1000 reasons why we should be afraid of the future

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1. evil robots

goodbye horses, I'm crying over you (Mulvaney), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 22:43 (seventeen years ago)

2. Inevitable 51ing

Jimmy Pursey Thrower (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 22:45 (seventeen years ago)

3. darkness all the time

Batsman (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 22:47 (seventeen years ago)

4. all good comedy ideas expended

cumlord smedley (country matters), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 22:49 (seventeen years ago)

5. All band names taken

^ Z S on the internet here (Z S), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 22:50 (seventeen years ago)

7. Second law of thermodynamics

caek, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 22:52 (seventeen years ago)

8. that guy who said "it is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear"? that guy died

Milton Parker, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 22:53 (seventeen years ago)

what do you mean by the future

cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 22:54 (seventeen years ago)

what do you mean by "by"?

^ Z S on the internet here (Z S), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 22:54 (seventeen years ago)

9.
http://ksjtracker.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/swine-flu-sci-2003.gif

ears are wounds, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 23:02 (seventeen years ago)

10. http://www.coolbusinessideas.com/thinkingcap.jpg

goodbye horses, I'm crying over you (Mulvaney), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 23:10 (seventeen years ago)

11. May not figure out fusion power.

caek, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 23:12 (seventeen years ago)

12. May figure out fusion power.

Alfbree (Abbott), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 23:13 (seventeen years ago)

13. Fear is a reasoned response to most anything.

Alfbree (Abbott), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 23:13 (seventeen years ago)

14. Designer chairs might be ugly.

Alfbree (Abbott), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 23:13 (seventeen years ago)

15. Deep sea creatures will rise and take over.

Trayce, Thursday, 21 May 2009 00:02 (seventeen years ago)

16. Beer will cost a lot more than it does now.

henry s, Thursday, 21 May 2009 00:37 (seventeen years ago)

17. '90s revival.

touch my bum / this is life (daavid), Thursday, 21 May 2009 00:55 (seventeen years ago)

17. Revival of slavery as a practical form of cheap energy.

Aimless, Thursday, 21 May 2009 00:57 (seventeen years ago)

make that 18, ok>?

Aimless, Thursday, 21 May 2009 00:57 (seventeen years ago)

19. Interwebs break down for some horrible reason to do with sunspots.

Trayce, Thursday, 21 May 2009 01:01 (seventeen years ago)

20. death is there.

worm? lol (J0hn D.), Thursday, 21 May 2009 01:04 (seventeen years ago)

(which depending on one's mood could also be on the "1000 reasons why the future is awesome" thread)

worm? lol (J0hn D.), Thursday, 21 May 2009 01:04 (seventeen years ago)

21. Rat World replaces Epcot Center.

Aimless, Thursday, 21 May 2009 01:05 (seventeen years ago)

22. Time makes fools of us all.

caek, Thursday, 21 May 2009 01:14 (seventeen years ago)

23. No oil, no water-skiing. Simple as that.

henry s, Thursday, 21 May 2009 01:35 (seventeen years ago)

24. Tried fearing the past: no dice. Regret is as close as I got.

Subtlest Fart Joke (Oilyrags), Thursday, 21 May 2009 01:45 (seventeen years ago)

25. Mayans were right, world ruled by chupacabras.

nickn, Thursday, 21 May 2009 01:55 (seventeen years ago)

26. Secret Government project leads to electrodes being implanted in the pleasure centres of sadistic serial killers' brains that trigger when the sadistically kill.

ambience chaser (S-), Thursday, 21 May 2009 02:05 (seventeen years ago)

27 Next generation of iPods have opinions of their own about what to play.

Subtlest Fart Joke (Oilyrags), Thursday, 21 May 2009 02:10 (seventeen years ago)

28 New supreme court justice writes all opinions in lolcat form.

Subtlest Fart Joke (Oilyrags), Thursday, 21 May 2009 02:12 (seventeen years ago)

