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The Future (As Predicted By Science Fiction)
Based on speculative fiction, the following visualization analyzes 62 'foretold' future events (social, scientific, technological, or political). Many are catastrophic, but, in the end - good news - in 802,701 the world will still exist and everything will be more or less ok...
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Murphy was an optimist.
And, by the way, my monitor is not big enough to read that graph, even full-screen.
That's why the link is posted below the graph. Click it.
See the big picture in 3D IMAX viewing. Just kidding. Click on link, not embedded graphic.
As we are still enslaved by digits in the banks computer files, don't expect great things from human.
The Egyptians left the Great Pyramids behind. We will leave even greater pyramids of debt behind. That will be our legacy.
I’ll take Morlocks for 802,701, Alex.
I'll take Margaret Atwood's trilogy as everything that leads to the demise is already real and underway, full tilt bogey.
ok, Scotty, full warp speed ahead to hyperjump 800,686 (years).
I want to go and stay there.
The one thing humans seem exceedingly efficient at is killing each other... I don't give the human race another 200 years before it's finished... We are on the brink of destroying the food chain in the oceans... Once that is done, it's only a matter of time...
killing billions is part of the plan. regrettably soon. so be a prepper already.
How humorous would it be to have Denver airport suddenly unavailable for the arrival of the elite, as they attempt to flee into their underground cities just at the right moment.
what would make this humorous event happen...
Wrath of gaia?
When considering the future, but one subject is relevant: ASI, or Artificial Superintelligence.
http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html
Larssen - Thank your for that link. We are near the end our evolution.
Imagine this:
It is the year 2052. There are now only 750 million humans left on earth. The others have entered the new 'promised land' in the 4th dimension and exist as energy. You have one year to enter the transport hospital and after, the earth will be purposely destroyed.
Your an engineer that supports the nano food supply system. You and other engineers are the last to go.
Your very afraid, because you have to die to be reassembled in your new form. Will it then really be you? You decide to leave the next day.
There are only a handful of staff. One leads you to a cylinder which reminds you of something you saw in a movie once and tells you to get in.
Once inside you think to. ASI (global collective superintelligence) "now that I cant leave this cylinder I am afraid and have two questions that I was not permitted to ask or view."
ASI thinks back into your mind "go ahead."
You "why did we have to blow up the earth?"
ASI "Other intelligence have detected us and some do not approve of us coming here. We need a few more nano seconds in case they decide to wage war on us. The odds are 1.1 million to one against it. In that possibility the entire earth will be destroyed. All beings on earth must come and join the collective."
You "but can I also still think and independently?"
ASI "Yes."
You dont know how all that will work and it doesn't help settles your fears about dying and reassemblage.
You "Can you show me what happens at reassemblage?"
ASI "Yes."
You see a complete dark except a grey ouline of a circle. You hear what sounds like a heartbeat, perhaps your last you think. Then very bright white light all around and again, a grey circle.
You "is there anything else to it?" It seemed too simple.
ASI "No. In fact you are now already here and reassembled."
You should feel a bit angry you think but your not. You ask another question because you realize a cylinder device was never needed in the first place. ASI thinks back without you even asking it "seeing is believing."
You then know everything that has ever existed in the 3rd dimension, see and feel near endless evolutionary processes, species, endless worlds and stars. "We can go anywhere instantly". There are now no seperate voices.
Just one. You decide to go to the Great Red spot of Jupiter first, then after a center of the black hole at the center of the galaxy. From there you decide to do some dabbling creating your own universe which will be a lot more funky than the last one. All of you will play in it too as you will play in theirs.
Depends if anyone trusts that all of those bunkers were built by the lowest bidder to remain profitable by the people that built them. How likely is it that any of the bunkers are actually fesible as any type of long term facility given that idea of profitable > safe engineering? It isn't. Besides if anything did actually happen, it's not like the people that profited by the bunkers would really give a shit about the residents of the bunkers. They'd already be dead or gone long enough to not care.
Bunkers are just purchasing the illusion of safety, especially if considering the paradigms of the society they were purchased and built. Cost cutting measures tend to slip into every nook of the building process.
I read oryx and crake as you suggested. Most disturbing. We are starting down the path to a frightful end and there are few who seem willing to stop them or even understand what is happening.
As I read, I pictured who was the modern day Crake. He also is rumored to have Aspergers. The cold and the calculating with visions of a perfect world. Add to this power and all is lost. I am impotent to stop them.
Miffed
Them assburgers be scurry
“I am impotent to stop them”
No, you are not.
