What will you miss in the Future?

Sounds like a terrarium. Don't they get hot? Is it like a free sauna?

 

Not shitting/pissing my pants and having someone changing my diapers.

 

brick and mortar store fronts apparently. replacing them with online shopping is not my idea of a cashless society.
i love the internet, but i don't trust it with money.

 

Hurtling towards a classless, cashless, grassless, passionless, emotionless and careless society so I would miss when those things mattered.

 

Honestly?

Men. Men who act like men. I hope they don't go extinct.

 

i don't think there's anything i'm going to miss that i don't miss already.
and some of the things i miss might very well come back in different form.
different enough to not realize their functional similarity.
i miss payphones, land lines, high levels of public transportation, and places where you can make anything you want and the next person isn't going to come along and tear it down.
but all these are things i miss already.
and unlike above, sorry, i will NOT miss gender based behaviors. ANY gender based behaviors (male or female, gay or straight),
which to me are nothing but lame excuses for hating logic and consideration.
brick and mortar store fronts, job security, pretty much all but already gone too.
though its difficult to imagine the furst dissappearing completely, at least until they can be completely replaced by 'replicators',
which is ok for small parts and maybe even tools, but for something to eat, well if people were ever again few enough,
we could maybe again all grow our own.
and as for going extinct, the human species going extinct, when something else evolves sapience, no great loss, except until it does.

the last speakers of languages of which there are only one or two left, and they're being really old, and the languages they're the last speakers of, yes, i think that's one thing, that isn't completely gone that i will miss.

species diversity too. every species that becomes extinct that hasn't yet, yes i'll miss those too, and to that extent, well if humans are one of them, then i will only know about it if and when i were to come back as one of the species who replace them as sapients.

this is not impossible, but i expect my future lives more likely to be on other worlds and with little or nothing like memory of this one.

 

They're being bought out.

 

careless AND emotionless? its emotion that makes people careless.

 

But where they all going on at the same time.?
When these these old threads get revived, I often notice that the OP and the first batch of replies were from members who only lasted a few weeks. In one case, the OP did not last long enough to read the first reply.
We all look back at the good old days through rose colored glasses and that grass in the next field always looks greener.

 

Their are certain industries where a spirit of comradeship still exists, the theater and film production being one of them. I am still in touch with people who I worked with 45 years ago.

 

The first mobile phones that we had were nearly the same cost as the new cars that they were fitted in, The line rental was close to my salary.
You could take them away from the car, but they were a handset on top of a battery box and weighed nearly as much as a car battery
When portable, they had about 2 hours standby and 15 minutes talk time. Problem was that if you did not get that call for 90 minutes, the talk time was down to about 30 seconds.
Not a real problem though, since chatting for an hour would have cost about a weeks salary.

 

Intel has announced their plan is to produce 5nm or smaller chips that require 7 watts or less and have roughly 3x the number of transistors on an average gaming laptop today. They are putting everything onto one tiny chip that requires bullshit for a motherboard and power supply, because it even regulates its own power. Their intention is to replace every server in the world with plug and play chips that don't require any cooling and have optical interconnects and their own built in 5g as well, meaning the whole thing uses almost no power and doesn't even take up much space. Basically, the next gen cellphones, home computers, and consoles, autos, and everything will increasingly become like Timex watches, cheap and capable of doing way more than anyone wants to know other than the manufacturer. To upgrade your computer in the future, you may just plug a chip in the back of your monitor, but one of these chips should inevitably have the capacity to theoretically run a Star Trek holodeck, or 160 teraflops, while the current chips are roughly the size of large stamp or two small ones.

Using them in conjunction with quantum encryption, and nobody would ever need a server again. Places like NYC already have plans to put in terahertz networking, which is like shining an invisible light through everyone's house, and provides 2gb/s, or enough for two 4k videos. Its a stupid lightbulb that's invisible and wouldn't give a gnat a sunburn, but goes through walls. If every cellphone and computer has chips like Intel intends to make, you don't need servers and can create secure intranets within the internet to assure privacy for different purposes. Leveling the playfield will encourage the arts in particular to flourish, because the machines are capable of doing everything imaginable, but the arts will increasingly become indistinguishable from the sciences.