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on Saturday January 24 2015, @12:03PM
from the your-guess-is-as-good-as-mine dept.
from the your-guess-is-as-good-as-mine dept.
Politico Magazine asked 15 other big thinkers and doers for their ideas of what will change the world the most in the next 15 years. We got back lots of inspiration—from the transformative power of opening up national borders to the commercialization of the human genome—and one dyspeptic dissenter. Read on, for a sense of the possible in the world of 2030.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/15-big-breakthroughs-in-2015-114486.html
Would you agree with their predictions? What would surveillance be like in 2030? Would we have any freedoms at all, any privacy?
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All this time I've been VIEWING a RUSSIAN MIDGET SODOMIZE a HOUSECAT!
(Score: 2) by Gravis on Saturday January 24 2015, @04:40PM
one thing i understand is that the evolution of technology is gradual, not leaps and bounds. 15 years ago we had roughly the same technology, i was just a bit slower and held less data. that said, we have had a lot of things we invented that are only now being recognized because of the computing power and storage capabilities we have. the things that are most difficult to predict are breakthroughs in chemistry.
in technology, we will have massively parallel computing on a chip.
what does this enable us to do? there will be great advances computer vision. this will of course be another significant blow to the people working in the manufacturing industry but will drive down prices. definitely a good thing considering how many people are going to need government assistance just to get by. we will see another hit to the global economy because of banks if there are no large reforms.
(Score: 2) by tathra on Sunday January 25 2015, @03:46AM
i would say its both. technology improves gradually until a breakthrough is discovered which changes everything for everybody (eg, how to make fires hot enough to melt ore, how to reliably get a specific amount of carbon into molten iron, how to turn steam into work, etc), even if it takes a little while for everybody to learn about it and make use of it. we'll continue with the gradual improvements - more, faster, more efficient, etc - until our next breakthrough or two. quantum computers, room-temperature superconductors, and biological-computer interfaces (ie, "brain chips") will probably cause the next revolution, allowing for things we can't even imagine right now, and hopefully we'll have them all figured out within the next 20 years.