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Busy times ahead or just someone who has read too much sci-fi talking rubbish (and I should know about the latter)???

British Telecom have a team who try and predict short and longer term developments and they have developed a technology timeline - get the PDF here:
http://www.btexact.com/ideas/whitepapers?doc=42270

Scroll down to page 5 onwards for an overview. Things like:

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25 % of TV celebrities synthetic __________________ 2010

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Do you mean they aren't already?

Here is a something for DG:

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Computer agents start being thought of as colleagues instead of tools ____________ 2013

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And some others that stood out:

3d fax _____________ 2005

Frequent use of multiple Net identities causes personality disorders _____________ 2005

Orgasm by email __________________ 2010

Orgasmatron _________________ 2012

Holodecks using box room lined completely with polymer screens __________________ 2018

Digital bore filter technology ______________ 2020

Network based telepathy _____________ 2025

Creation of The Matrix _____________ 2025

Thought recognition as everyday input means _____________ 2025

Cybernetic gladiators _______________ 2025

Restricted capability home genetic engineering kits _______________ 2030

Full direct brain link ___________ 2030

Asteroid diversion used as weapon ______________ 2040

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and wildcards (which are much more 'fun'):

The hostile arrival of ETs detecting our transmissions ________________ 2010

Rise of a global machine dictator __________________ 2020

Elimination by smart machines - terminator ______________ 2030

Whole generation unable to effectively read, write, think, and work _____________ 2050

Human genetic engineering creates hostile super-race ________________ 2070

Humans assimilated into net _____________ 2075

Invention of elimination phaser _____________ 2075

Time travel invented ________________ 2075

Faster than light travel _____________ 2100

Immortality chip - people move into cyberspace _________________ 2100

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

Coolness....just reading through it all...thanks for posting...I love this kind of stuff.

i doubt that we will travel faster than light.

I liked this one:

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Whole generation unable to effectively read, write, think, and work _____________ 2050

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A agree with Grumble. Don't think we will ever be able to travel faster than light, but maybe someday we might be able to travel as fast as light relative to someone else.

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Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
- copied from the wall of cell 408 -

No one will ever be able to travel back in time. Someone would have seen someone from the future as some stage in the past. So um thats proof there that it will never happen :P

Faster than light .. mmh, I could get to McDonalds in no time

Orgasmatron ? Was he a transformer

Very cool stuff.. Thanks for the post. It'd be interesting to see some of these concepts, like time travel and faster than ligth travel making it into the debates in the Philosophy forum.

hugh, didn't we have some pretty strange people in the past?

hell, I think Slime is pretty wierd, but I just dismiss him as AI...


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They always over estimate with this stuff. Like how everybody was saying that by the year 2000 there would be flying cars that would fold up into briefcases like on The Jetsons and half the people believed that.

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There's no such thing as a prophet, it's just a time traveller with dementia.

As fast as light, no. Fast(er) than light, maybe. Engangles photons?.... no, I have no idea what I'm crapping on about. Not enought sleep. Too much coffee. Again.

BS. The fact that they even mention faster than light travel shows that they're idiots. And think about it... computers were invented in like the 60s i think, and fourty years later we have... um... smaller and faster computers? that's really not that big of an advancement. They claim we'll have "The Matrix" in 2025? Ridiculous and childish.

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Orgasm by email

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Hmm...It's already around: It's called ponography...

I can't remember where I read this, but it was decalred as "the ultimate proof that time travel can not, and will not, ever exist." The proof was simple: You can still get concert tickets. Think about it, picture the first concert by Nirvana, or U2, or a host of others. Once they were nobodies and played to half-empty bars, but with time travel, every show would be packed by generations of rabid "retro" fans! But, you can still get tickets if you try hard enough. Ergo: no time travel.

I'd like a holodeck, please.

Your pal, -doc-