What Technological Advances Does the Future Hold?

TRAVEL-

1. From any place (first airports, later backyards) to any other place on earth in minutes.

2.From earth to other heavenly bodies; first, planets in our solar system. Later; planets around other stars, in vehicles that are self-sufficient (small worlds) for travel times requiring several generations of travelers.

Energy

increases in both efficiency & production

Information technology

we are no where near the full potential of even todays computing power

[I suppose that would be AI]

Hopefully government institutions

bureaucracy is far behind technology

"I promise the formation of a new party, a 3rd party, a wild party" [Alice Cooper, Billion $ Babies]

CR4 thanks for the spell check

Roger, re: 5....

If you're going to have mind control why have to press a button for internet access?

Why not have the internet accessed directly to / from the brain.... Although what information the 'internet' will have so far in the future is unimaginable, seeing as the internet in its wide spread form has only really been generally available for 15 years!!

John.

Roger,

We live in a world full of energy, yet our human lives are dominated by the lack of it. There is a direct connection between the amount of energy consumed per capita, and the standard of living experienced for the same person or group.

With all the advances we have achieved as a species, it seems really disturbing to me that we put so little research into energy storage, especially flywheels. But what about nuclear, chemical, and other forms of energy storage? We have only just scratched the surface.

This is number 1 in my book, if you want to change the world. That is the critical point in my estimation, and being a tiny bit of a conspiracy theorist, I say that the reason more effort is not being focused here, is because those with a vested interest in the status quo actively inhibit development. Else, why is there such a gap or hole in our technology regarding energy storage? Certainly we have the brainpower.. You yourself are sufficient example of that.

Number 2... Longevity.

The ancient gods had surpassed where we are now with genetic research. They used their knowledge to grant themselves an extreme lifespan. When they created us as workers in the gold mines in south africa (Hell) they crossed their own "image" with that of the "man of the fields" or neanderthal, and came up with a 'semi-intelligent' worker, with a lifespan of approximately 1000 years. It is no coincidence that the generations listed in the bible before Noah all had lifespans in the 900 year range. After Noah, they tweaked our DNA clock, when then made Noah's wife pregnant. all descendants now live max 120 years.

So I think that the best justification for genetic research is to find the DNA clock, and adjust it. Of course, the reason that the gods tweaked our clock is because they knew we would overpopulate the planet. There was only 600 or so Nefilim (gods) here back in the day.

This DNA clock is useless if we don't stop poisoning ourselves however, or overpopulating the planet.

Number 3.

If we don't fix the food supply problems, and achieve a negative global population growth, we will be in big trouble in under a century. If life expectancy continues to increase, then the problem only gets worse. There are intelligent solutions, but they require drastic change... and it is highly probable that the greed of human political systems will cause failure of the ecology, and then us as a species.. imho. This set of problems, will Must use global internet, computers, to teach ALL how to live properly, eat properly, avoid war (a ghastly population decreasing choice) and have fewer children. We must increase Health and Care, without increasing the cost. This means changing the values of our commercial world, and increasing the value of human life. (btw, this is automatic with increased lifespan. If you kill someone who has a 1000 year lifespan, you are cancelling much more 'value' than someone who has a 60 year lifespan)

Number 4.

Due to number 3, we will have an every increasing drive to get off planet. I can't do any better than recommend everybody read Marshall T. Savage's "Millennial Project" if you can get your hands on a copy.

Chris

Then there's the L5 Society: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-5_Society

We are so far behind in the social sciences - look at all the problems in the world, I saw an article this weekend saying people queuing up to buy the latest play station had been robbed – that I would hope that serious advances are going to be made here. We can but hope.

