07.10.09 UCLA – To elaborate on the ideas of today, some of the midterm ideas were really interesting and most were actually practical. But I’d personally like to speculate further then practical. A hundred years ago a touch screen telephone (one such as the iphone) would not have even been thought of. A hundred years ago the idea of 3D modeling on a computer screen that’s one inch thick and 30″ wide probably never seemed even practical. So what will we have in the future. Can we even predict it? Could we even speculate?
If you take into note that we still use gasoline and we used it about one hundred years ago. And we still are on electricty and plumbing from one hundred years ago. The toilet too was invented about a hundred years ago. These can be considered as technology that is more static and won’t change. So now its to guess what today’s static technology is that probably wont change.
I believe the toilet will still be roughly the same. But perhaps that’s it. It’s easy to tell were moving away from gas. As we move away from gas the idea of combustion engines may change to something only found in history text books. I’m going to speculate hydrogen fuels will the fuel of tomorrow only because its becoming more and more clear that electric cars are not actually piratical till real breakthroughs are made in batteries. Top Gear investigates on how unpractical the electric car really is.
See Electric Car Video from Top Gear
So besides our transportation moving to hydrogen what about the standard electronics? Lets think of the most unpractical ideas that seem too far out of our reach. I’d speculate we’d move to 3D graphics that aren’t even projected but are a series of nanopartials that probably change colour and are lifted by some type of magnetic electric field. Our kitchens will be completely automated and they’ll probably be compressed foods into small capsules finally. Flying cars might actually finally be possible since hydrogen will be so abundant that it’ll be cheap and so plane engines may be made into such small components that they may be finally placed into cars. Toothpaste will be gone and we’ll adopt a plastic polymer that will coat our teeth that will last years upon years. Light bulbs will no longer be efficient since hydrogen energy will be so abundant however I’d expect a new material to make up the element. Pencils will be a piece of the past because the electric signals in our brain will be stored to a on board computer chip implanted in our heads. Some of the most impossible ideas here seem like the most likely in a sense.
Why is the impossible probably the most likely? Well, simply because we can’t predict out that far.
“If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.” -Isaac Newton
http://www.repwars.com/PSP/wcinvent.html
http://www.space.com/futureofflight/
http://www.futurecars.com/future-cars/flying-cars/switchblade-flying-motorcycle-spy-vs-sky
http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2009-07/turkish-students-create-hydrogen-powered-car-gets-1300-mpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOfzbaglUOo