Due to the ever increasing population and lack of real estate I see the future to have... (1) All schools shall go to online, kids learing from home at terminals with teachers video link thru the web. This would free up land required for schools and the bills it takes to run them. (2) Colleges shall be all online, again saving valuable real estate and costs (3) Alot of office type jobs shall become jobs from home through computers, teachers could teach from home, ect (4) Planned buildings, retial on lower levels, offices in mid levels and homes on upper levels with top floors for gardens. (5) There will be nothing but stores that are online that deliver to save space and cost. (6) All business trips will be a thing of the past thru internet use (7) cars shall become much smaller and more use of alternate fuels (8) then the world will die!
well do something about it!!!!!!!!! stop makin kidz!! WHY is that so hard to do? i mean, we'll have more time/money/sleep/peace/space, by not becoming a parent... being a female , you have no idea the pressure everybody is putting on me, because of the "ticking clock", haha! but i've made up my mind, im not giving birth in this lifetime!
society needs the calmness of people having sex but neither human society nor the rest of life on this planet needs an ever increasing and already excissive human population. if we keep worshipping the automobile and using combustion to propell them we're still gonna keep having problems from that quarter. if we continue to let corporate mafia get away with murder we'll have coal powered cars and then we'll really be screwed by (the effects and actualy meaning of) global warming. sore feet and celibacy aren't the only way out. and that latter isn't the most reliable. that one's been attempted for centuries, and yes it is that difficult because living organisms arn't built that way. we won't always be able to be as profligate with energy consumption as we are now. that much is for just about as close to lead pipe certain as anything ever has been or will be. wind/solar/hydro, should give us enough to at least each run one refrigerator and one personal computer. heating and cooking can use biomass fuels. transportation and the manufacture of infrastructure tecnology will just have to get by on that wind/solar/hydro primarily also, with little or no use of combustion (other then home heating and cooking) in any form. this is not as arduous nor unimaginable as most people are brainwashed into letting it sound to them. i know the best possible isn't the most likely, but if we always get less then what we aim for, we've only ourselves to blame for not aiming for the best we can. and by best here, i mean most environmentaly harmonious, because that is what both our individual well being and that of our species ultimately depend upon. 'the' future isn't a 'the' and it isn't predestined. we have choices that have predictable consiquences however and we don't HAVE to fallow the dumbest road. ultralight flanged wheel on guideway uses energy and land more efficiently then rubber tyre on pavement and with minimal energy to go arround, what will remain available will have to be used much more efficiently then currently immaginable to get anything like the comfort zones were are emotionaly attatched to out of it. there will be a lot more sore feet whatever course we take, the choice is whether or not there will also be a lot of disease and starvation, which are what we will have if we don't start using better sense, especialy collectively, but also in our individual priorities which after all are what statisticaly create our collective motivations. =^^= .../\...
I can see a future of schools/work being online to save space, and to use less resources. I don't think it should happen that way. Should we protect the Earth and the enviornment at the expense of our happiness and health?
The Future guys are even more interesing and bright that all of you can expect..... With technologies come more opportunities.... we'll be traveling nearest space already in clsoe future....
what makes you think our happiness and health are not dependent on earth and the environment? just because we can so surround ourselves with artifacts that we can forget that we are a part of them? the lananaran way is not to reject tecnology, but to not put trying to impress each other ahead of the kind of world(s) we all have to live in. =^^= .../\...
I am still waiting on the flying cars, getting to work in a big pneumatic tube and personal robots that were promised me by the "futurists" of the day when i was a kid.
there ARE parts of japan that have monorail transit systems as part of everyday life. actualy systems with multiple stations, passing sidings, the whole works. (and not just one or two as novelty items like we have in seattle or disnyland) imbedded robotics exist in many systems we take for granted to, though not of course the highly romantacized and totaly impractical humanoid profile. as for flying cars and pneumatic tubes. well the latter was a bit of victorian silliness. worked fine for distributing documents in large buildings though. flying cars, jetsons, et all. this is a matter of liscencing and government restrictions and demands for control. and perhapse also to some degree a matter of public safety. personal stol and vtol craft are certainly possible with today's tecnologies. cost would of course still be beyond an average income and the main obstical is that you would still need that appropriate training and liscencing to fly one, or rather the obstical to eliminating that obstical would still be the question of safety. giant warbots are pretty silly too. but remember at the same time those predictions you speak of were being made just about no one immagined we would have personal computers or any of the kinds of things we actualy want and use them for now. my picks for the two biggest most useful things we don't have yet are gravity modulation and warp drive. where we went wrong i believe is when we settled on the automobile for everything because people could be induced to indenture themselves to them and thus submit to being controlled and manipulated, that and housing costs. you know ancient rome outlawed the personal ownership of the means of grinding one's own grain to make bread and beer. today's building codes (and lack of adiquite alternatives to autoslavery), effectively achieve the same ends. and these wars to get everybody to hate each other are among other things, to distract everyone from realizing that. ultimately of course they are to frighten everyone into keeping pseudo conservative mafioso types in power. =^^= .../\...
I think that in the foreseeable future, all the "Jetsons" technology will be readily available. I also think that most of us who post here will not be able to afford any of it, and will be damned happy we can still afford a a shack and a little curry powder for our lentils and rice ...
In the future a way to cause a hyperjump in hte time people live will be found, probably due to the DNA/RNA factor. The average age of at least 150 years willl not be uncommon and people who have started the addition of DNA boosts by early childhood will look about 50 at age 150, the rest of us at 150 will look like happy wrinkled prunes. peace
