What do you see happening in this century techno-wise
I know this is not a complete "apple" topic, but you guys are pretty dialed in, intelligent and savvy about what's to come from computers & tech in general...
What I want to know is what you see for the future of all man kind when it comes to technology.
My born again Christian friend, who engages in technology in general (who doesn't, right?) learns in her bible study/church/christian book/movie obsession etc that in the future, all humans will have chips...be able to walk in and out of stores and just be billed for the items we walk out with. Like self-check out. She says that those that get these chips will have the "mark of the beast" DEVIL's #s and when the end of times comes, they will all go to hell if they don't accept Jesus first.
Don't Laugh! I don't believe her & I certainly will NOT put a chip in my body (barely take aspirin when I need it), but I can totally see the future of us all being walking social security numbers...no longer needing a "check out" and the SuperM...just bagging our own items, walking out and getting charged. Our purchasing habits will be fully traced, along with all our personal info/DNA...and of course all the predisposed illness/diseases will all be determined...how will folks find health insurance LOL...even with this new "privacy act" --- as we all know, for the right price, our privacy can and will be exposed.
How do you think technology will be used to pursue immoral ventures?
How do you think we will benefit 10-100 years from now with various advances?
Will we have to pay each email we send? Will it all be regulated by the gov? Will the gov know every web site we visit? Will spam be out of control?
What will computers have the capacity to do for us IN OUR HOME? Will we be able to control our entire household functions from a laptop/desktop--and all at what cost? *I know the infinitely rich already have this set up.
What have you heard? Are you worried/paranoid?
Looking forward to your answers! I canceled my WIRED magazine b/c it was giving me a headache. Maybe I need to resubscribe
Jessica
What I want to know is what you see for the future of all man kind when it comes to technology.
My born again Christian friend, who engages in technology in general (who doesn't, right?) learns in her bible study/church/christian book/movie obsession etc that in the future, all humans will have chips...be able to walk in and out of stores and just be billed for the items we walk out with. Like self-check out. She says that those that get these chips will have the "mark of the beast" DEVIL's #s and when the end of times comes, they will all go to hell if they don't accept Jesus first.
Don't Laugh! I don't believe her & I certainly will NOT put a chip in my body (barely take aspirin when I need it), but I can totally see the future of us all being walking social security numbers...no longer needing a "check out" and the SuperM...just bagging our own items, walking out and getting charged. Our purchasing habits will be fully traced, along with all our personal info/DNA...and of course all the predisposed illness/diseases will all be determined...how will folks find health insurance LOL...even with this new "privacy act" --- as we all know, for the right price, our privacy can and will be exposed.
How do you think technology will be used to pursue immoral ventures?
How do you think we will benefit 10-100 years from now with various advances?
Will we have to pay each email we send? Will it all be regulated by the gov? Will the gov know every web site we visit? Will spam be out of control?
What will computers have the capacity to do for us IN OUR HOME? Will we be able to control our entire household functions from a laptop/desktop--and all at what cost? *I know the infinitely rich already have this set up.
What have you heard? Are you worried/paranoid?
Looking forward to your answers! I canceled my WIRED magazine b/c it was giving me a headache. Maybe I need to resubscribe
Jessica
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My born again Christian friend, who engages in technology in general (who doesn't, right?) learns in her bible study/church/christian book/movie obsession etc that in the future, all humans will have chips...be able to walk in and out of stores and just be billed for the items we walk out with. Like self-check out. She says that those that get these chips will have the "mark of the beast" DEVIL's #s and when the end of times comes, they will all go to hell if they don't accept Jesus first.
Aghh!!! I can't stand these people!
I'm terribly sorry. It's just really aggrivating when people who have no idea what they're talking about (the future) and then saying all the people in said group are going to hell!! I know many religious fanatics, whether in my own family or friends, and some of the things that come out of their mouths are annoying beyond belief. I also hate it when people try and push their religious beliefs on me and anyone else. They think that THEIR way is the RIGHT way and everyone else is damned. Some people are so extremely biased, arrogant, and ignorant that it just drives me crazy. Anyway I'm done ranting and I'm sorry if I offended anyone.
P.S. I don't know what's going to happen in the future. I'm not going to think about it because it makes my head hurt.
I am all for someone finding what they were searching for...but to each his own. Nobody likes the pressure, and in fact it only pushed me away from wanting to learn about her faith.
She promised me that if I attended the Billy Grahm event in San Diego---and didn't accept Jesus...that she would NEVER bring up Jesus to me again. I can't wait. I am going purely for the sociological perspective. Our friendship has history, so I am not about to dump her for her persistant bible thumping...yet
On the flipside, my dad works for a Catholic school and has been there for 30 years. The group of priests from that area just decided to fire him because they didn't want to continue paying him less than what they promised and what he deserves. It's all politics. And I know for a fact that some of the higher ups in Catholicism are NOT good people at all and DO NOT practice what they preach. My dad got completey screwed by these "religious" people and I just feel sorry that he was used.
Now on topic I'd be somewhat surprised if they implanted everybody with microchips but certainly a lot of what your friend suggests is in fact already being trialed or possible.
Links between the brain or nervous system and a microchip have been achieved and certainly it'll be something for the future but I couldn't see it being compulsory.
Self checkouts could be done with current technology, although you'd need to pay, but the closest I've seen so far is you scan the items yourself as you get them. At the end you just have it pre tallied and just pay. The idea is to reduce waiting times but I'm not sure how those trials went.
