Something I've been mulling over lately is the constant tirade of images my parents and their parents saw when they were little-old style cars, old style fashions, old style technology. There's not a whole hellofa lot from the sixties or seventies that we use today, technology-wise I guess.
This brings me to the whole point of the thread. I find myself just looking around everywhere and thinking 'this is all going to seem old and grainy to people ten, twenty years from now.' The style of our cars, our computers, our living rooms, will all be altered and new in the future. I'm not sure if anyone can really predict what it'll be like, my dad once told me that the thing he least expected was the fact that there is a computer in almost every household (in the US anyway). Since it really is impossible to predict the technological future I think here we could just guess and play around with our ideas. If not I'm just using this space to get this feeling off of my chest.
For my guess, I believe that:
Computers will have really taken over in the average american household, based on the secretions in our skin, our breathing rhythms, the hormones we discharge into the air, computers within the household will 'change the channel' to what we really want and desire. There will not be world peace, nor a cure for AIDS (the disease will be in a decline because of rigorous education in public schools), but there will be advancements in cancer research.
Space-wise, I doubt we'll be much farther in the solar system than we are today. I do think that with new, larger telescopes being designed and built every day (I believe they're working on the largest one in the world somewhere in South America) that we will have had adequate time to find intelligent life, and that it will no doubt be either radically different than what we expected or nearly identical to us. There's really no in-between.
This is all I can really process at the moment. What are your thoughts?
This brings me to the whole point of the thread. I find myself just looking around everywhere and thinking 'this is all going to seem old and grainy to people ten, twenty years from now.' The style of our cars, our computers, our living rooms, will all be altered and new in the future. I'm not sure if anyone can really predict what it'll be like, my dad once told me that the thing he least expected was the fact that there is a computer in almost every household (in the US anyway). Since it really is impossible to predict the technological future I think here we could just guess and play around with our ideas. If not I'm just using this space to get this feeling off of my chest.
For my guess, I believe that:
Computers will have really taken over in the average american household, based on the secretions in our skin, our breathing rhythms, the hormones we discharge into the air, computers within the household will 'change the channel' to what we really want and desire. There will not be world peace, nor a cure for AIDS (the disease will be in a decline because of rigorous education in public schools), but there will be advancements in cancer research.
Space-wise, I doubt we'll be much farther in the solar system than we are today. I do think that with new, larger telescopes being designed and built every day (I believe they're working on the largest one in the world somewhere in South America) that we will have had adequate time to find intelligent life, and that it will no doubt be either radically different than what we expected or nearly identical to us. There's really no in-between.
This is all I can really process at the moment. What are your thoughts?
