What will the future look like?

[S.O.I]

lets play the nostradamus game!

there will be no right-left spectrum anymore. we have all gathered inside a humanistic/technocratic-anarchist and environmentalist society based on spiritual and intellectual enlightenment, equality and freedom of using tools and technology (some would call that communism, i would call it humanism), and human- and earthly technological progress.. all atomic weapons are in the hands of the terra-defense cooperative ready to blast down asteroids and creepy aliens :p poverty and the all destruction we've caused in the third world is almost obliterated, because all the world in only one "state", thats not really a state, and emigration is totally free, both politically as economically, and nation-states do not exist anymore, but the regions have all found back to theire naturalistic pre-capitalist cultures for recreational purposes; that means f.ex norway will be viking themed, and the americas will be first nation themed in the inner cities that btw will diminish in size because, small settlements on the moon, will eventually become the primary settlement of humanity, and earth will be used mostly for vacation/travel, very green industry, science and work. the trip from the moon to earth will take about 30-45 minutes, with a shuttle.

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

I think this belongs in Chit Chat.

[Pogue]

i think it'll look shit and i'll do nothing but moan about the good old days when it was safe to go out in the street and everyone took their hats off when an old person walked past and said 'good evening sir how do you do', and if they didnt thet cud get a good beating from anyone in the street or by the nice copper who was a jolly decent fellow despite his flaming racism towards black people. i'll talk about when you could go a butcher, baker and candle stick maker down your local high street and cud then go to church and get home in time to watch the news before going to bed at 9 o'clock sharp before waking up to go school the next day cus u had to walk and if u were late u got beaten.

fantastic time, the past

[Pirate turtle the 11th]

http://www.treehugger.com/1984-sea-city-of-the-future.jpg

[bcbm]

http://www.newsgroper.com/files/post_images/post-apocalypse.jpg

http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/mad_max.jpg

[Killfacer]

http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs39/f/2008/354/a/9/Tyranid_Hive_Ship_by_Zen_Master.jpg

[Killfacer]

http://www.clemson.edu/caah/history/FacultyPages/PamMack/lec122sts/lang_metropolis.jpg

[Pirate turtle the 11th]

http://www.virginmedia.com/images/wallpapers/movies/irobot_1280.jpg

[Communist Theory]

http://www.pixelvixen707.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/fallout-3.jpg
http://crispen.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/06/06/fallout3.jpg

[Killfacer]

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/uploads/1213295303/gallery_31925_2312_21873.jpg

Apparently we will all look like this.

[Dr Mindbender]

i got quite excited until i found out it was a 'nostradamus' thread.

[Jazzratt]

In the grim darkness of the far furtre there is only war.

http://www.cheltenhamwarchiefs.co.uk/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/warhammer40k1.jpg

[bcbm]

http://www.thirdeyehealth.com/images/hunter-gatherers.jpg

[Pirate turtle the 11th]

http://www.humansfuture.org/images/transhuman.jpg

[Killfacer]

http://www.allgamewallpapers.com/data/media/40/war_hammer.jpg

[Communist Theory]

http://www.thirdeyehealth.com/images/hunter-gatherers.jpg
Hey my uncle!
:lol:

[bcbm]

http://ircamera.as.arizona.edu/NatSci102/NatSci102/images/endearth4.jpg

[Jazzratt]

http://cache.io9.com/assets/resources/2008/02/salwowski.jpg

We can but hope.

[bcbm]

oh god too big

[Pirate Utopian]

http://www.sportswebconsulting.ca/sportsbabel/thx1138-prison.jpg

[Jazzratt]

oh god too big
Why did you post suuch a huge image?

[bcbm]

Why did you post suuch a huge image?

because i hate freedom

[which doctor]

Dan Brown will be the next Shakespeare.

