What awaits us in the future?

[Beanz]

This is from 1979 and is surprisingly accurate. What do you think the world will look like 24 years from now ?

[Dia bando]

A pine box.

[Saddo]

I was watching back to the future 2 last night and I can't wait for 2015... flying cars and hover boards

[TitoFan]

Dinner.

[Andre]

A pine box.

Mine will be one of those new cardboard ones, much cheaper.

My sister had the idea, get one of those and everyone gets to paint something on it as a goodbye gesture .

[Beanz]

Technology will continue to get smaller. Like nano small. Molecular. Using Atoms and Molecules. The way we interface with them will also change . No Mouse and less screens. Technology will enter the biological domain of our bodies. So not just implants but devices that can predict future health problems inside us.

Transport. Cars that drive themselves are just the start. Petrol/Gas will finally be relegated to old, expensive and rare as hens teeth, but fossil fuel powered electricity power plants won't be the answer. Clever solutions like personal devices that run off body power will be the norm.

[Andre]

Counter rotating electrical charged magnetic bearings so we get more power less friction with zero wear.


We may also intellectually out do our natural surrounds and fuck nature and ourselves, hit the mental wall, become heartless and turn on each other.

[Andre]

A pine box.

True death is as unavoidable as tax and hereditary ugliness!

We should therefore invest in pine reforesting companies.

[Saddo]

A pine box.

Mine will be one of those new cardboard ones, much cheaper.

My sister had the idea, get one of those and everyone gets to paint something on it as a goodbye gesture .

I really like that idea.... have a fire in the garden get everyone round for a drink and sling me and my painted box on it.

prob needs more tweeking but i think you have something with that idea I really do

[Beanz]

A pine box.

Mine will be one of those new cardboard ones, much cheaper.

My sister had the idea, get one of those and everyone gets to paint something on it as a goodbye gesture .

I really like that idea.... have a fire in the garden get everyone round for a drink and sling me and my painted box on it.

prob needs more tweeking but i think you have something with that idea I really do

Cardboard Coffins are quite the thing. I am not an expert like Dia, but I have been doing some research recently. Not that I expect to die imminently, but I am considering making some art work around the themes of death and renewal (oooh ark at me) and I wanted to make sure I knew how to make a traditional coffin before I began.

[TitoFan]

Ok, dinner is out of the way.

Technology seems to breaking new ground in just about every area (computers, communications, medicine) except air transportation. It's disappointing to me that we continue to exist with basically the same technology we've had for the last 50-60 years. Airliners are getting bigger, and are being outfitted with more modern gadgetry for navigation and some passenger comfort (although this is being offset by the greed which in the end makes air travel a bit more uncomfortable). BUT.... the travel times are still the same, and have been basically the same for the last few decades. You'd think by now we would've come up with a faster way to travel. I for one abhor being in an aluminum cocoon for more than 2 hours at a time. There's only so many movies and inflight entertainment one can stand. And I'm not a good airplane sleeper (unless I take drugs). I like my sleep horizontally, if at all possible.

Hopefully air travel will improve dramatically in the next few decades.

[Mars_ax]

I love all the modern technology, but I question whether or not the world is a better place to live in then it was 50 or 100 years ago.

I don't know about the rest of the world, but I sure as hell don't like where the U.S. seems to be headed in the future.

[brocktonblockbust]

the future has already arrived. yesterday is tomorrow and today is yesterday. the day before yesterday is really the day after tomorrow and right now is past if you look closely you will drink a beer then see a butterfly and before you know it an Iranian girl is talking to you and you look at her thighs and you think wow her pants are tight

[GOAT]

Nostalgic lifestyle ftw.

[Gandalf]

Strangely I actually agree with Marx. I question where we are all heading with this technology and how it will be used. In many respects we are heading into dangerous times and government and big business will/are working to bring it all under control and to regulate and monitor. Social networking means Big Brother working in terrifying ways. We have people being arrested for daft comments on Twitter that would have been ignored in the pub.

I also think a lot of the new technology is pointless. I have a phone and would like to text and call. That is the function of a phone. I have a television to watch programs, that is the function of a television. In terms of tv, HD is good, but that's it for me. Good definition and what I want to watch. Same with music, I like to buy an album and put it on the stereo and I will never deviate. Downloads and MP3? Not good enough. CD and good headphones please.

All I really hope for is improved and cleaner energy and affordable too as it is renewable. None of this petrol hike a week shit just so Dubai can build hotels underwater.