Monday, February 4, 2008

Not to long ago the Discovery Chanel aired a series of shows called "Life in 2050" or something like that. However, I am positive that 2050 was somewhere in the title. The whole purpose of the show is to predict to a decent level of accuracy what life will be like 42 years from now in 2050. Throughout the whole show they have physists, futurists, chemists, and all types of proffesionals whose title end with "ists".
Before the more details of the series is revealed i shawl inform you that my view of the future and the technology it holds is slightly biased. I lean towards less technology purer life. Much of this is influenced by how handicapped I am when it comes to technology. Also, I strongly believes that technology weakens humans.
This show lets these scientists of all kinds tell us their predictions of the future and tell us how it is possible. They mention inventions such as cars that drive themselves, elevators to the moon, and hollowgraphic images as pets that project themselves into thin air and can interact with you.
Lets start with the cars that drives themselves. These cars will have the technology to interpret hundreds of images a seconds. The cars will interpret these images in a way that the car will know what move to make next. Whether it be turn right, left, brake, accelerate, or maybe even run from the police. These cars will be run off of hydrogen with great efficiency. These cars will also have the ability to switch to a manual drive so you have the ability drive as though it were 2008. This is not all of the ability of these cars. These cars also have an extremely advanced form of voice activated GPS system. You name the location and your there.
Should I even get started on the elevator to the moon. The say it is possible to have an elevator that runs from somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean to the moon. How is this possible a stationary elevator cannot lead to a unstationary moon. The idea of such technology is rather incredible. This is only and idea or a theory at most. Imagine the cable to guide the elevator.
This idea they have of hollowgraphic pets that can preject themselves into nothingness at the touch of a button or the command of a voice is hilarious at best. The make these visual pets interact verbally with you. How can something talk when in is made of air. Nothing to produce sound waves. Also these pets can surf from billboard to billboard across a city run on the internet and a complex series of logarithmic technology.
My favoriote part of the whole technology boom is the more and more reliant we become on technology the less reliant we become on ourselves. One crash of technology and we are set back potentially hunreds of years. If such a setback happens many will not be able to deal with such a situation because they are to dependent on technology and have grown weak

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