The Future... Thread

A Space Oddessey 2001. The 5th Element. The One. The Matrix. Hell, even the Jetsons and Futurama.

All these programs show the future. When is this future coming? I want to Tony Hawk on a Hoverboard, go on a date in my Air Saturn Ion, have a vacation on a Moon resort, and go to work in an underwater biosphere. Are people even trying to make these dreams come true? I heard about a car that runs on water and has a joystick for a steering wheel. I thought that was really cool and maybe the next step into technology. I have yet to anymore on the subject which leads me to belive that maybe my mind fabricated the idea up to give me piece of mind on this subject. But maybe, just maybe the future is alot closer than I think. In WIRED Magazine (August 2003), page 94 talks about 'Super Hero Powers' (X-Ray Vision, Regeneration, Total Recall, Teleportation, Weather Control, Force Fields, Underwater Breathing, and Super Strength) and how scientist are actually coming out with positive results on each one. Yet, we won't see anything of these 'powers' in our lifetime, hell not even in our kids' lifetime. What about Robots that do house work? Virtual Reality? Would'nt you love to play your favorite PC or Console like it was happening right outside your front lawn? Online? I do and I am tired of waiting. I predict (and God willing) I have about 50-70 more years of life in me. Hopefully I'll see some progress.

What are your thoughts.

- Edited By buju_pers0nified On Mon 15th, Sep 2003 @ 4:58:08pm

Well i hope to see some of that stuff , and god i hope to be alive i love to think about the shit scientists could create

I hope to see some stuff too. I want a pair of anit-gravity space boots that the astronanuts wear. My mother would freak out to see me walking on the ceiling.

um we aint invented anti gravity yet astronanuts just have heavy boots or boots that have magnets in them that connect to the type of material on the grnd or floor, i think, but i know we aint invented anti gravity yet, thats like messing with gravity on this earth

Thats what I was thinking about. How about those remote-controlled shoes in the Nike commercials?

man, the matrix is here!...oh wait...nothing...nvm...uh...
/me runs

Nike.com

You haven't seen the commerical when a guy is racing a remote-controlled shoe?

- Edited By buju_pers0nified On Mon 15th, Sep 2003 @ 7:33:35pm

whoa! the futures gonna be wacked!

Well there was a car recently slated for production that can drive out into the water, tuck the wheels, and drive like a boat - except it has a wheel not a joystick.

The Moller company has recently begun taking orders for their Moller Skycar, which is a skypod with wheels and invertable engines that can lift off from a standing position and blast you through the sky, just like the Jetsons. It even has GPS tracking so you can type in a position and shoot straight there, the landing is up to you though. I have a photo of it from a magazine, it's fuckin awesome.

I don't know when this future is going to be here, everyone thought 50 years ago that by the year 2000 we'd be living on Mars. Technology has been growing exponentionally, but many of those fanciful aspects of daily life won't be a standard for probably centuries.

yeah, was it in the 70-80's some astonout dude was planning colonizing the moon.. but he died everyone lost hope everything failed and BLEH!

i want us to goto mars now !!!

40ozFreak wrote:
The Moller company has recently begun taking orders for their Moller Skycar, which is a skypod with wheels and invertable engines that can lift off from a standing position and blast you through the sky, just like the Jetsons. It even has GPS tracking so you can type in a position and shoot straight there, the landing is up to you though. I have a photo of it from a magazine, it's fuckin awesome.

Can you scan it or something so I can see it?

- Edited By buju_pers0nified On Wed 17th, Sep 2003 @ 10:18:11am

yeah do that 40oz

The Moller M400 Skycar

Videos:
[url=http://media.moller.com/m200xdsl.ram]Flight Test

Passengers: 4
Top speed @ 20,000 ft: 380 mph
Cruise speed @ 29,000 ft (80% Max Range): 300 mph
Cruise speed @ 29,000 ft (Max Range): 210 mph
Cruise speed @ Sea Level (Max Range): 140 mph
Maximum rate of climb: 5500 ft/pm
Maximum range: 900 miles
Net payload: 750 lbs
Fuel consumption: 28 mpg
Operational ceiling: 29,000 ft
Gross weight: 2400 lbs
Installed engine power: 645 hp
Power boost (emergency): 70%
Dimensions (LxWxH): 19.5' x 8.5' x 7.5'
Takeoff and landing area: 35 ft diameter
Noise level at 500 ft: 65 dba (Goal)
Vertical takeoff and landing: yes
Uses automotive gas: yes
Emergency parachutes: yes

So they are trying to make hovering cars? unforutnaly i dont see that going very far n the public

Why not? It works just fine, they have several functioning prototypes and orders are already flooding in. What makes you skeptical? The technology has been within our grasp for years now, it just took someone the dedication to make it work.

I dunno, its the public, we are so stupid, we will be scared

and we dont have the street room right now and how long do you think it would be until you get your driving license?

WHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! That a nice looking car! I'd sell my mother for that!

can we see a picture of the one that goes on water?

The future comes slowly and unnonticed... you wont notice it until you look back and think omg my computer only had 120 gig when I was a young man and then laugh...

yah i know what you mean, when the future is here, it will seem like daily life and nothing special atol... unless we are all alive to witness a big change in techology.. which i doubt

yeah its like you wake up one morning and say hey my Honda floats and it goes twice the speed of sound but I think Ill just use my teleporter to go to work today but not until I activate my hygeine maintenence system!

- Edited By hatel3reed On Wed 17th, Sep 2003 @ 8:59:34pm

Hatel3reed wrote: yeah its like you wake up one morning and say hey my Honda floats and it goes twice the speed of sound but I think Ill just use my teleporter to go to work today but not until I activate my hygeine maintenence system!

- Edited By hatel3reed On Wed 17th, Sep 2003 @ 8:59:34pm

Thats the Future I want! /me kisses hatel3reed

Hatel3reed wrote: yeah its like you wake up one morning and say hey my Honda floats and it goes twice the speed of sound but I think Ill just use my teleporter to go to work today but not until I activate my hygeine maintenence system!

- Edited By hatel3reed On Wed 17th, Sep 2003 @ 8:59:34pm

haha

New things are exciting and controversial for a few weeks, maybe even months, and then the mainstream accepts them and the shine is gone.

exactly... unless they create something like the holo deck in star trek then there is endless possibilities