I was sitting around, sipping on a nice ginger ale as I commonly do on Saturdays, and I was thinking about the short term future of technology. I was thinking about the internet and wifi and I thought that in the not so distant future the entire country will be wifi enabled and you'll have to start paying a monthly fee for it. No more dsl or cable wars, you just sign up for a carrier, much like cell phones companies, and you're always connected. I'm not sure how security for this would work quite yet but I was pretty impressed I thought of this. Anyone else have any thoughts on the future of technology?

I think going into the buisness of advancing technology is becoming increasingly difficult with how fast new things are developed. It's just impossible to keep up. As far as the future of technology, I see us heading in whatever direction we want most. Currently, that would be communications, entertainment, enviromental (as in things for our enviroment (home, work, ect.) that make life easier), and militarily just the same as it has been for hundreds of years.

Advancing technologicaly fixes our problems. We don't advance just for the sake of advancing. We do it to make everything better.

i hope global warming does not show any truly worryin effects and that fossil fuels don't run out before 2070 because i doubt i'll live until im 85 so ill be dead before i have to truly change my lifestyle lol

you could get them hovercraft things which work on both land and water.. don't they count??

Posted By: Udoboy

I personally hope we'll see cars that can ride atop water. That would at least let me get to work when it floods.

Excuse me again...http://www.hovercraft.com/content/index.php

damn, I'm gud

Any more questions I can solve?

Posted By: critdragon

i hope global warming does not show any truly worryin effects

Not to worry you, but it has been 60ºF+ until yesterday when it dropped to 7ºF. It is expected to warm back up by Tuesday.
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I recently read a Popular Science that discussed what they expected in the neear future. By 2025, your home entertainment system will be integrated into your home. You will be able to control everything from your PDA. If you lose your keys, ask your house and it will find them. You will be able to change the color of your clotes whenever you want, without having to get changed. You will be able to recolor your walls without painting. That will come in handy, since walls will be modular. You are more likley to have a robot maid before a cure for baldness, but the maid won't be invented for fore than 75 years.
Remember this is all speculation, but speculation by experts.

That sounds incredibly interesting.

Posted By: TadGhostal

Posted By: Trance

They thought we'd have flying cars by the 90s. Go figure.

Uh, excuse me.... http://www.moller.com/

Was that car made in the 90s?

I checked the site and couldn't find any information.

it said the project was started in 1964 but not the date of when the car was first made

Hmmmm, if they started in '64, it's very possible that they were the source of all the childhood propaganda about flying cars in the first place.

I don't know about you guys, but I'm starting to get the same feeling with these folks as I did over the iPhone and Tom Cruise: Seems cool at first, until you realize that there's something terribly and unnaturally evil about em.

Well, feel free to assume that just because Tom Cruise is man-made he is not evil, but I will not be fooled.

i believe the moon landings were faked. because how come there were no stars in the pictures?? and stuff.. lol..

I think about this shit all the time;

vast improvements in:
the ways humans are interfaced into the internet and hence what can be done with it.
the way products are designed and manufactured due to nanotechnology.
the way medicine is practiced, with extensive robotification and software applications.
very power dense energy sources like fusion.

the erradication of mass transit due to number 1.
a complete reapplication of education.

and finally (in opposition of common thought), a much more free and directly democratic society.

just some of my thoughts on whats up for the next century. on the whole, things will get faster, smaller, and better. higher precision, better hygiene, etc. i think the biggest influence will be the way we interface with the internet and what we do with that.

There is undisputed evidence that the pictures were at least "doctored". That does hurt the credibility of the entire program.

Wow, I feel like a tadpole in a fish pond in this thread!

Posted By: BGoosh

As far as the environmental technology grows.. I think we'll see a democrat in office in 2008 and whoever it may be will probably press hard for the environment or at least I'd hope so.

I'm against the environment, generally speaking.

i agree with trace there.. how can you be against the environment??

also.. about the moon landings.. how come the flag was movings when there's no atmosphere on the moon?? and i have soo many other reasons for this which i've fotgotten lol

not.. but sounds like a fun thing to do when you're bored

I have launched a total of 14 spacecraft from my comp....oops!...make that 15 spacecraft from my computer. Most of them carry various spy equipment and hover over Mississippi - that's where our next real threat is going to come from, I think. There or this weird guy's house down the road from me.

Posted By: TadGhostal

I have launched a total of 14 spacecraft from my comp....oops!...make that 15 spacecraft from my computer. Most of them carry various spy equipment and hover over Mississippi - that's where our next real threat is going to come from, I think. There or this weird guy's house down the road from me.

Coincedently, some guy down my street has been launching spacecraft, 15 in total, I believe.

Posted By: D League

Some guy down my street is trying to make an axe that can split atoms. Maybe you three should get together and build an ICBM someday.

What the hell's an ICBM?

Posted By: D League

AnInterContinentalBalisticMissle.

Thanks, But I already have 14 of those in my wardrobe, behind the mysterious box.

Posted By: Trance

Thanks, But I already have 14 of those in my wardrobe, behind the mysterious box.

Forget the mysterious box (it's no-trade anyways). It's bad enough that you have 14 ICBMs...

Posted By: Trance

What the hell's an ICBM?

...But you don't even know what they are. tsk tsk.

Posted By: Trance

8 grams worth of dark matter,
a 99P coin,
A trapped child,
And of course, a partdrige in a pear tree.

Ah yes, I saw that episode of MacGuyver.

[For Trance: an American TV show where a guy uses random articles to miraculously escape seeming impossible situations.]