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Re: Do you think we will see any huge amazing technologies develop in our life time? [Re: nice1]
#11637357 - 12/12/09 03:30 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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C'mon nuclear fusion!
When I was a kid, I called a century or two on workable fusion. Now at 26, I'm saying sub-50 years. 
Must....stop....smoking...so much...to live...to see it!!
Then again, I imagine we'll have proper lung replacements well before fusion hits the ground (either technological lungs I again imagined as a kid or, as now seems more likely, lab-grown living lungs), so fuck, I might toke my 30's away and bet on my species coming through for me.
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Re: Do you think we will see any huge amazing technologies develop in our life time? [Re: nice1]
#11637932 - 12/12/09 04:59 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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Time travel back to woodstock and talk about taking a mobile phone smaller than half a pack of cigarettes and connecting it to an internet of more than a billion people. They'd think you took the brown acid, roll you in a sleeping bag and keep an eye on you till you came down.
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Re: Do you think we will see any huge amazing technologies develop in our life time? [Re: deCypher]
#11638199 - 12/12/09 05:51 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
deCypher said: I predict brain-to-internet connections within our lifetimes.
I'd be happy with just an internet connection that loads pages instantly.
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Re: Do you think we will see any huge amazing technologies develop in our life time? [Re: Silversoul]
#11638203 - 12/12/09 05:52 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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We all want faster access to pornography, this is true.
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Re: Do you think we will see any huge amazing technologies develop in our life time? [Re: deCypher]
#11638222 - 12/12/09 05:58 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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anyone wish they just WOULDN'T invent anything else amazing? that they would just cut it the fuck out, realise that none of these technological discoveries (other than medical ones) have made us any happier?
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Re: Do you think we will see any huge amazing technologies develop in our life time? [Re: VisionaryFlicker]
#11638233 - 12/12/09 06:01 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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VisionaryFlicker said: anyone wish they just WOULDN'T invent anything else amazing? that they would just cut it the fuck out, realise that none of these technological discoveries (other than medical ones) have made us any happier?
Says the person posting on the Internet from a computer. 
I'm very happy with our present level of technology and can only excitedly wait in anticipation for future inventions.
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Re: Do you think we will see any huge amazing technologies develop in our life time? [Re: deCypher]
#11638252 - 12/12/09 06:05 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yes as you can see my mood is set to depressed?  No but in all seriousness I'd rather live a more natural life, but I live in a country that has been asphalted for 90% they have killed all natural beauty and they have taken away my option within this country for a more natural wholesome lifestyle. So no contradictio in terminis has occurred.
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Re: Do you think we will see any huge amazing technologies develop in our life time? [Re: VisionaryFlicker]
#11639753 - 12/12/09 10:45 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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And what country would that be?
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Re: Do you think we will see any huge amazing technologies develop in our life time? [Re: nice1]
#11639863 - 12/12/09 11:02 PM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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How old are you? Remember in the early 90's when barely anyone knew what teh interwebzzz were?
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Re: Do you think we will see any huge amazing technologies develop in our life time? [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
#11640481 - 12/13/09 01:26 AM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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i remember back then and contemplating all the cool things we would be able to do with the interwebs even though none of it was even remotely possible, and now all that shit is old news.
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Re: Do you think we will see any huge amazing technologies develop in our life time? [Re: VisionaryFlicker]
#11640817 - 12/13/09 03:16 AM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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We are going towards the post industrial age.
Look at this thread. In twenty years 3D printers will be as common as inkjet printers are today, and we'll download and build many things in our own homes from biodegradable plastics made from plant sources, as easily as printing out a pair of airline tickets is today.
The whole computer/internet revolution is one of the most amazing radical transformations humanity has seen, and there is no end in sight for its possibilities.
Without it you and I wouldn't even be aware of eachothers existence. But now we're conversing.
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Re: Do you think we will see any huge amazing technologies develop in our life time? [Re: koppie]
#11640878 - 12/13/09 03:58 AM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
We are going towards the post industrial age.
You are young and forgiven for thinking history is linear.
It isn't. It's cyclical.
Hate to rain on anyone's parade but, at least in the short term, all cycles point to DOWN for humanity. I study historical cycles and economic cycles- it's how I make my living.
The Star Trek future many of us envisioned is NOT on the radar screen.
Some greedy-ass folks screwed things up for the rest of us and we are just now paying the price for it. Don't listen to the mainstream media or anyone in government- they are paid to lie in order to keep the Show going.
I'm still hoping for maybe some interesting things to come out of CERN before TEOTWAWKI, however.
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Re: Do you think we will see any huge amazing technologies develop in our life time? [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
#11640945 - 12/13/09 04:50 AM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'm 30 but I'm talking about like stuff that was predicted in the start of the 80's
Like moon bases, robots doing our chores, flying cars, ya know cool technologies that never happened.
The internet is great but its not particularly amazing to me. Its just an overgrown bunch of networked computers.
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Re: Do you think we will see any huge amazing technologies develop in our life time? [Re: zorbman]
#11640962 - 12/13/09 05:02 AM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'm probably older than you. (38 to be precise) but as I get older my optimism grows. The greedy ass folks are in revolt because they see their world crumbling. Today it's intellectual property that can't be contained, tomorrow it's physical property that will be liberated. I too believe that history goes in cycles but each cycle there is a minor improvement. The depression now is deeper than the depression of the 1930s but there is less abject poverty. (It's still bad but nothing like the era of Hoovervilles.) The worst rulers of our era manage to murder one or two million people but nothing like the 50 million Stalin and Mao each managed to kill off. No war will be as terrible as World War I. Less women die in childbirth than ever before. Technology has done more to improve the lot of humanity than economics and politics put together. The latter two being mere crutches to manage our shortcomings.
There is an immense change coming, the Show is ending, but I'm guessing it's more the Singularity according to Ray Kurtzweil rather than the Singularity according to Daniel Pinchback. There will be abundance if we plan for it and those who live by taking advantage of scarcity will be the great losers. These are not new ideas, Buckminster Fuller has been advocating this model since the 1930s. It has fallen out of favor by the early 1980s but it is slowly coming back. Without Open Source software running on commodity hardware the internet would never have grown to what it is today. Open source hardware is the next step.
The 3D printers you can build today are like the home computers of the 1970s. For the serious homebrew hobbyist only. The decendants of these machines will be fit for everybody.
Now you may want to cling to your dwindling old world economic habitat and you will go the way of the Giant Panda, or you can embrace the change. The technology is here and nothing can stop it. Out of necessity it will become cleaner and cheaper with each improvement. The economy isn't a zero sum game, there is real wealth to be produced by all of us.
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Re: Do you think we will see any huge amazing technologies develop in our life time? [Re: koppie]
#11640969 - 12/13/09 05:10 AM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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I hope your right.
How would open source hardware work ? With software its free, everything is virtual and anyone can do it. With hardware you need to buy electronics etc still.
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Re: Do you think we will see any huge amazing technologies develop in our life time? [Re: koppie]
#11640987 - 12/13/09 05:24 AM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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At the moment the machines can make 60% of their own mechanical parts, and efforts are currently underway to produce printed circuit boards. In time more and more parts can be made. Perhaps in twenty years RepRap v5 can build stepper motors and RepRap generation 10 may be able to build it's own electronics. Look at computers today. An iPhone has more processing power than the entire world had at it's disposal in the 1970s.
The technology is still primitive but evolving quickly. Here's an experimental solder print head laying down solder tracks on a circuit board extruded by the same machine.
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