Phlethreno Musisgrate from the year 2106, an occasional visitor to MuseBlog by way of Prarilius Canix, has requested “a thread about MBers’ predictions for the future.”
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First post! I predict that the world will not end or change drastically in 2012. l’ll bet anyone 100000000000 pieces of virtual/celestial chocolate.
1- *sticks out her tongue*
Uh, why?
Oh, and any major changes will be a placebo. You’ll all be, “Aagh! It’s 2012! The world is changing! Must resist urge to wear socks on hands!
C’mon. It’s just an in-joke or fodder for stories. Nobody on MB really believes the world will end on 12/29/2012.
Uh, do they?
They don’t. I think there was a morphing chameleon thing about it. Someone said that the world as we know it would end, but if it does, lt’ll be because those who believed it will change so that they’re right.
5- Not really. I don’t believe it’ll be all sudden or anything. I think the world as we know is it is changing, but it’s been doing that for as long as anyone can remember, so while something different might happen in 2012, it won’t be something like the world exploding or everyone suddenly growing gills. I doubt it will be a whole lot different than the rest of life.
I predict that I will have to take a shower within the near future. Like, now….
Rosanne is clairvoyant, you know. She could come on here.
There is a multitude of alternate worlds, with other people and other events, sometimes with the same setting. A couple of options from two different universes:
I predict that in 2017 there will be a huge battle with a creature known as the Evil One.
In 2042 World War Last will occur. Earth will become uninhabitable.
8- Gasp! Wow!
*assumes mysterious posture and draws her veils closer around her*
In 2100, a man named Arthur Voigt will discover a passage into another world. In this world, in the Usheret Sea, twelve islands will be discovered, uninhabited by all the natives. Arthur Voigt and his followers will attempt to colonize them, and come to grief. I can see no more.
Please. Give me a break.
I can’t see the future, but l want to live in three centurys. That means l have to live to 106.
9- Really?
I only know one person who’s clairvoyant, but I think he or she would prefer it if I didn’t say anything about him or her.
I’ll be waiting to see what happens on Dec. 29, 2012, but I don’t think anything will. And agagabagabag has a point: If anything important does occur, it will act as a placebo. Still, I’m curious.
12- Jeez, can’t you take a joke?
14- I didn’t know the exact date. Thank you.
Alice (9):
I knew you would say that.
In the year 4242, the whole world will be ruled by the Musiverse.
9- Ooh, really? Since when, Rosanne? And why havn’t you told us the exact date Kokko would get a magority yet?
on 12/29/2012 we will all live on mars.
17- that is a long time.
is this therd manly about 2012?
19- Mars? Noramally, l wouldn’t take it seriously, but you took seriously beavo’s “hi bored, l’m beavo” joke, so l don’t know if your blog alias has a sense of humor. I’m sure the real TMFA does.
20- yes, mars. all sci-fi book agree that some time in the 2000’s we will live on mars. and it is the end of the world. it is the end of this world. but the begaining of mar’s history.
and I was making a joke about the “hi bored, l’m beavo” joke.
so is this about 2012?
and I do have a sense of humor. I try to put alot of humor into the rrrs.
Technically, I think “clairvoyance” is a supposed ability to know things that are happening somewhere else at the same time. The supposed ability to foresee the future is called “precognition.”
As for Rosanne, as described in the developing MuseBlog Fanfiction thread, I’d say that her fellow GAPAs consider her to have, at least, a very reliable imagination.
22- Precognition! Gotcha. I was trying to think what that word would be.
21- l’ll bet you 100,000,000,000 pieces of virtual choklit that it won’t.
My friend is clairvoyant (or, precognitive). For some things. She can predict how we will die at what age and how many kids we will have. But not like… “What are you going to say next?!”
Apparently I will die when I first try surfing at age 60… something. xD
I will have four kids and a husband.
She can’t predict what job I’ll have, though. >_o
Hmmm….. The future
2098: 14th year of the cold war is upon us. The U.S is controlled by Supreme dictator John Baker. Urban sprawl has eaten all farmland and we get our food from a factory on the edge of each town.
