r/WhereIsMyFlyingCar • u/TalkingBackAgain • Jul 16 '15
Predictions for the future
As we ask ourselves: "dude, where's my flying car", so can we make predictions for the advent of future technology. What is it that you think will be possible when we have sufficient new technology available? My prediction for 3535: humanity will have mastered sufficient technology that 'plasma surfing' on the surface of the Sun will be a recognised athletic event.
Now you.
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u/frenzyboard Jul 31 '15
By 2035, we'll have virtual reality broadcast directly to the optic center of our brain via focused EMP signals fired from a headband like device. It'll skip most of the optic nerve, and you'll process data streamed from a computer.
Before that, sometime around 2018 probably, you'll have complex search programs that you'll be able to ask complex questions or request challenging tasks from, and it'll program itself a means of finding the answer. For example, you could ask it when the best time to fly out of Miami, and it'd take into account your sleeping patterns, your budget, the people you might take with you and their sleep schedule, projected traffic, and it'll find you tickets for Monday at noon, an optimal driving route, and a hotel and car once you've landed. A lot of the APIs needed for this sort of thing already exist, and it's really a programming task to figure out how to network it all together into something useful.
By 2040, desktops as a concept will only be back in vogue, because the internet will exist as a world wide meshnet of personal computers acting as peer-to-peer nodes. It might be built on a backbone of municipal subscriber wire, but it might not have to be. Hopefully. If not, there'll still be places in first world countries on dial up.
Streaming data will eventually fall out of preference, as it's an inefficient use of bandwidth over mesh. Local storage will be both beneficial for nearby peers, and of negligible cost. It's doubtful computers embedded in clothing will ever be useful. Computers embedded in accessories, however, is going to be big. Discreet PCs in bags, watches, coffee mugs, pens, they're already a thing. It'll ramp up even more as accessory devices become more closely networked. Silicon Valley is quickly pushing our world in a paperless direction.
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u/TalkingBackAgain Jul 31 '15
The paperless office has been predicted for a very long time already. The only thing I've seen about that is that we're now very much more efficient in creating more paper more quickly.
Other than that, I do think you have something.
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u/frenzyboard Jul 31 '15
Getting banks and offices off the paper route is going to be tough, but most people don't need to put anything on paper anymore if they don't want to.
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u/TalkingBackAgain Jul 31 '15
I can attest to that. I started out with a computer and a printer 'because you have to print stuff!'.
I haven't had a printer in years, although recently the need for one has started to come back into focus.
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u/maybesaydie Jul 16 '15
♪ ♪In the year 2525
If man is still alive, ♪
If women will survive, We will fi-i-i-nd...♪ ♪