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Do you think that we live in the future? Or that we are close to it? We have all sorts of cool upcoming technologies, war happens constantly on small scales and there's "peace" within the main superpowers and as time goes corporate beliefs stick more than governments.

How close do you think we are to the future that was predicted in many sci-fi movies, books and even games?

  • 12.31.2012 8:15 AM PDT

I think I live in the present.

  • 12.31.2012 8:16 AM PDT
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I want my own spaceship. Then its the -blam!- future

  • 12.31.2012 8:17 AM PDT

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  • 12.31.2012 8:17 AM PDT

#rubberdingirapids

We will always be living in the present

  • 12.31.2012 8:17 AM PDT

Most of what I say is sarcasm, the rest is of the highest intellect.

Seeing as everything we percieve is in the past, and we acclaim it as the present, yes we do live in the future.

But in response to the OP, we are far from living in a super sci-fi world in my opinion.

[Edited on 12.31.2012 8:18 AM PST]

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Posted by: St Major Dan
I think I live in the present.

  • 12.31.2012 8:19 AM PDT

Technically there's a delay in our brain of when things happen to when we perceive them happening. So technically we live in the past.

  • 12.31.2012 8:21 AM PDT
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Posted by: SPLEEEEENS
Technically there's a delay in our brain of when things happen to when we perceive them happening. So technically we live in the past.

DAMN YOU.

I was about to post this.

  • 12.31.2012 8:21 AM PDT

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Posted by: DarkONI
1)Do you think that we live in the future? Or that we are close to it? 2)We have all sorts of cool upcoming technologies, 3)war happens constantly on small scales and there's 4) "peace" within the main superpowers and as time goes 5)corporate beliefs stick more than governments.

How close do you think we are to the future that was predicted in many sci-fi movies, books and even games?


1) But we live in the present. . .
2) I sorta agree. Things like the iPhone, or military drones were unthinkable in my parent's time.
3) What war? Just because it isn't labeled "World War_____" doesn't mean the wars we've been in haven't created a toll on us.
4) a)You mean like "treaties"? The things that have existed for centuries? We're allies with the UK, that's our only sane ally. Even then, it's not considered a great superpower compared to Russia or China, Infact, I'm pretty sure China is our biggest threat to us right now.
5) Is that a good thing?

  • 12.31.2012 8:24 AM PDT
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1] Yes, but that was metaphorically speaking.

2] Uh, the iPhone is only a toy compared to other upcoming technologies. Drones are a good example though.

3] That's why I said "small scale conflicts" I never claimed that war has to be big, I also specifically stated that we aren't at war and we have only small-scale conflicts anymore. (You understand what I'm trying to say here?)

4] No, I mean like the UN. Treaties, those existed for a while, but they were meaningless at many points. Nowadays most countries are within the UN and war criminals are pursued, unlike in the past.

5] I never wanted to focus on positive things. Perhaps it is positive, depending on your views.
Posted by: tha man
1) But we live in the present. . .

2) I sorta agree. Things like the iPhone, or military drones were unthinkable in my parent's time.

3) What war? Just because it isn't labeled "World War_____" doesn't mean the wars we've been in haven't created a toll on us.

4) a)You mean like "treaties"? The things that have existed for centuries? We're allies with the UK, that's our only sane ally. Even then, it's not considered a great superpower compared to Russia or China, Infact, I'm pretty sure China is our biggest threat to us right now.

5) Is that a good thing?


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  • 12.31.2012 8:29 AM PDT
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Posted by: St Major Dan
I think I live in the present.

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Posted by: SPLEEEEENS
Technically there's a delay in our brain of when things happen to when we perceive them happening. So technically we live in the past.

DAMN YOU.

I was about to post this.

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  • 12.31.2012 8:30 AM PDT

what kind of future are you referring to?

there are 3 main types of future outcomes..

1* the 1984 type of future, in this future the human race is constantly being monitored by cameras, everything you do think and say is being watched by "big brother" everything you buy would buy would be via some sort of credit card. and people would live in constant fear of each other, and being labeled a "terrorist" almost like the Salem witch hunts of the olden days. small scale civil wars are occurring throughout different countries between those who oppose this new order and those who support it, as well as against the state.

2* in this future man has made great leaps in technology with the advancement of a.i machines and humanoid android robots, however even this future is bleak, this human race would be very weak and would have a lot less brain capacity due to the fact of having all these machines doing all our work and chores, eventually there would be no more jobs, almost like a wall-e esq future.

3* this is the future outcome i most believe in, in this not so distant future the worlds oil supply would be extremely low, civil unrest brakes out and people hit the streets, rioting looting, eventually local law enforcement gives up and the military is called in to restore order, when the soldiers themselves give up, all hell breaks loose. some people head for the woods, others stay in the city forming roving gangs of pillagers and rapists, wars break out all over the world eventually ending in some sort of nuclear disaster, think of a mad max type of future, where oil and gasoline are considered the new monetary system

i think we might see a combination of outcome number 3 mixed with a bit of number 2

  • 12.31.2012 8:31 AM PDT
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I think we're going for an utopian future with a little of all three you said.
Posted by: k1k1to
what kind of future are you referring to?

there are 3 main types of future outcomes..


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  • 12.31.2012 8:34 AM PDT

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  • 12.31.2012 8:39 AM PDT

Doc: "i'm a pacifist"
Caboose: "your a thing that babies suck on?"
Tucker: "no dude, that's a pedephile"
Church: "tucker, i think he means a pacifier"

When we hit Jetsons status, then we found the future. That -blam!- was some serious false advertisement.

  • 12.31.2012 8:42 AM PDT

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  • 12.31.2012 8:43 AM PDT


Posted by: DarkONI
I think we're going for an utopian future with a little of all three you said.
Posted by: k1k1to
what kind of future are you referring to?

there are 3 main types of future outcomes..



i would love nothing more than to live in a Utopian future..

BUT..just look around you my friend, wars, people murdering each other cutting off heads hanged on bridges all over drugs, then we have the younger generation all dumbed down by the constant bombardment of technology. little by little we are losing face to face social contact and interaction, now most friendships are online.

then we have the current economic crisis, and ever growing debt. and to top it all off.. contrary to what you might have been told, we are running out of oil, plain and simple. roughly about 98% of every object and or food that you come in contact with on a daily basis has been either made by directly from oil or petroleum, or was made by a machine that uses either one.

to put it simple, our vision of a 1950's type of happy go lucky robot friendly future has long been dead

we are screwed

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  • 12.31.2012 8:46 AM PDT

If you can read this, that means I'm not a Shaolin monk...

yet.

Not until there is a seemingly everlasting war against a grave threat, no

  • 12.31.2012 8:46 AM PDT

Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

We live in the present.
Compared to science fiction writers of old though, we are living in future times.
I think a lot of things they have predicted have come true.

  • 12.31.2012 8:49 AM PDT