Oh well.
Yes, 4242 is a long way away, but we have to expand the Musiverse, colonize several planets to make up the Musiverse, conquer every single other planet, and other things like that. And it gives us plenty of time so we don’t feel rushed.
(27) Although having a couple of millennia to work with does increase the temptation to procrastinate….
28 – Yes, but even if we put it off until the day before, everything will still happen according to plan because, it’s 4242! It’s the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything, and our plans will all happen on their own if necessary
17- no offense, but by that time I’m expecting the world to be destroyed by either the sun blowing up or people being bad.
this is not the thread for me. the future scares me. bye.
I don’t get the 12/29/12 thing… is it some internet email thing, or Museblog-only?
31- It is the end of the world, according to the mayas.
No, it’s wordwide. Apparently, the aztecs predicted the end of the worls then. It’s not a museblog only thing our inside joke.
21-A joke about a joke that was a joke? *gasp*
So… I can’t really think of anything scary or creepy or accurate to say so I’ll be leaving this thread…. bye…
Prediction: Within the next 60 years, the USA will have been or will be at war with China.
All my predictions already came true…*sighs*…I don’t have the weird nervous feeling in my stomache that means that something I know is going to happen, is going to happen. Note:they’re all small predictions, like- he’s going to trip. That guy’s going to win that competition…etc.
30-the sun isn’t due to blow up for another billion years or something like that.
32-Really?
37-I think it is actually six billion years.
I think it would be cool to live in three centuries. I’d have to be 105 to live in three centuries.
Seriously, though, I get a ton of deja vu. I don’t know why, but I always seem to be at a place, and suddenly, I remember being there before, and the exact same stuff was happening. I don’t know when I saw it. All I know is that i did. Creepy? For me, yes. But also hecka cool.
What’s with the year 4242? Is that the year we will find out why the meaning of life, the universe, and everything is 42?
Hmmm. I think that eventually people will realize that they’re acting like a bunch of bragging schoolkids with their space exploration and cloning and spend money on more important things like stopping deadly diseases. Once all the people are safe and healthy we can go back to space stuff, but we need to handle the problems on our own planet before send clones buzzing about the solar system in billion dollar thingys.
People think the world will end all the time. Every few years something comes up, and I quite enjoy my friend Tyler pressuring everyone to believe his conspiracies.
Ahh! Decoding Nostradamus is going to be on at 9 on the discovery channel! Must…watch…
Ah yes, Nostradamus. His predictions are so vague, and you never hear about them until after an event. I don’t think they really predict anything, it’s just how people interpret them.
32-Apparently in almost all of their predictions (except that one) they were only a few seconds off. Incredible isnt it?
32- It’s the aztecs.
When oil runs out, plastic will become an extremely valuable commodity, simply because it will be rare (there will be no way to make more of it.)
42- I’m with you on that one. You got comment 42, by the way.
I prophesy that on November the Eleventh, 2028, the United States as we know it will be overthrown and replaced with a dictatorship. Oh, and the Cubs won’t win the World Series until 2019.
Also, directly after oil runs out, people will begin using coal (the current stupid President will rationalize it as a “temporarily measure until renewable-er energy can be utilizated.”(It may not be in those exact words, but I predict it will have at least one grammar mistake.))
44- will this be a muse-ish dictatorship, or the classical tyrannical, outlawing everything sort?
45- Makes sense.
I think that anyone idiotic enough to actually run for president is going to make a lot of grammar mistakes.
Climate change will continue, messing up agriculture and causing violent storms, destroying overseas trade. Civilization will revert nearly to the Dark Ages. Currency will be mostly in the form of “plasts,” or irregular disks of plastic. A new form of transportation will be invented in America- sail-powered cars that travel along ancient highways. Other transportation will be sail-, man-, or horse-powered.
Small settlements will be built in the ruins of ancient cities, slowly growing as agriculture recovers. In the Americas, two main types of civilization will emerge: people in cities, and “sail-car convoys” that travel from city to city, trading. Europe, the Middle East and Africa will fragment into competing city-states, and become regions of war. Australia will be mostly farms and wilderness. A united country will emerge in East Asia, and spread out as far north as Russia and as far south as India.
