The future

Grunfeld

57Deluxe said:

Sambostar said:

what's Bryan Ferry doing with that chicken?

He's about to sing "Sentimental Foul"

sorry...

Kilgore

All very interesting but will we still be using valve amps?

TTony

I like the "human body 2.0 arrives" bit.

I'm going to wait for 2.11 after the bugs in 2.0, and the even more bugs in the hurriedly released fix of 2.01 have been resolved.  At least that process should get rid of all the early adopters.

2.1 introduces the really useful functionality that should really have been in 2.0, but was cut to make the release schedule.

2.11 fixes the bugs in 2.1.

I'll not be quite the "last man standing" because @Phil_aka_Pip is still on Dos v5.0 and hasn't adopted anything "new" since 1982.

Phil_aka_Pip

I'll have you know I installed the latest Debian brew on a virtual machine yesterday!

An elderly gentleman once asked me what prompted my interest in history (I was visiting an ancient site just out of curiosity). What I told him was: I'm disillusioned with the present, and dread the future, so the past is the least objectionable thing to look at. Or words to that effect.

Sporky

I hear futurology is due to make great leaps and bounds over the next 20 years.

Bucket

The thought of some of that stuff coming true scares the shit out of me.

Really I just want a jetpack or to be able to teleport.

Emp_Fab

I just want an intravenous drip of essential nutrients and the orgasmotron.

hywelg

Complete and utter tosh. 

We'll be able to travel at greater than the speed of light. Fucking idiot. 

My predictions would be a lot more sensible. 

Nuclear fusion would be producing energy to power the national grid by 2050. By 2099 it will run the whole planet except for those places that generate electricity by solar farms. CO2 scrubbing farms and farmed algal blooms will be operational. Humans will still argue and fight.....mostly about religion though it will be vastly diminished.  

fields5069

paulnb57

Its all irrelevent really.....out in space there are at least a billion asteroids just floating around in the same space as our little planet orbits.......one day one will cross our path and hit us, pretty much impossible to track or predict, or destroy in space.......the impact is likely to be as large as all the combined nuclear warheads in existence.....not good, the first we are likely to know is when our amosphere in front of it is being compressed to the point of burning, it will strike one second later. Its unlikely that much will survive......life is pretty resilient, so something might, but the planet will be FUBAR.....
Probably.....
Buy that guitar you are gassing for!
Have a nice day!

Ravenous

paulnb57 said:

Its all irrelevent really.....out in space there are at least a billion asteroids just floating around in the same space as our little planet orbits.......one day one will cross our path and hit us, pretty much impossible to track or predict, or destroy in space.......the impact is likely to be as large as all the combined nuclear warheads in existence.....not good, the first we are likely to know is when our amosphere in front of it is being compressed to the point of burning, it will strike one second later. Its unlikely that much will survive......

Never mind, it's nearly Friday!!

FX_Munkee

paulnb57 said:

Its all irrelevent really.....out in space there are at least a billion asteroids just floating around in the same space as our little planet orbits.......one day one will cross our path and hit us, pretty much impossible to track or predict, or destroy in space.......the impact is likely to be as large as all the combined nuclear warheads in existence.....not good, the first we are likely to know is when our amosphere in front of it is being compressed to the point of burning, it will strike one second later. Its unlikely that much will survive......life is pretty resilient, so something might, but the planet will be FUBAR.....
Probably.....
Buy that guitar you are gassing for!
Have a nice day!

If you've still got the receipt for your "thought of the day" desktop calendar, I'd consider asking for a refund.

Flanging_Fred

I was on my way to a lecture about Quantum technology research yesterday but I realised I was hungry and went for a sausage roll instead. 

I think the world is probably safe now.

Ravenous

Flanging_Fred said:

I was on my way to a lecture about Quantum technology research yesterday but I realised I was hungry and went for a sausage roll instead. 

I think you meant to say - you both went to the lecture, and didn't go, at the same time?

Sporky

Sausage rolls are well known for their ability to collapse eigenstates.

Thought to be the only food that acts as an independent observer of the universe.

VimFuego

I've always wondered why they are called rolls when they are clearly not in a roll. And if you want a sausage in a roll, you have to ask for a hotdog. 

Flanging_Fred

Sporky said:

Sausage rolls are well known for their ability to collapse eigenstates.

Thought to be the only food that acts as an independent observer of the universe.

The only thing the sausage rolls at work are going to collapse are my intestines. On the Ginsters scale of animal product uncertainty, Id say they're pretty offal.

BigBearKris

I just need to need to know - will those cool BTTF hoverboards be in stock at Amazon at some point??