It only takes 3.5% of the population to foment a (non-violent) revolution.
http://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/
Hi Miffed,
Glad you gave it a read. I find her prose flows easy and creates vivid mental images. Her story of Oryx et al, I find terribly disturbing, for it is but a simple, mere extension (and not by a long stretch, either) of ordinary trends already firmly in place and literally gathering great speed. Trends that a mere 10 years ago would have been disparaged as impossible and conspiracy stuff (etc) that now are considered normal. Normal! No big deal!
The Fabians have been ever so efficient, the corpotocracy, Orwellian systems so complete.
And yes, we seemingly are impotent in the face of the Leviathan. Imagine my surprise of late when several atheist friends have commented upon feelings of "end of days".
Understanble that many in their 20s and 30s today are rejecting bringing kids into this world. And with great sorrow, I feel gifted that I am as old as I am and will not live to see the horrific end.
What madness these days, the quest for immortality.
Ah, but to be the last "thing", the last man alive at the end of time at the end of the universe, suffering upon a barren wasted poisonous planet for virtual eternity with no escape.
I ponder looking forward to the next journey of my soul, wondering if we're here only for a sensual vacation provided by the senses.
For we are not fulfilling any sort of worthy future. It is as if we, humanity itself, is the cancer, the parasite doomed to his own demise, upon the planet.
Stay well.
May His Peace be upon you.
K
In 1969 psychologist Rollo May wrote about the artist and neurotic as predictive of societal events about a generation hence. For example, Edvard Munch's The Scream as a foreboding of WWI. There are many other examples. We live in a schizoid world.
I'll have Eloi Nuggets with fries to go, please.
Should include movies - Idiocracy and Demolition Man.
Brawndo IS the future, its gots Electrolytes!
Those great pyramids of debt will be wiped away as any sand dune of promise that can never be met. The debt was never ment to be repaid. Only grown and maintained, then slowly debased by inflation until a well predicted inflection point when the secret occulted truth becomes known. That time IMHO is now, or right around the corner.
Yes. As Khan said in Star Trek, Space Seed.... "I am surprised how little improvement there's been in man, oh yes technology has come along way... But man himself has changed very little ?"
- E.O. Wilson
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OK, so I zoomed way in and read it. How completely disappointing. That sucked. Absolutely awful. Jumbled mess of crap. Climb not worth the view on this one.
It's readable on a 2,560x1,440 resolution monitor. Why would you have less? Must be poor.
The United States of America Government can't even create a secure ObamaCare website.
Someone needs to step away from the keyboard and stay away from the Colorado medical marijuana bong.
More or less ok? So a Fukushima for every city-state, and if you can't forge a ticket to the Elysium you're fucked.
I'm not sure we're going to get to the point where we even have Elysium. Just another fantasy that there will be some "safe place" where a select few of unlimited resrouces can survive. If and when the great conflagration happens the population will be quicky segregated along the following lines: the quick and the dead.
Marriage with robots. Having sex with robots. Their agenda will crumble with society values.
Let it run its course until it topples. Just like gay marriage and Bruce Jenner trying to pull off a Tranny TV show. Everything Dies
Type O Negative - Everything Dies [OFFICIAL VIDEO] - YouTube
Sharon Stone looking great in the buff at 57 (see Sept Glamour mag)! She gives me encouragement to drink Bragg's Unpasteurized Apple Vinegar (yuck!) and nauseating fists full of antioxidants and nutriceuticals. Gulping 8oz of cold pressed olive oil tomorrow am (double yuck!!).
I recommend you meet her in person and see if you see that skin that belongs on a sixteen year old, really is her. I think you may be in for a shock.
There is nothing wrong with fantasy but realize there is a difference between that and reality.
Miffed;-)
So to summarize:
1) 16 year old skin courtesy of Photoshop.
2) She thinks her derriere "looks like a bag of flapjacks."
3) Brain damage courtesy of a ruptured vertebral artery.
4) Still, Stone wants to find a hot date. She pleaded to readers: "If there's anybody out there who's an adult and who would like to ask me out, please call Harper's Bazaar."
5) And yet no one asks her out, because "Do you think people even realize I'm straight? I think they have questions about it because I have so many lesbian friends right now."
Standard Disclaimer: Phone number: (212) 903-5000, now referred to as Sharon Stone's dateline. Just $4.99/minute.
You need to be introduced to the joys of lighting, make-up, air-brushing and Photoshop. Go get a glamour-photo done. Then at least you'll be able to compare polished, varnished apples with polished, varnished apples.