There will be three main areas of the world: Eurasia and Africa; Australia; and the Americas. In each area, the rest of the world will fade into legend.
This is going beyond prediction into full-blown story. I hope no-one minds.
In an attempt to join the ranks of the professional procrastinators, I will now use these predictions to write fanfiction.
One: 2012
The clock reads 11:59:52. The digital calendars proclaims the date as December 28. All around the globe, people stare expectantly at the clock, the calendar, the TV screen, the window, or their novel. Some 400 people are looking not at these things, but at their altars. Sticks of incense smolder in front of the figurines, some holding things resembling small pies.
In a temple somewhere in Chicago ((it’s got to be Chicago because that’s where Muse is made)), 40 or 50 people stand, heads bowed, in front of a raised altar. On this stands nine larger-than-life figures.
Each member of the throng below carries a magazine, a woefully thin publication bearing the yellow letters,
muse
To be continued…
48- Sweet. I don’t mind. I like it. It’s a lot better than my measly fanfic. *pokes it* *frowns* I’m bad at fanfiction.
Well, there is the story about Arthur Voigt and the twelve islands in the Usheret Sea.
That could become interesting. Even story-worthy.
~~~~~
But I’d better not write now.
OK. Now I have a world, I need a plot. I’ve already got a character.
Whoa, whoa, whoa!!! Is this turning into an RRR, or something? If so, clue me in, por favor!
52- Not an RRR, but it’s expanding to become a place for predictions and/or stories about the future.
I predict that on November 8th, 2013, at 1:14 PM, lightning will strike each of the GAPAs’ home computers at once, and the resulting energy waves will enter the homes of every MBer or former MBer, endowing them with strength, and we will take over the world! But, on June 3rd, 2017, at 4:14 PM, six homes in London will be struck by lightning at the same instant, and the inhabitants will be endowed with strength, overthrow MBer rule, and rule the world themselves. Six months later, however, the MBers will take over the world for good.
Maybe I’ll do a fanfic about that…
I’ve never heard that a lightning strike has ever made anyone stronger, but in a recent New Yorker article Oliver Sacks wrote about a man who became a fanatical music-lover and talented classical pianist after being struck by lightning.
“The future? What does it want, a pension scheme?”
In the future, the Americans will go into an economic recession.
I predict that Alice will rule the world and be good at it.
57- Why thank you. But I’d rather not, if you don’t mind. You can have the position.
OOh! We talked about this in Social Studies a few days ago. My prediction that I told them was that the world will continue wasting resources and warring until civilization collapses and the world will be thrown into chaos until a tribe takes over and rules the entire world as one country. What I didn’t tell the class is that this tribe will be the MBers.
That’s it. I’m writing a story about MBers ruling the world. Do I have permission to include you guys?
Actually, I’ll use different people. Maybe their names will sound a little like yours, or be anagrams, or something.
I predict a supergerm (could be avian flu, could be AIDS, could be a new strain of smallpox… who knows?) that will cause worldwide death and seriously deplete the human population. The supergerm will eventually be eradicated by a supervaccine, but the supervaccine will have serious economic repercussions that cripple the economy of virtually every country in the world. However, we’ll get over it. The amazing thing about the world is that it historically gets over things. Quite convenient, if you ask me.
Try evolution.
I predict that in 2015, a random mutation of a bacterium in a piece of Gorgonzola cheese in a deli in a small Swiss town will result in a stable bacterial supercolony, which will achieve a sufficient level of consciousness to become self-aware. SInce the mutated gene is dominant, the piece of gorgonzola will be able to colonise all the other cheeses in the deli. This may result in rival intelligent cheeses and a local cheese war, which would go largely unnoticed by the world. However, there is a small possibility that the colonies may co-operate and merge, resulting in a higher and probably malign intelligence, which, being composed of many different cheeses, will be environment tolerant. Once yoghurt, creme fraiche and cottage cheese are brought on board, there is vast scope for advancement. This may ultimately result in the demise of mankind as the earth’s dominant species. We could fight gorgonzola, but think what a horde of microscopic, airborne recruitment cultures could do if they were controlled by a central intelligence in the Swiss Alps. Obviously, they would go for the cheddar first. If they could gain control of, say, 60% of the world’s cheddar, our armed forces would simply be overwhelmed.
