Beyond Tomorrow's World

With technology advancing at a faster rate each year and the future being unwritten I'd like to ask what do you think life will be like in 15 to 20 years from now on planet Earth? Do you think we'll have robots running the show or maybe aliens will finally approach our front steps and reveal a greater truth? Will teleportation and flying cars exist by then and what about if human life has sophisticated spaceships to take us to other worlds? Do you think any of this is ever gonna become a reality? I think all of the above will eventually happen tbh in the long run but it's just a matter of when.....

Hmm... In 15 years I think that automotive cars will be the norm, VR will be in every household, and paper money will be on the verge of becoming obsolete. I give robots another 20-25 years to hit the scene, the algorithms have to be damn near perfect before they become public ready. As for visiting other worlds, I'd say maybe our kids might see this come to a reality. There's alot of scientific breakthroughs we have to bypass before we can visit habitable planets. The existence of other intelligent life will be disclosed to the public very soon. Just my opinion.

I don't imagine things will change that much in just 15 to 20. Our gadgets will be a little nicer, but I think that's about it. Just look at what people in the 1950-60s thought the world be like in the year 2000, Wasn't uncommon for people to think we'd be living in some jetsons style utopia. Or how the mid 80s BTTF2 predicted 2015 would be like. That was vision of the future wasn't 'too' crazy and they did predict a number of things correctly, but at the end of the day we don't have hover cars/boards and wont for a very long time. Reality is change on a large scale takes times. Just look at 2016 vs 2001. That's been 15 years and what changed? our technology improved a bit but there haven't been many major changes in that time.

You both make very good points,especially with technology taking time to develop for more advanced things such as space travel and better robots. _________________________________________________________ @ Repo-> X_X I think Alien life should've been told to the world years ago. It's sad that we still live in the dark ages. The only difference is that the whole world is now part of the dark ages instead of just pre-medieval Europe... _________________________________ @ neet-I'd have to agree with that. Quote " Reality is change on a large scale takes time" No one knows for sure how soon or how long things will take for a greater change but I'd like to believe in our lifetimes we'll see the next golden era of innovation....it may not be for 30 to 40 years but I'm sure it'd be worth the wait Xp If in the distant future I could live long enough to get my brain put in a robot,then would I? >.> First I'd have to see what the Extraterrestrials would offer in mechanical suits wear and see about a sweet Earthling deal. But if they are gonna rip me off then I'm gonna not even bother and take my business elsewhere...

You know, its funny you say that, Neet-one, because technology is progressing faster than sociologists have time to study its impacts on society and how it affects people. When I was in electronics class, at my vocational school, they actually showed us a flying car in action, and claimed that it would be about this time when everyone would own one. I think patents and trying to find alternative fuel sources might have caused that program to shut down, sadly. I don't know the details very well, but at the time, it was exciting, and there are in fact other companies trying to make it work. They still need a lot of work before becoming standard transportation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRZNLBL7Px4 Space X is trying to start a colony on Mars within our lifetime, so assuming they don't run into too many problems, that's a good alternative to Trump 'Merica. lol From what I understand, Teleportation will be a problem, because while it could be possible (if several problems in physics could be sorted out), you have a very real threat of someone anonymously dumping an act of terrorism on a city, and leaving before anyone knows what happened. The safety issues are the main problem here, and if you believe in the conspiracy theories (The more grounded to earth ones.), the technology supposedly exists already. But I digress. Robots, like Repo said, are still coming through various breakthroughs, and will need various more in order to become a full fledged thing, but the robots that we have now really are impressive. Until you look at Darpa's robots with the terminator music subtly playing in the background... Then again, its not like microchips are going to get much smaller. Like on an atomic level, we still need to sort out a lot of paradoxes and answer quite a few questions about how and why atoms and sub atomic particles behave the way they do. @Nano: You know, as an (Armchair) anthropologist, I actually hate the term "Dark Ages", given what it implies compared to what reality actually was in the early medieval period after the roman empire decline, but I agree in this context. But on the topic of aliens, there really does need to be a disclosure soon. Too many people know they exist now. The part that concerns me is that it's impossible to find the whole truth anywhere, so now we have all those crazy right wing conspiracy theories. I gotta hand it to the CIA, their disinformation programs really worked exactly like they hoped it would. Sadly, if you look at it from a financial point of view, everything makes a whole lot of sense. It appears to be more of a corporate thing than a government thing now. /sigh And don't get me started on the power industry. We could already be using stuff like this! (Its not free energy, ignore the title, but its still a huge step forward) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HRnVWNkMrs