Things That Will/Won't Happen in our lifetime

[mmkextreme_1]

So I was thinking, what are some of the things that might happen/won't happen in my lifetime.

Things that I think will happen:

-Fully autonomous driving

-Nano-technology being incorporated in a vast variety of fields (such as medical)

-Pakistan moving into the top 15 economies of the world

-Hyperloop travelling will be the "norm"

-Gasoline cars will be "extinct"

-Have a cure for cancer and aids.

-Average life expectancy will go up to 90-95+

-Ocean water being readily available as drinking water

-Land on Mars

-Holographic screens as a norm

-SRT record being broken

-Pakistan beating India in a world cup game


Things that I think will NOT happen:

-WW3

-Space travel being a norm

-Flying cars being readily available

-Imran Khan becoming PM of Pakistan (I really wish this happens, but sadly I just don't see it with his age as a factor as well hope I'm proven wrong)

-Trans-Atlantic bridge

-Cure for ageing

-Teleportation

-We will not have the technology to travel anywhere near the speed of light, which also means no Time Travel.

-Whatever record Virat Kohli sets will not be broken in LOI

What do you think will happen/won't happen?

 

[troodon]

Time Travel

Cure for Diabetes and Cancer (Always seems to be close but never)

Flying Cars

Curing all diseases at the embryonic stage itself by altering genes

Subcontinent producing a world class athlete the level of Bolt

Humans traveling to Moon for vacation

Sending probes to the nearest star Sirius and explore its planets in the goldie lock zone.

 

[Syed1]

Just 10-15 years did you even think about a thing like a smartphone and having the entirety of the world's knowledge in the palm of your hand? So anything is possible when it comes to technology.

All car manufacturers are racing towards automated driving and autonomous vehicle. Apka bhai ne General Motors ko interview diya tha pichlay haftay for a position called "Automated Driving and Autonomous Vehicle Development Engineer". God willing I get it, fingers crossed. Very competitive position. Even if I don't I'm going for masters for this specific field so Inshallah after Masters I'll be in better position to secure such positions. Tesla already has semi-autonomous cars while the Germans are also gunning for them. I can easily foresee fully autonomous cars in the next 20-30 years.

The Eurozone has passed a legislation that every new car sold after the year 2035 will be electric. So we can easily predict the "extinction" of gas cars by the year 2050-2060 if other regions also follow suite.

Land on Mars will happen in the next 10-15 years... NASA has an active plan with possible human landing on Mars by the year 2030.

Immy will be PM after 2018. Inshallah

WW3 can easily happen in the next three four decades if things keep heading the way they are.

Theoretically you cannot travel at speed of light because then your mass will turn into energy.

 

[Black Zero]

Sadly I do not see following happening in my life:

- Imam Mehdi phenomenon (related items emergence of Dajjal, Gog Magog and Judgement day)
- I am getting abducted by alien
- Meeting a jinn
- I am meeting a time traveler (of course he is coming from future)
- General purpose robot
- cure of ageing

 

[mmkextreme_1]

Just 10-15 years did you even think about a thing like a smartphone and having the entirety of the world's knowledge in the palm of your hand? So anything is possible when it comes to technology.

All car manufacturers are racing towards automated driving and autonomous vehicle. Apka bhai ne General Motors ko interview diya tha pichlay haftay for a position called "Automated Driving and Autonomous Vehicle Development Engineer". God willing I get it, fingers crossed. Very competitive position. Even if I don't I'm going for masters for this specific field so Inshallah after Masters I'll be in better position to secure such positions. Tesla already has semi-autonomous cars while the Germans are also gunning for them. I can easily foresee fully autonomous cars in the next 20-30 years.

The Eurozone has passed a legislation that every new car sold after the year 2035 will be electric. So we can easily predict the "extinction" of gas cars by the year 2050-2060 if other regions also follow suite.

Land on Mars will happen in the next 10-15 years... NASA has an active plan with possible human landing on Mars by the year 2030.

