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Technology in 20 years?

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by jfuller05

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How much do you think technology will grow in 20 years? Do you think we will finally see hover cars? Or do you think the growth in technology will be modest?
I do believe tower based computers will almost be obsolete by that time. Desktop cases will probably be considered "beastly" by that time as well. I guess what I'm really asking is do you think in just 20 years earth will be as futuristic as the settings in Terminator or I-Robot?

*I don't think I-Robot was the greatest movie ever, I just mentioned it for a visual reference.

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by jfuller05

A hoverchair sounds nice! Maybe I could other people like George Costanza did with a group of senior citizens in an episode of Seinfeld.

by hal 9000

Growing Old Disgracefully I'll be keeping my 1982 Ducati and terrorizing the areas that I'm still capable of traveling to on it.

When that beast was new we didn't have computers as we know them today or even the belief that we could all have a computer to use when we wanted to. The development of Motor Vehicles hasn't progressed that much and if anything the [i]Fly/Drive by Wire[/i] Approach adopted by Toyota and which has proved so unsuccessful is likely to prevent development along those lines any further.

While Electronics themselves have radically changed and Silicon Based technology has made leaps & bounds from what it was back them I personally think you'll find what is used in 20 years time wasn't even thought of today. ;)

Col

by jfuller05

our ideas, thoughts, probably won't even come close to what is actually going to be the standard of technology in that time.

by nicknielsen

for us to shift responsibility, allow our brains to go to pot, and throw courtesy out the door.

"Don't blame me, the computer was driving."

"You can do math in your head?"

"Hey, watch where you're going. You just made me lose my game!"

by jfuller05

I think technology will be at some level like the recent Bruce Willis movie, "Surrogate" I believe was the name? Where we actually will have our brains hooked up to a digital world, I guess like the Matrix, but the digital world would probably be more like Sims. Of course, the Digital world would be pretty awesome if it was on par with .hack!

by boxfiddler

A dearth of oil (20-50 years near) will bring it to a screeching halt if we don't come up with a replacement.
Putting me in the market for a wood cookstove.

by jfuller05

my Dad recently started using a wood burner at his house. He said it cut out a lot of expense (of course), provides great heat; he's looking into the cookstove as well.

by boxfiddler

Primarily, that is. Significant savings on our winter gas bill. Of course, that wouldn't hold if we were paying for wood... Stuff is expensive in my neck of the woods.

by slayer_

And it will still take 5 minutes to start up your computer, to launch a word processor, or to surf the web.

by dadspad

Teleportation of a photon has been demonstated, any break through here will revolutionalize transportation (don't invest till a significant advancement).

Genetics are working on longer life, freedom from genetic disease, being smarter, stronger, and other things. Predictions indicate advancements in genetics will be big.

Transportation: The most advancement in the automobile in last 100 years has been in electronics. Read, somewhere, that people are keeping cars longer now, 9.x years. I know I do, so do not expect too much in private transportation. Public transportaton, like high speed rail, will be likely the biggest change.

I keep wondering how nano-technology will be advancing in the next 20 years.

by kentontator

I want to control my PC and games like in the movie Gamer...have a whole room dedicated to it

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