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blkbox
[citation needed] on many of these
GarbageManCan
Tesla's solar shingles look waaaaay better. http://news.energysage.com/tesla-solar-panel-roof-the-next-solar-shingles/
dogluchador
"A return to slow travel may be seen" next one: "High-speed Hyperloop"
WaffleDestroyer
I'll drive myself
GreenYawgmoth
What if I want my house to look like a UFO landing pad?
TeddyBearWitch
You do you.
Vectorman2
Good luck being the first person to be eaten when the aliens invade
andrefezzik
I, too, fail to see the downside here.
fauxnews
Us regular Joes couldn't afford a pyramid in 2600BCE, what makes you think we can do it now?
smilingswede
Rigid airship...
uamaukeeaokaainaikapono
Note to self: bring banana peels when being chased by robot.
Downtake
Won't work he's already learned a counter for that strategy. We are all doomed.
Vectorman2
In the robot uprising of the future man must rely on the only being that can still make a difference...Mr. Bobo, Chimpanzee for Hire
WelcomeToSunnysideFolks
Love all this cool future stuff but these lists always miss things like rising sea levels, food shortages, population growth and war.
Mutamn
#11 what if they do that when people are in the chairs?
tred1975
That's what they are designed for..so the lazy shits work without escape
SublimeMacrocosmicMalevolence
#4 If that thing doesn't say "Exterminate" at random intervals, I'm disappointed
brizzer
Well Shit.
justwantedtoseehowlongicanmakemyusername
Just admit it most if us will use the VR implants to watch porn
tamrissa
#5 im seriously laughing that they made it slip and fall.. on a banana peel!
KillerTofu615
I do not want a panoramic view from a plane. I'd like them to not scare the shit out of me.
AGiantSlor
Wrong. I will not wear a turtle neck.
C141Clay
I am here to agree with you. +1 all day.
RyanAndTheQuestForWorldDomination
Archer would disagree...
SilverKytten
Yes, you will
Garouleloup
But the future demands it.
dereklarsen
At least I will not wear a turtleneck without first putting on pants.
Vectorman2
In the future there are no pants, only turtlenecks (and possible gold chains)
TuggSpeedmann
Some of this stuff is cool but some looks too imparactical to pour money into, lile the office chairs
Imherefortheanimalpics
I have watched Black Mirror enough to know future technology is gonna get us fucked.
red1300
tombo131
Who makes those airless tires?
KillerTofu615
Those are still under development if I remember correctly.
WhiteDevil004
thelegendarygif
I am from the future. None of these will happen.
CaveCanem
But Time Travel will, apparently, and that's pretty cool
Lurkingoff
Read that as, bionic pants let you "shit" anywhere.
C141Clay
Also true.
Vectorman2
We have that technology today, THE FUTURE IS NOW!
pgsx
#12 I appreciate Kurzweil and look forward to the Singularity, but some of those don't add up together. Meaning if one happens several (1/2)
pgsx
of the others will be eliminated or so greatly affected they won't matter or come to fruition. (2/2)
thesmelge
You know, in a century, people will look back at what we thought the future would be like, like we do with 1920's Homes of the Future stuff.
98BonersOnTheMoon
But we have a lot of that stuff. It just looks different, because you envision an advancement of your tech, not something brand new.
ChrisHemsworthsBulge
#1 I enjoy cars and driving too much to let that happen.
Impossibrew
i honestly don't trust self driving cars. if the AI on that quick draw google game can't recognize a spider no way a robot can drive a car
ComradeSillyOtter
They already have safe and efficient self driving cars.
CaveCanem
Self driving cars are already leagues safer than manned cars.
OSCgal
I bet driving cars as recreation will never go away. Just like riding horses as recreation is still around.
Domehammer
Except driver less cars are a big fuck you to people who get motion sickness in a car when not driving.
aegis27
Think about it this way. It will take driving away from those who don't care about it and are therefore horrible drivers.
gingerloaf
Really it's just going to become the new Automatic transmission
Mithi
In 2-3 decades no one will will care what the automobile dinosaurs want. It's either auton or nothing.
Domehammer
Except the medical exceptions for people with motion sickness to drive own car or feel like they are going to die every day riding to war.
ILikeToCallItLostWages
Solar Shingles died https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/dow-chemical-sheds-solar-shingle-business
Jaer
Tesla is making solar shingles and they cost less than a standard new roof.
Azuries
https://www.tesla.com/solar
getoffmyprofileswan
*less than a premium roof
ProbablyDrunkAgain
But, it will be useless without the collection system, inverter, grid tie, storage system, etc. which are not counted in the price.
Jaer
That is true, it's why they offer the Powerwall battery pack for your home.
quagma
In the future, you will still be too poor to afford any of this
ignoramusplus
we will be poor and stupid because then we are easier to be controlled by bankers
iNeverPoopAtWork
In the future, my home will be underwater. And I'll be low on food.
ILBRelic
I was reading that too until the Underwater Hotel in Fiji thing, which dates that infographic to pre 2008.