Strictly speaking if you don't accept Jesus before you die you're going to hell anyway so a microchip isn't going to make a difference. I'd see implanted microchips as just another tool though. It's really no worse than carrying around a hammer in my eyes. I certainly don't know the scriptures well enough to be trusted though. When I get a chance I might ask one of my friends who would have a better idea based on the bible itself.
Our purchasing habits will be fully traced, along with all our personal info/DNA...and of course all the predisposed illness/diseases will all be determined...how will folks find health insurance LOL...even with this new "privacy act" --- as we all know, for the right price, our privacy can and will be exposed.
All of that is basically doable right now. Several countries have centralised medical databases now (not accessible to insurance of course). Credit records are very easily accessed at certain levels and getting someone's DNA isn't too hard.
Several public areas have been trailing technologies for face recognition and biometric scanners are becoming cheap enough I'd really expect they'll become commonplace security features over the next 10 years or so.
It's just a matter of who has the access currently but if the government or law enforcement has a desire to find someone it really isn't that hard if they live a traditional life.
Big steps will hopefully be made in the area of power generation but basically as computers increase in power and modeling becomes easier to accomplish far more becomes possible.
( A ) A Digital mirror that lies to me and tells me how good lookin I am....
( B ) A Car that takes me home safely no matter how pissed I am...
( C ) An electric cattleprod to speed up those irritating fat cows who talk instead of serving queing customers....Actually I think something like that exists.
( D ) A computer that lets me cheat at chess.
( E ) a Starwars film that is set in the future ( a postqueal )
& not some prequeal crapparoni.....
( F ) And Finally,
A machine that will let me come back into time to visit myself just before I post this really pissweak reply & persuades me to delete it before everyone thinks I'm a total .....Trekkie...Argh Oh MY GOD..too late !!!! I'm in a time loop
Wired
Fox News
Washington Post
Bible
Starting to sound eirely similar don't you think?
Originally posted by Thereubster
Email and even typing will vanish as other real-time communication methods appear and get cheaper.
The phone is a real-time communication method that's been around and cheap for over 100 years. email is used instead of the phone precisely for the advangates that you get by using a non-realtime communications. You can think longer and organize what your message better than when you're talking. You also conveniently have a record of all mail you sent and received, which is doable on the phone, but inconvenient.
I don't see the non-realtime communications disappearing. Some may use dictation, or send a recording instead of typing. Heck, in 100 years we may have telepathic dictation. But email is not going away.
And, for my money, this really should be in GD...
EA will take over the games industry with shoddy monthly installments of their titles. Tomb raider 14 will come out with a new graphics engine that can finally give lara croft facial expressions resulting in a billion sales in a week of its release.
All computer companies will merge together calling themselves cyberdyne systems and make a super artificial intelligence risc processor that they decide to put in a evil robot with a bad austrian accent and shit acting abilities.
A sequel to the last final fantasy will be released which will basically be the same game as the last but with a slightly different title screen.
Radiant silvergun will sell for £6 billion on ebay and george bush will have himself frozen after death so future technology that enables to make him look intelligent can be surgically injected into his brain.
People realise that religion is just an ancient evil cult brainwashing them to waste a day in a place of worship when they could be out playing golf and being harassed at home by jehovas witnesses...resulting in a severe backlash..cities tumble, people go on the rampage and the government invent a super crime fighting machine and name him Robocop.
Originally posted by Overhope
Predicting the future is a surefire way to make yourself look like an idiot.
Unless you're good at it.
i predict that humans will be bombed or self destruct back to the stone age or whatever age came before that
thank you
any other predictions?
"he compels all people, both small and great, both the rich and the poor, both free and slave, to be stamped (or marked in older hebrew) with an inscription on their right hands or on their foreheads"
It is obvioulsy written to mean a mark/tattoo/branding, not under the skin. and it is ON thier hand or forehead, not IN, there is no way to translate the hebrew words to IN.
Damn, sorry I didn't want to start/add flame to a whole discussion, just pointing out that you shouldn't believe what you hear or read on the internet LOL (or in old books for that matter)
Caio!
I'll post more on this later, because it's an interesting topic, but it belongs in General Discussion, so I'll move it there.
not a pretty picture of the future.....
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And yes, I stand corrected about the HEBREWS, it speaks of branding BUT...it could easily be interpreted otherwise, as the bible often is.
I am all for flying cars, super computers that work as TVs, Radios, Alarm clocks (they already can do all that if you spend the $)
Self check outs...but no imbedded microchips are going into me...unless they do it while I am sleeping.
keep the posts coming.
also, pr0n will be revolutionized atleast 2 more times. interactive pr0n will be discovered so that the youngins can learn all about the itty bits before they graduate to life. due to increased pr0n-itude, men and boys will become happier.
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or, the matrix will take over.
also, pr0n will be revolutionized atleast 2 more times.
yeah, like the holodecks on star trek...you always see them sailing on ships or horseback riding or acting out a pulp fiction crime story or talking to some great historical figure....but do you know what holodeck technology would be used for 99% of the time?? to do two chicks at once...or to be dominatixed by a naked klingon woman....hell, you ever wonder why there aren't kids all over the ship or why people aren't fighting over the same female officer on the ship?? it's because any yahoo on the ship can dial up britany spears and halle berry along with a swing, a catchers mitt and 18 gallons of butterscotch fudge....and even have wee man from jackass hopping and clapping in the corner singing the ompa lumpa song while throwing mini-marshmallows at everyone's butterscotch sticky butts if that is what keeps the perv happy....what a glorious future....
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(this post lovingly dedicated to the memory of starfleetX, god bless his soul, wherever he may be)