[Angry Young Man]

There will be something that makes all humanity apart from Revlefters die. The planets will be governed by a single emperor (we eventually got annoyed by the anarchists so after a couple of generations we returned to cyber-feudalism), Emperor Malte VI. On that hostile and barren planet Mars, the key to his authority is mined - a spice called melange. I couldn't watch what I am referencing because I fainted, but I was interested in the storyline. So the viceregal houses of family Mujer Libre and family Jazzratt are arch-rivals. Conflict, breeding programme, something about a boy that should have been a girl and the last of the Mujer Libre bloodline take the imperial throne

[The Author]

http://arcona.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/statue_planet.jpg

http://v-serv.com/usr/fx/RunningMan06.jpg

[mykittyhasaboner]

http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs34/i/2008/292/9/2/Worth_enough__by_radoxist.jpg

[Pogue]

http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs34/i/2008/292/9/2/Worth_enough__by_radoxist.jpg

interesting pic

[S.O.I]

thats deep yo

[Angry Young Man]

I always wondered what it'd look like if you put old York next to New York

[mykittyhasaboner]

I always wondered what it'd look like if you put old York next to New York
:lol::lol::lol:

[Angry Young Man]

Though of course the only sewage that America dumps into York is tourists.

PS if you're an American who has visited York, I'm sorry. Although a few pointers for anyone coming:
1. It is not 'quaint' or adorable that 150 Jews were massacred in the Castle
2. Betty's is not typical either of the decor or the price of a tearoom
3. The city is not a photo opportunity
4. There are no surviving medieval artisans. If you are looking for an apothecary, go to Norwich (we haven't told them about the reformation yet)
5. If you as tourists, the real holders of power in the city of York campaign enough, it might become more like a museum and less like a museum giftshop

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

http://www.revleft.org/vb/picture.php?albumid=332&pictureid=2764
http://www.revleft.org/vb/picture.php?albumid=332&pictureid=2759
http://www.revleft.org/vb/picture.php?albumid=332&pictureid=2768
Nanorobots. Eeny weeny teeny tiny itty bitty machines.

[bcbm]

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.

Nobody likes a Negative Nancy.

[Dimentio]

Most likely something like this. At least for the western world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsSw9NaoJ7Q

[S.O.I]

http://www.pixelvixen707.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/fallout-3.jpg
http://crispen.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/06/06/fallout3.jpg

haha fallout 3 man.. i love that game

i think i got radiation sickness playing it.

[NecroCommie]

Future looks bad.

[apathy maybe]

I can't believe that no one has mentioned entropy yet.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/7/9/a/79ab855f00cdd662899a440867b9f7c3.png
The future is black. Literally.

[Killfacer]

http://subwaychatter.com/blog/images/runningman1.jpg

[Killfacer]

http://www.2000adonline.com/books/assets/covers/judge_dredd_origins.jpg

[Robespierre2.0]

We're probably going to finally achieve world peace, then get wiped out by a zerg rush shortly afterwards.

[Bilan]

http://www.ineedtostopsoon.com/blog_images/images/02_02_06/marc_horowitz_robot_monster.jpg

[Bilan]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_X6hgIxsOqtk/Rt3GDey43OI/AAAAAAAAACM/ASQ4fwRxkd4/s400/21.jpg

[Tower of Bebel]

http://img250.imageshack.us/img250/2487/08lenin66756kk4.jpg

[SecondLife]

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/asimov/images/thumb/0/01/Dark_corridors_of_Trantor.jpg/300px-Dark_corridors_of_Trantor.jpg



Dark corridors of Trantor (http://asimov.wikia.com/wiki/Trantor) bustle with traffic - while most of the passenger vehicles tend to travel closer to the surface, large cargo vehicles are usually restricted to the deeper tunnels during the day hours. These vehicles are automated and carry both fresh supplies delivered to Trantor from the nearby worlds as well as trash. Most of the trash is recycled on the planet. Non-recyclable trash is shipped into the space and injected into Trantor's sun.

[An archist]

http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs34/i/2008/292/9/2/Worth_enough__by_radoxist.jpg
That looks really cool.

[Angry Young Man]

It looks quite hostile. The city is clad with concrete borders, its waste goes into the village's water supply, and the farmers have primitive housing and means of production. So if you approve of this elitism and division, then I will not join in your dystopian future. Of course now you'll notice that the city has concrete walls and the village has pre-industrial tools, and also that they probably have to sell most of their produce to the city, and it definitely seems like a buyer's market, because where else can they sell.

