10 Years down the road..What new things can we expect?

[anunitu]

Mainly this thread is for speculation on future technology,medicine and what ever comes to mind. You could post a link to a site that is about the future,or I like when people "Guess" what may come in the future. Let your creative sides out,tell what you believe is possible in "Your" future. I think this might turn out to be an interesting subject..We shall see.

Let loose with your best dreams and speculation about where we will be as a species in the next 10 Years...but you can also think about beyond 10 years as well...

Ok here we go back to the Future..

[Torey]

Re: 10 Years down the road..What new things can we expect?

I honestly don't believe that there will be that many advances in only ten years. Humanity seems to have reached a plateau with inventions and revolutionary discoveries in medicine, etc. It seems that all I see are perfections on already-existing technology, so I therefore see:

Faster, smaller and more advanced computers - revolutionary image-display components such as monitors and televisions
Faster, flatter mobile phones and even perhaps new ways of integrating mobile communication technology into all aspects of daily life
Perfection of harnessing and implementing new non-fossil fuels
Perfections in already-existing medications
Advances in stem cell research and implementation
Faster, larger aircraft
Vaccinations for HIV

What I don't see happening:

Many advances in automotive technology
"Cures" for Alzheimers or cancer
End to using fossil fuels

[Medusa]

Re: 10 Years down the road..What new things can we expect?


a for sure bet

[Hawkfeathers]

Re: 10 Years down the road..What new things can we expect?

More & more children with developmental disabilities, as more GMO food damages them in utero, and with more restriction on abortion, more fetal alcohol syndrome, etc. As these people reach adulthood, unable to hold good paying jobs, large "work homes" will be created to maintain them. Yup, a purposely bred slave class, in the works, coming soon to a neighborhood near you!

[Aeran]

Re: 10 Years down the road..What new things can we expect?

and with more restriction on abortion,

I'm pretty sure we're going in the other direction on that one, tbh.

Personally, the only thing I know about the future is that it won't be anything like what we predict. Never is.

[Corvus]

Re: 10 Years down the road..What new things can we expect?

More & more children with developmental disabilities, as more GMO food damages them in utero

Do you have an article or study on this? I've actually never heard GMO food being dangerous except from my ecological/disease standpoint and I'm rather curious.

Personally? I'm not even twenty so I can't even properly comment on advances made in the last decade let alone predict the next ten years. I can only think there will be some kind of innovation, there will be fear, someone somewhere will be starting wars and there will be people who are unhappy.

[Ophidia]

Re: 10 Years down the road..What new things can we expect?

Printed, transplantable organs grown from adult-donor harvested stem cells in regular use. We're already sooo flippin' close.

Lab-grown protein available in stores.

Desktop computers becoming obsolete as tablets & smartphones ramp up features and applications.

No more privacy. The future will be recorded indeed.

[anunitu]

Re: 10 Years down the road..What new things can we expect?

The partial or complete integration of humans and computers...That may sound scary,and from our viewpoint it is,but it may well be that it will be a normal thing in future generations.

[Hawkfeathers]

Re: 10 Years down the road..What new things can we expect?

Do you have an article or study on this? I've actually never heard GMO food being dangerous except from my ecological/disease standpoint and I'm rather curious.

Personally? I'm not even twenty so I can't even properly comment on advances made in the last decade let alone predict the next ten years. I can only think there will be some kind of innovation, there will be fear, someone somewhere will be starting wars and there will be people who are unhappy.

I do not keep tabs all all the stuff I read - but there are many reports on all these "peanut allergies" being caused by fake ingreds. in the peanuts. Every teacher I know says that every year more incoming kids have brain disorders. There are lots of studies on fetal nutrition, as well as on adult nutrition, and obviously if our food animals aren't being fed their natural diet, their meat won't provide us with what it was meant to. Same for plant foods. No fancy study needed there, just common sense and basic nutritional knowledge. "It's Not Nice To Fool Mother Nature"!!!!

[blue_coyote]

Re: 10 Years down the road..What new things can we expect?

Hopefully we stop using GMO foods within the next ten years. GMO plants are spliced with bacteria so that the plants can be able to better tolerate all of the tons of herbicides and pesticides that are being used on them because the farmers are told by companies like Roundup, Monsanto, etc, that these chemicals are the best "technology" for growing productive crops. What happens is the plants are subjected to these copious amounts of chemicals, and simply absorb them. What happens then is we eat these GMO things and end up continually ingesting these pesticides and herbicides. And don't forget the corn that produces its own pesticide "naturally" so that when the bugs try to eat it the corn dissolves the bug's stomach.

There's a film called "Genetic Chile" that does a good job of explaining things.

[Rowanwood]

Re: 10 Years down the road..What new things can we expect?

