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Digital painting.
Half a century ago, there was no such thing as the internet. No Lost or Grey’s Anatomy in your living room. No credit cards (gasp). No diet sodas. No catastrophic killers such as the atom bomb.
Can you just imagine what’s going to be invented in the next 50 years? Can you imagine how changed the world will be when we’re old and hobbling around with some futuristic version of a cane?
@JohnChow‘s daughter has no idea what a tape or record is. Are my grand-kids going to laugh at me because I’ll still be reading BOOKS while they’re reading from some Super-Kindle that also pours you a martini with a simple thought-command … or one that reads for you (ooh)?
My girlfriends and I made a vow that we’d go to a rave when we’re 70 and try pick up 20-year-old guys to gross them out… what would “raves” be like then?
Are we going to be able to our grow boobs bigger without an incision? Or make all our fat and cellulite disappear with a simple pill? (Too bad we can only dream for now.)
The world is an amazing place. I can’t wait to live the rest of my life.
… that is if global warming or some apocalyptic event doesn’t kills us all first. 
What do you think the future will hold?
KATY:
Hah! What a great title for this entry!
I’m not too sure what the future has in store for us but ever since I was a child, I’ve always thought that aliens were the far, distant future version of us.
For one thing, their technology is greatly advanced. Ours isn’t even close to their’s, but we keep on progressing, hence the improvements made over the course of 50 years.
In our early stages, we were extremely hairy, and as time went by we lost most of that hair.
Aliens, as far as we know, are hairless creatures, who visits us, heck even abducts us to research on our anatomy and our way of living. It’s clearly something that we, as humans, we do as well had we gotten our hands on a Neanderthal or something relative to that.
There’s a whole crap load of other stuff, but yeah, those are my little fun theories to which I don’t take very seriously. It’s just very fun to think about
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Katy
April 20th, 2009 |
I remember my science teacher in high school explaining how it will be impossible for humans to travel through space to be able to meet event the nearest star (where there maybe life) but then with all the technological advances happening now, we never know what we’ll be able to do in the future!
That’s an interesting theory though, one I never thought much about myself. I think we’d be way in over our heads to actually go seriously research this kinda stuff but it IS fun to think about. The unexplained is always interesting.
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LOL. Man, I don’t know. I think that’s the thing: how can we imagine what might be coming?
I guess I’ll steal ideas from Star Trek… A food “replicator” (creates delish dishes out of NOTHING), a holodeck (like virtual reality room, but better), and transporter (moves people from one place to another instantly!). They actually have gotten some stuff right so far, so why not?!
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I just hope we are able to live to a nice old age without someone trying to take over the world and blows up it up.
With all the fast food, technology advancements look at how big a lot of us have gotten now who knows what the future will bring and none of us walk but use hover seats instead .. just like in wall’e
Guess we have to live though dec 12, 2012 1st..
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Katy
April 20th, 2009 |
What do you think is going to happen in 2012?
I don’t think it’s going to be an apocalyptic event but I think it would be a huge shift of power… like maybe the USA won’t be the world’s most powerful country anymore and if that happens, it’s obviously going to affect everyone in the world in a big way. Wars or a breaking down of the economy (like what’s happening now) will need to happen for that to happen which means people will die and our lives will be changed forever.
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hahaha growing boobs. i have nooo idea what 50 years will look like. the internet will look so vastly different..
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Katy
April 19th, 2009 |
It’d be super cool if we’d actually be able to physically enter “cyberspace” (kinda like The Matrix). LOL.
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i think we’re quite lucky to be in generation Y, we saw the introduction of the internet, the mobile phone, tape players to CD player to discmans to MP3 players to MP4 players and also many other things!
whatever the future holds let’s make the most of it
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LOL at your plan to hit on young’ns when you’re 70!
I have a bad feeling pens and paper will be considered historical artifacts when they become “useless” in the future. I’m stocking up on them… maybe someday I can sell them like baseball cards.
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Katy
April 19th, 2009 |
Great minds think alike! I was thinking of comparing my grand-kids and crayons… like would they even know what that is in the future?!
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Make fat and cellulite gone with a simple pill? I hope we all dont have to wait too long for that. Sigh.
Loving the idea of going to raves. I’ll join you with my granny mini dress.
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I agree with Tiff, what a title! When I seen it on the twitter feed I immediately thought, “Katy’s got the secret to grow boobs!” lol. =P
I was watching the comedian Russell Peters and he was talking about how in 500 years the earth’s population will be a mix of Chinese and Indians because of their population now. That made me begin to wonder about the future..
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Katy
April 19th, 2009 |
Lol yeah I remember that too and I think it’s somewhat true. With all these interracial marriages going on, there would be very few people left in the future that is 100% ONE ethnicity!
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I love this post LOL. I’ve thought about this a lot, actually just the other day. For example, it’s amazing how ugly and chunky cell phones were just 10 years ago. Now look at them! They’re sleek and multi-functional (there should be a new name for them; they’re not just phones anymore) and many of them are touch-screen now. And I’m sure you’ve seen that new touch-screen PC. I think that ability will be seen on more household appliances.
I had a teacher that said, “It would be great if we could put all the education you need onto a computer chip and install it into our kids’ brains…but then we’d be out of a job.” LOL. Btw, that super-boob-growth pill? Definitely isn’t being made fast enough. -_-
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Katy
April 19th, 2009 |
I was watching a documentary on Nostradamus and 2012 and they said that there will be 1000 times the technological advances than in all of the past 19th centuries together. We started with horses in the beginning of the century and now we are attempting to go to the moon and have access to cyberspace so times that by 1000. I can’t even begin to imagine!! It’s pretty amazing.
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To be able to grow boobs will be great for us who have small boobies!! Hahahaha. Anyway, as for the future, dun really know what to expect. It’s pretty unpredictable at times. I’d very much prefer to take one step at a time and smell the roses for now
and not to think too far ahead.
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Katy
April 19th, 2009 |
I agree… live life in the present but it’s still interesting to think of what’s going to happen. :blush:
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Have you ever read “Feed” before? It’s a futuristic novel (kind of along the same lines as “Brave New World”) and it incorporates the extension of a lot of modern technologies of our day. Pretty neat — and slightly scary and depressing of course.
I’d give you some examples from that but I’d hate to ruin it if you ever wanted to read it
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Katy
April 19th, 2009 |
No I haven’t but thanks for the suggestion. Just added it to my Amazon wishlist!
I’m actually reading Sunstorm which is set in 2037 and has some description of fictional future technologies as well. I’m still in the beginning of the book though and don’t know if I recommend it because it’s not fast enough for my taste and not too “captivating”…but I just want to find out what happens.
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Scott
April 20th, 2009 |
That’s the first time I’ve heard of it. Let me know your final opinion when you’re done.
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Katy
April 21st, 2009 |
I finished it last night! It wasn’t the greatest book ever but I enjoyed reading it (mostly the last quarter of the book) because I love books that describe what the future looks like (even if it’s fictional).. It starts out a little slow in the beginning and has a lot of scientific mumbo-jumbo… I guess you’ll like it if you’re a crazy Sci-Fi freak. Plus I got it for like $3 on the sale section so it’s worth it I guess. =P
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who knows what’s to come? (but i really do hope big boobs without surgery is included!) i have a fairly simple mind, so i just assume that there will be flying cars and robots :p
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I think we’ll become cyborgs as nanotechnology takes off and we can get computer chips implanted into us to do everything from making phone calls to checking our email. We already have Bluetooth and iPhones…it just seems like the next step.
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I really hope that there will be affordable space travel before I die. Either that, or we’ll discover life-forms on other planets. That’s what I’m hoping.
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