLaneSmokey

That is fucking MINDBLOWING!

im waiting to read it high

[blknazn]

Originally Posted by julianqm2

im waiting to read it high

haha whens that?

[ibjamming]

OK...read it baked... It's Gene Roddenberry, Arthur C Clark stuff... It makes a good story, that's about it.

Just network humans to "the network", as the machines expand you can literally expand with it because you're attached at your minds level to the network. As the machines bring the network out farther and farther...you go with it.

How's that for a story?

[julianqm2]

Originally Posted by blknazn

haha whens that?

when i get smoke fucking bud!! i hate dry spells

[nittyb]

holy shit that was a crazy read

[*ColtClassic*]

I really hope that the guy who wrote that article is correct - It would be absolutely crazy to see that shit happen in my lifetime.

[capochino]

Energy will have a complete revampment in the next forty year. After that I'd say our focus will be on health/medicine and computers, and lastly 70+ years it will be on space travel. I think it quiet ashamed that we aren't focusing more on space now though. It seems we've hit a point of stagnation in space travel since the end of the Cold War and subsequently, the Space Race, but I guess we need to understand the basics before we can go on to the real shit.

[jbaggs]

good thread. thts crazy too think about. who knows maybe medicine will advance and will be able to witness ourselves? probably not tho

[capochino]

Originally Posted by littlefoot

I see computers and AI developing at fast rates, even now, devolopment of quantum computers.
Ultra High Speed Maglev replacing air travel.
As far as Government goes, it's all up to the people.

Man I think government has always you know like improved it standards, and will continue to do so.