Reminds me of how under-rated singularity is. It's not the best but I really enjoyed it...The Cheezy One said:
You know, i'm gonna go play Metro, i'm only like four hours in.
How do you imagine the world by 2050?
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You know, i'm gonna go play Metro, i'm only like four hours in.
I am the leader of the one of groups of humans on earth. The human race has been annihilated by the aliens from the planet Zernut. They are bulky with huge claws and fangs that can tear through metal and they have octopus like tentacles with thorns the size of a child's arm coming of their backs. They used an airbourne virus that only humans with a small genetic abnormality could survive for any longer than a few hours. We were able to send out to send out a distress signal calling for aid and warning them to use air masks to our fleet halfway across our solar system while the aliens were looking for survivors. We hide now in an abandoned government safe house. All we can do is wait, a hope that our fleet gets here soon.
Or maybe it'll be the same, who knows. Here's hoping for personal hovercrafts.
Or maybe it'll be the same, who knows. Here's hoping for personal hovercrafts.
It will probably be quite different in either a technological or political way. Not sure about much beyond that
the sad part is, your 1st prediction is probably true.pyrosaw said:
I believe the world would be BORDERLINE cyberpunk, with certain technologies very high tech, but others still retained.
something like the Neon Genesis Evangelion/Rebuild of Evangelion universe... with less giant biohumans and alien angels trying to kill us.
Time for the mandatory Doktor Sleepless quote about how we're living in 'the future' now and need to stop bitching about not having jetpacks:
I predict vat-grown meat and AR constructs intergraded into society.
I predict vat-grown meat and AR constructs intergraded into society.
Speaking of moon colonies, I believe Japan is already working on plans to construct a facility there to mine helium-3, which is a fusion by-product that... aw hell, if you want to learn about it you can wiki it. Suffice to say it's a tremendous source of power and if it can be mined and transferred safely then it could solve a lot of problems on Earth. I'm actually doing a literature review at uni right now on methods for using bacteria to generate hydrogen from sewage- there's some amazing work going on right now on enzymes, photocatalysis, nanotech and customised life-forms coming down the pipe (sometimes literally) that could well revolutionise the energy industry in the coming decades.
If we can restrain the supervillain-esque urges of Monsanto and their ilk we may be able to turn genetic modification of food crops into something that can keep everybody alive and healthy while we sort out our population issues. According to David Attenborough (who got his information from reliable anthropologists) the best ways to reduce the number of children a couple have are:
1) Reduce poverty- if you have more cash you don't need as many kids to support you in old age
2) Provide education for girls, encouraging them to find work and marry later (if at all)
3) Barrier contraceptives, baby (no pun intended)
It's going to require some big changes in attitude, but it can be done. It'll have to be done.
On the more techy side of things, we're fast approaching the technological singularity- in the next 5-10 years artificial intelligence will supercede natural intelligence and we may find that our creations and their truly "outsider" perspectives will help us to take a better look at ourselves. Sharing the planet with something smarter than us might inject some much needed humility into our assorted leaders and CEOs. Or it'll be war against the machines, but peace would be so much more interesting
On a personal level... I dunno. Cranial implants? Babelfish 2.0 installed in children to let them understand and (sort of) speak all languages? Brain mods to make us hyper-intelligent? The internet 3.0 and beyond redefining the concepts of 'intelligence' and 'education' to reflect the limitless knowledge available online to anyone who knows how to find it? If the internet has taught us anything, it's that whatever's coming will be moe amazing and more bizarre than anything we've come up with so far.
And, of course, we'll all be old duffers by then and whatever the future does bring we'll look upon it with disdain and tell our grandkids that it was so much better in our day when if you wanted to beat a virtual hooker to death you had to at least pick up a controller...
-Nick
If we can restrain the supervillain-esque urges of Monsanto and their ilk we may be able to turn genetic modification of food crops into something that can keep everybody alive and healthy while we sort out our population issues. According to David Attenborough (who got his information from reliable anthropologists) the best ways to reduce the number of children a couple have are:
1) Reduce poverty- if you have more cash you don't need as many kids to support you in old age
2) Provide education for girls, encouraging them to find work and marry later (if at all)
3) Barrier contraceptives, baby (no pun intended)
It's going to require some big changes in attitude, but it can be done. It'll have to be done.