Immy will be PM after 2018. Inshallah

WW3 can easily happen in the next three four decades if things keep heading the way they are.

Theoretically you cannot travel at speed of light because then your mass will turn into energy.

Inshallah brother you will get it.

Autonomous driving still has a long way to go in regards to regulations and how they will adapt to the human element.

Your right about traveling at the speed of light is not possible, thus I said anywhere near. Theoritically if one travels at 90-99% of the speed one can achieve "time travel" because of time dilation.

 

[Hitman]

Donald Trump having some class.

 

[DW44]

Just 10-15 years did you even think about a thing like a smartphone and having the entirety of the world's knowledge in the palm of your hand? So anything is possible when it comes to technology.

Fact checking, fact checking, fact checking. The first smartphone was released in the first quarter of 2002, more than 15 years ago, so the only people who couldn't even think of a smartphone 15 years ago, much less ten years ago, were those living under a rock, completely oblivious to the world around them. Ten years ago we already had iPhones.

 

[hafeezrocks]

Fact checking, fact checking, fact checking. The first smartphone was released in the first quarter of 2002, more than 15 years ago, so the only people who couldn't even think of a smartphone 15 years ago, much less ten years ago, were those living under a rock, completely oblivious to the world around them. Ten years ago we already had iPhones.

But how would people be aware of it's wonders when it wasn't widespread and when even the internet connectivity wasn't as good as today.

Where was 3G, 4G 15 years ago? Even in First World Countries, the Internet has spread mostly in the current decade.

 

[DW44]

But how would people be aware of it's wonders when it wasn't widespread and when even the internet connectivity wasn't as good as today.

Where was 3G, 4G 15 years ago? Even in First World Countries, the Internet has spread mostly in the current decade.

3g networks were first rolled out in 1998 so they actually predate the smartphone by a good four years i.e. enough time for most first world countries to have some level of basic 3g service by the time smartphones were released. Don't quote me on this but Japan might even have had smartphones before 2002 (I think Sanyo released one in 2000 or 2001). Smartphones themselves were fairly widespread immediately after their release even in places like Pakistan where everyone who could afford one (30-40k at the time) had one. I remember getting my first touch screen smartphone in 2004 and a lot of people had that in ISB.

 

[SarfiBabarHaris]

Pakistan - India becoming friends and borders open like Germany - France. Too much hate between the neighboring countries.
Pakistan becoming a secular state.

Knew it won't happen.

 

[hafeezrocks]

3g networks were first rolled out in 1998 so they actually predate the smartphone by a good four years i.e. enough time for most first world countries to have some level of basic 3g service by the time smartphones were released. Don't quote me on this but Japan might even have had smartphones before 2002 (I think Sanyo released one in 2000 or 2001). Smartphones themselves were fairly widespread immediately after their release even in places like Pakistan where everyone who could afford one (30-40k at the time) had one. I remember getting my first touch screen smartphone in 2004 and a lot of people had that in ISB.

Amazed to know that 3G was available way back in 1998 in some countries, confirmed it online now. You can't really blame people from South Asia for their ignorance as such facilities weren't as widespread as they were in countries like Japan.

 

[Syed1]

Fact checking, fact checking, fact checking. The first smartphone was released in the first quarter of 2002, more than 15 years ago, so the only people who couldn't even think of a smartphone 15 years ago, much less ten years ago, were those living under a rock, completely oblivious to the world around them. Ten years ago we already had iPhones.

I was wrong but you were very wrong too so might as well get off that high horse of yours.

http://www.businessinsider.com/world...-iphone-2015-6


And any Tom, Dick or Harry would know I was talking about the first Iphone which is unofficially recognized as the birth of the modern smartphone and how it became commercially available. But in your haste to sound smart you made a right fool of yourself.

 

[DW44]

I was wrong but you were very wrong too so might as well get off that high horse of yours.

http://www.businessinsider.com/world...-iphone-2015-6


And any Tom, Dick or Harry would know I was talking about the first Iphone which is unofficially recognized as the birth of the modern smartphone and how it became commercially available. But in your haste to sound smart you made a right fool of yourself.

