What will the world be like in 2020?

Hmm, 16 years ago, in 1988, didn't The Lost Boys come out around then? I was using one of those elite commodore 64's..haha. I even had a "Games List", but those games are just pretty much nostalgia nowadays. Didn't the War of the Roses come out around 15 years ago?

What will happen in 2020? This is difficult to exactly predict. Hopefully it will at least be a time of friendship and reconciliation (yes, how quaint) of past conflict. Hopefully there won't be any tipsy teens on motorcycles driving through intersections.

I think if cpu's still exist in 2020, in general, they will likely be cooled by something other than fans, as I think they might be too red hot for that method.

 

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Android tech will be developed, but when we find out androids are useless (and expensive) their only use will be as reactive sex toys.

 

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If any of you feel that your money was wasted traveling to see me, or otherwise spending money on me, I apologize. In one particular case, I very much apologize, that case being where the majority of the items given were given back in insanity. I know this person cared about me, "True love always, True love forever". I recall a certain stepparent being quoted as saying something like, "We don't want to see either one of them hurt anymore". Whether it's an excuse or not, I was a teen or otherwise younger then. I understand that money was spent, out of care for me, or that you enjoyed my companionship, or whatever the case may have been. I apologize if I didn't really "live up" to my "end of the deal".

I wouldn't quite say I'm useless, although if others have that opinion, they have the right to hold it I suppose.

 

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History will end in 2012, when we find a method of transferring conciousness into machines. Most people will leave the earth, since they will no longer be bound by air, water, food, etc... Those that remain will return to an archaic way of life punctuated by a computerized, networked, and psychedelic culture.

 

And where shall they leave to? Intergalactic space to have the good luck to drift in a black hole? And such existance (flying in a machine somewhere) seems very mundane and boring.

 

They will go wherever they want. There is the whole universe to see. We are natural exporers. Those that aren't will be content to live with nature, no longer bound by the endless consumption of resources and the need to reproduce.

 

An interplanetary/star/galactic spacecraft is very expensive.
Bill Gates probably could afford one.

By being a part of machines. Possible.

And this is bad. If there won't be any new ones, and only the old will remain, then human race and its' civilization will slumber into stagnation.

 

Anyways I'm pretty sure that by 2012 I'll have a small house in the country and globally nothing will have had changed.

 

2020 will put us smack dab in the middle of the golden age of nanotechnology.

Like someone said on the first page, the past 20 years or so, the vast technology improvements have been in electronics and computers. The next two decades every other technology will catch up, but of course by then computers will be incredibly faster than they are now. They will probably even surpass what Moore would predict.

What this means is that we will conquer natural death and suddenly people will stop dying. Is overpopulation going to be a problem?

Perhaps our new technologies will make it more economically feasible to live on other places in the planet that we normally wouldn't. We could easily live biodomes in deserts or even on floating continents. With the employment of clean and smart technology, our planet could hold a lot more people.

People are thinking the old way and don't understand how real sci-fi is going to soon be.

 

There will some huge improvents in society, economy and political things. Hopefully the humans won't fuck it up.

 

ipods will be slightly smaller

 

but will still look like bars of soap. i-pod design sucks. and I really mean it.

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p.s. why should I live in a biodome, if I can and I am living in a country which doesn't know what overpopulation is, has fresh air and plenty of nice forestsides to live at and in our data sheet natural disasters are "N/A".

 

The next tech breakthrough will be display technology such as OLED and flexible LCD. Then, virtually every surface can be a screen.
Wireless network (Bluetooth/WLAN/Ultrawideband) will be more highly integrated into daily life.
Genetic engineering will have major progress. Custom-made babies can be a reality.
At the same time, man will be threatened by new man-made risks resulted from wireless radiation and genetic engineering.

Dr lou, Avatar,
Don't worry, I-pod will no longer exist as a gadget, it will be implanted.

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Micro computers the size of I-pods; the screen can be seen from simple wearing glasses, with a tiny micro screen.

I've seen a pair of glasses already with capabilities to hold up to 60 songs, priced at $500. in Circuit City catalog.

G.

 

By 2020 a few thousand more species will be extinct. Whether or not Man is one of those species remains to be seen. I do predict my extinction by 2020.

 

I'm hoping religion will have less of a chance at destroying life on this planet.

Hmm. Perhaps hoping isn't enough?

 

Bob's prediction:

In the year twentytwenty, masturbation technology will advance by leaps and bounds. Man will be able to jack off to realistic virtual babes, on the internet, through special bionic gadgets and headgear. And there will be special genetic drugs to increase orgasm pleasure and sperm production. Maybe we may finally see the reactive sex cyborg doll, although I don't predict a realistic one until the year 2050.

We already live in a gifted age with the advent of internet porn. But the coming years will bear increasing fruits at an exponential rate... rendering the traditional porno mag obsolete.

 

A reactive sex toy perhaps, but only that? "I'm not seeing you for your mind" type of an idea is not the most impressive thing. Then maybe one could wonder why the lack of production? Give yourself to someone you don't think really loves you?

But, I'm not entirely sure what someone will think, who could possibly be considered as still relatively young, in 2020.

 

^^^^^^ some great possibilities ....

 

I think we'll see an end to traditional media like books, and DVD's. Everything that can be seen or heard will be routed through the Internet, including TV.

I think computers will be the size of a bar of soap

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I think we'll see implantable cell phones, and subdermal GPS tracking devices for our kids.

I think we'll see bipedal robots in the home, but they will be entertaining our kids, rather than cleaning our houses. The US army will use them to supplement their infantry.

I don't think we'll see WW3, simply because the balance of power is to askew. We will simply see more small scale wars. Some wars may be fought with drones rather than people.

I think we'll see a few flying car prototypes, but they won't catch on.

I think we'll see one or two space elevators, but space vacations will still be out of most people's reach.