[OT] Your visions of the future.

[Krsqk]

-Will the usa conquer the entire world? I certainly hope not. Neither I or the vast majority of my countrymen have any desire to conquer the world. I seriously doubt we could pull it off if we wanted to, and wouldn't know what to do with it afterwards if we could.

I foresee:

-Cricket and rugby, two games the majority of Americans neither understand nor care to, will be abolished within minutes of the end of world conquest;

-The Yankees will continue their trend of winning the World Series 85% of the time, and their payroll will hit twelve times the size of the next highest team;

-The NFL will continue to expand the playoffs to the top 131 teams out of 132, resulting in games being played round the clock all weekend long until the quarterfinals.

-Fidel Castro will still be "alive," a spring chicken of 183 years old, although he will have changed height and weight seven times, and will have been a platinum blonde with a strong resemblance to Britney Spears at least twice. He will still be wearing the same military uniform. In other news, it will be noticed that Britney Spears resembles a short Hispanic man shortly before she records two top-10 Latin albums.

-SECCLXV will be released. Malfador Machinations will receive complaints from the AI that the players aren't moddable enough.

[Narrew]

Originally posted by Cyrien:
The whole borg brain hive mind thing is overdone. A single entity thinking brain. I think we as people are fascinated with this because we always want to know what others are thinking and a hive mind always does ANMD gets along! HAH! How well does your single mind get along with itself? If we all hooked up wouldn't like thinking minds hook themselves up and then not want to mix their great big brain with that nasty ugly big brain over there? Or maybe one mind dominates the others and takes control... wouldn't all the others fight back?

I couldn't help but laugh when I thought about this... As we have 2 hemispheres in our brain, there would be 2 hemispheres in the Hive mind, Male and Female, so I see the following happening.

The Male side thinks, "Hey, I wanna have sex!!!" and the Female side thinks "GOD, is that ALL you think about?"..."Yes" the Male side says sheepishly... and the Hive Mind dies because the Female side gets too frustrated with the Male side *chuckle* (like a brain cramp).

[Fyron]

As we have 2 hemispheres in our brain, there would be 2 hemispheres in the Hive mind, Male and Female, so I see the following happening.

The hemispheres of the human mind have nothing to do with gender.

[Narrew]

[quote]Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

The hemispheres of the human mind have nothing to do with gender.

Was just my vision of the hive mind, an analogy if you will, not based on fact, hence why I was laughing when I thought about it.

[Fyron]

Oh, ok.

[ZeroAdunn]

What do I see in the future? Sphagetti...

*Waits about ten minutes*

Mmmmmm..... Sphagetti.... The future is good.

[Taera]

interesting topic, i'll give it a read tomorrow (its a damn 2am!)

For my (short) view of future, i agree with the first post by Askan - apathy and distortion would grow. Also i would like to agree with game developers - sooner or later, more likely sooner, somewhere somehow would start a big war where missiles would fly and BOOM. At least something will go BOOM. I think that eventually (read - accurate to the next millenium) people would realize the uselesness of their existance and try to do something about it. Personally i expect at least partial unification in the next 100 years. Not that i'll live that long .

As for space travel, i think that attemtps to colonize this and that will continue untill at least two countries wouldnt concentrate their combined efforts on. Flights outside solar system, if any at all and if possible, would have to wait a long time unless breaktrough comes (you never know...).
Overall its a bad time to livee in because everything is in the future

And to think i said short...

[ March 27, 2003, 09:13: Message edited by: Taera ]