Please tag Tom, Dick or Harry because I'd like to hear from the noobs who think iPhone was the first modern smartphone. That would be the Sony Ericsson P800 if we're limiting ourselves to mainstream phones with a touch screen and the Nokia 7650 if we're talking about smartphones in general.

 

[Black Zero]

I was wrong but you were very wrong too so might as well get off that high horse of yours.

http://www.businessinsider.com/world...-iphone-2015-6


And any Tom, Dick or Harry would know I was talking about the first Iphone which is unofficially recognized as the birth of the modern smartphone and how it became commercially available. But in your haste to sound smart you made a right fool of yourself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_PC#Pocket_PC_2000

I was using pocket pc long before iphone and most of my friends had similar devices then...

your statement about iphone is rooted in a misconception.

 

[DW44]

Amazed to know that 3G was available way back in 1998 in some countries, confirmed it online now. You can't really blame people from South Asia for their ignorance as such facilities weren't as widespread as they were in countries like Japan.

I personally signed off on the acceptance papers for some of the first 3G enabled sites in Pakistan once the vendor had installed and commissioned them. Guess that makes me part of Pakistan's history.

 

[Syed1]

Please tag Tom, Dick or Harry because I'd like to hear from the noobs who think iPhone was the first modern smartphone. That would be the Sony Ericsson P800 if we're limiting ourselves to mainstream phones with a touch screen and the Nokia 7650 if we're talking about smartphones in general.

Only someone who isn't very technically adept would think that touchscreen = smartphone. So in your opinion most Blackberry's until Blackberry 10 were not smartphones because they didn't have touchscreens lmaooooo

 

[Syed1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_PC#Pocket_PC_2000

I was using pocket pc long before iphone and most of my friends had similar devices then...

your statement about iphone is rooted in a misconception.

Pocket PC =! Smartphone... I had a Pocket PC (Or Palm top as it was also known as) too and you could not make phone calls with it.


Pocket PCs did lead to the introduction of the first smartphone

 

[DW44]

Only someone who isn't very technically adept would think that touchscreen = smartphone. So in your opinion most Blackberry's until Blackberry 10 were not smartphones because they didn't have touchscreens lmaooooo

What? When did I say that smartphone = touchscreen? The first smartphone from 2002 that I mentioned in my earlier post was the 7650, a phone without a touchscreen. 3 of the most popular early smartphones in Pakistan, the 7650, 6600 and 7610 didn't have touch screens.

 

[Syed1]

What? When did I say that smartphone = touchscreen? The first smartphone from 2002 that I mentioned in my earlier post was the 7650, a phone without a touchscreen. 3 of the most popular early smartphones in Pakistan, the 7650, 6600 and 7610 didn't have touch screens.

The first smartphone was the IBM Simon and not when you declare some phone to be a smartphone.

 

[ExpressPacer]

3g networks were first rolled out in 1998 so they actually predate the smartphone by a good four years i.e. enough time for most first world countries to have some level of basic 3g service by the time smartphones were released. Don't quote me on this but Japan might even have had smartphones before 2002 (I think Sanyo released one in 2000 or 2001). Smartphones themselves were fairly widespread immediately after their release even in places like Pakistan where everyone who could afford one (30-40k at the time) had one. I remember getting my first touch screen smartphone in 2004 and a lot of people had that in ISB.

I got mine around the same time. And the funny thing was, it was actually pretty cheap. Cheaper than a regular Motorola phone at that time.

 

[DW44]

The first smartphone was the IBM Simon and not when you declare some phone to be a smartphone.

Did you even know what that was until you just googled it (it's the first result on google when you search first smartphone)? Simon was not the first smartphone the same way a pong machine was not the first video game console. Mainstream adaptation matters and the 7650 was the first commercially successful smartphone. While there were devices released earlier which had some "smart" features (not Simon, due to the limitations of networks of the time), the term smartphone was introduced to mainstream lexicon by the 7650. When people thought smartphone, they didn't think Simon or some Sanyo model from Japan, they thought the slider from Nokia, the way you were suggesting the iPhone was the first.

