“If you live in the future”

Post by reeses » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 4:23 AM UTC

thoughtcriminal wrote: post #12

If you live in the future, garbage is gold. Garbage will be used to build business empires. Garbage will be sold, sorted, repurposed and resold in ways unimaginable, so determine what future assets you are throwing out. Puts the saying "find something no one else wants to do and make a career out of it" in a whole new light. Bonus Prediction: William Gibson will write a novel about garbage.

Post by reeses » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 4:25 AM UTC

LarryMade2 wrote: post #33

When a crime or accident happens in the future the first responders will be (quad?) copter camera drones to record information, provide crowd control, and record the scene for possible wrongdoers at the scene or fleeing. Other drones may be used to deliver vital emergency medications/equipment from local hospitals to accident/disaster scenes. So build drones that: a) have proper sirens lights, etc b) can fly to any s…

Post by reeses » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 4:29 AM UTC

derleth wrote: post #16

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #2

If you live in the future, a diagnosis of most symptoms will be done from a pinprick at home, so become a medical researcher not a GP (Ok an example of what not to do - far too negative)

If you live in the future, you'll still need to have someone whose career may be on the line if they get a diagnosis far enough wrong, so some form of human oversight of the diagnosis process is still inevitable; therefore, make it possible to reliably transmit the confidential medical information needed to make diagnoses across networks a lot more securely than we can now.

Post by informatimago » Sun, Jun 02, 2013, 11:27 AM UTC

cousin_it wrote: post #36

If you live in the future, most humans will be hopelessly outcompeted and economically redundant, due to technologies like intelligence amplification, mind uploading and artificial intelligence. So... I don't have any good suggestions, it looks like doom from any angle, maybe you should spend some time thinking about it? Or just enjoy life while you can?

Post by contingencies » Mon, Jun 03, 2013, 3:17 AM UTC

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #48

contingencies wrote: post #35

If you live in the future, large scale agricultural monocultures will be quaint tangents of history. All children will accept as self-evident that producing greater varieties of food in heterogeneous environments more closely resembling natural ecosystems, in a decentralized fashion with proximity to places of habitation (and therefore consumption) is not only simpler and cheaper, but also healthier due to reduced re…

If you can get bbc iplayer look for a radio programme on vertical farming - a similar concept (mono-culture plants grown indoors in warehouses in cities in hydroponic environments). Ok not Herero-environments but still similar