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Predict What 2110 Will Be Like
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I think we'll finally get those ****ing flying cars they promised us....you know the ones that run on water.
not if we're dead. Isn't paradise supposed to be awesome, so umm, i would imagine heaven has no virgins if you get my drift.
The human body will also evolve. Our eyes will be adjust to regularly staring at bright displays to the point where they won't affect our vision. A negative in humans will be that more people will at least carry more and more diseases until everybody is born with some sort of illness if science doesn't step in.
I heard that if you die a virgin you get assigned to a suicide bomber for eternity. Best get shagging
Whilst that may be true of one or two people by 2110 it's probably going to take a bit longer than 100 years for that adaptation to get through the entire gene pool
No, those people will be less likely to interact with others in real life, and since they will not breed, no genes will be passed on.
If humans can overcome some of their current problems, here's what I think 2110 will be like:
1) Average human life span developed countries will now be 125 for men, 130 for women. Even in the lesser developed world life span will be 80 for men, 85 for women.
2) Transportation will be almost completely no longer use petroleum-sourced fuel. Surface transportation will be by wheeled vehicles powered by high-density ultracapacitor battery packs that have a range of over 1,000 km (621 miles) and recharge in about 15 minutes at a commercial charging station. Airplanes will be fueled by kerosene made from oil-laden algae, and by 2110 SST's can fly at Mach 3.0 anywhere on Earth and nobody will hear the sonic boom anymore, thanks to improvements in aerodynamic design. Trains will now mostly be maglevs traveling at speeds as high as 700 km/hr (435 mph), essentially replacing shorter-range air travel in most of the developed world.
3) Power generation will be done mostly by solar power satellites parked in geosynchronous orbit, except at the higher latitudes, where power generation will be done by nuclear fusion plants and/or thorium-based nuclear reactors.
4) Internet connectivity will be EVERYWHERE. Gigabit download speeds would be considered slow in 2110 just like we consider dial-up access slow in 2010; the average download speed is now in the 500 gigabit/second range for wireless access, and in developed countries over two terabit/second download speeds would be the norm for hardwired connections. We won't run out of IP addresses anytime soon, since by 2110 everyone would be either using IPv6 or its successor for a huge leap forward in available IP addresses. Indeed, with such ultra-fast Internet access you get EVERYTHING over the Internet, including all TV and radio broadcasts.
5) The Moon will have over 70,000 people living on it, and another 500,000 people living in space colonies in the L4 and L5 Lagrangian point orbits. Mars will have over 100,000 people living on the planet.
1) Average human life span developed countries will now be 125 for men, 130 for women. Even in the lesser developed world life span will be 80 for men, 85 for women.
2) Transportation will be almost completely no longer use petroleum-sourced fuel. Surface transportation will be by wheeled vehicles powered by high-density ultracapacitor battery packs that have a range of over 1,000 km (621 miles) and recharge in about 15 minutes at a commercial charging station. Airplanes will be fueled by kerosene made from oil-laden algae, and by 2110 SST's can fly at Mach 3.0 anywhere on Earth and nobody will hear the sonic boom anymore, thanks to improvements in aerodynamic design. Trains will now mostly be maglevs traveling at speeds as high as 700 km/hr (435 mph), essentially replacing shorter-range air travel in most of the developed world.
3) Power generation will be done mostly by solar power satellites parked in geosynchronous orbit, except at the higher latitudes, where power generation will be done by nuclear fusion plants and/or thorium-based nuclear reactors.
4) Internet connectivity will be EVERYWHERE. Gigabit download speeds would be considered slow in 2110 just like we consider dial-up access slow in 2010; the average download speed is now in the 500 gigabit/second range for wireless access, and in developed countries over two terabit/second download speeds would be the norm for hardwired connections. We won't run out of IP addresses anytime soon, since by 2110 everyone would be either using IPv6 or its successor for a huge leap forward in available IP addresses. Indeed, with such ultra-fast Internet access you get EVERYTHING over the Internet, including all TV and radio broadcasts.
5) The Moon will have over 70,000 people living on it, and another 500,000 people living in space colonies in the L4 and L5 Lagrangian point orbits. Mars will have over 100,000 people living on the planet.
Interesting observations at #2, with an attempt to answer the power source at point #3. I see only one flaw: geosynchrous-orbit solar power satellites would have to be several thousand miles above the earth's surface to avoid falling into the earth's shadow at night, and at that height I don't know whether enough energy would make it through the atmosphere to make the venture worthwhile.
While scientists work out that little problem, we'll have to depend more on nuclear or hydroelectric energy in the short term. Surface-based solar installations still aren't efficient at converting the power they absorb into equivalent electrical energy, and the concept of wind-turbine farms still suffers from the "NIMBY" (Not In My Back Yard) stigma, as does nuclear.
We're going to have to get past that "OMG O NOEZ what if the nuclear reactor breaks? Think of the CHILDRENZ! That would NEVER happen with oil!!!!1" line of thought. To which I'd respond: "Have you been under a rock? Haven't you been following the news about the Gulf oil spill? A catastrophic incident has ALREADY happened with oil. Lives were lost. Ecosystems were smothered. Livelihoods were wrecked. And it's quite likely to happen again, sooner rather than later." (And then I'd slap them with a large trout, Monty Python style. At least in my mind anyway.)
I do like the solar turbine concept, like those in Australia. They're rather nifty.
Insofar as humanity colonizing non-Earth locations in point #5: I think it'll take a little longer than one hundred years to make a habitable Mars station, barring unforeseen advancements in life support technology. We'll have to see how the ISS holds up over the next decade or so.
Yes they do, because they're good Christian boys and got into Heaven, where even dead pets have hoverboards.
Well everyone knows cats are lords of the underworld. Dogs though, they go straight up to teh heavenshire with or without a hoverboard. I know, I saw the documentary!
Humans will have found a way to create an artificial tree. These trees will filter the air of carbon dioxide.
They won't have hoverboards either.
They won't have hoverboards either.
Nothing much will have changed. There will be too much political bickering to do much of anything. We were supposed to have a base on the moon by now, but everyone has been too worried about money to do anything about it. We probably still won't have a moon base by then for this reason.
Honestly, I think we're stuck in a downward spiral by conservative, religious people who will thwart progress to the point that we all end up back in the middle ages- afraid of witchcraft and other such nonsense. After all, the Middle East used to be the cradle of civilization. Look at them now. People don't learn from history, they like to repeat it. Sad, but this is what I see coming. Just when we almost have it all figured out, the morons will drag us down to the abyss once again, like they always have.
Honestly, I think we're stuck in a downward spiral by conservative, religious people who will thwart progress to the point that we all end up back in the middle ages- afraid of witchcraft and other such nonsense. After all, the Middle East used to be the cradle of civilization. Look at them now. People don't learn from history, they like to repeat it. Sad, but this is what I see coming. Just when we almost have it all figured out, the morons will drag us down to the abyss once again, like they always have.
I'll be dead before it happens, that's how.
Honestly though, most people here watched Battlestar Galactica, right? Did no one get the point?
The warnings are all around us. We would be wise to listen to them. Superstition, misunderstanding, lack of physical fitness and lack of education will be our undoing if we allow it to continue. Look at it this way, if the US falls prey to these things, you have a very dangerous, powerful empirical state that is almost unstoppable. If the US loses it, who is going to stop us? China? And God forbid they take over.
That's the USA in 2110 without a doubt, and probably much of the Middle East too. But you have to take into account the East, China and India in particular. China is pretty devoid of religion and with most Indians being polytheists they really don't care if the person next door has a different god to them.
I'm going to say flying cars, just so that those who are around when the next century starts can be just as disappointed as I am because they're still not common place, nor will they be as long. there's the risk that the average idiot could pilot one.