Chrisg288,

If your fundamental assumptions about the nature of human existence were correct, then your suggestions about where best to apply human energy would make sense. I see the logic from your point of view. On the other hand, I think you need to tear down the foundation of your understanding and rebuild it correctly. God(there is only One) can help you with this. Submit yourself to His truth and He will grant you understanding. Refuse, and you will remain as you are and, in ignorance, descend to the "gold mines in south africa". I would much rather you be willing to change your mind and begin to walk in the truth. What do you have to lose? The answer is "nothing", and you have everything to gain. You will inheirit eternal life(not just 1000 years) and in the process you will also recieve all truth and understanding. In short , with God you will achieve all you aspire to, without Him..........

Dear water buffalo,

You are making a couple of assumptions here. #1 - I do submit to God. I have had a very significant OOB experience, where I went not just to the next level, but beyond, through the membrane to that other place, and communed with people who have no bodies... I did not meet god but I did go to heaven, and discover much Truth and LOVE.

I have a large personal library (4000 books), and I read extensively, and open my mind, not just to a packaged religion, but to ALL that there is to know. Assuming that all of this universe exists inside of the mind of God, then I cannot go wrong. I know what the law of heaven is, and I do not break it.

Jesus may have existed, but I believe in the hypothesis that most of his persona was really cut and pasted by the early catholic church fathers into the new testament. His character was based on a real person called Apollonius of Tyana, who had all of Jesus healing powers, and telepathic powers and more (teleportation). It is considered highly likely in some circles that Appolonius, being the original teacher, was actually the author of the different gospels in the bible, and his name changed as he went from region to region... (mark, luke, etc)

I have been baptized, taken communion, received jesus into my heart several times and felt good, etc. etc. etc. but if I research history, then there is no right and wrong, just evidence... and Jesus doesn't teach history... so don't bug me about historical aspects of religion. It is an entirely different thing than spirituality.

If Jesus or God has ever given you a true divinely inspired history lesson, that would put you in the company of very few people like Edgar Cayce.. Even then it may be considered to be a natural talent to see rather than a divine history lesson. I don't have those powers just yet, and the lessons are revealed to me through the evidence of archaeology, clay tablets, and so forth... just like most people.

Chris

PS. I assume that your Jesus will allow me freedom of thought, inquiry, and speech.

this ruined the thread

May The Force Be With You

Here's a few more... let me know if they aren't obvious and you want more description.

self replicating robotic factories and nano factories

quantum computers with true 3d displays

the demise of cash

electro muscular therapy for aged

intra-cranial image transmission (cyber to organic)

genetic regeneration of limbs and organs

quantum harmonic drive - travel at light speed

electric-laser weapon - uses ionizing laser to form path for plasma discharge.

Construction Robots - heavy equipment especially

Cad & voice command driven Construction Laser Level - self propelled and autolevelling. also captures as-built data.

digital books on flexible digital paper

heads up display for integrated computer data in sunglasses.

complete "Company in a Box" software, published by RevCan or IRS, where companies are restricted to financial transactions and tracking as specified by taxation organizations. You won't be able to run a company any other way...

chris

Nice list. I think you nailed it on "demise of cash". Now that you mention it, I'm pretty sure that will happen this century, at least in the wealthier nations.

The rate my bills are coming in, my cash will have an even earlier demise!

What technology can do in future

1. You can live forever

2. You can live healthy

3. You can travel the entire universe ?!?

4. You will get as much power you want using fusion or something else

5. You can have the largest brain if that helps you

6. You can have sensors of everything implanted in your brain

7. Bio computers and bio robots will replace labor

8. Food may be a tablet

9. other things you can also discover

I was with you most of the way until you hit food may be a tablet. What will we have done to deserve such punishment?

Once we discover the way cells can live forever or what exactly is the minimum need, then Tablet of essential is the only thing one may need.

Food as such may smell good, taste good, and can look good but may also not let us live forever then such food may become useless unless one choses a shorter span of life by choice. This so happening even today. We do lots of things that partially kill us each day.

Once we find ways to solve the problem of the food requirement of the body at minimum or near zero that food will not be essential thing say for years, then there may be any more kitchen and cooking at all. People will forget what food is and may perhaps think that only air and water is food. A body less life can get rid of these two things also.

