What new technologies do you think we will have by year 2030?

My List:

1. Artificially intelligent machines
2. Supercomputers with 10,000x the power of a human brain
3. Teledildonics
4. Human Cloning
5. Designer Babies
6. SDI Defense (Hell Yes!)
7. Mass-producable orbital transport
8. Virtual Reality indistinguishable from the real world
9. Soldiers equipped with a mechanical exosekelton
10. Newer, more lethal, Fighter Jets with laser cannons
11. 10,000 Manifestos on how to govern, prompted by the crumble of democracy (Yes, philosophy can be considered a technology)

 

What makes you think we'll still be living in a technology-loving society at that time?

 

because human beings are technology-loving creatures by nature.

 

Well when there's almost nothing to keep technology "alive", they'll have to compromise then...

 

yep... it's sad but we may have to resort to extracting the oil out of dead bodies to keep the ball of technology rolling...

But the ball will roll, it always has.

 

aha... I never thought of that...

 

Actually, it has not always kept rolling. Look at Rome, and Byzantine, and Egypt, etc etc...

I can definately see the same happening to America.

 

i think i am just gonna move into a big field and live off the phat of the land, then i wouldnt have to contribute to this rolling technological ball.

 

Yep... and I am sure nuclear energy will proliferate... We still have leftover ICBMs from the cold war, don't we?

 

I think it is an unproven fact that we do, just like it's widely known by everyone with a brain that we have more nuclear weapons than any other country on the Earth.

 

My list:

Nuclear Winter

Edit:
That was thought of before the nuclear weapons thing started, if it matters at all...

 

who cares?

as long as we have teledildonics and environmental control.

 

teldildonics...what the...?

 

X-box 3

 

a way to download porn a 100xs faster
slightly more fuel efficient car
new 'wonder drug' (itll be really just asprin but with a fancy name)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledildonics

 

Everytime an empire fell, a new one grew out of its ashes... a better one.

 

What makes you think we'll still be living at that time?

 

only a few hundred year dark age in between

 

Hoverboards, i live in hope