What major technological advances do you predict will be invented over the next 1000 years?

Question

This is just all about being creative, so have fun and please, no sick ones. I like funny ones but not disgusting ones. It doesn't have to even be technology but any kind of scientific advances.

Answer 1

I think one too many countries will develope nuclear weapons.

I think the telemerasy reproduction mystery will be solved and we will be living twice as long every 10 years. Like Moore's law, the technological leapfrogging will drive life spans to impossible levels.

I think that flash memory will become the standard and replace most hard copy. We will forget that it only has a 10-15 yr lifespan and loose massive volumes of learning and creation. Histories and lessons will be forgotten. There will be a knee jerk reaction to get hard print and you will see amazing levels of deforestation with no attempt to regrow due to the sheer volume of defacement.

With so many people, and the land either defaced or converted to desert by deforestation and nuclear holocost, we will no longer be able to feed ourselves.

Technology will push us away from earth and not toward repairing it. Once Earth is fully destroyed, the virus of man will become airborne, mutating into space travel until it can infect another hospitable host.

Answer 2

Within 1000 years, I believe teleportation will be perfected. There are already some attempts at it, though they have all failed.

Theoretically, time travel will be available in that time frame. But, there is a huge set of variables in that strata alone. I've actually had a lot of discussions on the possibility of time travel. While I do believe it's possible, I don't believe the technology will be available for a few hundred years at the very least, and perfected long after that.

I have hopes for full cryogenical stasis and recovery within the next 50 or so years, as well as being able to genetically grow organs for medical purposes.

Answer 3

At the current rate of technological advances I think you are better off at looking at 100 years from now. To be quite honest I don't think earth will be too inhabitable after 1000 more years of human technological advancements.

I believe we will have a colony on the moon by 2020 and Mars by 2050. Stephen Hawking will back me up on this.

BTW: I doubt time travel will ever be possible. I can prove this actually. If time travel were possible, there would already be documented cases of people visiting us from the future.
Soooo.. no time travel :(

Answer 4

Great question. 1,000 years is too much time to comprehend. I'd predict the creation of new life forms, computing technology seemlessly integrated with the human body, desigener people thru genetic manipulation/cloning/selection/eugenics, Certainly life on other planetary bodies or in colonial type spacecraft moving to other stars, I'd predict we still won't have faster than light travel, but that would be so sad. There will be whole realms of science and technology that hasn't even been thought of today.

Great questions like will we still be here in 1000 years, See Stephen Hawking's Question on this subject.

Answer 5

The most important innovation in our lifetime will be in virtual reality. The applications for education, video games, training simulations, psychological treatment/rehabilitation, childhood conditioning, and even pornography will change life as we know it.

Further into the future, especially if artificial intelligence could ever be perfected, people would become addicted to their own "virtual worlds" that are sold like video games. Everyone would have their own little Sim City. Superior social classes will eventually use this technology to control the masses and ensure that everyone is happy in their own place in the economy.

Answer 6

I have high hopes for time travel within the next 100 years.

I'd also like to see teleportation machines, because I'm really getting sick of high gas prices and cramped airplane seats.

Answer 7

We have almost reached our technological peak, i'm afraid to say. Without cheap, plentiful fuel to push our technology forward, 1000 years from now we'll be living like they did in medieval europe.

sorry, but think about it!

Answer 8

Technical telepathy, and mankinds emancipation from physicality and into the psychical, Neitzsches super humans

Answer 9

I'd like to see a hydrogen based fuel generation... from power companies to passenger cars.

Answer 10

I think high heels on wheels would be nice, if you can get those rollers to fit into the little heel.