Ok, we've all thought about what the future would be like.
<b>What kind of Future you think is in store for us?</b>
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I'm not too sure about that. On some programme on TV they showed monkeys using stone tools as nut crackers. I'm sure thats only two steps behind spudmuffin.
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I think we'll eventually deplete our resources and then we'll move somewhere else, or die altogether. No nukes though. In a couple years they will be obsolete. Actually they already are we just have to impliment the technology to stop them. We have lasers now that can mount on the wings of f-14's/22's 3000lbs. 1500 on one wing= battery pack/charger 1500 other wing= the actual laser. It can cut a tank in half. It finds a target with light and fires immediately, silently, and with no recoil. It fires at the speed of light, it can not be dodged and if it can cut an abrams in half imagine what a few shots can do to a nuclear missile. It would hardly have time to get off the ground/out of the water before it was scrap.
We'll develope technology (propulsion, for example) that doesn't pollute and so we'll either clean up this world or move to a different one (they think there is an earthlike planet on the nearest star, you know. Biggest coincidence ever)
I must be the only person here who thinks that nanotechnology will allow us to have the equivalent of Star Trek (TNG and later) replicators. And that this'll allow people to further explore their spirituality. With the ability to create anything you want at a simple command, there will no longer be a need for war because we'll all have anything that we ever wanted and we'll be able to terraform wasteland into fertile soil just by letting the nanobot farmers change a few atoms around in the soil's molecules. We'll no longer need to work to procuce things. Instead those who 'work' will all be inventors, craftspeople, programmers, spiritual leaders, farmers, cooks, or repair-persons.
There may be a few more jobs, but basically we will work not out of necesity, but for fun. And the world will be infinitely happier because of it. Anything that we need will be available with a single command. A pile of dirt can be rebuilt into a gold ring. A bowl of water can be rebuilt into hot lentil soup. Disease will be wiped out. Genetic disorders will be removed from the gene pool entirely. Doctors will be able to cure litterally anything, short of old age and death. And life will be ten steps closer to perfect.
We'll even use this technology to terraform other planets so that Earth will no longer be over-crowded. We'll populate the galaxy and space exploration will become the 'in thing to do' to keep us entertained. It'll all be fun.
That's the future that I see. It might be rocky ground getting to it at first, but I have faith that we'll get there.
-Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
I agree with acey that in the future we'll be able to just be with whoever we want. Gender ain't gonna matter no more an we can just enjoy a relationship for all it's worth.
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Shadowrun is a role-playing-game based in the somewhat near future. The setting of this game is that magic returned in full strength to the world. This caused some people to start mutating into elves and such, as well as caused some animals to mutate into supernatural mythological type creatures. As some cultures naturally practiced magic before this occurred, when the magic came back, they were a definite force to be reckoned with.
All of this caused so much chaos that governments collapsed and reformed with what shreds they could retain, and corporations who held all of the real money started running virtually everything, using their 'security guards' as para-military enforcers.
Crime, of course, became a very rampant problem. Most people either work for a corporation selling their soul for a crappy wage, or they 'run the shadows', which is to say that they are professional criminals that will do anything from taking out hits on dignitaries to high-tech espionage.
And high-tech in Shadowrun is quite different to high-tech today. People hack the 'net by plugging their brains straight into a computer and run around through servers as though the server was a real place, and not the inside of a computer. It's all super-freaky.
And meanwhile the official police empowered by the government are generally a complete joke to everyone. They're under-funded, poorly informed, and usually don't even have close to the firepower of the criminals. Plus, they're limited by morals and law.
There is a lot more to it, but it is a lot like a high-tech chaos-theory future with magic mixed in.
-Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
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