What do you think the real 2370's will be like?

[RobertScorpio]

Ok try to look into the future, will humans be exploring the Galaxy in this time period? I think we will still be struggling to get out of our solar system.

As long as skirts are just a WEEEE bit shorter than they are now, my eyes will be happy..

Rob

 

[azebelys]

pretty much a more futuristic version of the world we live in now. This united world piece ideas would never happen. "its in man kinds nature to make war, not peace"

Given all the effort scientists have gone to to disprove warp technology and transporter and replicater technology, its unlikely we'll ever reach level of sofistication shown in most of trek. to reach enterprise levels would probably be beyond us.

and if i'm wrong, well i wont be around to see it anyway. one thing is certain, trek will still be remembered in 250+ years

 

[Ward Fowler]

Postbiological.

TGT

Interesting paper. Thanks for the link.

 

[FordSVT]

Given all the effort scientists have gone to to disprove warp technology and transporter and replicater technology, its unlikely we'll ever reach level of sofistication shown in most of trek. to reach enterprise levels would probably be beyond us.

That's the kind of an incorrect interpretation I don't like to see; scientists have not gone through a lot of effort to disprove those technologies, they've tried to see if they would work and have decided that the answer is "probably not". Scientists don't typically set out to disprove things, they set out to see whether or not they are true based on a hypothesis. The transporter and replicator as seen on TV is likely impossible. However, the idea of using a massive amount of power to "warp" space is seen by some as a viable way of getting around relativity (never mind the fact they have no practical idea of how we'd accomplish it). Also, nano-technology in the future might be able to simulate a lot of things Trek does with "beams". For example, a replicator might be possible using robots to build objects up from the atomic level instead of using some fancy magic technology.

and if i'm wrong, well i wont be around to see it anyway. one thing is certain, trek will still be remembered in 250+ years

And if you'd be comfortable with the idea, technology might have a few tricks up its sleeves to keep you (or a part of you) around that long to see for yourself.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

For starters there will be no interstellar travel and it's impossible to say how extensive any off-Earth human activity will be - because there's nothing historically or evolutionarily inevitable about such trends (certainly not over periods of only a few hundred years) but rather they depend upon what a particular society values and we've no way of knowing what society in general will be like.

It's harder to guess intelligently at the world of the 24th century than it would have been for a sixteenth century Native American to envision the 21st.

 

[kent]

I hold out hope that we will be exploring the galaxy.

but in all honesty, i think the human race will die out by then by it's own methods of self destruction.

We're nothing but chimps that can add, read, and write.

 

[Mistral]

I hold out hope that we will be exploring the galaxy.

but in all honesty, i think the human race will die out by then by it's own methods of self destruction.

We're nothing but chimps that can add, read, and write.

Actually, by then we might not be. The ability to transmute the "natural" human form is fast becoming a reality(see Greg Bear's EON or Allen Steele's The King of Infinite Space for examples) and could lead to "humans" that look nothing at all like us-or anything else we would recognize. Combine that with a few hundred years of nanite tech and computer tech(they are already working on molecular processors) and you have a world where nobody dies, nobody looks like anyone else, and nobody would suffer the concepts of modern poverty or hunger. The wishes of these immortals are granted by mentally controlled "computers" and the nanites build anything dreamed up. Sounds like a world full of mages. And demons, and other magic creatures-if you extrapolate potential sociological effects of the tech advances I cited....

 

[john titor]

so in theory, with advanced computers, we could live in a star trek universe, albeit a simulated one, which would coincidentally mark our current universe out as a simulation too.

I think scientific progress is exponentially "sprinting," while warp tech is not a certainty ,there is a model right now which doesn't require more energy than the net total of the universe. With more theoretical and experimental discoveries I believe there will be a way to figure out ftl, possibly within 400 years. I also believe that humanity has become more peaceful, educated and enlightened compared to say 700 years ago. Remember the trek universe still has bigotry, hatred, violence and so forth but the social conditions are different to the extent that people don't get away with these things as much. So while the trek uni may never be totally achievable the ideal should persuade people to strive for something aproximating its positivity.

 

[Kirk-Fu]

In the 2370s there shall be peace and harmony.

Because the human race wiped itself out in 2078.

Pretty much how I see it going as well. I'm not sure when we'll wipe ourselves out. But I don't see humanity making it to the 24th century.
I love Star Trek's optimism. But it doesn't seem too likely.