what will the future be like in 10, 50, 200, 1000 years? More computers?
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I think technology would be more intricate which I don't love the sound of that.
1018280
It is time for a new computer.
721631
Definitely the future, sometime when war, crime and famine are no longer an issue.  And skycars, yeah, we gots to have skycars :-) they are long overdue!!!
8962
As far as booksmarts & the ability to multitask goes, we will be smarter. As far as common sense, I believe that we have already gotten dimmer over even the last ten years. The ease of technology on our everyday lives, I think, is undermining our common sense & street smarts :)\n\nGood question!
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Actually a man named Ray Kurzweil (something of a big name in these circles) has been writing about this very topic for the past twenty years. Kurzweil is a researcher, inventor, and developer of computer electronics as well as the recipient of a couple presidential awards. Furthermore he is a published author of numerous books and articles regarding technology and human interactions with technology. \n\nOne of the things that he points out is that computers are becoming more and more sophisticated and capable of carrying out more and more computations at faster and faster rates with the passing of each year. That’s not to say that your machine is doing this, but that we’re creating computers that are faster and able to hold more information constantly. As a result we’re rapidly approaching a time when computers are going to be as capable of processing information as the human brain. According to some of his predictions we should be first seeing these advanced machines within the next ten to fifteen years. And with market demands in the US being what they are, the price on these machines will have a tendency to steadily decrease as the technology for making these computers becomes cheaper and more readily available. As a result we as a public may end up owning one of these smarter computers within the next twenty years. \n\nThere are two additional points that he makes though: It will also be likely that research into increasing computer speeds as well as processing, memory storage and retrieval probably wont stop at the point of having a computer that’s as ‘intelligent’ as the human mind. Also, with the aforementioned decline in prices in creating these smarter computers and technology making the production of these machines easier, we may find these computers cropping up in smaller and smaller packages and in more and more things. As a result, we could possibly find ourselves surrounded with this technology quite easily. \n\nI’m not trying to paint a Matrix looking future, but it is possible that we may find ourselves outnumbered by our machines, so we had better have a good idea of what we’re doing when we create them.
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I don't think it is going to happen for thousands of years.\n\nThere will be millions killed when all the wacko countries get the nuclear bombs and civilization will be set back thousands of years.\n\nThis is just my theory but I think there will be small areas of the world that will survive and thus the human race will not be completely wiped out.\n\nThere may be other natural disasters as a result of the changing environment.\n\nThe future does not look to good and it is scary to see some of these goofball countries with the bombs.\n\nI just hope and pray that the good countries can stay ahead of the bad ones and keep stopping them before they kill us all and that is exactly what they want to do IMO.
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I'm sorry, you'll never get a straight or a correct answer no matter what.\n\n\n"Huh? Why?!!"\n\nWell, let me put it in simple terms. We are predicting the future on current technology, either far overestimating where we'd be or quite the contrary.\n\nBack in the 60's, there were books out there and sci-fi films of what human civilization would have reached by the year 2000. No joke, they simply believed we'd be colonizing the moon by then, driving around hovercrafts and spaceships going in and out of earth like cars. As you can tell we are far far far from that.\n\nWhat if in the next 5 years we discovered something that would boost technology research rate by tenfold? That would surely mess up our calculations if I gave you one now.\n\nWhat if a massive war broke out in 15 years time between say China and the US? One that would devastate the world and make places inhabitable for the next millenia, setting things back to the stone age on certain parts of the world?\n\n\nI think you get the picture now =]
680571
POSSIBLE maybe in 2030
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100 years might be a bit quick, but I think this may happen faster than one might think at first.\n\nRay Kurzweil is a well-known predictor of technology trends and suggests that the technology to 'move' a person from their brain to an electronic replica will happen in the not-so-distant future. Once this is possible, the technology needed for interstellar flights will be greatly simplified because any approach to transport a human (as they currently live, in a biological body) would consume incredible resources just to provide an environment in which they could survive.
801114
The next big invention is for to cure cancer and virus. This is probably within reach in next 50 years, hopefully.
500323
usa maybe in the next  roughly 40, 50 years?
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With the current hardware technology about to reach its outer limits of physics will the next revolution be in streamlining software? \n\nI have worked in technology since the ‘60’s. In the 60’s it was not uncommon for a major company to run its payroll programs on machines with as little as 16 kilobytes of main memory. I know that the missions to the moon were calculated on computers with one megabyte of main memory or less. Today we are looking at machines with 4-8 gigabytes of memory and it takes 5-minutes just to boot up a PC. It looks like there is plenty of room to improve operating systems and applications.\n\nGranted today’s computers have slicker user interfaces and are easier to use by the general public, but they have become very inefficient users of software. The object code era has allowed really poor coding to become imbedded in most of today’s applications. \n\nOnce the hardware reaches the point where adding processors adds zero throughput won’t it be time to take a look at the sloppy code written over the past twenty-five to thirty years? Isn’t there room for a revolution in software redevelopment?
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In 100 years anything is possible. I predict here will be a Walmart with in walking distance from the residence of every person on Earth.
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Minimum 10 years - probably closer to 15-20.\n\nThe technology is not nearly mature enough to support affordable mass production, and there is no real consumer demand - as long as PC's continue to become more powerful and less expensive with current technology.\n\nI could see optical computing reaching the high-end server market sooner - maybe in the 10-15 yr range.
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Cant rule out the possibility. \nBut..... based on currently available technology its very unlikely  within the next 50 to100 years. Definitely not in our life time.
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in the next 5 years there will be a lot of people unable to pay their mortgages, so a lot of repos.  in 10 we will be recovering from the disaster of the "hidden inflation" technique of money management by the Fed.  in 25 years we will be asking China if we can have some input and a share of their base on the Moon.  in 40 years there will be no unions, and no consumer protection.  in 50 there will be a great depression, followed by the rise of a labor movement, and the restoration of consumer protections.  Rinse & repeat.
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Highly electronic!  They are putting computer microchips in everything already, and I expect that trend to continue.  I suspect privacy will be a thing of the past, except perhaps for the top bureaucrats, who have the privileges once accorded to the top bureaucrats in the Soviet Union.  There will be much less transportation, because many if not most people will either not have jobs in the conventional sense, or work on-line.  Automation will have made most low-end jobs obsolete.  Transportation will be mostly for recreation and shipping.  Small personal air cars are likely.  Language will have fragmented into specialized subcultures, almost indecipherable to one another.  (You see that already in these questions and answers, with the "newspeak" created for cell phone text messages.)  Hand-made goods will be rare and expensive, but mass produced materials will be much more customized.  You will be able to order to your specifications over the internet, and receive the finished goods by UPS or its successor within a day or two.