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Futurism

SkepticJ said:
I wish this stuff was already real

http://www.foresight.org/Nanomedicine/Respirocytes.html

http://discuss.foresight.org/~josh/Ufog.html

The supramundane, suprastellar and space towers talked about in the papers in the science section at the bottom of this site: http://paulbirch.net/

http://discuss.foresight.org/~josh/aircar/

This one's not that far off though:
http://www.hsvt.org/
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The important thing, of course, is not to hold your breath. I remember that computer disks were going to be replaced by low cost portable solid state devices by the end of the 1980's. Better late than never I suppose.
 
Y'know, I like the concept of predicting where we'll be in the future, but futurists of the past have such a poor track record of predicting where we would be now. Their predictions of what would happen haven't panned out, and they completely missed the important stuff that did happen.
 
The stuff I linked should exist someday though(they've been designed out already). In the case of the supra planets it will probably be over a thousand years, or at least a goodly fraction of that in the future. Lucky bastards that will see these things. I wish I could. I do wonder though what kinds of things will exist that no one has dreamed up yet. The space shuttle and cell phones would be "magic" to someone from 1750. We do know a lot more of how the universe works though since then. So we know that anti-gravity very likely is impossible etc. But, who would have guessed that lasers would be used to read data off of an aluminum film on a Lexan disk in 1965? No one, that's who. :)
 
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