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[VAL0R]

- Machines move with stunning fluidity and grace, like animals, speak like humans, and function as our personal assistants in every home (butlers, drivers, servants, cooks, teachers, etc.). Do you think the iPod was big? Wait until the iMan can do your laundry, teach your kids Spanish and cook you a 4-star meal.

- A shift from a traditional workforce to an automated robotic one where the masses receive a universal basic income from economical necessity.

- Rail guns, laser, and energy weapons are commonplace.

- New forms of nuclear fission, such as thorium fueled molten salt nuke reactors, meet a huge portion of the world's energy needs, and then we solve the riddle of fusion. Energy is so abundant there is no real practical need to conserve it anymore.

 

[K1Expwy]

In my life so far, I consider the greatest technical achievement to be human setting foot on land outside of Earth. And that happened decades before I was born

 

[Tams]

I think it has already happened with the World Wide Web/Internet.

Of course, how it will affect us will continue to change. I wish I had more foresight as to how important it would become, even though I was old enough to toy around with it during the earlier consumer years of it. My parents were a bit too old for it though, so while they did get into computers and the Internet relatively early on, they didn't stay up to date with it after a while, so I had limited access and encouragement (had to beg them to eventually get broadband and it still sucked where I lived).

Other than that, I don't think any other truly big leaps will be made in my lifetime. Pretty soon afterwards? Yeah, for sure. I think this century is mainly going to be setting the groundwork for the truly massive leaps though. That is, if the climate change that we have so recklessly caused and still cause doesn't descend us into wars that destroy our capacity for high end research.

 

[rorepmE]

Realistic VR Porn or Sex Robots.

 

[Arkam]

Assuming I live another 30 years, Robotics/Automation. I think we will see the synergy of advancements in Communication protocols/networks, AI/ML & battery tech.

Then add the “need” for War, Space Exploration and aging populations.

 

[Shadowplay1979]

Still waiting for this shit

i'm taking your italian card away

 

[Boy bawang]

Within the next 20-30 years, expect a revolution in machine learning based on artificial synapses. That's what I'm working on right now and the long term implications are borderline scary.

 

[Robot Carnival]

realistically, AI and robotics I think. maybe even some sort of human/machine direct link interface sorta thing like Ghost In The Shell. and probably sex bots would arrive before all of that of course.

Still waiting for this shit

first of all, that's a Pizza Hut pizza and half of it is green pepper only. so, ew no. I'm down for an actual pizza if they can do one.

second of all, I rather have this instead.

 

[thefool]

8k porn

 

[Reality Czar]

Commercial holograms. Glassless VR and AR. Room size 3 dimensional projectors.

 

[Faenrir]

VR/AR used everywhere, people not meeting "irl", more and more new virus and less and less resources.

The start of mars and the moon colonization (they're 3d printing in space now).

 

[Faenrir]

Fusion, hey it's only 20 years away for the past 70 years.

 

[Yoda]

definitely AI/Androids. we're seeing it in production now.

Just curious, what are you referring to?

 

[TheMan]

For all our sakes, carbon sequestration and maybe even more advanced “terraforming.” Cheap and easy desalination for drinking water. Basically all of the rest of the cool shit (and let’s not forget humanity itself) is in jeopardy if we don’t get global warming and freshwater shortages sorted

 

[TheContact]

Just curious, what are you referring to?

if you look at recent history, at least in my lifetime, in terms of breakthrough technology, we have definitive milestones of objective humanitarian achievements such as the internet and smartphones. I believe that in our lifetimes androids with “sentient” AI will be the next achievement in terms of the breakthroughs in technology that will allow us to progress as a civilization at an exponentially rapid pace on this planet and beyond.

 

[Pegasus Actual]

It's gonna be Skynet but instead of killing us all it'll keep a few of us in a zoo.

 

[*Nightwing]

Deep fake porn... it’s how the AI will control us

 

[HoodWinked]

Real Ai seems like a disaster. Once we build something smart enough it should be able to make something smarter than itself incrementally. That a.i. would then be smarter than some fraction of humans. Then you can take that a.i. then just make a copy, now you doubled your workforce then make another copy then another for every copy you displaced a human employee.

 

[West Texas CEO]

It's gonna be Skynet but instead of killing us all it'll keep a few of us in a zoo.

They've started that already. It's called Detroit, Michigan.