God it's worse than the Handmaid's Tale

[Killfacer]

Kind of reminds me of Brave New World. The "savages" living outside the major cities.

[Angry Young Man]

Although it could just be the respective Marxist and Anarchist settlements after capitalism goes :lol::lol::lol:

Hey, Anarchists, wanna jam? Oh wait, you don't have any amps because you have no power stations!

[Killfacer]

Although it could just be the respective Marxist and Anarchist settlements after capitalism goes :lol::lol::lol:

Hey, Anarchists, wanna jam? Oh wait, you don't have any amps because you have no power stations!

get out of my city you crusty loser.

[Angry Young Man]

Hey we buy your hippy carrots just to keep your bloody morale even though in our industrial utopia can produce enough food to feed an area the size of Central Europe.

[Killfacer]

Hey we buy your hippy carrots just to keep your bloody morale even though in our industrial utopia can produce enough food to feed an area the size of Central Europe.

Bristol hates you.

[Angry Young Man]

It shows nothing but how anarchists want to live like Medieaval peasants

[Killfacer]

It shows nothing but how anarchists want to live like Medieaval peasants

the entire city of bristol thinks your an idiot. As do my swamp inhabiting breathren in that picture.

[mykittyhasaboner]

.

[Angry Young Man]

An idiot for choosing the easy life? With electricity and medicine and sanitation and electric guitars? You're right, if I'd any brains, I'd've chosen breaking my back to make turnips and having a bath every 3 years.

[Killfacer]

An idiot for choosing the easy life? With electricity and medicine and sanitation and electric guitars? You're right, if I'd any brains, I'd've chosen breaking my back to make turnips and having a bath every 3 years.

we will rise up from our lean-to hovels and probably get shot by your laser gun weilding enforcers.

[Angry Young Man]

Not so, we'd be kind to anyone who wants to move into the city. We'd just think that anyone who chooses to live on the crusty commune as a bit daft. You bloody primmies!

[Killfacer]

Not so, we'd be kind to anyone who wants to move into the city. We'd just think that anyone who chooses to live on the crusty commune as a bit daft. You bloody primmies!

I'm gonna move in with you lot then. As long as i get some primmie slaves to clean my 13 story mansion.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

It looks quite hostile. The city is clad with concrete borders,

That's because you don't drive in, you fly in.


its waste goes into the village's water supply,I take it you have not only missed the river of crystal clear water flowing through the village into the city moat, but also the fact that the village, as primitive as it is, could not possibly have been built by people violently ill with cholera and dysentery?

Either the city dwellers are considerate enough to clean their sewage before releasing it, or the stuff coming out of the pipes is not sewage at all, but storm drains or something along those lines.


and the farmers have primitive housing and means of production.Maybe that's how they want it.


So if you approve of this elitism and division, then I will not join in your dystopian future. Of course now you'll notice that the city has concrete walls and the village has pre-industrial tools, and also that they probably have to sell most of their produce to the city, and it definitely seems like a buyer's market, because where else can they sell.I reckon they only raise food in the village for themselves to eat and to barter with other villages. If the city has flying vehicles as can clearly be seen, they can easily grow their own food or have it imported from elsewhere.

[Sprocket Hole]

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.

There are no martyrs here.

Oh and this is what I think:
http://loot-ninja.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/half-life-2-orange-box-20070521064838264.jpg
http://www.videogamesblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/borealis-in-half-life-2-episode-3-big.jpg
http://www.supanet.com/media/00/13/11/half-life2.jpghttp://pcmedia.gamespy.com/pc/image/article/566/566585/01440_1100638784.jpg

[mykittyhasaboner]

^^This is definitely what the future would look like.

I can't wait for H-L Episode 3.

[Sprocket Hole]

I need to get a god damned 360 so I can finish episodes one and two.

[mykittyhasaboner]

Get it on PC.

[Sprocket Hole]

Valve games are the only reason I wish I had windows and not Linux

[bcbm]

There are no martyrs here.

