Kurzweil Timeline of the Future

[Dabram]

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[Tone]

Considering Longhorn (win 06) is supposed to be nowhere near that, I doubt Win 09 will be anything like that nonsense.

I remember in the late 80's and early 90's, everyone was predicting flying cars in 2010, and that seems like the stupidest idea now.

"The neo-luddite movement is growing" Oh noes! Aaaa! Not the neo-luddites! They will destroy my PC with their...um...rakes and shovels! They will send me a virus...by coughing on me!

First it was the 50s, then the 60s, now its the 80s and 90s and 2010. I dont know what you are smoking, no one predicted flying cars for 2010 in the late 80s and 90s. thats ridiculous crap that has nothing to do with this thread. if i recall enough of your posts now, your always on a roll for that sort of posting with a sprinkle of negativity and disdain on top

tone seems to find the most hated things ever.

I guess so

Some of you probably already know this, but I thought it was kind of a cool gimmick. Our Lady Peace's fourth LP "Spiritual Machines" draws a lot of influence (and even some readings) from Ray Kurzweil--specifically The Age of Spritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence. Just an interesting side note.

I highly recommend checking out that book

[Troll King]

Back to the Future part 2 does not count as a prediction.

[Kontrolz]

lol this stuff is like what people thought back in the 50's lol they thought that we wouldn't take baths in bathtub..... they thought machines would do it for us ahah.

Yea, according to the leading engineers years ago they predicted that because of how fast technology was progressing we'd have flying cars by 2000. I want my damn flying car.

Edit: This wasn't late 80's early 90's, more like mid 60's when auotomobile technology was exploding. Tone, this falls under the same category. Oh, and the fact that you defended this as some type of actual insight is a joke Tone, before this thread I thought, "wow, this Tone guy might actually have a shred of intelligence". This clearly is good entertainment, and only entertainment.

[Tone]

Facing the future with a chip in the shoulder

Facing the future with a chip in the shoulder

The Age | April 14, 2005
By Paul McIntyre

Forget mobile phones as the hottest new media technology - for anyone under 30, handsets as we know them will be gone in 20 years. The world's tech-savvy youngsters will be using microchip implants to communicate and transact.

The microchip movement is one of dozens of forward-looking scenarios that some of Australia's major companies got a fix on this week courtesy of Network Ten's innovation and future scoping program.

If the microchip scenario sounds too much like a Star Trek episode, London nuclear physicist, marine biologist and futurist Wolfgang Grulke has news: it's already happening.

Last April, Barcelona's Baja Beach Club began microchipping its VIP nightclub members, to let them into exclusive areas and clock up drinks and food via a chip implant in the arm produced by VeriChip Corporation. Within a decade, Mr Grulke says, microchips will be common. Already two scientists at Britain's Warwick University have chips embedded under their skin that let them send emails just by thinking.

The process is still cumbersome, Mr Grulke says, but by willing a cursor around a keyboard on a computer screen with their mind, they can write and send emails. "It's really the start of interfacing the chip with the nervous system," he said.
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"Twenty years from now, we (older generations) will still hate it, but kids will never know a world without it."

The arrival of the hip, young microchippers is only the start of radical industry-changing trends that Mr Grulke says big companies are struggling to address because of their reluctance for "radical innovation".

Mr Grulke is a co-founder of the business and technology think tank FutureWorld, and lectures at London Business School's executive development program. Although he's working for Network Ten, he has no qualms in predicting the end of broadcast TV.

"We will still have movies, news and drama but they will not be delivered through the same channels."

Traditional media such as newspapers and magazines will survive but will be "a real luxury. There will be fewer people using traditional media and it will be much more expensive. I will have to pay five times what I pay now for a newspaper. Many will pay for an electronic version but won't be able to afford the hard copy."

Broadcasters, Mr Grulke says, will be very different beasts. "The reason we're talking to (Ten) is, they're saying they agree with where the industry is going so let's develop some strategies to anticipate that. One of the key lessons for the future is, eat yourself before somebody else does."

http://www.theage.com.au/news/Busine...51680405.html#

[Theif of Time]

Hmm...
Technology under development at this very moment uses small transmitters that alter the natural human electric field (we know that we humans, and most animals, have very weak electric fields associated with us) and others that read alterations in it, allowing data to be stored in your own personal field. This could include such applications as transferring data- music, etc. by touch, aswell as storing large amounts of info around your person to be retrieved via a hand held device or something similar.
I'm not too sure the specifics of this technology, but that is the main part of it. I may have got some details wrong; not sure if the data is actualy stored in the electric field or the electric field is just a medium, such as fibreoptic cables and wires.

Oh, and from what I understand of the current understanding of the human genome, tinkering with it is akin to suicide as we don't know enough about it, so the only way I can see to alter the brain is via chemical burning of parts, electronic implants, laser surgery. Tone, How exactly is this engineering to be acomplished?

[Fit of Rage]

Tuesday: Go to Weatherspoons (pub) then Time & Envy (club). Get wrecked
Wednesday: Go to The Registry (pub) to watch the Liverpool match. Get wrecked
Thursday: Go to Route 66 (club). Get wrecked
Friday: Go visit a friend in Oxford (town). Get wrecked after the first pint due to the alcohol thats still in my system
Saturday: Check my bank balance. Cry a little

Sunday: Pray. Then get plastered again.