Predictions for 2064

So I just read Asimov's predictions made 50 years ago, some of which were fairly accurate.

Can we go one up one of the greatest scientific minds of recent times, and accurately predict what will happen 50 years from now?

Go.

1. Watmm will not exist so the people of 2064 will never know if these become true or not.

2. Toilet paper will be recycled in-house and formed from a hyper antibacterial polymer.

3. Emigration will be outlawed due to mass transit of peoples. Inter continental travel will be restricted in some way. No need to travel for business.

4. Space travel will still be shit but we will have some science colony on the moon or Mars.

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I think your Nexus 5 using Tapatalk fucked up.

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There will be rumors of Richard finally releasing a new album (in the ripe age of 93).

"hrfff i'm so glad they finally invented sex robots, too bad i'm in my 70s now"

"no grampa watmm that's not a sex robot that's a jar of cheesewiz with a face drawn on it"

"DON'T TELL ME HOW TO LIVE MY LIFE YOU LITTLE SHIT, YOU DON'T REMEMBER THE 90S"

There will be a 3D printer in every home.

evryone will be in a social network

Mobile signals will still be rubbish.

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I might have been able to buy my first house.

The world is divided into two parties, those that welcome their AI overlord who promises equality and world peace and the paranoid conspiracy theorists who believe the AI is buttering us up for something dastardly.

VR internet and wars fought over natural resources

  On 1/6/2014 at 12:13 PM, phling said:

evryone will be in a social network

i actually wonder if this will become required for citizenship in some places - so they can track ya better right off the start - interesting thought at least

At least 10 currently active watmmers will have died

  On 1/6/2014 at 1:25 PM, yshf said:

 

  On 1/6/2014 at 12:13 PM, phling said:

evryone will be in a social network

 

i actually wonder if this will become required for citizenship in some places - so they can track ya better right off the start - interesting thought at least

 

it was a silly.

here's another one: we will listen to music through electronic devices which we stick insider our head.

I believe that magazines, papers, books etc will all be a thing of the past completely. Trees will be grown and harvested for fuel only in a sustainable fashion. I hope ancient woodlands will be protected from development and kept as places of tranquility.

  On 1/6/2014 at 1:42 PM, phling said:

 

  On 1/6/2014 at 1:25 PM, yshf said:

 

  On 1/6/2014 at 12:13 PM, phling said:

evryone will be in a social network

 

i actually wonder if this will become required for citizenship in some places - so they can track ya better right off the start - interesting thought at least

 

 

it was a silly.

 

here's another one: we will listen to music through electronic devices which we stick insider our head.

 

I know, that thought just popped into my head when i saw it.

also lol.

No more internet.

No more humans.

Message boards capable of automatically removing double posts.

Hoverboards.

your nexus 5 won't post that stupid message about tapatalk

  On 1/6/2014 at 11:34 AM, feltcher said:

So I just read Asimov's predictions made 50 years ago, some of which were fairly accurate

No, actually they were not - the press just glomed onto what one outlet said.

The human life span will be extended to 200 years, but the last 150 will be spent in unremitting pain and sadness.

overpopulation => food/water/energy/resource shortages => drawn-out conflicts and perpetual unrest.

in a situation like that, harsh policing of transit/migration is very probable. Australia will try to become an island fortress.

but fuck knows really, it's impossible to predict given all the wildcards. some kind of painful readjustment from the bubble we've created is inevitable though.