Technology in the future?

anything I don't mind · 23 Jan 2015 at 11:23

3d holographic communication platforms like star wars.
Remote controlled humanoid robots as well as humanoid house robots, essentially robotic humanoid slaves.
Self driving cars
multiple sense virtual reality, tapped directly in to the synapse
cyborgnetics upgradable body parts. run fast, see further etc.

glenimp617 · 23 Jan 2015 at 11:23

anything I don't mind said:
3d holographic communication platforms like star wars.
Remote controlled humanoid robots as well as humanoid house robots, essentially robotic humanoid slaves.
Self driving cars
multiple sense virtual reality, tapped directly in to the synapse
cyborgnetics upgradable body parts. run fast, see further etc.

in the next 15 years?

TheBDog · 23 Jan 2015 at 11:25

glen8 said:
in the next 15 years?

Pffft, more like 5!

Judgeneo · 23 Jan 2015 at 11:32

glen8 said:
in the next 15 years?

Holodeck? In some form, but not as impressive as in film
Humanoid house robots? In the lab maybe, not commercially
Self Driving Cars? Yes, they'll be mainstream in that time frame
Direct brain to computer interfaces? Yup, Multiple senses? Depends on definintion, vision will probably still be via the eyeball, but a sense of touch directly into the brain isn't far fetched, and is actively being worked on in order to help amputees. Virtual reality? Possible, but would require too many man hours of coding per environment to be widespread.
Cybernetic upgradeable body parts? Yes, we are starting to see this already in its earliest forms.

Mr Badger · 23 Jan 2015 at 11:34

Good news: Life expectancy continues to increase due to medical advances
Bad news: Government puts the retirement age up to 100

platypus · 23 Jan 2015 at 11:44

A more restricted internet

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robgmun · 23 Jan 2015 at 12:01

anything I don't mind said:
Remote controlled humanoid robots as well as humanoid house robots, essentially robotic humanoid slaves.

We've been through this before, if you think you're going to have humanoid robots in the next 15 years you're delusional. Technology is much further off then people think. It'll be more like 50-70 years and and robots that actually look convincingly human won't happen for 100-120 years

mattyg · 23 Jan 2015 at 12:03

The Dread Pirate said:
Fixed!

I read it 3 times and thought that doesn't look right.
I typed Shells 3 times thinking I was miss spelling it.

anything I don't mind · 23 Jan 2015 at 12:08

robgmun said:
We've been through this before, if you think you're going to have humanoid robots in the next 15 years you're delusional. Technology is much further off then people think. It'll be more like 50-70 years and and robots that actually look convincingly human won't happen for 100-120 years

They said the same thing about mobile phones and computers.

XeNoN89 · 23 Jan 2015 at 12:15

trying to predict what technology will be like further than 10 year never works out. In the 80s people thought we would have robots and hover boards by now, but nobody saw smart phones, tablets etc coming!

Wizzfizz · 23 Jan 2015 at 12:16

Actual zero coil whine GPUs

Terminal_Boy · 23 Jan 2015 at 12:17

BloodyL said:
1) What we have now, just a bit faster.
2) Apple will have patented the patent.
3) Half-Life 3 will still be in development.

Sadly, I think you might be correct.

Get yourself down the bookies for a £5 trifecta.

benjii · 23 Jan 2015 at 12:28

wilber said:
We should just about have a release of the most expensive computer game known to mankind, Star Citizen.

With its new crowd funding goal of producing a space station above the earth for people to practice space docking.

Ha!

doofer · 23 Jan 2015 at 12:29

I've said it before and I'll say it again...

Whoever invents a working cartoon-esque Boxing Glove on a Spring that bursts out of a monitor/screen at the push of a remote button over the Internet to punch people who **** you off or just deserve a punch will be the next multi-Billionaire.

Resistance · 23 Jan 2015 at 12:33

Nothing as the earth wont last much longer (end of days)

anything I don't mind · 23 Jan 2015 at 12:33

In terms of PC .

I think 1tb RAM will come out and 20tb+ solid state drives. I also hope for fanless chips and self cooling cases that don't need water cooling they just self regulate their own temps.

I think when ram goes to 1tb it will change the way computers are designed and a lot of stuff will sit in ram, rather than the disks improving performance.

glenimp617 · 23 Jan 2015 at 12:37

anything I don't mind said:
In terms of PC .

I think 1tb RAM will come out and 20tb+ solid state drives. I also hope for fanless chips and self cooling cases that don't need water cooling they just self regulate their own temps.

I think when ram goes to 1tb it will change the way computers are designed and a lot of stuff will sit in ram, rather than the disks improving performance.

Cloud computing will take off

Devrij · 23 Jan 2015 at 12:39

Speedy Pete said:
PC's will be obsolete as we know them.

They will be so small they will be integrated into the human brain.
You will hardly need to think as you ask yourself the question the computer will search for the answer on the internet with a superfast connection and display the answer to you faster than you could ever work it out.

Imagine that, but the search engine is google, and companies pay to provide their product as the answer to your question directly into your brain. That's more likely.

anything I don't mind · 23 Jan 2015 at 12:44

I was hoping by now we would have travelators on the footpaths but doesn't look like its going to happen.

robgmun · 23 Jan 2015 at 13:16

anything I don't mind said:
They said the same thing about mobile phones and computers.

We're talking about physical attributes that are at the moment very very hard to copy, even something simple like standing up requires balance which in turn requires masses of data for gyros per second. we'll see something workable in the next 20 years but it won't be practical and cost effective and durable for other 50. And a synthetic human will require breakthroughs in robotics that we not even close to right now.