Predictions for the future
 

I found these predictions in Macleans magazine.
Some of them are very realistic, while others not as much.
What do you think?

by 2015
- Demand for oil will increase from roughly 75 million barrels per day in 2000 to more than 100 million barrels per day.
- Nearly half the world's population - more than 3 billion people - living in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and northern China will be thirsting and "water-stressed"
- A sick person's DNA profile will allow doctors to better tailor treatments for a wide variety of diseases.
- Livestock will be commercially cloned.

by 2020
- World population hits 7.6 billion
- First samples returned from Mars show no fossil evidence of life.
- Infertile men use the DNA in their skin to clone stem cells that are then persuaded to grow into functioning sperm. Nine months later, the first stem-cell-sperm child is born.
- Astromomers discover extraterrestrial intelligence
- Retinal projectors redefine the home-theatre experience

by 2030
- Population odometer hits 8.2 billion
- Scientists create a gene to increase the three colour-producing cones in our eyes (red, green, and blue) to FOUR, enabling us to see new hues that we can't even imagine now.
- We reach Vernor Vinge's deadline for singularity, the point at which technology gives rise to "entities with greater than human intelligence".

by 2040
- Population? 8.7 billion
- Physicists figure out the origin of the universe
- Human power is increasingly battery powered. We'll be riding ultra-compact cars, bi-cycles and our scooterboards to Wal-Mart, the only grocery chain in the world.

by 2050
- 9.1 billion people wandering around
- The availability of fresh water is now limited only by the energy costs of transportation and desalinization.

by 2060 to 2100
- Human longevity increased by 30 years
- Vertical take-off and landing vehicles become popular
- Genetic engineering of humans creates a hostile super-race
- Most of the planet is now using a common currency
- Humans will learn almost all they will ever know about the laws of physics
- Travel faster than the speed of light becomes possible.
- An immortality chip allows humans to upload into cyberspace

My mother always used to tell me about what they had told her when she was a kid in high school. They predicted that by the 1980's all cities would be in a huge dome because of air pollution and we would drive cars that flew in the air.

Well, they were a little bit off.

by Oct. 15, 2005 at 12:40 am

-Mr. Blue will have consumed a beer

On October 15, 11:24 pm axedbydax will posting on this thread...lol...


Thanks for the info Chris..I really belive on some of those coz it already happened

lol, I hadn't looked at MacLean's magazine for over a year.

Then you go and post the ONE that I looked at last week while sitting on the in-law's shitter.

Being there for a wedding, reading MacLeans in that venue was the highlight of my weekend.

who knows maybe happen or not... I think one thing for sure is growing of population...

I don't think we'll "figure out the universe" by 2040. Or at least, someone might say they did, but I don't think it'll be correct.

very interesting predictions

Some of that is some scarry shit if you really think about it. As far as AI's call me crazy I think they are already here......

hmmm that's a very interesting prediction :)

- Genetic engineering of humans creates a hostile super-race

LOL! Someone's been watching too many bad sci-fi movies.

How about this one...

In 1977 a supercomputer succeeds in raping it's creator's wife in order to create it self a life in a hybrid baby.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075931/

:badcomp:

Very informative! Thanks for posting it! I believe it's true, cause we all have sign that its coming!

Re: Predictions for the future
 

far out mate the fourth dimension, maybe people might be able to see time instead of trying to find time :p