[The Future] Predictions of the Future - Oh how you where so wrong

[OO7MIKE]

Ever watch those B&W films from way back (archive.org is a good place to start) and saw how distorted their version of the future was?

Now days its not easy to predict what the future may hold whether it be the weather, someones path in life, or the direction the market is going.

Just today after watching some documentaries a few forgotten memories rose regarding the path I though the technology was headed. Sometimes I was right, though the prediction was as vague as Nostradamus predictions.

What I want to hear from everyone is the predictions that you made that haven't come true. The ridiculous predictions of the future you made in the past that just seem silly.

Your Future Prediction Blunders!


A few crazy predictions I made but they haven't gone anywhere: (Predicted back in the early 90's)

1. 5.1 surround sound for your car (Why not? home theater had it)
2. Audio crystals as the next audio player format (too much star trek in my youth)
3. Flying cars (seriously why don't we have them yet?)
4. Man On Mars


Share yours!

[DeeperShade]

3. Flying cars (seriously why don't we have them yet?)


Because everyone would need a runway just to park.

[kiff]

lol, and hell, we can't even drive them very good on the ground. imagine the problems if they were flying... :o

[Jacks:SmirkingRevenge]

One day, we're going to have MP3 players the size of a pea.

They will hold over 1 million songs.

The technology will be such that you can have the player "installed" on your person (possibly on the ear, as an earing) and even though it's only on one side you will hear, in your head, full stereo.

[GG-Xtreme]

I thought the colonization of space was possible--then I remembered that once you left the solar system, it would take days for a transmission to get back to earth. There would be no instant communication, and that would suck (even at Mars, there would be a delay of more than 2 minutes).
Because everyone would need a runway just to park.

Vertical take-off and landing?

[leilei]

Because everyone would need a runway just to park.

someone obviously has not seen Blade Runner

[JohnDoe641]

1. 5.1 surround sound for your car (Why not? home theater had it)
AFAIK there's been 5.1 surround in really expensive cars since 2000.

Actually I just did a google search for it and the first link confirmed it exists: http://www.caraudiomag.com/soundstyle/0312cae_acura_tl/index.html

[Kantham]

One day, we're going to have MP3 players the size of a pea.

They will hold over 1 million songs.


China's goal is always to make things even smaller as they could ever imagine possible. However, you end up hitting the plateau one day or another; you need a new technology.

[BillyBadAss]

I honestly use to think I would be killed in a cold war nuclear attack before I would reach adulthood. As a child my generation was bombarded with that crap that it seemed like it would eventually happen.

I know it seems kind of Emo sounding, but I was a kid and that's what I thought.

[ilkman]

I figured I'd be a millionaire by now. Oh well. :(

[Sine Deviance]

1. 5.1 surround sound for your car (Why not? home theater had it)


They've had that for years, it came shortly after DVD players in cars. A buddy of mine has a 5.1 system in his car.

someone obviously has not seen Blade Runner

Or The 5th Element.

My prediction? Someday we will have screens that are projected onto nothing, i.e. the screen technology on the Normandy in Mass Effect.

[SleepyHe4d]

One day, we're going to have MP3 players the size of a pea.

They will hold over 1 million songs.

The technology will be such that you can have the player "installed" on your person (possibly on the ear, as an earing) and even though it's only on one side you will hear, in your head, full stereo.

China's goal is always to make things even smaller as they could ever imagine possible. However, you end up hitting the plateau one day or another; you need a new technology.

Blah, It won't even be necessary. Neither will holographic images or computer towers (well maybe super computers for gaming or non-normal activities) or anything. You will just use nano tech in your blood and wireless connections to view and hear everything in your head and search the internet in your head. You could also "plug in" if needed for higher data flow for doing special things or maybe connecting to a virtual reality game world.

:D

[Matfei]

Or porn.

[DeeperShade]

Vertical take-off and landing?

Apart from the fact that a vtoal system costs in excess of half a mil sterling, your idea is fantastic.

[toniglandyl]

when virtual reality with porn addons will be cheaper than dating, it will be the end of humanity.

[Matfei]

Imagine when you get a virus directly in your brain. Ouch.

Need some super painkillers for that bitch.

[DeeperShade]

it can't happen.

[Plasmadaemon]

Wouldn't 5/more channels in a car just confuse the driver and increase the risk of a crash?

[MonsOlympus]

lol, and hell, we can't even drive them very good on the ground. imagine the problems if they were flying... :o

Thats about it hey :p

We just grew up with cars on the ground though so thats what most people learn to do, if there was no cars and everyone got pilots licenses instead things might be different :lol:

I thought we'd have hoverboards at the least by now, I can go with the man on mars thing as well. Still hopin that one will happen in my lifetime since I missed the whole moon dealy :cool:

[Vitamin-Carrot]

I always found it interesting how some movies depicted the future

the movie Demolition man showed a 1998 scene full of nothing but destruction and pollution.


Society doesnt really seem to be changing that much, the influence of the environment will have an impact as to how society functions but it shouldnt be to different from what we have now.

Some things wont change though ... No 1 human perogative: Consume

[Jacks:SmirkingRevenge]

nano tech in your blood and wireless connections


Damn, how far in the future are you talking??

I was playing with a more... foreseeable scenario.

[BillyBadAss]

I remember talking about video games with friends back in the 80s and that some day there would be games where you walked around in a world just you do in RL, and things don't repeat. (you will know what I mean if you played games way back then and how they would repeat backgrounds over and over again)

[Azura]

I predicted blowjob dispensers. Obviously it will never happen.

