The Future

[exudaz]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/avegantglyph/a-mobile-personal-theater-with-built-in-premium-au?ref=discovery
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/energyaware/neurio-home-intelligence?ref=discovery
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/607691307/ubi-the-ubiquitous-computer-voice-activated-and-al-0?ref=discovery
http://store.irobot.com/family/index.jsp?categoryId=2501652&s=A-ProductAge
http://www.google.com/glass/start/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DJr8QwgLEA
That video showcases a home designed to be futuristic and high-tech. We have already far surpassed that.

If you were to combine our homes today all the new-age technology that's being made on Kickstarter every four seconds, you'd have an unimaginably easy life, and a house that surpasses that one by light years. And to get all that stuff is far cheaper than one would expect.

Our world is developing at an insane rate. In ten or fifteen years, all of this stuff we think is god-like will be outdated dirt.

Humanity has escaped the era of stone castles and kingdoms in what is only a blink in the grand scheme of things.
Imagine our world in a thousand years. We've sent men to space, started a Martian colony, invented magic boxes that enable us to communicate to people thousands of miles away. What's next?

[CoolBerries]

Yeah, I like The Jetsons, too.

[koopahermit]

At 5/21/14 11:53 PM, CoolBerries wrote: Yeah, I like The Jetsons, too.

Flintstones was better.

[CiviLies]

The National Intelligence Council (NIC for short) often releases a massive report detailing possible occurrences in the future with regards to politics, enconomics, and yes, technology. There's a download link off to the side of the web page (pdf via dni.gov). I haven't had the pleasure of reading it myself, just yet, but I reckon it's good.

[24901miles]

Google buys Nest, the patent-tied WiFi thermostat company for $3 billion
Nest - The Lowly Thermostat, Now Minter of Megawatts
Smart Grid Technology
Solar price per watt

Some cool stuff relevant to home automation and energy conservation.

I think that more and more personal technology will be integrated into pocket platforms as the scalar progression of Moore's law continues, and more functionality can be held in smaller physical devices. Electronics which hack the body's nervous system to share and distribute work/educational information, improve comfort, track health, advise or even improve your health, and connect people socially will all integrate into one. More and more processing and data hosting will move to remote massive computation centers. More and more matter will be sourced at decentralized outlets. And then technology will vanish.

Technology will become so cheap, so miniscule, and so powerful that it will need to be integrated into much larger objects just to keep track of it all. It's tough to say what form that will manifest in. Maybe clothing, maybe extremely powerful smartwatches, or maybe computerized contact lenses that interface directly with your body. I like to think that it will be artificial organelles which embed themselves within your cells much like mitochondria.

Oh, and by the way. There will be seperate economies which are entirely automated, and it's tough to say whether human labor will even be relevant in a hundred years.

[Xenomit]

Exponential technological development. Anyone who's even remotely interested in our future already knows this, even if they don't know what specifically is being developed.

[Nebula]

At 5/20/14 09:40 PM, exudaz wrote: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/avegantglyph/a-mobile-personal-theater-with-built-in-premium-au?ref=discovery

Can i just comment on this? I gotta say that its a really stupid idea, just watch movies on your TV or PC Jesus Christ.

[Urban-Champion]

In the future we all die because we'll have hoardes of iphones that we can live in but no food to eat

[KatMaestro]

I see the future this way. Everything get digitalized. Then BOOM, someone sets off an EMP bomb or nuke over atmosphere or even solar storm hit Earth... the world go back to Stone Age.