The Thread of the FUTURE!

Have you ever wanted to use your bionically enhanced eyes to gaze out at a saber-tooth tiger eating a woolly mammoth from the saddle of your giant war sloth while psychically texting your friends about it on your telepathic iPhone 12 before hoping into a mnemonic tube and travelling at supersonic speeds back to your fully self-sustained eco megacity? Of course you have, and that's why you'll love this FutureTimeline.net website.

http://www.futuretimeline.net/index.htm

This website is pure awesome. As much as it might sound like science fiction, everything included cites current science and engineering projects presently in development. Our future will be as unrecognizable to us as our grandparents' future was seeing automobiles, airplanes, and the Internet change the world.

If you've read about any cool new inventions on the horizon, this is the thread to share them in.

 

I think the rapidly expanding field of 3d printing will lead to many cool things.

 

Boo yeah, honorary mention!

When you're able to print edible, delicious food, then I will be impressed. And buy several. Until then, I shall remain dubious.

What about those google sunglasses that let you surf the net?

 

The project was canned after several beta-testers walked into walls.

 

Lol...wait, for real?!

 

Well. I don't keep up to date with the latest tech. anymore. But that may well already be possible. Whether it would actually be safe to eat is another matter.

 

Nope, just messin'.

 

Yep it would be great.

 

How do you imagine 3D printing will change current production-based industries around the world?

So we have warrarntless drone surveillance happening currently and they're being outfitted with tazers, pepper spray, rubber bullets, and shotgun shells. I can't see anything bad happening with that. Carry on.

 

The new Robocop movie will be addressing/commenting on the advent of Drone usage. All I know is that the director talked about that being the primary theme of the movie.

Anyway, I personally believe that 3D printer will take consumerism to new heights in the next 5 years. I had read that an entry level 3D printer is now in the low $1,000 range. Here're some links:

http://www.solidoodle.com/?gclid=CL6b5832oLkCFUmk4AodrTQAxw

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Industrial-Scientific-3D-Printers/zgbs/industrial/6066127011"]Amazon Best Sellers: best 3D Printers[/ame]

What I envision is that eventually companies will start selling blueprints that can go straight to your 3D printer. Probably a one time use kinda thing. As it is a lot of people are relying more on having stuff shipped to their homes. Can you imagine how many more would prefer to have a device that will give them the item they want within, maybe at most, a few hours?

Scientists have already created a man-made "meat" product. That could seriously affect how the food industry does things if they make a 3D Food Printer or something.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...eaction-lab-made-burger-lacks-flavor/2618599/

 

Lower your firewalls and surrender your porn. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us.

 

That is just terrifying. Truly.

 

I keep telling myself I need to buy tinfoil dangit.

 

LloydsTSB have promised me that they are looking into the idea of having a decrease overdraft button on their online banking, rifht next to their 'increase oversraft' button That's right! You heard it here first. Now you can pay off your chargeable benefit as easy as it is to set up the facility to borrow the money in the first place.
Anyone would think the banks want people in debt?

 

Don't get generic brand, that just intensifies the EM signals.

 

All that copyright ain't going to be worth a carrot
Can I get upgrades?

 

I stockpile the stuff.

 

This new Almost Human TV series is clearly heavily influenced by many of these future innovations we've been discussing and looks exceptional. I'm excited for it.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykwxg534yAw"]YouTube[/ame]