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7 Top Futurists Make Some Pretty Surprising Predictions About What The Next Deca
Posted on 5/14/15 at 5:33 pm
Posted on 5/14/15 at 5:33 pm
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"In the next 10 years, we will see the gradual transition from an Internet to a brain-net, in which thoughts, emotions, feelings, and memories might be transmitted instantly across the planet. Scientists can now hook the brain to a computer and begin to decode some of our memories and thoughts. This might eventually revolutionize communication and even entertainment. The movies of the future will be able to convey emotions and feelings, not just images on a silver screen. (Teenagers will go crazy on social media, sending memories and sensations from their senior prom, their first date, etc.). Historians and writers will be able to record events not just digitally, but also emotionally as well.
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We will spend considerable time in virtual and augmented realities allowing us to visit with each other even if hundreds of miles apart. We'll even be able to touch each other. Some of the 'people' we visit with in these new realities will be avatars. They will be compelling but not quite human level by 2025 -- that will take to the 2030s. We will be able to reprogram human biology away from many diseases and aging processes, for example deactivating cancer stem cells that are the true source of cancer, or retard the progression of atherosclerosis, the cause of heart disease.
We will be able to create avatars of people who have passed away from all of the information they have left behind (their emails and other documents, images, videos, interviews with people who remember them). These will be compelling but not fully realistic, not until the mid 2030s, so some people will find this 'replicant' technology to be in the 'uncanny valley,' that is, disconcerting."
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Posted on 5/14/15 at 5:35 pm to Jim Rockford
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"In the next 10 years, we will see the gradual transition from an Internet to a brain-net, in which thoughts, emotions, feelings, and memories might be transmitted instantly across the planet. Scientists can now hook the brain to a computer and begin to decode some of our memories and thoughts. This might eventually revolutionize communication and even entertainment. The movies of the future will be able to convey emotions and feelings, not just images on a silver screen. (Teenagers will go crazy on social media, sending memories and sensations from their senior prom, their first date, etc.). Historians and writers will be able to record events not just digitally, but also emotionally as well.
Woah tumblr will get even more painful
Posted on 5/14/15 at 5:37 pm to Jim Rockford
Just a reminder that these people are only guessing.
2010 Isn't What Many Futurists Of The Past Imagined
2010 Isn't What Many Futurists Of The Past Imagined
Posted on 5/14/15 at 5:40 pm to TomyDingo
Those predictions are from 1983 about 2010, though. Looking ahead just 10 years should be considerably more accurate. Will they miss some things? Absolutely. But if the details aren't clear, they should at least have a pretty good grasp of the overall trend.
Posted on 5/14/15 at 5:41 pm to Jim Rockford
And still no flying car, damnit!
Posted on 5/14/15 at 5:42 pm to Jim Rockford
quote:
"In the next 10 years, we will see the gradual transition from an Internet to a brain-net, in which thoughts, emotions, feelings, and memories might be transmitted instantly across the planet. Scientists can now hook the brain to a computer and begin to decode some of our memories and thoughts. This might eventually revolutionize communication and even entertainment. The movies of the future will be able to convey emotions and feelings, not just images on a silver screen. (Teenagers will go crazy on social media, sending memories and sensations from their senior prom, their first date, etc.). Historians and writers will be able to record events not just digitally, but also emotionally as well.
So, we'll finally have a sarcasm font?
Posted on 5/14/15 at 5:42 pm to Jim Rockford
quote:So they just got done watching Black Mirror.
We will be able to create avatars of people who have passed away from all of the information they have left behind (their emails and other documents, images, videos, interviews with people who remember them). These will be compelling but not fully realistic, not until the mid 2030s, so some people will find this 'replicant' technology to be in the 'uncanny valley,' that is, disconcerting."
Posted on 5/14/15 at 5:50 pm to TomyDingo
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Just a reminder that these people are only guessing.
Yeah, the problem with futurists is they tend to focus on what's possible more than what people (government and industry, mostly) realistically will allow to happen.
Posted on 5/14/15 at 5:51 pm to Jim Rockford
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"In the next 10 years, we will see the gradual transition from an Internet to a brain-net, in which thoughts, emotions, feelings, and memories might be transmitted instantly across the planet. Scientists can now hook the brain to a computer and begin to decode some of our memories and thoughts. This might eventually revolutionize communication and even entertainment. The movies of the future will be able to convey emotions and feelings, not just images on a silver screen. (Teenagers will go crazy on social media, sending memories and sensations from their senior prom, their first date, etc.). Historians and writers will be able to record events not just digitally, but also emotionally as well.
