2030; the year of..

[Skylar1]

So what will this year bring?

What challanges and controversial topics will be the major issues of the day? After all, if people never change, then so shouldn't the division of people on things that are debatable. I suppose what I'm asking for you to tell me, is what significant problems/issues the world will be facing 20 years from now.

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Please expand on your ideas, and remember to back them up with facts and data from what we know today.

[ZenErik]

The apocalypse happens 18 years before 2030. So it'd be a year of nothing.

[-Batman-]

The apocalypse happens 18 years before 2030. So it'd be a year of nothing.

I'll bet you 20,000 dollars that the world does not end at any point during the year 2012.

[Dani0]

Apparently, by 2025 we should have a computer powerful enough to simulate the human brain...

That could have some interesting implications.

[Gjallarhorn]

Well, as far as human/other-things rights go, around the year 2030 our discrimination against other peoples and lifestyles will be solved. But once robots become sentient in 2050, we'll have a lot of issues to deal with. If history has shown us anything, the religious and conservatives will be very anti-robot while the more "progressive" people will be pro-robot.

But no one will ever accept the zombies, and eventually teenagers with shotguns will enact the "final solution" against them, to stop their brain-consuming ways.


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[Diocletian]

I'm pretty sure by that time Japanese people will be able to [REMOVED]. If Japan has taught us anything, it's that nothing is impossible when it comes to your fetishes.

By that time we'll have our first black, female, jewish, robot president just to prove Xero that we are NOT that discriminatory.

[DOOM!]

That's the year they said they're gonna let me into The Justice League. Those chauvinist bastards.

[Inactive Account 0061]

I'll bet you 20,000 dollars that the world does not end at any point during the year 2012.

Unless a 3rd Twilight movie get out there.

[44NekoStarr66]

That's the year when I'll be in my late thirties
.....the possibilities heh heh

[Eris]

That's the year when I'll be in my late thirties
.....the possibilities heh heh

Your profile says you're 22. In 2030, you'll be 42-43.

[.Tatty.]

well it'll be the year of my 40birthday

and possibly the start of my midlife crisis, after my successful rugby career, but then the start of my bleak life as an after dinner speaker

[Eris]

well it'll be the year of my 40birthday

and possibly the start of my midlife crisis, after my successful rugby career, but then the start of my bleak life as an after dinner speaker

I'll be 50 in 2036. I'm stoked. Why can't it be 2036 already?

[Aizen-sama]

nothing new,humans will still be retarded basically,still sam motives same technolgy only worring about money ugh!
lets see humans probably would have been left this beautiful planet and gne to a new one,that means i can live here alone with the animals yayXDD

[Eris]

You just won this thread.

[-Batman-]

nothing new,humans will still be retarded basically,still sam motives same technolgy only worring about money ugh!
lets see humans probably would have been left this beautiful planet and gne to a new one,that means i can live here alone with the animals yayXDD

Maybe not the same technology or leaving earth.
But the rest seems interesting.

[AznOtaku]

Apparently, by 2025 we should have a computer powerful enough to simulate the human brain...

That could have some interesting implications.

I don't believe, however advanced the technology, true artificial, cognitive intelligence can be manifested in machines.

[Bulf]

Unless a 3rd Twilight movie get out there.

In that case, the world shall end sometime next year.

[Dr. Evil]

In 2030 I'll be 38 so I don't care. If the world does end in 2012, oh well.

[Eris]

I don't believe, however advanced the technology, true artificial, cognitive intelligence can be manifested in machines.

It would require a radical shift in computing technology. With current linear computing -- highly doubtful. But with something like quantum computing, don't be so sure. In fact, a large limit in current artificial intelligence is that it lacks the ability to do quantum-like superposition of calculations, something that would allow for much more brain-like computing.

[OtakuInu!!!]

The apocalypse happens 18 years before 2030. So it'd be a year of nothing.

I'll bet you 20,000 dollars that the world does not end at any point during the year 2012.

Unless a 3rd Twilight movie get out there.

Hahaha!!! Those were funny.

*Gets back to being serious* I don't think the world will end at 2012. Who knows when the world will end but God. Anyways, getting back to the topic. At 2030 I visualize people being more eco-friendly since they don't have that sufficient resources to satisfy their needs. Though technology might be more advanced. Speaking of which, I think kids in school have laptops/notebooks/netbooks for school supplies.

[Capitán]

I probably won't live long enough to experience that year.... (I've been sick for years and I don't know my fate).

But there definitely won't be any roads in the sky with flying cars passing through. No midair crashes or floating domed cities. WAY too early for that.

[Yew Neek™]

Barring Extiction and contact with Aliens the world in 2030 will be like it is now, same problems because those have been the problems throughout the whole course of human history, poverty violence greed corruption Religon. perhaps in 2030 on a larger scale or smaller 1 but still the same problems. it's only 20 yrs from now, 20 yrs agor was 1990 and the problems now were the problems then.

[BYTdot]

Hmmm, 2030 ? I'll be like in my 30's then . Jeez life is soooo cruel isn't it ?

Well , by 2030 hopefuly that people will solve their racial views , stupid feud wars , religion views and maybe the technology will be really advance that moon and the earth could be connected up through a techy bridge or something

Im exagerating but those are just my ideas . XD

P.s by then , twilight craze is longggg over !!!! and Britney will be nearly half a century . And as for madonna well she'll be 100+ . LOOOL

[.Tatty.]

i have thought Eris, by 2030, you;d be six feet under, the return of gangsta eris in 2026 lead to a shoot out with police....and so on

[Haoie]

Now, where are those flying cars and Soylent Green I was promised?