[Plumb_Drumb]

I predicted blowjob dispensers. Obviously it will never happen.

but, we have Tool :)

[pine]

Video games will continue to develop. The big-budget titles will suck more than ever, but there will be more interesting and creative small projects such as Portal and Braid as well as the cyber generation matures and a greater number of artists begin to explore the medium.

Public transportation will cycle back into fashion in the USA.

Information Overload will keep your average human being just as dumb and ignorant as before the information revolution, if not more so.

Extreme sports will really get out of control.

[Thrash123]

The standard format for distributing digital music through online mediums will be of better quality than CDs.

Yeah, I keep it simple. I also like the idea of investing in saltines and pain killers.

[Zxanphorian]

We would be able to control the weather down to the smallest parcel of air.
The Internet will cease to exist.
The Imperial State of America (formerly the United States of America) will cause the next Dark Age when it implodes due to stretching it's empire too thin. (Not really a 'blunder' though.)

[BillyBadAss]

Public transportation will cycle back into fashion in the USA.

Oh hell yeah!:) This is a subject that comes up at work a lot and middle aged baby boomers get very touchy on this subject. Their solution is to build more roads.:lol: I ask them where and they just give me a stupid answer like "let the city engineers figure it out."

I work in Cincinnati, so you can imagine the kind of people I am talking to. They funny thing is that Cincinnati has subway tunnels all around downtown, but when the stock market crashed in 1929 they stopped construction. Cincinnati could of been a very different place. Oh well.:hmm:

[FlashIV]

I predict a time when 640GB of memory won't be enough for anybody

[Matfei]

The Internet will cease to exist.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

It can't happen :mad:

[SleepyHe4d]

It would be pretty awesome if a nuclear war broke out...

[-Jes-]

Ever watch those B&W films from way back (archive.org is a good place to start) and saw how distorted their version of the future was?

Your Future Prediction Blunders!
Duke Nukem Forever this century. :(

[GG-Xtreme]

Blah, It won't even be necessary. Neither will holographic images or computer towers (well maybe super computers for gaming or non-normal activities) or anything. You will just use nano tech in your blood and wireless connections to view and hear everything in your head and search the internet in your head. You could also "plug in" if needed for higher data flow for doing special things or maybe connecting to a virtual reality game world.

:D
There's a book called 'Feed' that's something like that.

Apart from the fact that a vtoal system costs in excess of half a mil sterling, your idea is fantastic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElS9BKSsezw

Thats about it hey :p

We just grew up with cars on the ground though so thats what most people learn to do, if there was no cars and everyone got pilots licenses instead things might be different :lol:

I thought we'd have hoverboards at the least by now, I can go with the man on mars thing as well. Still hopin that one will happen in my lifetime since I missed the whole moon dealy :cool:
Cars would drive themselves. They already have cars that drive themselves, why not cars that fly themselves?

[TossMonkey]

I think I predicted in school that the world will definitely end in the year 2000. I guess I was wrong.

Ever watch Back to the future 2? some of the things predicted in that aren't going to happen for 50-100 years probably. Flying cars? Boards that hover from the ground and can hold the weight of a man?!

[Zxanphorian]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

It can't happen :mad:

Yes, it will happen. But by then, our brains will be routed together in a wireless network. When someone learns a fact, other people would 'think' of knowing what the fact was (Someone learns what Irukandji jellies are, and someone else want's to know about them), and they would instantly learn what it is. Private information would be protected if you 'think' of it being private.

[MonsOlympus]

Cars would drive themselves. They already have cars that drive themselves, why not cars that fly themselves?

You are kidding right? I mean sure they could fly themselves alittle like planes have auto pilots but you know what the odds are of 747's crashing into vs light aircraft? Anyways air traffic control towers help a ****load in that department.

So yeah a car and plane can fly itself what they cant do is react to a situation quickly to avoid problems. Might as well put your head between your legs and kiss your arse goodby if you had autopilot in a flying car, it certainly wouldnt be the safest way to travel :cool:

Lets get the flying cars bit down first... then work on all the 2049 **** :p

[DarQraven]

Apart from the fact that a vtoal system costs in excess of half a mil sterling, your idea is fantastic.

Yeah, because the cost of a military jet-level VTOL system is completely indicative of a small consumer-level personal transport VTOL system.
Also, technology likes to advance, and for all we know, people might come up with antigrav or a similar system.

This argument is like those people way back saying that computers would forever remain a scientific device because they were so huge and expensive.
*hides palmtop with about a thousand times the processing power*

[JohnDoe641]

Ever watch Back to the future 2? some of the things predicted in that aren't going to happen for 50-100 years probably. Flying cars? Boards that hover from the ground and can hold the weight of a man?!
Well going by that logic, it will never happen since the average weight seems to be going up every year. :p

[DarQraven]

I used to think that we would have talking computers by now.
To be specific, a voice activated, talking computer that managed your house for you when you were away.

I know that some project(s?) exist that are similar, but they are in no way ready for mass production, and all quite limited.
I'm talking about a central system that regulates temperature, air quality, windows and shutters, keeps an inventory of your fridge and what you need to buy and when and how much.

Also maybe cleaning robots activated by the central computer on a schedule.
I dunno what else would be possible...

if the central unit was advanced enough or expandable, you could probably link other stuff to it.
Like a wardrobe that gets all your clothes for you in the morning and manages the washing/drying.

Not gonna happen any time soon though;)