Assuming global warming, a mass virus or freak of mother nature does not kill uss in the next 10 years then:

1)What do you think Technology will be like in 10 years (any tech you want to speculate on or talk about how you think it might change our lives)

I saw for example on bbc click that they have been working on HD tv for about 25 years.

I think we will be connected to the web even more than we are now, potentially computing might go the way of google crome such as that you have say your main pc and then a small, cheap, portable, lightweight computer that is connected to the internet all the time

I also think we may have a star wars type projection system where we do away with screens alltogether for doing our msn and such while gaming may potentially become fully 3d and fully immersive - maybe not in 10 years.

2)Do we really need all this technology (the good and bad?)


I've played games like world of warcraft that taken into context are essentially online communitys where people go to create a virtual self and then pretend to be something while socially interacting with the other players, perhaps they are not good communicators in the 'real world' but they can socialise with ease in this virtual space, whether killing them or doing quests together. I think (partially based on bbc click) that these things will become more populair. It's still social interaction yet it's hardley in my veiw the most healthy of things (a reason why I stopped playing), potentially living your life as Plextor! Mighty king of azaroth! is perhaps not as healthy as living your life as Bob! the dentist! and socially interacting with physical people. Sure the person behind plextor king of azaroth is still real and your potentially meeting someone from thousands of miles away, there was even 6 members of the guild I was in who met up in real life as they found out they were fairly close which is great!

Humans are social beings, I think computers are in some ways bad. I'll leave it as that, you could write an essay on this topic.

However I've also used the net to meet people with the same interests as me. When I had a car I joined a ford owners club and in the end only went to one of the meetings as I ended up selling the car when I went back to uni, but there were 20 of uss, we went go carting, showed off our crappy cars and had a good laugh.

Robots will do everything for us and we will all live on mars

or perhaps we shall be dead in 2 years and 13 days and will see no further than the itouch v6.324234543 ?

Your thoughts will automatically become your Facebook status. Whether you've signed up to Facebook or not.

Google will be dead(ish), as the public realise they don't want one company knowing everything about them.

Microsoft and Apple will still be at war. Geeks will still argue about it. Dustin won't have calmed down.

Cars will be boring.

Nobody will type - that will be so last decade.

People will still be getting diseases from monkeys.

Binary solo!

It will be smaller, faster, less expensive and more useless and annoying.

Holograms in homes? Robots? Better cell phones.

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Google will be dead(ish), as the public realise they don't want one company knowing everything about them.

I don't think the public are that wise. I suspect we can expect more regulations, potentially some form of online regulator and licence fee.

In terms of technology we can expect just further evolutions of what we have now. In terms of transport expert to be taxed to death on anything that is 'killing the world'. Expect more tax on stuff that's cool and what fills our life with joy and aspiration...

We already pay an internet "Licence fee".. it's called a ****ing ISP charge, along with certain services charging money.


**** you're stupid Alan.

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

We already pay an internet "Licence fee".. it's called a ****ing ISP charge, along with certain services charging money.


**** you're stupid Alan.

You do not pay a Internet Licence fee, just like the Americans do not pay for a TV Licence!!!!!!!!!! Are you saying the Americans have a TV Licence because they pay for cable???? huh??? So, I have a 'drinking coffee licence' because I once paid for a cappuccino in StarBucks?

Paying money to a company in exchange for access to a product otherwise not available to you is called a service, hence Internet Service Provider. That is considerably different to a licence.

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licence US, license [ˈlaɪsəns]n1. (Law) a certificate, tag, document, etc., giving official permission to do something

So are you saying a service is a 'certificate, tag, document, etc., giving official permission to do something'. An ISP does not 'give you permission' to use the net, it gives you access. Permission Vs Access.... get it? Last time I checked you can't just go and buy a car and drive it. Sure it gives you access to the roads, but certainly not permission.

It's pretty basic definitions here. An Internet licence and regulator are completely different to a service. There's no point arguing against me here because you may as well argue with the Oxford English Dictionary instead. They're the ones who define what words mean.

Yes you can go buy a car and drive it. Maybe not legally, but there's no invisible force field that prevents you from driving it.

No ISP = No internet.

You effectively pay a "TV Licence" to use the internet to your ISP, who has developed or paid for access to the infrastructure of the internet. This fee you pay gives you access to something which without, you couldn't access the internet (excluding Wi-Fi from other people, or Internet Cafe's, but that still doesn't nullify my point, because someone is paying for the internet there too).

**** Alan, you're stupid!

Everyone will have a flying car, food will come in pill form, and the earth will be ruled by DAMN DIRTY APES.

The way everyone's suddenly become obsessed with having stuff in 80's style 3D means maybe we're heading backwards. So in 10 years I'll be driving a Delorean, rolling up the sleeves of my neon-coloured suit and wearing leg-warmers over my ripped jeans.

I think TVs will be available in uber mega widescreen 35:2 format, as is the trend for pointlessly ever widening screens.

Mobile (cell) phones will have 60mp cameras in them, since that also seems to be a good selling point, and they'll still be rubbish compared with a proper camera.

1 pence, 2 pence and 5 pence pieces will be abolished. There'll be 10 pence in an English pound, but most people will pay with things with their cell-phone anyway.

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1 pence, 2 pence and 5 pence pieces will be abolished. There'll be 10 pence in an English pound, but most people will pay with things with their cell-phone anyway.

inb4 England swaps to the Euro

It turned out everyone was gay, and the girls suddently could have sex with anyone.

Bad time to be gay..

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and the girls suddently could have sex with anyone.

I don't know what the laws are like round you, but right now this is already true for most of us. Have they been using that as an excuse for not sleeping with you?

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

**** Alan, you're stupid!

You're calling me stupid yet you can't understand the difference between a service/product supplied by a private company at a fee and a licence issued by a government to get permission to use a service or product. They are two completely different things. It's part of a fundamental debate that's divided left and right politics for decades! This is really simple basic stuff.

The implications of an Internet licence are far greater than simply paying a private company a small fee to access their product. For example an internet regulators, internet use databases etc...


On topic I reckon we'll have instant toasters!

Smaller, much more energy efficient, simpler to use, infuriatingly automatic, and damn complicated under the skin.

I think that contrary to popular opinion TV and Radio will still play a rather big role. TV will be (partly) on command, 3D cinemas will still be a minor phenomena (cause noone wants to wear those stupid glasses). Maybe PC and TV are finally in one unit.

In medicine I think we will have no more syringes, even today sort of "Hyposprays" are already in use. Its more hygenic, less dangerous and cheap.

Cars will not fly and still run on crushed dinosaurs. Maybe scientist find a way to generate fuel from carbon waste, thats cheap enough for every day use.

Something like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKBjt5z_EcY

wireless wall plugs...i f*****g hate tangled up wires
at this rate everything is going wireless...wireless kb wireless internet wireless headphones granted some of the forementionied things aren't new but it it seems like everything is going in that direction

Stupid Electric cars which control themselves and sound like Hoovers.

LFS Will be on Patch Z242 And will be waiting for the 2008 scirroco to be released.

England would have been overran by Illegal Immigrants And there will be a massive war between religions.

faster pc's, better technology.
nothing more though, maybe a bit better cars.
Electric cars will be more accessible, but that's about it.
Future is slow.