Confused? then let me explain. We’re currently in the future that as a child I looked forward to but it’s slightly more disappointing than I expected it to be, for instance the following things are missing:
- Flying Cars - car’s don’t really seem to have changed at all…
- Space Bases/Travel/Stuff - 50% of the stuff we send into space explodes :(
- Robots - OK we have a few things that can [vacuum your carpet], but nothing more really…
Nothing particularly outrageous, but still they’re all wrong :(
So here are my predictions for 2010 (the new future). They’re split into two categories:
- Concrete predictions - Stuff that totally will happen!
- Fluffy predictions - fluffy ideas that I can argue I got right - possibly contains humour
As a side note this idea has been totally scraped from the [last Lug Radio podcast] but now that it’s under a [Creative Commons License] it’s all good :D.
Fasten your seatbelts…
Concrete Predictions
- 1 Terabyte iPod - that’s a lot of songs kids
- Nuclear Fusion - putting stuff together can create at least as much energy as breaking it apart!
- Electric Cars - like the [Tesla] but I think that they’re going to become more common as better batteries are invented
Fluffy Predictions
- iPod connections on everything - most probably your microwave
- A generation of Adults with massive forearms from playing Wii too much in their childhood
- Linux kicking ass on the desktop - yeah yeah laugh it up, one day it will come true…
- Companies becoming more open - more open development, methods, what they’re thinking, what they’re planning etc
- Maybe a laboratory under the sea….maybe in another 10 or so years… :)
Come on then, what are your predictions for 2010?
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Can’t see fusion being perfected in the next two years, physics research seems to be being canned right, left and centre. Similar with electric cars - energy density of batteries is a long way behind good old petroleum distillate:
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=Energy%20density
As for the “fluffy” ones, I think the lab under the sea is more likely than businesses being more open, or Linux taking over…
OK, I commented on this the other day but it either didn’t post or you canned it. Here we go again:
I’d be surprised to see nuclear fusion or the electric car take off in the next couple of years, physics research is at an all time low, and the energy density of batteries is too low to make a “300 mile between recharges” car.
I’d love to see companies be more open, but can’t see it happen. There’s enough paperwork to keep it all secret, ithout the added hassle of covering it all up.
I hope linux can get a bigger %age of the desktop market, but until you can persuade the schools market, and big business, it isn’t going to happen.
Akismet canned you - sorry mate all sorted now :) If it happens again just shout me, I get too much comment spam to go through it by hand and I’ve learnt to trust Akismet.
I agree with the fusion point as sad as it is, but I thought recently they’d made some breakthroughs in using carbon nano tuby thingies to make batteries something like 600% more efficient!
Yeah I’m not totally sure Linux is really ready yet, but it’s very nearly there - all they really need is a competent sysadmin :)
Flying Cars isn’t until near 2015*
*ref: Back to the Future part II
Ahh crap - what about hoverboards? They’d do for a bit (approx 5 years)