Has nothing to do with martyrs.

"We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent there will be no need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always—do not forget this Winston—always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless."

[Sprocket Hole]

Ah sorry man, It was the only part I could remember from 1984, could have sworn it was around when he spoke of the future. My mistake. Been awhile

[bcbm]

Its spoken by the Party guy who is making him love big brother. It isn't about martyrs but rather that the future is in a continual system of totalitarianism. Personally, I think that Orwell's view was less accurate than Huxley's but that our future if we don't see real upheaval will be a sort of totalitarianism "with a human face." The abilities and methods of our modern capitalist states certainly put past totalitarian ones to shame.

[mykittyhasaboner]

^Case 'n point, the Combine in Half-Life.

Though I disagree with 'totalitarianism', and Orwell for that matter (his later politics..), from what little I've read from Brave New World and 1984 is certainly compelling and thought provoking.

[mykittyhasaboner]

Valve games are the only reason I wish I had windows and not Linux

If you had windows, you could get the whole series + the rest of the orange box for 40 bucks. pretty damn good deal, in my opinion. my advice would be to make the sacrifice and get windows.

[bcbm]

^Case 'n point, the Combine in Half-Life.

Though I disagree with 'totalitarianism', and Orwell for that matter (his later politics..), from what little I've read from Brave New World and 1984 is certainly compelling and thought provoking.

Disagree in what way?

[hugsandmarxism]

I know for certain that everyone will be wearing one of these:

http://www.axess.com/twilight/sock/graphics/tron_k.jpg

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

"We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent there will be no need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always—do not forget this Winston—always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless."

"Enjoy stagnation and the extinction that always accompanies it, O'Brien. You think the Party is immortal and that reality can be bent to its will. You are wrong. When your Party's short-sighted hubris brings your tired little world crashing down around you, will you have the intellectual honesty to blame yourself for your own collusion, or will you have the affront to blame others for the sleep of your own reason?"

*Thousands of spacecraft appear in Earth orbit in 1984, their weapons trained on hundreds of thousands of targets*

"But enough talk! Have at you!"

*The combined armies of Oceania, Eastasia and Eurasia are no match for the orbital bombardment and subsequent mop-up operations. The tyrannical triad are scoured from the surface of the Earth with a combination of plasma fire, surgical railgun strikes and massed barrages from weapon batteries. In less than six minutes the military might of Earth has been reduced to ashes, dust and vapour*

Try "erasing" the memory of that from everyone, you sons of *****es. You've had this coming for a long, long time.

[An archist]

http://vegetalcity.net/images/07_bz.jpg

http://www.onculture.eu/thumbnails%5C728-4.gif

http://vegetalcity.net/

[Killfacer]

i dont want to live in giant leeks.

[Sugar Hill Kevis]

Orange

[mykittyhasaboner]

Disagree in what way?

I think that "totalitarianism' (in reality) is an inaccurate label that lumps completely different governments into the same category on some vague premise of 'authoritarianism'.

As far as 'totalitarianism' in 1984 and Brave New World, well I haven't read either of them yet, so I can't say much. Orwell's politics though, I disagree with for obvious reasons.

[An archist]

i dont want to live in giant leeks.
I wouldn't mind living in a city that looked like that.

[Killfacer]

I wouldn't mind living in a city that looked like that.

I prefer flying cars.

[Dr Mindbender]

I think the picture at the top of this page illustrates what the UK would look like under the BNP.

[bcbm]

I think the picture at the top of this page illustrates what the UK would look like under the BNP.

No, the people getting beaten are white.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

No, the people getting beaten are white.

I'm sure plenty of white people would get beaten. After all, one still has to root out the race traitors and other untermenschen, even if one has killed/deported all the darkies.

Besides, Britain under the BNP would look nothing like City 17 - Dr Breen's subjects still have electricity.

Also zombies.

[Bilan]

http://www.geeked.info/wp-content/images/_dali.temptation-of-saint-anthony.jpg

It will look like this, for sure.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

http://www.geeked.info/wp-content/images/_dali.temptation-of-saint-anthony.jpg

It will look like this, for sure.

