The future is awesome

[Madame Adequate]

Oh, hi. So I see you made a thread for me to talk about for six days straight in.

The internet and cellphones are a good start! The former has over one billion people, the latter has over two. We are one-third of the way to a completely connected planet. :o This happened in a decade. Computers are taking longer but OLPC is a good start there.

Computers themselves, for that matter. A single average desktop has more computing power than the entire planet did just a few decades ago.

Tomorrow I might be able to say "We can make black holes" which pretty much elevates our species as a collective to Godhood.

Nanotechnology is proceeding apace. We're not even on the cusp of it yet, but very soon it'll arrive in full force.

We're getting increasingly good cloaking devices. We're getting increasingly good exosuits, too. Supersoldiers here we come!

I like how I have all the things I need to survive without needing to hunt, forage, gather, etc. I can turn a tap on and get water. I open my fridge and get food. There's a roof over my head. This isn't the privilege of kings and emperors, it's something regular folks have. Not globally, true, but that situation improves daily.

Splitting the atom, going to the moon, eradicting smallpox entirely - nobody gets smallpox anymore because we completely destroyed it. The only smallpox left on Earth is in a couple of labs in the US and Russia. How cool is that? We're working on the same for Polio, and we're damned close to destroying that entirely as well.

Yeah, I love the future. Gets better every day.

Edit: We're getting better at cybernetics too. That's always awesome.

[Aerith's Knight]

Nanotechnology is proceeding apace. We're not even on the cusp of it yet, but very soon it'll arrive in full force.

It's having some problems with Quantum physical laws on that scale, but we should see the first changes in 3 years.

[Old Manus]

I'll bump this thread in 10 years time and we'll evaluate.

[Flying Mullet]

I remember when my mouse didnt have a scroll wheel.

I remember when we didn't have a mouse and I wanted one so badly. xD

[Aerith's Knight]

I remember when my mouse didnt have a scroll wheel.

I remember when we didn't have a mouse and I wanted one so badly. xD

I remember when the mouse only was an animal put in hot dogs.

[Rantz]

I remember when my mouse didnt have a scroll wheel.

I remember when we didn't have a mouse and I wanted one so badly. xD

I remember when the mouse only was an animal put in hot dogs.

No you don't—computer mice were invented several years before your birth

[Flying Mullet]

[Yar]

"We used to have an ozone. And polar bears!"
"Ooh..."

[Peegee]

Pfft none of that will happen

In less than 30 years we'll perfect the ability to have 'virtual' reality and nobody will converse with each other.

[Roto13]

"Those are cars, Jimmy. We used them to keep the population under control."

...by running them over?

E-ink thing is pretty cool. Now we'll have internet popup quality flash ads in our magazines, except now we have to turn the page instead of clicking X.

Why do you ruin things?

I'll bump this thread in 10 years time and we'll evaluate.

Oh, Manus. You'll be long banned by then.

[Dolentrean]

I can't wait to be old

[Aerith's Knight]

I'm going to buy a huge lawn, so I can scare away kids with my lightsaber.

[theundeadhero]

Splitting the atom, going to the moon, eradicting smallpox entirely - <b>nobody gets smallpox anymore</b> because we completely destroyed it. The only smallpox left on Earth is in a couple of labs in the US and Russia. How cool is that? We're working on the same for Polio, and we're damned close to destroying that entirely as well.

That's not true. Everybody that deploys to combat in the middle east gets a smallpox shot. I had one in 2004. It's a horrible shot to get too.

Edit: I bolded the most important part.

[Rantz]

Splitting the atom, going to the moon, eradicting smallpox entirely - nobody gets smallpox anymore because we completely destroyed it. The only smallpox left on Earth is in a couple of labs in the US and Russia. How cool is that? We're working on the same for Polio, and we're damned close to destroying that entirely as well.

That's not true. Everybody that deploys to combat in the middle east gets a smallpox shot. I had one in 2004. It's a horrible shot to get too.

Maybe the US army doesn't know, but it is in fact eradicated. There are books written on the subject.

Through the success of the global eradication campaign, smallpox was finally pushed back to the horn of Africa and then to a single last natural case, which occurred in Somalia in 1977. A fatal laboratory-acquired case occurred in the United Kingdom in 1978. The global eradication of smallpox was certified, based on intense verification activities in countries, by a commission of eminent scientists in December 1979 and subsequently endorsed by the World Health Assembly in 1980.

[Aerith's Knight]

Splitting the atom, going to the moon, eradicting smallpox entirely - nobody gets smallpox anymore because we completely destroyed it. The only smallpox left on Earth is in a couple of labs in the US and Russia. How cool is that? We're working on the same for Polio, and we're damned close to destroying that entirely as well.

That's not true. Everybody that deploys to combat in the middle east gets a smallpox shot. I had one in 2004. It's a horrible shot to get too.

Maybe the US army doesn't know, but it is in fact eradicated. There are books written on the subject.

Through the success of the global eradication campaign, smallpox was finally pushed back to the horn of Africa and then to a single last natural case, which occurred in Somalia in 1977. A fatal laboratory-acquired case occurred in the United Kingdom in 1978. The global eradication of smallpox was certified, based on intense verification activities in countries, by a commission of eminent scientists in December 1979 and subsequently endorsed by the World Health Assembly in 1980.

They are afraid of its use in biological weapons. I'm certain that they keep it in a lab somewhere, in case they need to make a vaccin against some sort of mutation.

Plus, almost anything organically can be made in a labratory. Just takes a lot of time.