Technology 100 Years From Now.

[All Seeing Eye]

Taking a look at what we have now and what companies are currently striving to achieve, in 100 years what technology do you think we will have developed?

I'm talking about all sectors such as commercial, military, medical etc etc.

We already have some type of ray gun which has been deployed on a ship and can shoot down drone planes, so in 100 years do you think this particular technology will advance any more or do you think it will stay at the same level?

I'm intrigued to read what thoughts you have on our technological future. Have we currently advanced so far so quickly that there is very little further for us to go that science will allow? Have we reached a technological threshold?

What next for Apple? they have the iphone and now the ipad, what could possibly come next?

 

[Brent]

We already have some type of ray gun which has been deployed on a ship and can shoot down drone planes, so in 100 years do you think this particular technology will advance any more or do you think it will stay at the same level?

What next for Apple? they have the iphone and now the ipad, what could possibly come next?

Like all technology, the evolution of it will come in the size reduction and compactness. Sure, the thing is awesome, but it is HUGE. Time will mean that it comes packed in a smaller form, who knows, in 100 years it may be hand held size, imagine real ray guns.

And yeah, Apple has just announced officially the iPhone 4. I think video communication in real time will be our future, the new phone allows this now with front and rear facing cameras, but right now only in WiFi areas. The carriers really need to catch up.

I think real-time video communication and the like will really come about once 4G is widespread. But heck, carriers are slow today just getting 3G implemented everywhere, I don't even have 3G where I live. But 100 years from now, with the advancement of 4G and then 5G and who knows what G, global data/voice/video communication will be the future. Everything, every appliance, will have an Internet connection.

Oh, and touch screen technology, this is the future, the way in which we interact with electronic devices. Everything will be touch screen, and we'll be interacting with technology in new ways.

 

[MANT!]

SSTO will probably be a reality...also suborbital ballistic transport for high priority people and items..

military..directed energy weapons will be much more common and compact..
and ballistic weapons will become nearly obsolete..

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[sojourner]

Ballistic weapons can do one thing direct energy can't. Hit targets over the horizon.

 

[Arrqh]

And yeah, Apple has just announced officially the iPhone 4. I think video communication in real time will be our future, the new phone allows this now with front and rear facing cameras, but right now only in WiFi areas. The carriers really need to catch up.

Video communication is nothing new, people have been able to do it for years. Yes, even on mobile phones. The US has been very slow at adopting it because people here just don't seem all that interested in it. Not to mention, the EVO 4G on Sprint is capable of doing video communication over their network, not just on WiFi, and at a higher resolution then the iPhone 4 can do. Apple is hardly innovating in this area.

 

[Brent]

Apple may not be the first with video communication and front facing cameras, but you have to look at the adoption rate, a LOT of people are gonna buy this new iPhone.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Anyone but me a little afraid of hi-res video phones? I mean, it'll be necessary to comb your hair, wash your face, and get dressed just to answer the phone.

 

[Lindley]

Anyone but me a little afraid of hi-res video phones? I mean, it'll be necessary to comb your hair, wash your face, and get dressed just to answer the phone.

Yeah, but think of the 900 numbers!

 

[JustAFriend]

Anyone but me a little afraid of hi-res video phones? I mean, it'll be necessary to comb your hair, wash your face, and get dressed just to answer the phone.

...and they said exactly that back in 1964 when Bell announced the Picturephone in New York, D.C. and Chicago.

Luckily for your parents, they weren't successfull with it.

BTW: If you watch the old Jetsons cartoons from the '60s, you'll see Judy and Ms. Jetson using masks to hide their 'morning faces' from the other callers....

 

[Arrqh]

Or to put it another way, how many people have webcams? How many new laptops have them integrated? How many people actually use them?

People simply prefer texting, IMs and voice. The ability to do video is actually pretty commonplace, outside of a niche most people just don't use it for personal stuff because they don't care to.

 

[Brent]

I'm not saying it is common place now, but it may be in the future, as more phones support it, and as carrier performance and signal strength improve on a global scale.

Apple's FaceTime is pretty cool in that it requires zero setup, it apparently just works between iPhone 4 to iPhone 4. This will also be required in order to make it more common, it just has to work, with no setup or anything required by the user.

 

[sojourner]

I think psychologically no one wants it because it's just too much of an invasion of privacy. Too much can be inferred from an image that the person involved may not wish.

 

[Brent]

I think that view may change in time, its hard to avoid being recorded on camera these days anywhere you go in a big city, privacy is not what it was.

 

[Mistral]

100yrs from now. I envision one of two things-either a vast wasteland brought about by unchecked tech gone wild ala Carlson's Plague War or a highly regulated Humanity, allowed to use some but not all of the knowledge gained in the next century. Why regulated? With a century of DNA manipulation the human race could become unrecognizable-to the point where the breeding of baseline humans may falter or cease. Steps will be taken to avoid this-or not.The introduction of machinery powered by thought(already a reality) will continue to advance. Touchscreens? Hah, grandad's tech by 2110! Communications may very well be sub-vocal, transmitted by implants in the body. Computers will emulate original thought due to their complexity(molecular circuits, maybe). Holographic, direct feed information to (implants? or wearable devices like glasses?) will allow information access anywhere, anytime. Oh, and The Simpsons will still be on the air.

 

[sojourner]

I think that view may change in time, its hard to avoid being recorded on camera these days anywhere you go in a big city, privacy is not what it was.

That's still something different. Friends/parents/associates don't have access to those cameras, so unless you do something to stand out in front of one, you can trust to your anonymity to protect your privacy. There is a big difference between being on camera and being seen.

On a separate note, the cyber-implant industry won't come into fashion until the implant process can be cheap and painless, other wise can you imagine having surgery every time the equivalent of a new model of Iphone was released?

 

[PurpleBuddha]

In the near future I think there is a decent chance that things like natal will put us on a path where we interact with our computers through motion. Natal to me is simply the beta test of the concept. If it is done well, you can bet these types of cameras along with projected displays will begin to show up as part of computer systems for the home, in public and on devices about the size of smart phones.

But 100 years out? I really have no idea. I can say with near certainty that we won't get our hover boards by 2015.

 

[Ward Fowler]

As long as the chicken little's don't let the precautionary principle hamstring us, our children and grandchildren will have a lot to look forward to.

 

[Mistral]

I think that view may change in time, its hard to avoid being recorded on camera these days anywhere you go in a big city, privacy is not what it was.

On a separate note, the cyber-implant industry won't come into fashion until the implant process can be cheap and painless, other wise can you imagine having surgery every time the equivalent of a new model of Iphone was released?

It won't involve surgery-the nanites will build it inside you on command.

 

[JonathonWally]

Video phones will never catch on to widespread use. Most people are like me, they don't want the other person their talking to to see the look of raging indifference on their face as they listen to someone ramble on.

Business Meetings and other type settings, sure. I'm sure in 100 years they'll have holographic business meeting type things. But not for the average phone conversation.

Some realistic advances I expect to see within 100 years:

Food, I think, especially in the US we'll take major steps to make our food more healthy and keep it priced so that the whole population eats it, not just the rich who can afford health food stores.

Prosthetics. Fully functional replacement limbs, probably not cybernetic hands, but I think in 100 we'll be close.

 

[Meredith]

Full Prothetic Bodies with Cyberbrains.