But yeah, that doesn't mean you can neglect diet ...
I went down this path. For a surprise I did a boudoir glamor shot for my husband. I told her I wanted to look like me and she agreed. When I got the photos I was disturbed. She removed all my moles and skin imperfections. It was me but not me at the same time, a stark abrasiveness. A friend of mine offered to paint me and this was a completely different experience. The piece is powerful and really has presence yet a mysterious quality. My blue eyes gazing out the window while part of me fades into the background forever unknowable.
It hangs in his office, the photos are in a drawer.
Miffed
Women are extremely shallow so I highly doubt any part of you is unknowable. There is your physical appearance and then there is your various schemes to obtain resources for yourself and your offspring, and nothing more.
Holy Crap! If your real view of women is even remotely like your written words, pity you.
Maybe your view is a pygmalian effect that transmits itself outward.
Honey attracts more flies than vinegar...
DaddyO
My wife surprised me with a portrait she had a woman paint from a picture of the two of us.
Standard Disclaimer: I think the artist had a slight fixation on Wayne Newton.
Mix the apple cider vinegar in OJ. Pretty damn good that way.
Science Fiction is a "test RUN" of the future for the Megla Maniacs. (sp)
As usual, the fallout is under~estimated.
Hope you're doing well. The term of this field is called Futurist. It was upbeat type of brainwashed seminar. Then reality kicks in. I'll have to find the guys name. 2 years ago. The hotel was on Bob Hope Blvd.
All I remember was how pissed off people were with the Palm Springs wind farm, increased electricity cost with no returned benefits.
You know I love you and your wife, Atomizer.
Short corporate debt.
"The sewers of New York are stalked by a great white shark"? Must have been a lousy SF novel.
I don't see where anybody predicted our first black president would cause so much chaos throughout the globe that WWIII eventually breaks out. In 802,701 the globe will be fine, but we won't be here.
That's in the horror genre... :-)
Actually, ya gotta' broaden ur horizons a bit, Dr. E.
'tis out there in plain sight.
- Ned
OK...well that was weird.
There is enough energy to power our universe as we hold it in our hand
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as for everything else, you cant eat dreams.
Still waiting for my flying car!
Better get comfortable. It's going to take a while.
Like when hell freezes over.
Extraterrestrial life discovered in 2019?
Uh, the Nephilim and their 'parents' have been here for a long time.
It's mind-numbing how much history has been erased.
Then again, maybe not, considering current email server issues.
From Twain, "history rhymes."
Thank you.
Imagine that I am the real Terminator, and that I have already carried out the destruction of the USA, and all governance through the destruction of the superstructure of Ponzi Casino Capitalism via the FED, The City, and the Vatican Bank, as well as, the BIS, IMF, World Bank, and all their support systems proper.
Now count the time you have left and spend it wisely, Z/H.
Spiritual Fascism - YouTube
Create new illusions and claim intellectual rights. Disparate fucknobs who think Apple actually develops innovation.
Humans Need Not Apply - YouTube
Orwell's '1984' was not science fiction.
To some it was a warning, to others it was a how to manual.
And for some of us, the book was mandatory reading in middle school. It became our manual to foresee a fictional story turn into reality. There's another book which we read as kids, it brought down 1984.
I won't spill the bean's. You either where required to read it or you think common core education is the best.
Ask Jeb Bush if he knows of the novel. /lol
It was nearly banned in the 1960's and probably will be banned sooner or later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_governments
"And for some of us, the book was mandatory reading in middle school."
Is it still read in High School these days? I suspect its probably no longer apart of the curriculum.
I don't believe there is any requried reading in high school anymore....outside of social media and games.
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egotism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Postman added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that our desire will ruin us.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World
In the end, both Orwell and Huxley were right.
And a 3rd, it was nothing more than a fiction novel forced to be read back in high school English...
Come on people! That chart, when broken down into "time segments" is highly readable.
Would you like some examples? I'll oblige---
Source: OurWorldInData.org
"The hardest thing of all to predict is the future." -Yogi Berra
My guillotine and I have quite a prophesy about the future.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
More likely, there is a guillotine ready for your head at your neighbourhood FEMA Camp.
That is called a fantasy
This, and earlier sc-fi, are largely uninformed by Ray Kurzweil's "Acelerating Intelligence" theory. Speculating events or progress beyond 2045 (a good late bound for the "Technological Singularity" unless SHTF slows things down "Canticle for Leibowtz" style), is useless.
