You know, I want to be a barrister, then an MP when I'm older.
But a field that has always drawn my interest, and seriously made me reconsider a Law degree is physics. Looking at some of the works of the greats, such as Einstein and Hawking - it just makes me excited at the prospects of what physics might be able to do and identify in the future - in ways of things like teleportation, time travel, and the like.
So, what are your thoughts? What do you think are going to be the most influential developments in science and technology over the next century?
Well, biological sciences are always going to be up there, what with finding cures to disease and possibly eradicating genetic disease. Experimental investigations into the prolonging of life are going well, so over the next century we may see people living longer than ever before.
That and I want to take Genetics when I go to Uni, so I have to be interested in this sort of thing.
I think now is probably a better time than in the past to do any type of science as it's now 'accepted' into society and people aren't believing cracko stories about the Earth being flat and whatever.
Anyway, it's pretty obvious that technology is only going to go forward which means that work in technology must be fairly stable (regardless of what the PAATOF want).
Personally I don't think people should bugger with nature with the likes of teleportation and stuff, but then my views on medical ethics kind of throw any supporting backup out of the window there.
I see space travel coming first! We just need to figure out more efficient ways to travel in the sense of fuel and time. With those efficiency increases we could visit other worlds [LIKE MARS!] and progress as a species.
Otherwise, I see computer power being another focus; people go for entertainment! Obviously a good thing for us all.
But what I REALLY REALLY REALLY want to see is biological...machines, I guess. Like, its not really an organism, but it would have organic parts, like a circulatory system aswell as respiratory and nervous. Then some type of "jack" in which you can connect it with yourself. So instead of the peripherals of a modern day computer, we get information in the sixth sense, "Cothinking" as you use processor of the human brain and the "brain" of the organisoputer to get the info you need. This may be possible, but way way way way way in the future when we understand biology down the the smallest of the smallests.
Well, I think we should all see the Hadron Collider and learn of its vast possibilities and greatness.
The Collider could lead us to time travel.
Kalas, are you saying like that movie Surrogates?
We need space colonies first and foremost.
Something screws with Earth, right now, BAM! Goodbye humanity. We need to spread out.
Not at all Jamie. The organoputer is more like....a computer, but the way you get info from it is not at all visual or audio, but you get messages through the nervous system and such...just like when you are thinking in pain, or try to move. The organoputer is alive..a biological machine..while Surrgates were just machines imitating humans...
I can see stuff like hovercraft, holograms, and faster-than-light travel coming sooner than anything else- not nearly as soon as in Back to the Future, more like 2035 or something. After that, I guess it cold be possible to develop teleportation(Limited, I'm thinking more like in Star Trek than random teleporting) and maybe telepathy(perhaps headsets that broadcast your thoughts to others wearing the headset?), but I can't really see time travel coming.
The most breakthroughs I've heard of so far is robotics, from things like robotic maids to possible military drones to save our people from the battlefield. Also, robotic appendiges for those who have lost an arm/leg/whatever have skyrocketed from what I've seen. By 2020, I am estimating that a man with amputated arms will be able to do normal everyday things with implanted robotic arms, like the movie "I Robot." In fact, I am estimating by 2030 "I robot" will be in the History Channel as "Most accurate movie of the future."