What does the Future bring?

[Napkiraly]

I am amused that people answering polls recently have agreed on two things.

1. The future will be awful, war, pollution, poverty, one disaster after another.

2. Me and my friends and family should do just fine!

Most people on NSG are first worlders I think. We may very well make it through the 21st century unscathed, if we're lucky.

The closer you are to the equator, the more fucked you are. At least according to the futuretimeline guy.

According to him, if you're in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and parts of South and Central America you're fucked. And if you're by the coast. Or Dutch, but no one cares about the Dutch.

[Kanery]

The Singularity has arrived, you fools!

[Napkiraly]

The Singularity has arrived, you fools!

*looks around* Nope.

[Cosara]

Hopefully flying cars.

[Technopolis]

Hopefully flying cars.

Yeah. What happened to that? Like, we've got our video phones and electronic books and whatnot but they're nowhere near as exciting as flying cars.

[St George]

Death.

[St George]

Hopefully flying cars.

Yeah. What happened to that? Like, we've got our video phones and electronic books and whatnot but they're nowhere near as exciting as flying cars.

We got addicted to oil.

[Blazedtown]

Hopefully flying cars.

Yeah. What happened to that? Like, we've got our video phones and electronic books and whatnot but they're nowhere near as exciting as flying cars.

The Jetsons was full of shit.

[Mike the Progressive]

Death.

Damn, beat me to it.

[Dooom35796821595]

Fabricators, Nano technology Fusion plants, Space elevators, orbital weapons, colonization of mars.
And a good chance of nuclear war.

[Densaner]

The Sun destroying the Earth. The funny thing is that one day the Apocalypse will actually happen to humanity, and it won't happen because of the Sun going apeshit.

[Imperial Nilfgaard]

Death.

Damn, beat me to it.

Actually not necessarily. If we make it to the 2080s, medical advances will be able to reverse aging and nanobots will take care of all disease. From there on it's relatively smooth sailing to the Singularity which will give us all immortality as we become one with the machine!

[Napkiraly]

Damn, beat me to it.

Actually not necessarily. If we make it to the 2080s, medical advances will be able to reverse aging and nanobots will take care of all disease. From there on it's relatively smooth sailing to the Singularity which will give us all immortality as we become one with the machine!

Until the universe goes bye-bye. And that assumes we can even get to the point where we could get that sort of technology, if it's even feasible.

[Volnotova]

Entropy.

[Volnotova]

Damn, beat me to it.

Actually not necessarily. If we make it to the 2080s, medical advances will be able to reverse aging and nanobots will take care of all disease. From there on it's relatively smooth sailing to the Singularity which will give us all immortality as we become one with the machine!

And then entropy will kick in.

[Cosara]

Damn, beat me to it.

Actually not necessarily. If we make it to the 2080s, medical advances will be able to reverse aging and nanobots will take care of all disease. From there on it's relatively smooth sailing to the Singularity which will give us all immortality as we become one with the machine!

Immortality, huh? Sounds like it sucks. I hope there's a way to die if you want to. I hope you can also set the time for how long you want to die (IE, you can choose to die for 5 minutes then come back).

[Napkiraly]

Actually not necessarily. If we make it to the 2080s, medical advances will be able to reverse aging and nanobots will take care of all disease. From there on it's relatively smooth sailing to the Singularity which will give us all immortality as we become one with the machine!

1)Immortality, huh? 2)Sounds like it sucks. 3)I hope there's a way to die if you want to. 4)I hope you can also set the time for how long you want to die (IE, you can choose to die for 5 minutes then come back).

1)Biological immortality, really. How possible these goals are is up to debate.
2)How so?
3)Could off yourself I suppose. Or install a 'clock' in yourself to give yourself mortality.
4)Only if you could save your memories and what not. If not death, will still be final.

[Gallup]

Zombies.

[Farnhamia]

Yeah. What happened to that? Like, we've got our video phones and electronic books and whatnot but they're nowhere near as exciting as flying cars.

The Jetsons was full of shit.

The Jetsons wasn't actually a documentary.

[Imperial Nilfgaard]

Actually not necessarily. If we make it to the 2080s, medical advances will be able to reverse aging and nanobots will take care of all disease. From there on it's relatively smooth sailing to the Singularity which will give us all immortality as we become one with the machine!

And then entropy will kick in.

hundreds of billions of years from now.

Not too worried.

[Gallifra]

As a Christian, I love knowing that God is in charge and is looking out for me, whatever happens politically, economically, or socially.

Tell that to the diseased children dying in hospitals.

God is a sociopathic, genocidal freak. Do not bring him into this discussion. (he doesn't exist anyway).

Go tell me otherwise in the room of a hospital with a dying child.

[Gallifra]

Really? How?

Why wouldn't a workers cooperative want to make better products to beat the competition?

Their is no competition with a worker's cooperative. They cooperatively control production to make what they need - thus no competition.

[Napkiraly]

Why wouldn't a workers cooperative want to make better products to beat the competition?

Their is no competition with a worker's cooperative. They cooperatively control production to make what they need - thus no competition.

Did you miss the bit about market socialism? Workers cooperatives in a market socialist economy would compete.

[New Libertarian States]

Hopefully flying cars.

Actually, there WAS somthing in the works a few years ago, I think it was realeased (400,000 dollars)

[Napkiraly]

Hopefully flying cars.

Actually, there WAS somthing in the works a few years ago, I think it was realeased (400,000 dollars)

They are just incredibly impractical for the time being. And are not very fuel efficient. And look stupid.