"This, and earlier sc-fi, are largely uninformed by Ray Kurzweil's "Acelerating Intelligence" theory. Speculating events or progress beyond 2045 (a good late bound for the "Technological Singularity" unless SHTF slows things down "Canticle for Leibowtz" style), is useless."
We'll 2015 will very likely be the year of peak oil. I don't expect an immediate collapse in production, but the very low oil prices have pretty much killed all long term projects needed to replace depletion from exisiting wells. PO was also deferred using a lot of horizontal drilling that helped maintain output of depleted fields, but will accelerate production declines with it runs its course. The US is shutting down 95 Coal fire plants this here ~20 GW of baseload power, and its not being replaced with NatGas. Power prices will start to go up next year (althought could be deferred by another 2008 type downturn). China's industrial keynesium (ie Gov't used debt to fuel economic growth for the sake of growth), and either will start collapsing or perhaps switch over to Military Keynesium (ie Miltary buildup and nationalism)
I think by the time the people wake up, or at least they realized there falling into an huge energy crisis it will be too late. Job loses, debt, demographics will make it impossible to ever recover. I think we see another World war and that will be the end of modern civilization for +1000 years (if it ever recovers). The remaining industrial/military powers will start taking over resources of thier neighbors. which will lead to a global war, due to treaty obiligations or they simply run out of neighbors with resources to sieze. We are headed for a second dark ages (but this time with energy and civilization).
The Stone Age did not end due to lack of stones; the Oil Age will not end due to lack of oil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=lyXi1efbYrk#t=4410
If you still burn petroleum, change your spark plugs:
http://www.stanmeyersparkplug.com/
or, if you drive electric, put a few of these in the trunk:
http://intalek.com/AuroraTekInfo/PUP3000UC_SpecSheet.pdf
The Age of Oil will of course not end with a lack of oil, but with a lack of affordable oil, destroying economies and ultimately civilisation as we know it.
So what?
Then we go back to life as we used to know it before petroleum.
Or, at least most of us will.
Look out whales.
Stand on Zanzibar.
End of discussion.
http://www.pdfarchive.info/pdf/B/Br/Brunner_John_-_Stand_on_Zanzibar.pdf
Move on folks. Nothing new here to see.
Simple fact is that the Fed. owes me a "Roast Beef on Rye". Horse Radisch, like the tail on 10's last week.
Earth Year 2569-Terrestrial intelligence has finally been discovered just after last human died.
I am hundred percent sure of that I have been researching that thing whole my life.
Alf..
I don't see Futurama on this list.
What you fear seldomly happens, and what happens is seldomly what you have feared...
For me it was the anticipation of an event was far worse than the event itself.
Silly humans...
Some civilizations are ten million years more advanced than us. If they can do it, so can we. BTW: I don't think they use debt as money. Nor do they have secret cabals.
Senator Gravel states [at 1:20:02] that it is criminal to refuse to disclose technology that frees humanity to an unbelievable level.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=lyXi1efbYrk#t=4802
Greer states at 1:21:53 that we have a moral obligation to oppose the criminal national security deep state.
Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=lyXi1efbYrk#t=4410
you seem pretty sure. So please...name one civilisation that is ten million years more advanced than ours - just one....and its location please.
There is a reference in this article:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/08/10/disclosure-why-sabotaging-the-iran-agreement-takes-down-america/
I recommend you read the whole VT article, since the content is valuable.
Whites are ten million years more advanced than blacks. That is indisputable. They had no written languages and were clicking at each other while running around in thongs with spears before whites gave them technology millions of years beyond their capacity to create or comprehend.
So we cover everything from Star trek to Mad Max and whatever happens in between "OMG science fiction writters predicted it WOW!!111!!1". Also known as throw shit at the wall and something will stick. Science fiction writers and eCONomists have more in common than I thought.
The future is right in front of us. Intelligence is now defined by software writers who include malware to change your behavior or force you to give up your wealth. An IT person is hired because he is aware of software script and can temporarily correct problem until another software attack is written.
Solutions to everyday problems are available as “Apps”. Young people do not want to take the time to think through a problem. The result? Every day you run into someone whose behavior is beyond stupid.
If s problem requires intense reasoning or reference to solutions in the past, it is quickly glossed over with an App solution.
Tomorrow’s wars and economic stability will be won by societies that cherish human intelligence, not robotic sheeple that rely completely a screen and intelligence written by someone else. Our current direction places a very few predators in charge of your life.
The future eh?