19. Rampant innumeracy.

M.V., Thursday, 21 May 2009 02:18 (seventeen years ago)

30. Something involving Dakota Fanning.

M.V., Thursday, 21 May 2009 02:19 (seventeen years ago)

31. you know them turtles all the way down? the one on the bottom gwan sneeze soon

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 21 May 2009 02:21 (seventeen years ago)

32. Killer Bees. Forgot about them didn't ya?

pitiable, strong and a little orgasmic (latebloomer), Thursday, 21 May 2009 02:55 (seventeen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b2/Killerbees_ani.gif

pitiable, strong and a little orgasmic (latebloomer), Thursday, 21 May 2009 03:02 (seventeen years ago)

28 New supreme court justice writes all opinions in lolcat form.

I dunno, this kind of sounds awesome to me.

Trayce, Thursday, 21 May 2009 03:05 (seventeen years ago)

33. The continuing legacy of George W. Bush.

Aimless, Thursday, 21 May 2009 03:08 (seventeen years ago)

34. Advanced cloning technology leading to eugenic agenda

Noodle Vadge (country matters), Thursday, 21 May 2009 03:11 (seventeen years ago)

35. Fashionistas will revive leggings again.

phlegm brûlée (j.lu), Thursday, 21 May 2009 03:13 (seventeen years ago)

36. Economy built on perpetual growth, finite planet

^ Z S on the internet here (Z S), Thursday, 21 May 2009 03:26 (seventeen years ago)

37.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/panic_peak_oil.jpg

ears are wounds, Thursday, 21 May 2009 09:05 (seventeen years ago)

38. Aliens

man saves ducklings from (ledge), Thursday, 21 May 2009 09:16 (seventeen years ago)

39. No aliens.

man saves ducklings from (ledge), Thursday, 21 May 2009 09:16 (seventeen years ago)

40. Liverpool *may* eventually win the Premiership

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Thursday, 21 May 2009 12:38 (seventeen years ago)

41. we'll have to buy biscuits with our own money

Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 21 May 2009 12:40 (seventeen years ago)

42. "The Nazis" voted in on a wave of support from disgruntled internet warriors

Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Thursday, 21 May 2009 12:50 (seventeen years ago)

43. Moving-image plasma-screen advertising unavoidable in cities

Noodle Vadge (country matters), Thursday, 21 May 2009 13:24 (seventeen years ago)

44. Lizard overlords actually amphibian overlords.

M.V., Thursday, 21 May 2009 14:54 (seventeen years ago)

45. As you get older it becomes more and more likely that you will one day shit yourself in public.

Enormous Epic (Matt DC), Thursday, 21 May 2009 14:56 (seventeen years ago)

... again

Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 May 2009 14:56 (seventeen years ago)

46. Last-minute will amendments

Noodle Vadge (country matters), Thursday, 21 May 2009 14:57 (seventeen years ago)

As you get older it becomes more and more likely that you will one day shit yourself in public.

horribly too true

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Thursday, 21 May 2009 16:22 (seventeen years ago)

been there done that

man saves ducklings from (ledge), Thursday, 21 May 2009 16:27 (seventeen years ago)

47. change is a terrible bad thing

rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Thursday, 21 May 2009 16:35 (seventeen years ago)

48. The past sucked.

Three Word Username, Thursday, 21 May 2009 17:01 (seventeen years ago)

49. THE CHINESE.

languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Thursday, 21 May 2009 17:02 (seventeen years ago)

50. THE BELGIANS

Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 May 2009 17:05 (seventeen years ago)

32. Killer Bees. Forgot about them didn't ya?

51. All bees die.

dowd, Thursday, 21 May 2009 17:06 (seventeen years ago)

52. All the seeds are patented.

Is it me? am I the winner here? (james k polk), Thursday, 21 May 2009 17:07 (seventeen years ago)

