Funny how most modern science fiction isn't so optimistic. After the dismal failure of flying cars to materialise by 2000, I think those in the prediction game have turned all doom and gloom of late.
There are better odds for a perfect storm of global climate catastrophes to reset civilization to the stone age. Most likely we will be fighting over water, or we'd have moved to remote locations since cities would be uninhabitable. The many reports from the UN, the global think tanks and institutions all seem to worry about this. On Thu, Jan 3, 2019, 11:15 AM Thaths <[email protected] wrote: > On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 8:22 AM Peter Griffin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Experiment for this list. > > Take a bash at this yourself. Let's give you a shorter horizon than The > > Star gave Asimov: 28 years, which will be 99 years after Orwell wrote > 1984, > > and when India will have turned 101, and more importantly, this list will > > have turned 50. > > > > What are your predictions for 2048? > > > > 1. A significant majority automotive vehicles (cars, SUVs, buses) will be > Electrical Vehicles (EVs). DC fast chargers will be more widespread (but > probably not as many as petrol stations today). Fast charging stations will > be more in number than petrol stations (i.e., fewer petrol stations in the > future than today). > > 2. We will continue to depend on hydrocarbons for many applications - > aviation, plastics, for example. > > 3. A large percentage of the electricity that will power locomotion (see 1 > above) will come from nuclear fission. > > 4. The Singularity will continue to be 20 years ago. We will not have > achieved the Singularity (or {Communist|Libertarian} Utopia). > > 5. Though a bigger percentage of the world will be literate than today, it > will be possible to use the internet without being literate (voice > recognition, tts) > > > (Prediction 0 is, I guess, that email will still be around in 2048, and so > > will this list, though I will almost certainly not be.) > > > > I am actually sceptical that email will be around. It is already in, I'm > afraid terminal, decline. These days I think it is mostly used by us old > fogies. > > Thaths > > > > > > All the very best for the new year and the next 28 years, y'all. > > > > ~peter > > > > > -- > Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? > Carl: Nuthin'. > Homer: D'oh! > Carl: Unless you're crooked. > Homer: Woo-hoo! >