 

[ExpressPacer]

I was wrong but you were very wrong too so might as well get off that high horse of yours.

http://www.businessinsider.com/world...-iphone-2015-6


And any Tom, Dick or Harry would know I was talking about the first Iphone which is unofficially recognized as the birth of the modern smartphone and how it became commercially available. But in your haste to sound smart you made a right fool of yourself.

You said smartphone and not iPhone. And the iPhone actually wasn't the birth of the modern smartphone. Motorola and Blackberry had been doing the same thing years ago, Apple just integrated the system onto a touch screen.

And Apple wasn't even the first company that introduced touch screens, I remember my father having a touch screen CHINESE phone back in 2002.

 

[DW44]

I got mine around the same time. And the funny thing was, it was actually pretty cheap. Cheaper than a regular Motorola phone at that time.

Which one? Only touchscreen smartphones available at the time were Sony Ericsson's P series and iMates, both of which cost an arm and a leg. There was no such thing as a cheap smartphone back then.

 

[Syed1]

Did you even know what that was until you just googled it (it's the first result on google when you search first smartphone)? Simon was not the first smartphone the same way a pong machine was not the first video game console. Mainstream adaptation matters and the 7650 was the first commercially successful smartphone. While there were devices released earlier which had some "smart" features (not Simon, due to the limitations of networks of the time), the term smartphone was introduced to mainstream lexicon by the 7650. When people thought smartphone, they didn't think Simon or some Sanyo model from Japan, they thought the slider from Nokia, the way you were suggesting the iPhone was the first.

Well you were going by the "official definition of smartphone" so I gave you the officially defined first smartphone... now you changed goal post to "commercially available smartphone"

 

[ExpressPacer]

Which one? Only touchscreen smartphones available at the time were Sony Ericsson's P series and iMates, both of which cost an arm and a leg. There was no such thing as a cheap smartphone back then.

I just googled and I think it was a phone by i-mate. A very long time ago so I don't exactly remember the exact name.

Not long after, around 2007 I got a Chinese phone which looked like the Nokia N95 that involved the use of a stylist but you could also use it with your fingers at times. I got it for around 10K rupees.

 

[DW44]

Well you were going by the "official definition of smartphone" so I gave you the officially defined first smartphone... now you changed goal post to "commercially available smartphone"

Please quote the 'official' post. I started with the admittedly vague descriptor 'first smartphone' which I later clarified to mean first mainstream smartphone which the 7650 was. Either way, smartphones were not the stuff of people's wild imaginations 10-15 years ago since the first mainstream model i.e. the one that made the term smartphone a household name, was launched more than 15 years ago.

 

[DW44]

I just googled and I think it was a phone by i-mate. A very long time ago so I don't exactly remember the exact name.

Not long after, around 2007 I got a Chinese phone which looked like the Nokia N95 that involved the use of a stylist but you could also use it with your fingers at times. I got it for around 10K rupees.

iMate phones were all the rage back in the mid 2000s when having Windows running on your phone was considered cool. They weren't officially available in Pakistan though so the black market models used to be obscenely expensive and therefore fairly rare.

 

[CricFan2012]

There's a great YouTube video on this: search up things that will happen by 2050.

 

[JaDed]

Meat eating being observed as barbaric. Caging animals leading to jail time.

 

[mmkextreme_1]

I think in our lifetime we will see robots replacing soldiers in war, or replace certain operations that soldiers currently do.

 

[ToeCrusher2]

Meat eating being observed as barbaric. Caging animals leading to jail time.

You didn't specify whether you think this will happen or won't happen in your lifetime

 

[JaDed]

You didn't specify whether you think this will happen or won't happen in your lifetime

Oh I thought it was only about won't,yeah won't