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Cowperson · 04-17-2007, 08:44 AM

Interesting short video looking at what your future world and that of your children might look like . . . .

http://glumbert.com/media/shift

Cowperson

Reaper · 04-17-2007, 09:05 AM

They still lied to us about the future. Where are all the androids and rocket cars? I want my jetpack, damnit.

Maritime Q-Scout · 04-17-2007, 10:52 AM

neat video... makes you realize how there is going to be a shift in the way the planet is run in the next 50 years

Mike F · 04-17-2007, 11:12 AM

Interesting (and annoying -- what's with that music), but you just have to look back to what people were predicting for the year 2000 a few decades ago to come to the realization that most expert predictions about the future just generate a list of what won't happen.

SaskaBushFire · 04-17-2007, 11:16 AM

OmG its Judgement Day!!!

Cool video and I love that song

GO William Wallace! Except History 213 ruined that movie for me :/ Damn History and its true facts.. Still love that song though.

Rerun · 04-17-2007, 11:20 AM

Top 87 Bad Predictions about the Future

http://www.2spare.com/item_50221.aspx

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«There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.»
Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC), maker of big business mainframe computers, arguing against the PC in 1977.

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«Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.»
Darryl Zanuck, movie producer, 20th Century Fox, 1946.

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«Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality in 10 years.» -– Alex Lewyt, president of vacuum cleaner company Lewyt Corp., in the New York Times in 1955

Ozy_Flame · 04-17-2007, 11:22 AM

Frankly, I welcome our future overlords from Asia!

North East Goon · 04-17-2007, 11:23 AM

How can a computer be more advanced than the human brain, when human's are developing it?

Ozy_Flame · 04-17-2007, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by North East Goon

How can a computer be more advanced than the human brain, when human's are developing it?

Haven't you seen The Terminator trilogy? It explains all that and more!! haha...

Cowboy89 · 04-17-2007, 12:52 PM

I agree with Rerun. Any predictions of the future are really wild guesses at best. It's taking current trends and predicted future events and extrapolating them. This didn't work in the 1950s and it won't work for accuracy today. All these predictions do is provide us with 'Brain gum' to chew on. Interesting vid though. Good find Cowperson!

Winsor_Pilates · 04-17-2007, 12:58 PM

I was hoping a transformer would fly through at the very end after it said "what does this all mean?"

Burninator · 04-17-2007, 01:00 PM

They forgot this one.

By 2083 - Robots will enslave the human race.

Cowperson · 04-17-2007, 01:04 PM

A look at predictions for the future made in 1900 through to the present.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/fe...edictions.html

Dated 2006, this is a futurists view of the world 20 years from now:

http://aei.dest.gov.au/AEI/Events/IE...Future_pdf.pdf

For myself, the flying car is the one that seems to be perpetually out there, from the 1960's through to the present . . . . . but where's my flying car? Another one is scramjet airliners to take you from New York to Tokyo in just a few hours.

Cowperson

HelloHockeyFans · 04-17-2007, 01:12 PM

I wonder if India will ever make a law similar to China's One Child Policy, to try and control the population boom...

Burninator · 04-17-2007, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by HelloHockeyFans

I wonder if India will ever make a law similar to China's One Child Policy, to try and control the population boom...

Would this have any effect on the religious beliefs of the people? I know some religions are very gun-ho on the "be fruitful and multiple" credo. Where as China has no religious associations to stop them from enforcing a policy like that.

Maritime Q-Scout · 04-17-2007, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by HelloHockeyFans

I wonder if India will ever make a law similar to China's One Child Policy, to try and control the population boom...

I doubt it, getting that legislation passed through a democracy isn't quite the same as in a dictatorship

Emporer of China: One child per family! That's the law

Prime Minister of India: I propose we have one child per family
Leader of the Opposition of India: What about our rights, we have the right to family who are you to tell me how to have a family?

I think it'd cause such a big gong show in parliament that it'd never happen. Can you imagine Harper proposing legislation regarding the size of the Canadian family (situation's are different granted but imagine the gong show!)

Winsor_Pilates · 04-17-2007, 02:25 PM

Don't think there's any religious obsicles in India for that, but human obsticles indeed. I can't the people of India going for that. They love big families

HelloHockeyFans · 04-17-2007, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates

Don't think there's any religious obsicles in India for that, but human obsticles indeed. I can't the people of India going for that. They love big families

Well, the Chinese love big families as well... my mother has 11 brothers and sisters!! But I see what you mean...

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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout

I doubt it, getting that legislation passed through a democracy isn't quite the same as in a dictatorship

Emporer of China: One child per family! That's the law

Prime Minister of India: I propose we have one child per family
Leader of the Opposition of India: What about our rights, we have the right to family who are you to tell me how to have a family?

I think it'd cause such a big gong show in parliament that it'd never happen. Can you imagine Harper proposing legislation regarding the size of the Canadian family (situation's are different granted but imagine the gong show!)

That's a good point.

skins · 04-17-2007, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by North East Goon

How can a computer be more advanced than the human brain, when human's are developing it?

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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Haven't you seen The Terminator trilogy? It explains all that and more!! haha...

yes, this topic is best disected via the trilogy. The Matrix is real!

also, they failed to mention in that video that SOYLENT GREEN IS MADE OUT PEOPLE!!! IT'S PEOPLE!!!

blankall · 04-17-2007, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by North East Goon

How can a computer be more advanced than the human brain, when human's are developing it?

This is a really geeky answer but....

The smartest person on the Earth designs the computer equal to his intelligence then kills himself. Thus, making the computer smarter than all humans.

Man I really need to get out more.