Still Waters Posted February 15, 2016 #1 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Super skyscrapers, underwater cities and 3D-printed homes will all be a reality in 100 years' time, claims a new report. Humans will be able to live in 'Earth-scrapers', which will go up to 25 storeys underground, says the SmartThings Future Living Report. Researchers also suggest that 'bubble cities' will be created underwater making the depths habitable for humans. http://news.yahoo.co...-091553825.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nnicolette Posted February 15, 2016 #2 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Printed food replicators? If this is considered a possibility... Well just imagine what that will change. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lastrealinidan Posted February 15, 2016 #3 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Sounds too good to be true. I really hope "food" replicators can produce real food. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Grey Posted February 15, 2016 #4 Share Posted February 15, 2016 These technologies will/do exist, but as far as changing the lives of the lower and middle class? 3D printing houses I can see becoming a mainstream reality, as the cost difference is between conventional building and 3D printing is much too vast to ignore. Food replicators is a long shot, IMO. The technology exists but cultural trends in acquiring food are unlikely to evolve as fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chibadiba Posted February 15, 2016 #5 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Unless we make some type of major breakthrough in rearranging atoms I doubt that we will have food replicators within the next 100 years. And if we somehow do develop food replicators, unless greed doesn't exist, I doubt that many people will have them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gatekeeper32 Posted February 15, 2016 #6 Share Posted February 15, 2016 (edited) Hopefully there is food replicator as how you going to feed 8 billion people in 100 years from now. Edited February 15, 2016 by gatekeeper32 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperdyer Posted February 15, 2016 #7 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Hopefully there is food replicator as how you going to feed 8 billion people in 100 years from now. Hopefully there is food replicator as how you going to feed 8 billion people in 100 years from now. We could do that now if all the farm lands were utilized. Farms way under produce for the acreage to keep prices up for one thing. The rest of the world would need to be able to pay for the food before the supply will be increased. Farmers stuggle enough now without over producing food and lowering the price they can get. Maybe instead of giving foreign countries money, the US will give them food instead. fat chance of that happening.I don't see where these predictions are all that earth shattering. Sci-Fi writers have been predicting these things for years, along with overpopulation, corporate greed, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qxcontinuum Posted February 15, 2016 #8 Share Posted February 15, 2016 (edited) i don't think I want to live in a society depicted in the image here on the thread. I want to see parks, forests , green , rivers , lakes, not a big city populating the entire earth. We are lied and fooled every day about what is good for us but we die of cancer, overnutrition or malnutrition, killing each-other. The social relationships have degenerated greatly and so it the concept of union and family, not to mention the mind health and spiritual growth. We die everyday . It is time for a change ! We need o go back to nature not running completely off it. Edited February 15, 2016 by qxcontinuum 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFakename Posted February 16, 2016 #9 Share Posted February 16, 2016 I would have to live in an ocean bubble... I'd miss fishing too much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codenwarra Posted February 16, 2016 #10 Share Posted February 16, 2016 So maybe "Fax me a pizza" will become reality after all. Underwater cities, built at enormous expense with virtually no escape if something goes wrong, as it inevitably will. No thanks. Cheaper, easier and a helluvalot safer to build in the middle of an Australian , American or African desert. A woman in Toronto writes on another site that she lives in an underground apartment with a connection to the subway. Goes to work on the train, with an underground connection to her work building. Groceries, other shopping all available underground. She only emerges when the weather warms up, so she says. So that's started already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashyne Posted February 16, 2016 #11 Share Posted February 16, 2016 It's amazing that some of us reading this now will be alive and well in the 22nd Century and get the chance to see all these for themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashyne Posted February 16, 2016 #12 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Hopefully there is food replicator as how you going to feed 8 billion people in 100 years from now. Did you know that global food production is currently sufficient to feed every human on this planet to obesity and that the only reason there are starving people around is because of poor global food distribution and excessive food wastage by all societies? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davros of Skaro Posted February 16, 2016 #13 Share Posted February 16, 2016 3D printing is the future (said in the Terminator voice). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taun Posted February 16, 2016 #14 Share Posted February 16, 2016 The problem is that seldom - if ever - are these "future tech prognosticators" correct... They tend to project today's problems into the future, forgetting that the future will have it's own problems, challenges and way of doing things... As a example... I've read a lot of articles written by "futurists" in the very early 1900's... And practically everyone of them just saw their present with a few bizarre "trimmings"... Heck even as recently as the 1950's they were saying that we would all own flying cars have robots doing the ironing of clothes etc... not foreseeing that we would basically have permanent press clothing... Futurists don't really have that good of a track record... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJNYC Posted February 16, 2016 #15 Share Posted February 16, 2016 i don't think I want to live in a society depicted in the image here on the thread. I want to see parks, forests , green , rivers , lakes, not a big city populating the entire earth. We are lied and fooled every day about what is good for us but we die of cancer, overnutrition or malnutrition, killing each-other. The social relationships have degenerated greatly and so it the concept of union and family, not to mention the mind health and spiritual growth. We die everyday . It is time for a change ! We need o go back to nature not running completely off it. I agree with you and also I pictured every inch of this planet used for housing, my goodness, where will the sea life, plant life and animals live? In cages for the use and pleasure of man? I'll pass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJNYC Posted February 16, 2016 #16 Share Posted February 16, 2016 The problem is that seldom - if ever - are these "future tech prognosticators" correct... They tend to project today's problems into the future, forgetting that the future will have it's own problems, challenges and way of doing things... As a example... I've read a lot of articles written by "futurists" in the very early 1900's... And practically everyone of them just saw their present with a few bizarre "trimmings"... Heck even as recently as the 1950's they were saying that we would all own flying cars have robots doing the ironing of clothes etc... not foreseeing that we would basically have permanent press clothing... Futurists don't really have that good of a track record... I hope you are correct! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeastieRunner Posted February 16, 2016 #17 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Printed food replicators? If this is considered a possibility... Well just imagine what that will change. Sounds too good to be true. I really hope "food" replicators can produce real food. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Supertypo Posted February 17, 2016 #18 Share Posted February 17, 2016 (edited) underwater cities? well can I take my little sister with me, and see how it is? [bioshock reference] Edited February 17, 2016 by Mr Supertypo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TripGun Posted February 19, 2016 #19 Share Posted February 19, 2016 The elite will just call up a war and have us all clamoring to keep them rich. This future is too optimistic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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