On the more techy side of things, we're fast approaching the technological singularity- in the next 5-10 years artificial intelligence will supercede natural intelligence and we may find that our creations and their truly "outsider" perspectives will help us to take a better look at ourselves. Sharing the planet with something smarter than us might inject some much needed humility into our assorted leaders and CEOs. Or it'll be war against the machines, but peace would be so much more interesting
On a personal level... I dunno. Cranial implants? Babelfish 2.0 installed in children to let them understand and (sort of) speak all languages? Brain mods to make us hyper-intelligent? The internet 3.0 and beyond redefining the concepts of 'intelligence' and 'education' to reflect the limitless knowledge available online to anyone who knows how to find it? If the internet has taught us anything, it's that whatever's coming will be moe amazing and more bizarre than anything we've come up with so far.
And, of course, we'll all be old duffers by then and whatever the future does bring we'll look upon it with disdain and tell our grandkids that it was so much better in our day when if you wanted to beat a virtual hooker to death you had to at least pick up a controller...
-Nick
I was well up for getting singularity, but i try to limit myself for games, and it was that or the cheaper Dark Void, another enjoyable, if short, game. Playing it, you can see what yahtzee says about it running out of stuff. A plot point is hyped up majorly, then never turns up again. A character says something ominous, but nothing comes of it.The Ambrosian said:
I'll get sungularity soon though.
And go for Metro! I'll have another play through too at some point!
Singularity is great except for those damned phase-ticks.The Cheezy One said:
And I played the Dark Void demo and couldn't stand it. I thought it played pretty bad. That might be just me though.
I doubt that any smart nation will use nukes again. In war, no matter what the motivation is, both sides want to gain ground to use.RUINER ACTUAL said:
Nukes are counter-productive. While they may eliminate the enemy, they'll cover the territory with radiation and fallout, making the ground hazardous to troops.
Bio-weaponry would be better for a faction to use because, unlike nukes, you can immunize yourself to not die from it. Fallout shelters can't be made for bio-weaponry, either...
about 40 years older, I presume.
NASA will still get a pitifully small funding, scientific interest will grind to a halt as fat, lazy people become complacent with their facebooks and iPhones, yet simultaneously demading more for their money.
And then I will rise from the ashes of this world, chem in one hand, calculus in the other, and rule the wastes!
NASA will still get a pitifully small funding, scientific interest will grind to a halt as fat, lazy people become complacent with their facebooks and iPhones, yet simultaneously demading more for their money.
And then I will rise from the ashes of this world, chem in one hand, calculus in the other, and rule the wastes!
Like the AIDS epidemic. anti-biotic resistant sicknesses. Population increases and two emergent billion population nations craving the same resources we already have issue with.theevilsanta said:
I'm not going to scream certain doom, but the idea that things have never been better is kind of amusing. The idea that past beliefs of the end of the world offer much in the way of perspective is also amusing.
After all, it's more or less like saying that you've driven home drunk lots of times and you've never died.
i would like to be optimistic, but its difficult to be. prolly overpopulation and more suffereing. i dont rly wanna be around for it
I wasnt a fan either until I pulled off a couple cool moves. The dog fighting took too long though, and gets old really fast in larger fights, and enemies soak too many shots.The Ambrosian said:
Just thought I'd get Singularity for £10, but I must have been sniped onto the confirm payment screen, because it came up saying "that product is no longer available". Next one - £18. maybe when I next get paid.
I second this motion. I recon the scenario from the Deus Ex games pretty possible.stukov961 said:If it's not like this, I'm going to be very disappointed.
I doubt that scientific interest will fall flat. You see, science makes businessmen some serious cash.Singularly Datarific said:
Every electronic in your house had a research team behind it making sure that it was made correctly. And they got paid big bucks for it, too.
So, if anything, scientific interest will increase because of the growing need for technological innovation to compete in the marketplace. Public funded space and science programs like NASA might be doomed, but science as a whole will get more privatized.
far less people considering China is about to hit the worst tipping of genderbalance in the history of man and the enviromental changes in Africa will kill countless people. I also suspect a almost racist segregation politic will occur if a new big terroristattack happens. Some countries might even start deportation.
On the bright side: when the north pole has melted away and caused irreversabel damage to the Gulf (that's not the bright side) we can start sending all who denies global warming back to the schoolbensh and declare that everyone who denied or denies it for personal comfort are retards.
On the bright side: when the north pole has melted away and caused irreversabel damage to the Gulf (that's not the bright side) we can start sending all who denies global warming back to the schoolbensh and declare that everyone who denied or denies it for personal comfort are retards.