I will now go to bed and allow others to continue this speculation.
You and your cheese…
i predict that in the future, the PB&J will become Cheese King of the World and force all his subjects to have numerous cheese parties.
Which wouldn’t actually be that bad…
64- what would happen at a cheese party? and the kingdom would be where?
sorry about that.
63- How frightening.
63- Hm… my friend Ana has always been afraid of Goldfish snack crackers. They are made with cheddar. I suppose I now know why….
65 Not a bad imitaion. Nice italics.
At a cheese party, it is customary to consume cheese, in considerable quantity and variety. Which is very pleasant, but not easy to achieve if one lives in the States, where decent cheese is in short supply. I would, however, recommend the farmers’ markets, such as the huge one in Madison, where small-scale producers are making some stunningly lovely cheeses, particularly from unpasteurised milk.
The Cheese Kingdom would initially be based in Kingswinford, although I could be persuaded with a substantial bribe to move the capital to a small island on one of the Great Lakes, or off the coast of Maine, perhaps. It rather depends on whether a suitable island is available.
68 – I don’t think crackers are a threat. The concentration of cheddar isn’t high enough, and the cereal would damp down biochemical signals to such an extent that the emergence of higher brain function is most unlikely. Tell Ana to be cavlier with the crackers, but keep a careful eye on that bit of Monterey Jack, in case it’s been compromised.
69- Hey, man, Berkely Bowl has amazing cheeses.
Prediction:Humankind continues to destroy the planet until its far too late. The population takes a massive drop, territorrial and religous wars break out, we kill ourselves off.
70- Hm. Thanks for the advice, PB&J. I inquired her about this briefly at lunch yesterday, and she said it was more the constant smiles. This makes me think of Goldfish as the culinary equivalent to clowns, whose notoriously, unwaveringly perky demeanor gives many a fright. She is particularly terrified by the colored ones, which make me think of the awful makeup worn by clowns.
However, she is perfectly comfortable with the pretzel version of the snack, which contain no cheese, so that casts my suspicions back on the superintelligent brie.
58- no, i’d be terrible. besides I don’t want to be in power, just have influence over those who do.
60- you can use me (Kathleen), or someone like me.
72- yeah, I agree. *hides under bed* these things scare me.
did anyone see the Doctor Who episode where they travel to the end of the universe. it was good.
73 – Ah, it’s always the Brie that one has to watch closest. That and the Camembert, because they’re in league.
I looked up Goldfish crackers, which we don’t get here, as far as I know. I see what you mean about the smiles. Siinister and creepy. Enough to give anyone nightmares. We don’t get scary food. Not unless it’s been left too long in the fridge.
I don’t care for Goldfish crackers, but only because they taste artificial.
The only cheese I find particularly menacing is Blue Cheese. The smell alone is enough to send its enemies to their knees; goodness knows what else it could do if it tried. Unless of course that’s just a facade, and it’s really very timid.
I agree, Brie is rather sinister.
And goldfish are “A snack that smiles back… Until you bite their head off!”
And what do you think of cream crackers?
Maybe Goldfish will be used as expendable soldiers; that is, pawns that don’t have a high enough cheese concentration to be anything dangerous individually, but, in large numbers, could significantly damage our defenses. It seems to me they would only have the intellectual capacity to take orders from real brie.
75- l completely agree. You can’t trust brie. l prefer feta, mozzerela, and monterey jack.
The first hint of the chaos to follow was a little regarded telephone call to the White House.
President Fred Thompson picked up the phone. “Hello?”
“Zurich… help… military… necessitate… gorgonzola… crazy…cheese…”
“Hello?”
“Help!” Followed by a soft squelching noise and dial tone.
The President hung up.
Hello? Doesn’t anyone want to continue? If not, I will.