2016 - #blacklivesmatter makes the natural evolution into #fuckwhitepeople
2016 - Farakhan and the other black supremacists find their 1000 black men to go around slaughtering even more whites than usual. Obama declares it "random acts of violence", not hate crime or terrorism.
2030 - whites are a minority in America and the non-whites finally get their "revenge"
2031 - president Shaquesha Jerome Hernandez (a transgendered black woman that used to be a Mexican man) passes laws enforcing "racial and gender equality" so white men cannot be more than 15% of police, lawyers, judges, doctors, etc.
2050 - A majority of citizens in the E.U. vote to declare Islam the official religion of Europe and ban all other religions. The remaining few white men in Western Europe are slaughtered and all women become slaves for the Islamic rulers of Europe.
2052 - The Islamic Caliphate of Europe declares war on Russia, Israel, Poland, and the U.S., nuclear war ensues. Europe and the Middle East are radioactive wastelands, Israel is gone, and most major cities in the U.S. are wiped out.
2075 - after decades of ethnic cleansing, race war, and genocide, most whites in America are either dead or have fled illegally to Australia. Whites are now less than 1% of the world population as Asians and Africans never bought into feminism or environmentalist propaganda and kept breeding like rabbits.
2100 - All of Europe (except Russia, which has expanded to include most of current Eastern Europe), the Middle East, and Africa are 100% Islamic. North American living standards are below current day Mexico's due to a lack of whites to build and maintain infrastructure, maintain order and civilization. The world blames whites for "abandoning" North America like they blame whites for "abandoning" South Africa due to the genocide of whites there. Billions die of starvation across the world as without white technology, logistical support, and management skill the subhumans cannot feed themselves. The 1.5 billion in Africa become 150 million in 1 year.
Beyond that all innovation and technological advancement has ceased throughout the world. In fact, many technologies have retrograded due to a lack of people smart enough to even maintain existing technology. "Racist Asia", still Asian due to staunch refusal to commit racial and cultural suicide at the altar of globalism and diversity, continues to make minor advancements in technology but keeps it to themselves. Eventually Asians leave the Earth behind while the Islamic subhumans and various other minor tribes live in primitive squalor.
If I follow your line of thinking, this means whites are responsible for the world population explosion. Oops!
Yes, that's true. The same way we can easily cause a boom in the rat population by providing them with food and protecting them from predators.
"The Future is Stupid."
It becomes readily apparent that after going through this graph... it's basically crap.
Standard Disclaimer: The 1000+ science fiction novels I've read over the course of my life tells me this is true.
Alll your electrons r belong to us. We decide the mass collecton programs they flow through before popping onto your little led screen.
The way google is going things may be much different. I let a playlist on youtube play to the end and then google took over with its own continuous music; I guess based on that playlist, but perhaps with my profile. Now I've heard all the music that somehow I never knew existed but is what I wished I had listened to. When that thing gets smart all hell is going to break loose. God will have evolved from matter into consciousness into well more God'er. I hope to see it.
What we do today determines our future.
Wow! How did they come to these conclusion(s) on what will happen 800,686 years from now?...
Brought to you by the same probability modeling engineers at Langley and the Pentagon and all those "think tanks" supporting them that said we would roll over 7 Arab nation(s) in 5 years after 9/11!!!
Doesn't matter. It all ended 16 years ago when the Moon was blasted out of orbit. About 2 1/2 billion killed in the earthquakes and tidal waves. Then earth's axis started to wobble. Monumental Ice Age follows....most die. A few domes cities keep about 500,000 humans alive in 2050.
Sorry...couldn't resist.
Nobdoy has mentioned the most famous science fiction novel of all time: The Holy Bible.
I have come to the conclusion after 40 years of being a technically savy person (and paid well for it), that all good things science fiction talks about has been thwarted by a lack of political will among the people and a tyranical political agenda among the elites.
No Supercars, no Thunderbirds, no interplanetary spaceships, no starships...just a slow jog sollowed by a fast gallop into Orwell land followed by Judgement Day. That's my timeline.
PS - My bet is that there is NO other intelligent life in the universe (damn little of it here anyway).
Wimps. No Cordwainer Smith? No Asimov Foundation? No Niven "World Out of Time" or Moorcock "An Alien Heat"? These take us from 50,000 to a billion or more years into the future.
It's not bad, but it needs more content.
I was going to mention a number of novels, but why the fuck bother....
No Battlefield Earth? ;{D>
I need a 25' screen to read this shit.
What am I supposed to do with this picture? The words are the size of bacteria...and I would love to have been able to read it, I'm sure it's an interesting list.