What will the world be like in 10 years' time?

[Darat]

Adobe is one such company that has moved to the Cloud exclusively, but I think it's a horrendous idea.

...snip... It's one thing to offer a choice of either the physical media or the Cloud. Cloud-only is no choice, and Adobe is not too big to fail.

Michael

ETA: In 10 years time, I want to upgrade to the Frinkiac 7!

Time has proved you wrong. And sadly Adobe's success I think emboldened other companies to follow suite.

I'm in two minds about this. For many years I didn't have to pay for my Adobe software - always had it paid through work - so wasn't concerned about the cost, so would get the latest updates as they were released. I still have boxes of CS1 and the like in the attic. However I don't any longer and I do prefer the monthly subscription model as it becomes a bill that I don't pay attention to and I have the latest and greatest all the time, if I was faced with buying CS 23 at £899 every 12 months or so I would probably baulk at that expense. But then again it is still bloody expensive for a hobbyist.

 

[PitPat]

Time has proved you wrong. And sadly Adobe's success I think emboldened other companies to follow suite.

I'm in two minds about this. For many years I didn't have to pay for my Adobe software - always had it paid through work - so wasn't concerned about the cost, so would get the latest updates as they were released. I still have boxes of CS1 and the like in the attic. However I don't any longer and I do prefer the monthly subscription model as it becomes a bill that I don't pay attention to and I have the latest and greatest all the time, if I was faced with buying CS 23 at £899 every 12 months or so I would probably baulk at that expense.

English please?

 

[TragicMonkey]

I was exactly correct about everything, as usual. You may line up to admire me in turn as your number is called.

 

[rdaneel]

Warmer.

FSM help us all...it was 115F here today.

July 2023 Is Hottest Month Ever Recorded on Earth

 

[Darat]

July 2023 Is Hottest Month Ever Recorded on Earth

As only that region can - July was the wettest month on record in the north-west of England.

 

[Darat]

English please?

Yes thanks.




Trying to reword it - I was saying that because I pay for my Adobe software monthly it never feels like a large expense, but if I went back to buying it yearly - when the latest version is released - that would make me think twice about whether I needed the latest version as it would be many hundreds of pounds to spend for a single purchase.

 

[Thermal]

Threads like this are depressing. I used to think of 10 years as a really long time. Now it's all like 'what will the world be like next Thursday?"

 

[rdaneel]

Regarding my first post about self driving cars, not only was I overly optimistic, but now I feel I will be surprised if there is any significant progress in the next 10 years.
Sure, there will be cars with self driving features, but they'll still be limited and not very common.

I do hope that I'm being overly pessimistic this time.

 

[erlando]

The global thermonuclear war of 2021 initiated by a Chinese state backed terrorist nuclear attack on South Korea all but extinguished life on Earth. If you are reading this you are no doubt a descendant of the few wealthy or paranoid enough to buy a safe shelter...

Yea, no. Luckily didn't happen.

In 2023 the world will be even more ********** as it is now.

Nailed this in so many ways. But it's kind of a "The Sun will rise tomorrow" prediction. But unfortunately I think it's even more ****** than I had in mind.

 

[Orphia Nay]

Aepervius and NewtonTrino were the most accurate, I think.

What the world will be in 10 years ?
1) still slurping oil like there is no tomorrow, ignoring totally any AGW consequence until it will be rubbed in their nose 50 to 70 years from now
2) energy generation will even be LESS nuclear than today with retired plants replaced by coal plants.
3) internet will be walled off from many side, be it private (especially DRM) or governmental, much more than now.
4) woo will come back in force
5) JREF will be a very low traffic forum
6) big foot will still be touted as an existing cryptid due to PGF

Hmmmm my crystal ball seems to be cracked. Ok, I'll try to be bold so I can look like a genius in 10 years.

- many people will wear augmented reality headsets which will have a catchy name by then
- facebook will be like myspace is now (dead)
- there will be an all electric sports car that I lust after
- spacex will have a fully re-usable 1st and 2nd stage to orbit rocket based on their current grasshopper work
- there will be private for profit enterprise operating on the moon in some capacity
- the role of sugar in obesity will be much better understood and people will avoid sugar like they do fat now
- people will still eat a lot of big macs

I'm bored now so I'll stop.

 

[Craig4]

I expect that in 10 years, we will have begun pulling back from the areas most impacted by climate change. Those places won't be underwater in 10 years but will be underwater from storms and king tides enough that they will no longer by inhabitable full time. I also expect we will begin evacuations of parts of Kiribati, The Bahamas, Federated States of Micronesia, and many other islands of the Western Pacific. They will hit a point where there is no safe place of refuge in the event of storms.

 

[Puppycow]

Regarding my first post about self driving cars, not only was I overly optimistic, but now I feel I will be surprised if there is any significant progress in the next 10 years.
Sure, there will be cars with self driving features, but they'll still be limited and not very common.

I do hope that I'm being overly pessimistic this time.

I think there's a tendency for things to take longer than we imagine they will. There are sometimes a few exceptions, like smartphones that have become ubiquitous. The first iPhone was released in 2007, only 16 years ago, and I think phones like that were already quite common by the time this thread was opened. I had one by then.

Self driving cars are trickier, but they do exist. Part of the challenge is just getting people to accept them. There's a lot of resistance. I actually do expect significant progress in the next 10 years. I don't expect them to be ubiquitous, and the business model seems to be aiming at self-driving taxis more than self-driving cars for consumers to purchase and own (at least for now). Trucks for shipping cargo is another business model.

The problem may be human beings rather than the technology. We already see them being targeted by criminals or people who think that they are "sticking it to the man" by vandalizing them.