I think the cheeses plan to conquer these countries in order:
Switzerland
Germany
Poland
Belarus
They will then have a direct border with Russia, which will be their first major target for two reasons. It will give them enormous land area and nuclear capacity.
What about France? It’s full of cheese.
I’ll continue it in a minute, if it is indeed an RRR. I just need a second to check up on my other threads.
82- Good idea. France will be a good first conquest. Camembert could be recruited there. Where’s Brie from?
France.
86- Perfect. Let’s make France the first conquest after Switzerland.
The girl twisted her spaghetti around and around her fork, staring at it with mixed feelings.
“Parmesan,” she muttered.
“What’s that?” asked her mother pleasantly. “Eat your dinner, before it gets cold.” She herself took a delicate bite.
The girl looked at her mother’s spaghetti, then at her mother, than at the little white heap of cheeses on top of her spaghetti.
Taking a deep breath, she said, “I’m not really hungry, mom. I think I’ll go do my homework.”
I know Parmesan isn’t an enemy yet, but this is just foreshadowing. Maybe the girl will turn out to be the heroine–or in league with the cheese.
Parmesan is from Italy, which also borders Switzerland, so it’s feasible that it would soon be infected by the intelligence virus.
oh, this is good!
I personnaly like brie…I must be…POSSESED!
Maryland must be a faction. It is awesome.
The future can be a scary thing, and I don’t think there will be insane robots and all that. Actually, I think the apocalypse is closer than people may be comfy w/ thinking. OOOOHHHH…. If i’m wrong, “Muse” will be a lot more popular, and the original MBs will be heroes. Whoever reads this is considered to be one of the original MBs.
2012, huh? That’s not too far away.
yeah. but it’s not just a museblog thing.
The cheese story is dead.
I think I will soon begin writing a story about Mostly Harmless- from the perspective of a non-MBer.
I predict that every single prediction on this thread is wrong*. Just look at 2001: A Space Oddysey.
97) How do you expect Fred Thompson to ever become president?
*except maybe for the one about Beavo taking a shower.
I predict there will eventually be 10,000 threads on the blog. It will take a while, and most will be dead, like this one, but the day will come!
Red-tailed HAWK
It’s like a coral reef: the dead threads form the structure for the living, growing threads to build on.
There are no such things as heelies. Heelies are a Greek myth invented by children to scare their parents into buying them iPhones.
100- Exactly!
98- I chose the most implausible candidate I could think of. This
isn’t exactly a serious story.
100- Interesting concept! And we’re the fish, anemones, etc. that the reef forms a habitat for.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, this thread is dead. However, I am currently devising a future history which is implausible, but somewhat fun. I may write a story set in it, to revitalize Musings About the Future. I will also re-initiate contact with Phlethreno Musisgrate and put this on Don’t Forget these Threads. For now, goodbye.
Bye!
I think blu-ray will win the format war.
This thread needs more posts.
I believe that most of the world will become drooling mindless drones to the media, and the ones who don’t become zombies will join the Kokonspiracy. The MBers currently on the blog will be leaders of their regions. They will take over the media and start broadcasting information about science, art, literature, and other useful things. Since the masses are now mindless drones they will be powerless to resist, and will eventually become educated, intelligent members of a Mostly Harmless society.
106- I am Ultimate Ruler of everything south of Oregon+west of Pacific+east of Nevada+north of San Jose. Schweet!
I think that the Virgin Galactic company will successfully build it’s spaceport in Mojave and have the first public flight of their new SpaceShipTwo spaceplane in 2009.
I think that the world will not end within my lifetime, but there will be, as always, a lot of nuts trying to make money by saying it will.
I believe that in the far future, the world will experience a great catastrophe. It will be like the Ice Age, except it will be a Global Meltdown.
The icecaps will melt and the world will first overflow with water, then global warming will become so intense that everything and everyone will dry up and die.
The world will start from scratch. Evolution will happen all over again. Except humans will not exist . . .
I predict that ocean explorer Robert Ballard will create the first of the underwater museums using robots controled via Internet2 that he has written about in his books by 2015.
