Imagine you are predicting hundred years in to the future
2007-10-19 17:33:18 · 8 answers · asked by Rehana 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I'm thinking that if we aren't careful with all this pollution and war - the only ones who will have to worry about getting around may be the paramecium.
However, if I let my imagination free and assume that we humans survive the current state of affairs and try to conjure up what transportation could be like in 100 years, I suspect we will be using a propulsion system based on pulling the power right out of the atmosphere and the sunlight and will have dropped our primitive system of using fossil fuels as well as the (purely profit motivated) system of having raw electricity forced through wires. Tesla's designs made this unnecessary from the start of the 20th century.
The vehicles will then be very different - lighter and mostly using some form of flight for all but very local travel and will not need roads and highways so much as very well organized flight paths.
Local urban travel will be only by use of publicly controlled vehicles following carefully organized grids which will be part of the buildings themselves and will not require the type of road systems as at present - so there will be walkways and nature where we now have roads and highways, throughout the towns and cities. Personal (publicly owned and maintained) vehicles will be smaller and lighter and will fit together in such a way as to make them stackable and easy to store and access from vehicle tubes that will be affixed to the buildings.
Timeless visual designs will highlight the beauty of the materials used, being kept sleek, simple, uncluttered and efficient and with features that ensure optimum simplicity for implementing advances in technical details.
Planned obsolescence will by then have been declared a punishable offence and will have been replaced with production that is rewarded for the longevity and upwards mobility of the design. Advances in the technical details will be frequent (since the creativity will be directed into improvement of functionality rather than extreme competition for sales) and will be inexpensive and easy to implement.
Imagine what could already have been done by now if the money funneled during the past 100 years into war and the physical and mental machinery of the subjugation of most by the few - for personal power and material gain - had instead been used to develop and improve life for everyone.
Dream along with me...
2007-10-19 20:21:42 · answer #1 · answered by joss 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Transport 100 Years Ago
2016-11-07 08:20:32 · answer #2 · answered by boice 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you look a hundred years in the past you realise that in 1907 the two most common forms of transport were railroads and horses. Both of which are still around today as transport. I think cars will still be around but they will almost unrecognisable from the ones we have today. Anything running on gasoline is not an option. My best bet is some form of electric car that has no manual override, thus eliminating human error. However the future is very difficult if not impossible to predict, interesting question though.
2007-10-19 18:29:17 · answer #3 · answered by spartanmike 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Interesting question. You may be thinking as the same with the members of the Futurology Soceity. However, it seems you are much ahead of them. I believe more upgraded technology will come out. Artificial life may seems be joining us in that future. It is not impossible because it is very much under study and being developed. Science and Techology will still be at its peak for new discoveries.
Thanks for asking. Have a great day!
2007-10-19 18:31:43 · answer #4 · answered by Third P 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A hundred years from now, if the world should last so long, all Transportation will be accompished by Thought .......
2007-10-20 17:34:31 · answer #5 · answered by DapperDad 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I imagine far more advanced magnetic field powered transit systems. As our basic knowledge increases our energy problems will be solved by looking at our most basic forces. Magnetic fields, electric fields and hopefully a more complete understanding of gravity...
2007-10-19 22:06:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
can we leap to new heights, or will civilization as we know it fall down? I concern for our destiny, nevertheless i attempt to think of certainly. permit's desire you're astonishing. God bless anybody.
2016-10-13 06:19:17 · answer #7 · answered by Erika 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ahmmmmmm...means of tranport then maybe fully automatic. One click and it brings you to where you are going.
Isn't it fantastic?
2007-10-23 16:48:29 · answer #8 · answered by Jann 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