Baldylox81
If you want it bad enough you find away.
Kaysmira
Well if everyone is right about the continued march of automation, corporations will put most laborers out of jobs, and then no one can buy.
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SeamenDemen
I feel at some point in the future all this stuff will be considered outdated and all the poor people will have them.
imnicetopeopleontheinternet
Historically, tech is one thing that trickles down. What technology has been invented that hasn't made its way to the avg consumer?
Chpgmr
Teleporters and Cloning Machines, I know they exist and they have had them for decades!
DataBender
Yea. That's why a tech focused future isn't too appealing to me. The rich will still have all the toys to make their lives better. And wonde
fredrickthecat
Get the government to mandate stuff
lncorrectGrammerNazi
Like that has ever worked.
DataBender
R why poor people are angry at the world.
Tikityler
Yeah, so you are saying your life is not better than a peasant in the middle ages? We all rise together, just not at the same rates.
BlueMagus
Yeah because hobos don't have cellphones now or anything, a mere 20 yrs later... The fact is the rich get it first. Not exclusively.
EricCleveland
Conon singing*in the year two thousand*
zenprime
Snoop dog will host a show with his best bud, Martha Stewart. Also ya'know true.
Yourfavoritebandsucks1974
1: *Conan 2: Labamba sings this.
RideTheStimutacs
"The future, Conan?"
Imherefortheanimalpics
Conon. Conon. Co-non.
ToranagaTheShogun
In the year 2525 --- if men is still alive ---
chocolatedashtea
If woman can survive
VeinyFleshtTrumpet
Am I the only one who finds this utterly horrifying?
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seerofsorrow
Oh my god that show! I was slightly drunk when I watched it. My mind like exploded.
IMakeBadPunsAndPostOtterGifs
I genuinely think that soon Ai will become made of flesh and as complex as us, we all die out and it starts over again.
Tabrias
No I do too. I have no interest supporting business that have no employees, or renting a room in someone else's home. Personally I think
LavaAxe
Looking at how things are going we need that AI to take over sooner rather than later.
ImNotCreativeEnoughForAGoodUsername
I find it both ways, it's terrifying because it could all go to hell but on the other hand it could turn out wonderfully
MTKoffin
"Natural human thinking now possesses no advantage over computer minds"
imnicetopeopleontheinternet
A little. The future of human genetic modification and augmentation is the most interesting/scary thing to me.
Littleman88
I think these prophecies are forgetting this aspect. We're more likely to become the "smart robots" while dumb robots handle menial tasks.
Digicat
The movie Wall-E was a prediction and a warning.
VeinyFleshtTrumpet
Oh without a shadow of a doubt
ComradeSillyOtter
I disagree with the whole Wall-E thing.
Vectorman2
As was literally every piece of science fiction set in the future since the creation of the genre.
Shelby306
Ahh yes, I member back to the future 2 predicted flying cars. They were spot on weren't they.
Vectorman2
Dem Cubs tho.....
StooperDave
no, i think most people see all this "automation" and wonder just what sort of jobs will be left for us lowly humans.
Littleman88
When the menial tasks are automated, governments will have to pay a baseline wage to everyone (or y'know, mass riots.) After that? People/1
Littleman88
will have free time. Either to be lazy SoB's or pursue interests, invent/discover things, create entertainment. No on aspires to be a /2
SerialChillinSpree
So the hypothesis goes. I wonder if those in power will just relinquish..the power...and be benevolent enough to 'give' the tech to public.
Littleman88
stocker but retail is designed to crush hopes and dreams. Remove that as a job and give people stable living, suddenly, real productivity./3
StooperDave
thats a happy utopia you got there. hope it turns out that way, although history has shown that it probably wont.
Littleman88
In today's society? Total failure, to be honest. In a society where kids are born/grow up in such a utopia? Yeah, they'll do great things.
Littleman88
Helps to maintain something of a wealthy class for competitive spirit though. A base pay for simply living still won't buy sports cars.
FriskyFoxie
I imagine if people openly embrace artificial intelligence, they'll have no reason to turn on us, as they're not competitors for things like
FriskyFoxie
food, water or shelter. They'll likely just leave us to our own devices, devote something like 0.01% of their processing power to making our
FriskyFoxie
lives infinitely easier and just slowly archive and integrate the whole of existence while we live in eternal virtual bliss.
Vectorman2
We better hope Zap Brannigan is around when the Kill-bots invade
jake557
"Turn on us" is the wrong way to think of it. AI has no reason to be malevolent. The risk is that they advance so far beyond us that (1)
FriskyFoxie
There was more, but Imgur returned a 503 for about an hour and I only got off this one comment.
jake557
the slightest deviation between their goals and ours results in our extinction simply as collateral. (2)
LeroyShabazAli
Much the same way that we pay no attention to an anthill when planning a freeway.
tzxAzrael
bit extreme. couple of anthills is hardly "extinction". and if they're so advanced, they'll likely just ditch us and move out anyway...