I don't think there will ever be enough drugs in the world to make it look like that.

[More Fire for the People]

Within two hundred years I expect our species to be venturing beyond on our solar system.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Within two hundred years I expect our species to be venturing beyond on our solar system.

Really? That seems surprisingly optimistic. I'm expecting at least a millennium of exploration and colonisation of the Solar System before that happens.

[Il Medico]

I'll show you tomorrow.

[More Fire for the People]

Really? That seems surprisingly optimistic. I'm expecting at least a millennium of exploration and colonisation of the Solar System before that happens.
I out technocrat the technocrats when it comes to space exploration. I think once we've started mining asteroids we will see an explosion of space exploration as precious metals become cheaper than dirt.

[Angry Young Man]

It turns out that we massively underestimated Paris Hilton, who in 2016 enters the presidential race, successfully rigs the election and then fiddles the constitution to make herself uberfuhrer of the US by 2017. In 2018, she starts a genocidal program against geeks. All ethnic minorities are apprehensive, but some African-Americans are assured safety as 90210 tokens.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

I out technocrat the technocrats when it comes to space exploration.

When I finally gain control of the world, you can be one of my lieutenants. :D


I think once we've started mining asteroids we will see an explosion of space exploration as precious metals become cheaper than dirt.

Not just precious metals - establishing asteroid-based resource extraction in general would be a massive boon to space colonisation and exploration, since then we wouldn't need to hauls tons of shit in and out of massive gravity wells.

[Angry Young Man]

He's an imperialist!!!!

[Comrade B]

The United States, Brought to you by Nascar Coca Pepsi petrol light plus zero, will be lead by President Jimbob Nike Johnson of the DRCP (Doritos Republican Chiptastic Crunch Party), his vice president will be Dick Cheney's clone with bull genes spliced in, more to come tomorrow, after sleep, too fuckin late to do this, but it will be funnier... I hope

[Killfacer]

THE FUTURE IS KRAFTWERK.

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kraftwerk.jpg

[Il Medico]

http://www.geeked.info/wp-content/images/_dali.temptation-of-saint-anthony.jpg

It will look like this, for sure.
What? Is the future painted by Dali?

[NecroCommie]

http://www.geeked.info/wp-content/images/_dali.temptation-of-saint-anthony.jpg

It will look like this, for sure.
The sad thing about is that the painting is called the temptation of St.Anthony. I find it sad that wanna-be elephants with long narrow legs and too many joints can be tempting to someone (Dali and St.Anthony).

[Pirate Utopian]

THE FUTURE IS KRAFTWERK.

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kraftwerk.jpg
Sir, to this post one can only reply fuck yeah. :closedeyes:

[piet11111]

I'm sure plenty of white people would get beaten. After all, one still has to root out the race traitors and other untermenschen, even if one has killed/deported all the darkies.

Besides, Britain under the BNP would look nothing like City 17 - Dr Breen's subjects still have electricity.

Also zombies.

life's better with zombies they never tell you how to do your job.

[Pirate Utopian]

They only try to eat you.
If there are zombies, it must be Romero zombies, no Return Of The Living Dead or 28 Days Later zombies (not that I didnt like those movies, atleast the first two ROTLD were okay).

[Killfacer]

They only try to eat you.
If there are zombies, it must be Romero zombies, no Return Of The Living Dead or 28 Days Later zombies (not that I didnt like those movies, atleast the first two ROTLD were okay).

The one thing i hate more than non heinz baked beans are zombies that run.

[Pirate Utopian]

The one thing i hate more than non heinz baked beans are zombies that run.
Word. Or zombies that talk for that matter.

[Comrade B]

The communist dictator of the United States of America, Obama, will take your guns away, tax the rich, replace your bibles with Korans, declare the US part of Mexico and France, and surrender to the terrorists, right before growing out his Hitler stash.

[Jazzratt]

Word. Or zombies that talk for that matter.

You're wrong. (http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Reg_Shoe)

[Pirate Utopian]

The undead deserve no rights!