"2057" was and still is the coolest special to air on the Discovery channel. It is a three-episode journey into what life could be like fifty years from when it was made (2007). Each episode details technology in a different aspect of the future; the body, the city, and the world. It has in-depth looks at how the technology could work and what progress, if any, has already been made on it. Plus, it has commentaries by Michio Kaku, so you know it has to be great.
@Felthat: Of course projected images of sharks will be able to invade and disrupt electronics systems in the future! What rock have you been living under?
If true, this is not the future I would like to live in. Yes, the medical advances are amazing, but it appears insurance companies are more invasive and touchy than ever. They're practically running the world, also why was the "hobo ward" flickering lights and look like it was made out of cheap sheet metal?
I'm just going to say that I don't really trust anything is program has said, it was too in-depth about topics you just can't predict. Yes certain parts are realisable, but skybound superhighways aren't happening. Too much risk for catastrophic engine failure which could wipe out several layers of traffic thus causing other vehicles to crash into buildings even destroy buildings and kill 1000s or 10000s of people all because one car had an unpredictable failure.
If true, this is not the future I would like to live in. Yes, the medical advances are amazing, but it appears insurance companies are more invasive and touchy than ever. They're practically running the world, also why was the "hobo ward" flickering lights and look like it was made out of cheap sheet metal?
I'm just going to say that I don't really trust anything is program has said, it was too in-depth about topics you just can't predict. Yes certain parts are realisable, but skybound superhighways aren't happening. Too much risk for catastrophic engine failure which could wipe out several layers of traffic thus causing other vehicles to crash into buildings even destroy buildings and kill 1000s or 10000s of people all because one car had an unpredictable failure.
But...
But everything is perfect in the future! D:
Except for that little flaw about sharks attacking computer networks. That sounds like it could use a little work... Yeah, I don't know if anything it says is credible, but it's sure interesting to hear.
Cities on Mars?... Pretty possible already in 2057. At least people there. They forgot the fact that in around 2037, the expedition to Mars is starting.
Provided someone other than NASA does it. As it stands, NASA is a political punching bag and they're having a hard time getting anything done because politicians are trying to make engineering decisions. Politicians can't make good engineering decisions because they're not engineers (and a lot of them are idiots).
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"The storyline has Paul, a thirteen year old boy accidentally releasing his holographic shark friend into the city's computer program, halting major city functions and electronics." - wikipedia
"By the year 2000 mankind will live on the moon! And also everything will be made out of plastic" - the year 1930
No kidding. Why do so many people in the media think that computers are voodoo magic?
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The inquisitors were torturing Harry.
First, Ignatius used the rock.
Then Billy asked Harry if he wanted to read his BDSM blog. Harry was so surprised that his pants flew right off. He was wearing women's underpants. The inquisitors were wearing them, too.
I loved the show. I saw it when I was just 11 or 12, and it was pretty awesome.
However, you have to remember that all predictions of the future end up wrong. Always. The problem is that even if you can accurately predict medical advances, social trends, etc., etc., for the future, and have this image of us in perfect bodies or something, a company will pull a Surrogate and revolutionize the world with some tech that makes medicine useless. Hell, maybe the next president will be a fan of underwater biology and have this campaign to find a superplant that cures all illnesses growing in some farawar trench, and boom!, penicillin and all that good stuff will become a thing of the past.
Or maybe aliens will make contact, or maybe we'll find a cheap way to use antimatter engines and go colonize Mars, and The Waters of Mars will happen, minus a benevolent, albeit arrogant Time Lord, or maybe some virus will kick its evolution into high gear and wipe out humanity, or maybe this, or that, or whatever. xD You get my point. There's too many factors involved, and it's common to see some unpredictable thing happen that changes life as we know it.
However, you have to remember that all predictions of the future end up wrong. Always. The problem is that even if you can accurately predict medical advances, social trends, etc., etc.
You fail. Hard, really hard. Jan Werich predicted submarines, cars, tanks, and even travel to other planets (the only thing he was wrong about was traveling by getting shot out of a cannon in a giant metal sludge that could be labeled a bullet.), and all that before the year 1800.
You can predict technologies much easier then events, so we can predict we will have some new cosmic engines and the such, but an Ion engine is in research NOW. Not startreck-ish engine, but just a gas-ionizing engine, which lasts for veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery long, but doesn't make that much of a speed.
I don't think you got my point. Sure, we can predict a few things, but we never get it right when it comes to where the future is REALLY going. Something unexpected always pops up that ruins the overall predictions. Did you read my whole post? >_>
I don't think you got my point. Sure, we can predict a few things, but we never get it right when it comes to where the future is REALLY going. Something unexpected always pops up that ruins the overall predictions. Did you read my whole post? >_>
Of course I did. It is apparent that something will pop up, but you can be more sure with technology. If it won't come out at first, it will be abandoned or researched more. While events and the such are different.