We eat junk food, become sick and finally we do not like to live sick ill life forever and prefer death to life. If we eat what is minimum needed and which gives healthy living for long and we have time to discover value of life as well as ways to sustain it, then obviously we will avoid things that come in its way. It all depends on how do you give value to our life now and later in time.

Knowledge makes us live longer and then we have more time for more knowledge as we live longer makes it perpetual to some extent and is a path for eternal life if at all it is feasible. It can also be an accidental result of nature's processes and result of iterations but that is not in our hands.

Not everything we do to live longer is a problem in itself. I am not talking about already sick people but those going to become sick the moment and are aware of it and yet will not make use of the knowledge and may go by satisfying senses.

If food of death is the tastiest in the world then who will like to try it for once?

One more thing about #9! Coming from someone who lives where the finest cusine in the world is served - shame on you! ;-)

3D Printers that produce working devices.

Cruz control on interstates that allows you to nap.

Implanted internet and mobile communications

"Cruz control on interstates that allows you to nap."

Why do we need that? The lack of an autopilot doesn't seem to stop people from napping now.

Perhaps the last thing in technology discovery and its use will be anihilation of civilization. This is also more likely thing as many on earth believe in the end of the universe and somehow they want to accelerate it. There were many incidences where people killed their own. Some how such people will get hold on greater technology and will eliminate all. This is a possibility.

I tend to agree with you Shyam,

There are the have's and the have nots, soon I suspect the have nots will have access to massively destructive weapons, nuclear? and they will want to be joining the haves, even if it means their destruction.

The more I see going wrong in this world, the more pesimistic I become about the future of the human race.

John.

We are in a race w/time!

We are extinct!

It's up to us [ humans ] weather this takes 1 min. or infinite millennia.

Can we limit the population & restore the damage done, before the eco system is irreparably damaged?

Can we leave, move on to [re]inhabit more of the solar system, galaxy, universe or what is beyond that?

If the social structures, don't do a little [ lot] evolution, some dumb-ass will get in a pissing contest & burn down the neighborhood [ planet ].

I will defend to the end your right to be wrong!

Within the framework of a few basic human rights [expression & from repression ], let people do what they want! Your freedom ends @ my the end of my nose.

freedom from religion!

Corporation's are not people & have no rights!

That being said, we can turn this around & use our brains to solve all problems.

It's sort of like dealing we're dealing w/ alcoholic's

They don't have a problem & for damm sure don't want help w/the problem they don't have!

Everyone will finally know the difference between a Delta and a Wye Connection, and will be able to explain this difference in detail - and the mathematics behind it.

Engineering students will pay attention at Uni and not show up on the doorsteps of online engineering forums years later, when they've been tasked with designing the latest fusion reactor, asking their juniors how to size a busbar. They will already know how to do this. Incredible, I know.

Geneticists will have figured out how to wire the above into the Human Genome itself, sparing online Engineering forums countless billions of hours in lost productivity, this post being one such example.

The theoretical underpinnings of Flange Technology will be finally and fully comprehended to the uttermost, even by Your Average Joe On the Street. Queries regarding such on engineering forums worldwide will be automatically assumed henceforth as having originated outside the Solar System.

Pressure versus Flow Rates Queries, likewise.

How to Hook Up an LED to a 12-Volt Battery will be de rigeuer at every pre-school. First Graders will be able to explain in lucid detail how to size the current-limiting resistor for up to three LEDs in series.

Dark Matter's origins will have been traced to a single extant instance of Intel's notorious Bad-Apple FPU having made it past the guards. Likewise for Dark Energy. Cosmologists, as everyone knows, are notoriously loath to upgrade their machines. The offending machine, an ACER, will be on display at the Smithsonian through March. Be there or be square, more or less.

"Division is futile; you will be approximated."

QED