SL in 2050

It would not surprise me if, by 2050, most people have a separate room in their house that is one big hologram, where they can "live" in a surrounding, 3D virtual reality world much like some of us "live" in SL on our computer screens today.

Dunno if it will be SL, though. SL could be the VR IBM by then, or it could end up being the VR Atari or Commodore, fondly remembered by some but mostly forgotten. I doubt it will be something between.

Hey, I've just got an idea! Sell it to Apple, Inc. now, while Steve Jobs is still active and vigorous enough and Apple rich enough to really do something with it! I bet Steve and Philip Linden could get along really well, if they wanted to.

I wonder what Mom's Basement will look like in 2050?

It will look like the bridge of the Enterprise-E (because Paramount will still be milking that franchise cow). The pasty skinned 42 year old who lived there in 2007 will still live there at age 85. He will still be immersed in his online worlds, oblivious to the fact that Mom died back in 3033, and her mummified corpse still sits in front of the wall sized plasma screen, which died 15 years ago.

This basement dweller will be paid a disability stipend, and orders all his food (mostly fast food items and hot pockets) through a virtual food site called "Eats". Basement dweller never leaves his "station", which is a modified recliner/toilet combo which constantly massages his ever widening ass to prevent bedsores.

I'd think they'd be closer to Enterprise X by then.

I love the thought of such a future, and by then I will have become the very BEST swordfighter in the world!! Pizza, anyone?

that was an awesome article! im suprised how advanced much of the logic behing those predictions was.
i think predicting the next hundered years will be harder than the last though. technological development is accelerating at an ever increasing rate.what today may seem to be 75 years away may actually be only 20 years away!

Falls foul of NAFB: Nerds Always Forget Biotech.

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Computers as we know them now, will be transformed into a form of second skin that you wear, will operate by thought processes and be neutron molecule based. I forsee this as a requirement of the human race, as potentially many will be living in environments alien to those we have today, that will recreate all the things we take for granted today. For man/woman to live on the sterile environment of space, or other planets, would be far too depressing, as our species require certain stimulations to keep us from going mad or become deeply depressive.

All the signs are there, once collated. NASA has identified deep depression syndrome, along with calcium bone loss and muscle degrading as being one of the biggest limitations for long space flights for humans. Much can be done to overcome the physical elements, but a computer based space suit providing familiar sensations of 'home world' will be required to keep the astronauts from going mad and becoming depressive.

Evolution of technology could become a negative to the human race, as we cannot evolve at the same pace. As people live longer, older generations will find it harder to adapt to keep pace. Of the current users of the internet, over the age of 35, find it easier to comprehend and stay in touch with the fast pace, on the basis that the majority have been using computers and the internet for some years. Newcomers over the age of 35, depending on their abilities, can struggle with simple emailing. There will always be a resistance to the application of new technologies, especially in the feild of computers and the internet, mainly due to the learning curve(s) required to keep pace.

Anyone in their late eighties can still remember commercial flights, the wide distribution of the telephone and Television, in some cases wide distribution of electricity and the family car to the masses, since the 1980's the evolution of the computer, followed in the 90's, the internet. Some countries are far more advanced than others in the silicon chip race... and some countries don't even have telephone, TV, running water, basic sewerage and electricity. What is going to happen to that divide? It can only get wider.
The 'vision' created by such concepts of the future, do not show this divide and assume/portray a level society, whereas in reality, this will only be compartmentalised into pockets of the world.