Wait, what? Explain yourself better. You're making no sense.
Wait, what? Explain yourself better. You're making no sense.
So, you predict a technology, right? The technology DOES come into research, but there is a giant fault found, and it cannot be researched further. BUT, a new way to continue such technology can come out and it will start again.
The same can be applied with events, too, but it's much harder to predict some events.
Okay wtf. My point was that sometimes you cannot predict tech. That's why I emphasized about a million times that you MIGHT be able to predict some things, like how medical tech may evolve, but SOME tech somewhere will be unpredictable and somehow it'll revolutionize everything. Lemme give ANOTHER example....
'Kay, so, as we predict, by 2050 or something humans will colonize Mars. But, what's this?, we find some cheap, amazing alternative fuel there, and suddenly we can travel back and forth in like 8.125 seconds and boom!, the whole world is radically changed by this magical new technology. No "events."
suddenly we can travel back and forth in like 8.125 seconds and boom!
Even with Mars and Earth at their closest it takes light just over 3 minutes to reach mars. Obviously I know you were exaggerating, but it's still really silly.
No "events."
This is an event:
we find some cheap, amazing alternative fuel there
An event we can be pretty sure won't happen.
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2057's wikipedia page. It has all of the basic information and generally covers what was said in each episode.
2057's website. It doesn't have a lot, but there are many interesting snippets if you liked the show.
Finally, a place where you can watch the three episodes online. Know that they are pretty long episodes. You can ignore the big links that let you download them; if you look not much below, it lets you watch them in your browser.
I'm just going to say that I don't really trust anything is program has said, it was too in-depth about topics you just can't predict. Yes certain parts are realisable, but skybound superhighways aren't happening. Too much risk for catastrophic engine failure which could wipe out several layers of traffic thus causing other vehicles to crash into buildings even destroy buildings and kill 1000s or 10000s of people all because one car had an unpredictable failure.
But...
But everything is perfect in the future! D:
Except for that little flaw about sharks attacking computer networks. That sounds like it could use a little work... Yeah, I don't know if anything it says is credible, but it's sure interesting to hear.
Provided someone other than NASA does it. As it stands, NASA is a political punching bag and they're having a hard time getting anything done because politicians are trying to make engineering decisions. Politicians can't make good engineering decisions because they're not engineers (and a lot of them are idiots).
No kidding. Why do so many people in the media think that computers are voodoo magic?
First, Ignatius used the rock.
Then Billy asked Harry if he wanted to read his BDSM blog. Harry was so surprised that his pants flew right off. He was wearing women's underpants. The inquisitors were wearing them, too.
They realized that they were all men of the lord.
- 30 Hs
The virus would be incompatible with the OS of the city (stupidly linked together as well HURR DURR).
The old guy is just like, "HACK THE WORLD? SURE THING GIVE ME DARK ROOM AND 5 MINUTES ALONE WITH A LITTLE BOY AND THY WILL BE DONE!"
Ouch.
However, you have to remember that all predictions of the future end up wrong. Always. The problem is that even if you can accurately predict medical advances, social trends, etc., etc., for the future, and have this image of us in perfect bodies or something, a company will pull a Surrogate and revolutionize the world with some tech that makes medicine useless. Hell, maybe the next president will be a fan of underwater biology and have this campaign to find a superplant that cures all illnesses growing in some farawar trench, and boom!, penicillin and all that good stuff will become a thing of the past.
Or maybe aliens will make contact, or maybe we'll find a cheap way to use antimatter engines and go colonize Mars, and The Waters of Mars will happen, minus a benevolent, albeit arrogant Time Lord, or maybe some virus will kick its evolution into high gear and wipe out humanity, or maybe this, or that, or whatever. xD You get my point. There's too many factors involved, and it's common to see some unpredictable thing happen that changes life as we know it.
You heard that, green and red.
I don't think you got my point. Sure, we can predict a few things, but we never get it right when it comes to where the future is REALLY going. Something unexpected always pops up that ruins the overall predictions. Did you read my whole post? >_>
You heard that, green and red.
Wait, what? Explain yourself better. You're making no sense.
You heard that, green and red.
Okay wtf. My point was that sometimes you cannot predict tech. That's why I emphasized about a million times that you MIGHT be able to predict some things, like how medical tech may evolve, but SOME tech somewhere will be unpredictable and somehow it'll revolutionize everything. Lemme give ANOTHER example....
'Kay, so, as we predict, by 2050 or something humans will colonize Mars. But, what's this?, we find some cheap, amazing alternative fuel there, and suddenly we can travel back and forth in like 8.125 seconds and boom!, the whole world is radically changed by this magical new technology. No "events."
You heard that, green and red.
Even with Mars and Earth at their closest it takes light just over 3 minutes to reach mars. Obviously I know you were exaggerating, but it's still really silly.
This is an event:
An event we can be pretty sure won't happen.