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Hmm.. 60 years, probably we will get extinct due to the fact of global warming.
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It seems that such things needed to be stated even though they are common sense considering that nearly every opinion on this thread that has been presented without links has been quickly shot down. This was also the reason for the links, it seemed to be the only way to be taken seriously. The link you provided couldn't be found but I'll take your word for it.

Well the link I used was one of yours if you hadn't noticed, and I haven't shot down comments without links exclusively, just the ones with no SUPPORT or REASON.
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I don't understand how a currently established fact is supposed to be evidence of 'where' the world will be in 60 years. My guess is the same position around the sun relative to the difference from 60 years ago to now. Everything else is one of those things that we'll just have to wait and see, maybe we will be able to have global fibre optic internets, better routers and stuff so ping is always 0. That would be fantastic.
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Hmmm 60 years? Well, I guess Technology would've reached it's "futuristic" state with flying cars and all that jazz.
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Totalitarian, bleak, and emotionless society. Earth will most likely be exhuasted of its resources, and corporations will probably have a lot more influence. Oh, and christianity will probabably fall.
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Hmm.. 60 years, probably we will get extinct due to the fact of global warming.

Do you even know what global warming is?
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Lol, zayex I think you're right, we'll be emotionless, lack of love and that can lead to a big tragedy.
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Originally Posted by smosh023 View Post
Hmm.. 60 years, probably we will get extinct due to the fact of global warming.

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Hmmm 60 years? Well, I guess Technology would've reached it's "futuristic" state with flying cars and all that jazz.

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Lol, zayex I think you're right, we'll be emotionless, lack of love and that can lead to a big tragedy.

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Originally Posted by PhuckY0U View Post
i see instant connection to internet and every thing just to happen where computers rule

These dystopian futures with machines ruling have always seemed silly. Technology does not work like the human brain. It is only capable of interpreting information and acting exactly accordingly. A calculator will not give you the wrong answer because it forgot to carry a 1.
This does bring up an interesting project I recall, which expects to digitize the human brain somewhere in the next decade.
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Fossil fuel power accounts for more than 2000 times more deaths than nuclear.

Nuclear power is well known for having the lowest deaths per unit power. Sensationalist media are more interested in documenting the one failure every 10 years than they are reporting the hundreds of deaths every year from fossil fuels. I guess this would be why you are experiencing a perception bias.

What exactly are the root cause of these deaths? I would guess carbon monoxide poisoning.

One of the most truly terrifying aspects of a nuclear power malfunction is that so much is unknowable about the effects. With carbon monoxide, it can always be rationalized as "oh, the idiot should've turned the engine off inside the garage." When a power plant a block away starts leaking radioactive material, a much greater fear is present. In the back of your mind you know you could die of gaseous fumes, but you use your car every day. It's a normal process. The workings of a nuclear power plant are not.
I'd argue that it's a little more than perception bias.
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Hmm.. 60 years, probably we will get extinct due to the fact of global warming.

This is not how global warming works at all.
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Totalitarian, bleak, and emotionless society. Earth will most likely be exhuasted of its resources, and corporations will probably have a lot more influence. Oh, and christianity will probabably fall.

Christianity's been around for 2000 years and doesn't look like it's going anywhere, I'd say it's a little hasty to assume it's suddenly going to disappear.
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well will smith will be dead so we are all obviously fucked.

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Originally Posted by Boredpayne View Post
These dystopian futures with machines ruling have always seemed silly. Technology does not work like the human brain. It is only capable of interpreting information and acting exactly accordingly. A calculator will not give you the wrong answer because it forgot to carry a 1.
This does bring up an interesting project I recall, which expects to digitize the human brain somewhere in the next decade.

At this point in time technology works like you've said (even know though, we have some pretty advanced AI systems). I think it's very close-minded of you, though, to rule out the possibility of future developments in technology, though. Many smart people predict that AI will reach/surpass human levels of intelligence within the next 50 years. Once that happens, nobody's certain of what will happen - it's beyond man's capacity to understand.

edit: I remembered reading about a self-learning artificial brain last week sometime..
editedit: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0226101400.htm

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