I think OBAMA will DOMINATE!!!
109- Interesting. I am writing about a similar scenario, except that the world doesn’t dry up completely. Just lots of flooding.
110- Never heard of him.
111- He does seem popular.
Kevin picked up the large, antique spyglass from where it lay on the forecastle, peering through its smudged lens at the city which sprawled across the ragged mouth of the Missip River.
“That’s Nememfis, card,” the captain said, following his gaze. “Biggest city on the Mejico seacoast.”
I know that, Kevin thought. You’d think he’d expect me to know where we’re going, considering that we’ve been afloat for six months.
But there was no use mentioning this. It was Kevin’s third voyage beyond the West Coast, his first crossing the Panam Straits, and the last two had both ended in disaster. He wouldn’t be able to bear the humiliation back home if he didn’t make a decent profit this time.
112- Don’t you know who Robert Ballard is? The guy who found the sunken Titanic?
114- Now I do.
Is it bragging to say that I have Robert Ballard’s autograph? Because I do…
In many of his books, he has detailed plans for these underwater museums. There is already something similar at Monterey Bay that you can find by Google-seaching “Monterey Bay webcams”. That is a very dynamic environment, but the underwater cameras survive and transmit just fine. The Titanic and many other deep water shipwrecks are in very desolate, abyssal environments, so if Dr. Ballard gets the money, I think my 2015 prediction is very reasonable.
112 – Yes, well, he’s better than Clinton, at any rate.
I think I will go to high school within the next year.
He seems like a nice enough guy, but he’s anti-NASA.
118- he’s not anti-NASA, he just thinks there are more importent thing to do then start a moon base, or what ever you space geeks want.
Which is more important:
The moon base, or stopping Global Warming?
119- Stopping global warming. Necessary stuff first, cool stuff last. Moon base falls into the category of “cool stuff.”
You say space geeks like it’s a bad thing. If we stop Certain Other Very Expensive Matters, we can do both.
121- I personally think space geekhood is a good thing.
I am thinking of writing a story set in the year 2400. But I have no plot.
121- me to, but builting a base on the moon might make some people feel we don’t need to deal with global warming because we can just go to the moon.
Does anyone have any suggestions for 123? For reference purposes, I will say the following:
Permanent settlements have been established on the Moon, Mars and the asteroid belt. Earth itself, along with the Moon, is united under a single world government, but it’s not by any means cohesive- there are still a bunch of bickering factions. Parts of Eastern Asia are irradiated due to a civil war that escalated into a a minor nuclear exchange. All extraterrestrial settlements except the Moon are functionally independent of Earth, as it’s hard to govern a place that’s several light-minutes away.
Besides, NASA’s whole current budget is equivalent to 1% of the defence budget. If you’re looking for money to stop Global Warming (And believe me, I am all for that), there’s kind of a better place to get it…
And the dangers of Global Warming on Earth were realized with help from the Mariner and Venera data of Venus. By looking at similar worlds, we can better see how to protect this one.
123 – How about something in which global warming has destroyed the earth (think Day After Tomorrow), and we have to move to Mars or something? That way, all of the tree huggers AND space geeks can be happy.
127- Most nations on the planet have implemented a plan to cut down emissions (which they did BEFORE even going to the moon- You can be happy, TMFA
), so while global warming is still a problem, it’s not as severe as it is even now. And it’s improving.
The plot should have something to do with a mission to Europa from the Asteroid Belt.
Let’s see. The ship heading for Europa uses a prototype fusion drive that will cut down travel times between planets from years to months, or even shorter periods. The design is completely secret, even in the Asteroid Belt, so naturally lots of people want to get their hands on it and sell it to the rather imperialistic governments of Tianchi and Remus (the two major nations of Mars.) Failing that, they want to find the people who designed it.
Plot ✓
Setting ✓
Character ?
I still need a protagonist.
yet other point less argument:
If the U.S.A. Built a base on the moon, It might make it seem like we were the owners of the moon. Which would spark war.
129- The first effort would probably be international. I don’t think any one nation currently has enough resources on its own to undertake such a monumental project.