53. It hasn't happened yet.

Orin Boyd (jel --), Thursday, 21 May 2009 19:11 (seventeen years ago)

53. specter of technological singularity

http://www.projectgoodluck.com/blog/uploaded_images/mooreslaw_graph2-715541.gif

^ Z S on the internet here (Z S), Thursday, 21 May 2009 19:21 (seventeen years ago)

55. Citrus fruit getting progressivley worse.

Jarlrmai, Thursday, 21 May 2009 19:21 (seventeen years ago)

56. The Peter Principle, globally.

Orin Boyd (jel --), Thursday, 21 May 2009 19:22 (seventeen years ago)

57. ILX list threads increasing in length.

Jarlrmai, Thursday, 21 May 2009 19:23 (seventeen years ago)

58.


2030s

* Mind uploading becomes possible.
* Nanomachines could be directly inserted into the brain and could interact with brain cells to totally control incoming and outgoing signals. As a result, truly full-immersion virtual reality could be generated without the need for any external equipment. Afferent nerve pathways could be blocked, totally canceling out the "real" world and leaving the user with only the desired virtual experience.
* Brain nanobots could also elicit emotional responses from users.
* Using brain nanobots, recorded or real-time brain transmissions of a person's daily life known as "experience beamers" will be available for other people to remotely experience. This is very similar to how the characters in Being John Malkovich were able to enter the mind of Malkovich and see the world through his eyes.
* Recreational uses aside, nanomachines in peoples' brains will allow them to greatly expand their cognitive, memory and sensory capabilities, to directly interface with computers, and to "telepathically" communicate with other, similarly augmented humans via wireless networks.
* The economy transits in GDP percentage to more meta services such as reality fabrication, mind enhancement, mental software. The GDP percentile of simulated, beamed, and argumented pornography will increase from 0.5% to over 10%, as production techniques reduce physical production costs of real things.
* The same nanotechnology should also allow people to alter the neural connections within their brains, changing the underlying basis for the person's intelligence, memories and personality.

^ Z S on the internet here (Z S), Thursday, 21 May 2009 19:30 (seventeen years ago)

oops.

^ Z S on the internet here (Z S), Thursday, 21 May 2009 19:31 (seventeen years ago)

59 Lo-carb diet craze replaced by all-the-cockroaches-you-can-catch diet craze.

Subtlest Fart Joke (Oilyrags), Thursday, 21 May 2009 19:32 (seventeen years ago)

nah having to scroll across increases the sense of dread xp

Noodle Vadge (country matters), Thursday, 21 May 2009 19:33 (seventeen years ago)

Haha, maybe, but I accidentally drew attention away from the part I bolded which was about simulated pornography making up 10% of GDP!

^ Z S on the internet here (Z S), Thursday, 21 May 2009 19:34 (seventeen years ago)

that is actually the worst thing ever

Noodle Vadge (country matters), Thursday, 21 May 2009 19:37 (seventeen years ago)

'beamed'

Jarlrmai, Thursday, 21 May 2009 20:06 (seventeen years ago)

60. Eventual mutation leads to disappointing superpowers.

I wanna be your toy boy (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 21 May 2009 20:17 (seventeen years ago)

61. running out of water

goodbye horses, I'm crying over you (Mulvaney), Thursday, 21 May 2009 20:22 (seventeen years ago)

62. Mentalists who can't wait for (and demand) technological singularity.

Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 21 May 2009 20:47 (seventeen years ago)

63. Rising acidity levels in ocean

Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 21 May 2009 20:48 (seventeen years ago)

64.
http://kaihaan.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/david-cameron_453346a.jpg

ears are wounds, Thursday, 21 May 2009 20:49 (seventeen years ago)

65. Twitter

Subtlest Fart Joke (Oilyrags), Thursday, 21 May 2009 20:54 (seventeen years ago)

66. Fleas the size of rats suck on rats the size of cats.

nickn, Friday, 22 May 2009 01:16 (seventeen years ago)


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