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 So, what's the next big thing in the near future??? (6)

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So, what's the next big thing in the near future???

Even if you are only 30 years old, you've lived long enough to see a few game changing inventions that has altered the world and the way we live and look at life.  Things like the internet, then wifi, then smartphones/apps, gps, and now coming soon VR.
What else is next?  Give your best predictions!
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I've heard that VR to the next level is going to change everything. You are sort of seeing it now with augmented reality apps, games, and software that will impact every area of life.

But I think the next big thing will be some sort of machine and human fusion. Chips will become fused within the human brains, cornea, etc, so that we can actually receive information, watch programming, communicate all via brainwaves....ie BRAIN NET.

It's fucking crazy, but biochemistry/biomechanics and robotics is the next big thing. You'll see the internet right from your own corneas/retinas. You'll download information directly to your chip in your brain. You'll instantly be able to communicate with others without even speaking.

Along with that, the next big thing will be genetic/human modification. It sort of already exists but a very tame version of it. We can alter our sex, we alter our eyes, noses, body parts etc....but I'm talking next level shit. Things like having a catalogue where moms and dads sit down and plan what they want their unborn baby to look like, what features to have/not have, what skills to have, etc. They can choose skin tone, eye colors, personality traits, physical traits, but it'll cost big money in the beginning (like 100k per option or more). Then it'll create a new society where we start to judge others again as lesser value humans because they are normal/unmodified "stock" humans and the elite humans will have higher IQs, flawless beauty (skin/hair etc), and super human physical traits (higher capacity VO2, fast twitch fibers, stronger systems: immune, circulatory, nervous, etc).

It'll go right back to the old days when we used to think that certain races were better than others and we judged them (like eugenics). The more things change, th e more they stay the same.

I actually said these things first about 20 years ago as child. I already saw it coming decades ago. I have this gift, fuck, it's a curse too. It torments me.

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In about 20 years my two sons are going to be some sort of cultural sensation. Just wait. Charlie and George. Not because we're trying to lead them to become that. It's just going to happen.

Through no credit of my own Charlie (the oldest) has been blessed with great looks and a winning personality. Everywhere we go and whomever we're with people voluntarily comment on his looks and personality. Other little kids (especially girls, even slightly older girls) seem drawn to him. It's uncanny. And our 7 month old looks almost exactly like the older did at his age.

I'm really not looking to have a couple of Biebers but I suspect if a future star (whether pop star, tv personality, politician, actor, professor, whatever) were their age they would look and act a lot like my kids do (so far).

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Hmm..just what the world needs, a couple more coddled pop stars.

And hey.....ya better Hope they don't go into acting. Because of of the changes in the Brave New World will be a drastically lessened need for real human actors. CGI will become the norm. And real actors in a couple decades (maybe less) will be looked at then as we today look at those Charlie Chaplin types from the silent movies and the early talkies. Sorry.

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Yeah, but I'm not saying we're coddling them. It's more like they seem to be so popular we'd literally have to move to a cabin in the woods to delay their break into stardom.

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In the high tech world.................Virtual Reality will become the standard type of video game. You will stand in a room on a stage with the goggles on and be totally immersed into your game. As if you were really there, or in a giant 3D movie set.

And speaking of movies..........3D will be replaced by Holographic/Interactive Movies. You will again be able to don the goggles and become a PART of the movie oyu are watching. Such as, for example, being able to see the movie (and act in it) as if you were the main character. And see the movie thru his or her eyes. Like, in Guardians of the Galaxy, you would be Chris Pratt's character.

In computing.....Quantum Computing will become the norm. No more binary 1's and O's (on of off, or "yes" and no"). Instead...those electrons will not need the logic gates anymore--or those gates will be orders of magnitude more complex--since the electrons will not be on or off but able to exist in BOTH states during the computing process. A handheld tablet-sized Q-Bit computer will be as fast and powerful in 20 years as a room-sized commercial server is today.

Self-driving cars will become more common and will be the norm within three decades.

Nano-technology! Sidewalks will melt snow and ice. Scratches and dents in cars will "heal" themselves. House paint will change colors depending on the seasons and the sunlight so as to provide optimal insulational effects.

In medicine.....genetic engineering and diagnosing! When you are born you will be genetically scanned, and will know what certain dieseases or other types of physiological or psychiatric maladies you might have or be susceptible to. And then you will be injected with a genetic-based vaccine that will eradicate those problems.

Evolution will ascend from a Theory to a Law.

Religion will be seen as the superstitious nonsense it is, and has been all along. Christians will be deemed on par, with, say, those idiots walking aorund outside looking for Pokemon. Or with believers in a Flat Earth or in Hobbits from Inner Earth. Churches will finally be forced to pay taxes. Attendance at these churches will in three decades be about one-fourth of what it is now. (the numbers have already been falling for years!)

Brave New World, amigos! Can't wait!!

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I'd put my money on 3d-printing, virtual reality, and mag-lev.

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It also seems to me that the future lies in virtual reality. This is very popular and can generate enormous income. And it is not surprising that many companies providing similar services are now developing. Today my favorite is https://b2b.anvio.com/ . Just look at the selection of their games and the number of offices in different countries around the world. I think this is a good indicator