129- Yes, we’ve become so close to the other nations building the ‘Station that they probably will be very involved in the Orion program for the Return.
128 – Pick me! I want to be a main character.
132- Um, this isn’t a Muse fanfiction.
Huh???
*is confused*
134- I’m not asking for people to volunteer themselves as main characters, just to give suggestions (if they have any) as to what sort of main character I should have.
135 – Ah. I see.
Well, I would say someone very similar to either Hermione or Bilbo (if you know who they are).
136- Who… doesn’t?
137 – Hermits, I guess.
Also, someone similar to Han or Obi-Wan. Make them say “I have a bad feeling about this” over a million times.
138- Nah. I don’t want to seem derivative.
139 – What does that mean?
POSOC means he doesn’t want it to look as if he’s copying someone else. “Being derivative” means deriving your ideas from another source.
141- Precisely.
I now have a main character and a very vague plot. Further work will probably be posted on the Writing thread.
Ugh. The main reason all my characters are character-less is because I don’t want to be derivative. Everything’s been done already. Most characters that come to me are sort of stereotypical. I need to get over my qualms about that, and work on developing little quirks that make them different.
And writing fantasy. However cheesy and overdone the plot is.
Ancient thread still here
I don’t know why I’m posting
Nostalgia or spite?
the future is not here yet and I feel lost without it
I am not sure this is something that I can fix.
excelsior
Cryonic storage solves all problems by waiting for them to go away.
You’re kidding, right? This is the freaking future. There are people constantly living in space. You can talk with people on video anywhere in the world. Robots are driving cars. Surgeries can be performed from thousands of miles away. You can buy a ticket to space. You can watch live events from the other side of the planet in 3D. There are robot soldiers fighting alongside human soldiers. A computer is beating human Jeopardy champions. The cellphone in your pocket could organize hundreds of trips to the moon. If you lose an eye, you can have a false eye put into the socket that wires directly into your brain so you can still see. The amount of raw information on the planet doubles every 18 months. We’ve built buildings that are a half-mile high. We’ve created life from scratch. With a tiny little device that fits in your pocket, you can talk with your friends, go shopping, watch a movie, read an encyclopedia, write a song, start your car, and monitor an EKG.
For your feeling of loss, I prescribe a subscription to Popular Science. Take two issues and call me in the morning.
Douglas Adam’s guide to understanding how people react to technology:
Anything invented before you were born is just a natural part of how the world works.
Anything invented after you’re fifteen is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a job in it.
Anything invented after you’re forty is against the natural workings of the universe.
For example, here’s me, my brother, and my mom sitting around the dining room table:
Brother: Genetic engineering is awesome! It’s going to change the world! It’s the face of progress! It’s the wave of the future! Anyone getting into the genetic engineering industry is the new face of science! Man, it sounds so fun!
Mom: I think the moral and legal implications of genetic engineering are astounding. Genetically engineered things are unnatural and ought not to be eaten. Anyone supporting that industry is destroying the planet by getting too far away from their natural roots. It’s too strange.
Me: I’m bored. When are they going to genetically engineer a unicorn?
Here, here.
In the new issue of time that came out, the cover article was an article about the predicted singularity, where it is predicted that in 2045 that the computing power of human machines will outpower that of a human brain. Creepy, no?
145.3.1- I have a book that says someone once filed a patent that said how to genetically engineer a unicorn. Not sure how accurate that is though.
I predict that……. Oil and coal will run out by 2087, at the latest. We will be forced to go to Saturn’s moon Titan for more oil. (If you don’t get why we’d go to Titan, find the Dec. 2006 National Geographic and read the cover story.) That won’t be possible for 8 years though, as we will be locked in World War V. World War IV will have happened in 2065, and World War III will have happened in 2012 (and it will start on 12-29-12). During those 8 years, plus the time it takes to get enogh oil from Titan to Earth, civalazation will fall apart. It will be completely dependant on oil, and without it, hardly anyone lives. Half of the world will look like it did 1,000,000 years ago, before humans started wrecking everything. The end!