I'd like to see some actual real science showing GMOs are bad. If you find any...well, I'll be swimming on the moon...because its just scare tactics and anecdotes. All our food is genetically modified. You don't think what we eat just grows like that do you? Ever wonder why there are no wild spinach plants? Ever seen a wild strawberry or raspberry?

I expect more lab modification ... and I hope for it. There are places on the planet that current food plants don't grow well, and those people are hungry. They could use the advancement. Feeding the human race is more important to me than some moral indignation over lab modified vs field modified food.



More kids have allergies now...because kids with allergies have lived to pass on their DNA. In the past, they would just have died.

[Hawkfeathers]

Re: 10 Years down the road..What new things can we expect?

In my best Dr. McCoy attitude, "It's a prediction, not a dissertation."

[Ophidia]

Re: 10 Years down the road..What new things can we expect?

Every teacher I know says that every year more incoming kids have brain disorders.

This makes me wonder... Is it really that 1 in 100 kids are being born somewhere on the autistic spectrum, or is it just that we're now labeling kids with a mental/emotional disorder (aka diagnosing them) instead of just calling them 'a little slow' like people used to? It seems like a lot of people I meet nowadays have Aspergers... 20 years ago they would have just been socially inept geeks.

Or could it also be that parents, doctors and the school systems benefit by labeling troublesome kids as having a disorder (and thereby eligible for mood/behavior altering medications) when they'd be expected to tolerate them (or worse, actually work with them and provide supervision and discipline) if they were like normal kids?

Ever seen a wild strawberry or raspberry?

Yes, and they are sooo darned cute! And tasty!

[thalassa]

Re: 10 Years down the road..What new things can we expect?

This makes me wonder... Is it really that 1 in 100 kids are being born somewhere on the autistic spectrum, or is it just that we're now labeling kids with a mental/emotional disorder (aka diagnosing them) instead of just calling them 'a little slow' like people used to? It seems like a lot of people I meet nowadays have Aspergers... 20 years ago they would have just been socially inept geeks.

Or could it also be that parents, doctors and the school systems benefit by labeling troublesome kids as having a disorder (and thereby eligible for mood/behavior altering medications) when they'd be expected to tolerate them (or worse, actually work with them and provide supervision and discipline) if they were like normal kids?

I think more of it (based on my own reading and observation) is because human behavior is a spectrum, period. Diagnostic criteria is more discerning lower on the scale than it used to be. We (as a society) have a very cookie cutter idea of what "normal" behavior and development is for children, as a result the medical and educational systems are put in the uncomfortable position of trying to get kids to "fit" into that "normal" development.

I think another chunk of it is that society is less tolerant of the needs of children, particularly kids with ADHD, high functioning autism, Aspergers, etc--because those kids look "normal". Kids don't spend as much time outside, kids don't spend as much time in free play, kids don't spend as much time in hands-on activities, etc...and those things make a difference. (There are a ton of reasons for this)

Unfortunately, the system isn't set up in a way that is forgiving for kids that are borderline or have a mild case of (enter issue here) not to develop on their own terms...and that's not *entirely* anyone's fault--early intervention had the best chance of working, but its hard to tell if certain conditions are something that might be grown out of or not. And, there are a lot of kids that are being diagnosed by GP's and not specialists, which (IMO) is a huge mistake.

[blue_coyote]

Re: 10 Years down the road..What new things can we expect?

I'd like to see some actual real science showing GMOs are bad. If you find any...well, I'll be swimming on the moon...because its just scare tactics and anecdotes. All our food is genetically modified. You don't think what we eat just grows like that do you? Ever wonder why there are no wild spinach plants? Ever seen a wild strawberry or raspberry?

I expect more lab modification ... and I hope for it. There are places on the planet that current food plants don't grow well, and those people are hungry. They could use the advancement. Feeding the human race is more important to me than some moral indignation over lab modified vs field modified food.



More kids have allergies now...because kids with allergies have lived to pass on their DNA. In the past, they would just have died.

Number one reason for starvation: poverty.
As much as we'd like to think the system is fair and just: the men with the money are the ones who pull the strings. Prime example is canola, better know as rapeseed oil, usually labeled as being vegetable oil. Also mass numbers of pharmaceuticals.
In Ethiopia (someplace in that area) westerners tried to get the peoples to use the western tactics of mass planting of singular crops in specified areas and those crops failed. Farmers in the area started to return to traditional ways of planting where multiple types of plants are put together, benefiting from both the various nutrients given other, creating a balanced soil for vegetation to grow in. Also farmers in India are returning back to using heritage seeds and traditional methods due to the fact that gmo's do not grow better/faster nor do they produce a higher crop yield, and also because the large gmo companies were pretty much extorting the farmers in regards prices.

There is more proof than not that our current food chain has been compromised within the last 20-30 years.