This will not end well. If my personal thoughts were made public.... yikes
Posted on 5/14/15 at 5:55 pm to deltaland
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This will not end well. If my personal thoughts were made public.... yikes
People will get arrested for their thoughts, book it.
Posted on 5/14/15 at 5:56 pm to deltaland
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This will not end well. If my personal thoughts were made public.... yikes
It could work the other way, too. They could implant thoughts and memories. Reality would cease to mean anything.
Posted on 5/14/15 at 5:59 pm to Jim Rockford
My recent visit to Disneyworld has reinforced my belief these futurists are full of shite.
Tomorrowland looks like the same imagined reality of the Jetson's from the 60's. And now it's old...We see it now and realize that is what people in 1960 thought 2050 would be.
Surprising advances in technology will come to realization but I am not sure how many will be game changers or reflect the pace of advancement we have seen since the industrial revolution.
Tomorrowland looks like the same imagined reality of the Jetson's from the 60's. And now it's old...We see it now and realize that is what people in 1960 thought 2050 would be.
Surprising advances in technology will come to realization but I am not sure how many will be game changers or reflect the pace of advancement we have seen since the industrial revolution.
Posted on 5/14/15 at 6:00 pm to Jim Rockford
No Faith Popcorn, no care.
Posted on 5/14/15 at 6:06 pm to Jim Rockford
How does one become a "top futurist?"
Posted on 5/14/15 at 6:06 pm to deltaland
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This will not end well. If my personal thoughts were made public.... yikes
it'll be rough. I think it's inevitable this happens, but I like to think you'll have the option of turning your thought stream off.
Posted on 5/14/15 at 6:06 pm to AndyCBR
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Surprising advances in technology will come to realization but I am not sure how many will be game changers or reflect the pace of advancement we have seen since the industrial revolution.
It's happening now, but it doesn't seem so radical because you're living through it, and humans are amazingly adaptable. Smart phones have gone from a novelty to a necessity in less than a decade. Now they're about to be supplanted by smart watches. Not only can you be instantly networked to everyone else--if you don't want to be, you have to actively takes steps to avoid it. Self driving cars were somebody's wild concept a couple of years ago. Now they're about to be rolled out on a large scale. Your kids probably, and grandkids certainly, will never learn how to manually operate a motor vehicle, unless they're a hobbyist who just gets a kick out of doing it. Fusion is on the verge of being a reality, which will be a major gamechanger, as is quantum computing. The pace is accelerating faster than you realize.
Posted on 5/14/15 at 6:11 pm to GRTiger
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How does one become a "top futurist?"
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Dr. Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York and author of "The Future of the Mind:
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Dr. Ray Kurzweil, inventor, pioneering computer scientist, and director of engineering at Google:
Those two are legit. The credentials of the others in the article aren't up to that level.
Posted on 5/14/15 at 6:15 pm to Jim Rockford
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It's happening now, but it doesn't seem so radical because you're living through it, and humans are amazingly adaptable. Smart phones have gone from a novelty to a necessity in less than a decade. Now they're about to be supplanted by smart watches. Not only can you be instantly networked to everyone else--if you don't want to be, you have to actively takes steps to avoid it.
Bening networked to everyone in the world instantaneously doesn't change most peoples reality in their immediate environment. If you're starving in Africa no number of retweets is gonna feed your arse.
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Self driving cars were somebody's wild concept a couple of years ago. Now they're about to be rolled out on a large scale.
No they aren't. Tons of regulation will stymie this process even if it were viable. Look at Philly, we still can't even get a train to maintain its speed autonomously.
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Your kids probably, and grandkids certainly, will never learn how to manually operate a motor vehicle, unless they're a hobbyist who just gets a kick out of doing it.
My kid is 8 yrs old and you are smoking rock cocaine if you think she will never operate a vehicle manually. She will be getting a drivers license in 8 years.
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Fusion is on the verge of being a reality, which will be a major gamechanger, as is quantum computing. The pace is accelerating faster than you realize.
I hope you're right about fusion and I believe that is one of the few possible future game changers.
We'll see...
Posted on 5/14/15 at 6:25 pm to Jim Rockford
Think of the porn possibilities
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