future of humanity

preference or projection?

#2 but you can also vote #1

same either way for me.

1 in equatorial regions, 2 in china, 3 everywhere else.

re #3, 'offworld colonies' clearly a big lie, what happens instead to the people who head for them though?

the same thing that happens to old ppl in the giver

replicants are slaves for the colonists so #2 and #3 are kinda the same

So Batty's attack ships off the shoulder of Orion are an implanted memory?

probably this?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1297765/Last-humans-Earth-survived-Ice-Age-sheltering-Garden-Eden-claim-scientists.html

not exactly that, but i imagine something like small groups of humans surviving in barely inhabitable regions until climate disaster concludes

blade runner obvs

which is more optimistic: blade runner (unending dystopian cities) or mad max (post apocalyptic end of civilization)?

they're not that dystopian really

i read some thing abt how when blade runner came out everyone was like 'oh no how awful the future' but then they showed it to some 2012 teens and they were all 'cool!' 'kawaii!' and started taking iphone pictures of it

I'd go for the former as I have had considerable more practice surviving in a dystopian city.

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blade runner wasn't so bad compared to like neuromancer or even bleaker cyberpunk genre stuff

Most likely 3 for a while, followed by several years of 1.

with or without human caused climate change 1 is an inevitability.

no if we evolve into celestial internet beings of pure information duh

"Soylent Green is people!"

xp is that what the jetsons are then?

Mad Max - if things get that bad, none of us are going to be around to have a poll about it.
Jetsons - yeah right and I'm Bugs Bunny...
Blade Runner - BR minus space colonisation minus flying cars minus replicants seems the most likely for the near future.

br minus none of the above minuses

http://images.static-bluray.com/reviews/2162_2.jpg

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http://blogs.nazarene.org/findingfaith/files/2009/02/left-behind-dvd-front-cover.jpg

blade runner and war for the next hundred years. then we all become cyborgs (if you want to explore space you upgrade to full robot / simulation). future AI-iphones are brain implants installed during birth, I imagine the software programmed to grow up with you so it becomes your teacher / best friend at once and you can't never stop loving him / her (turn it off). bad part is that this is all centralized from nsagoobookzonple headquarters so they can remote control your whole life but whatever, the stuff is pretty cool and this is 2112 anyway, no once cares anymore. those who refuse the metallic parts and / or get caught visiting alternative networks are called equivalent term for terrorist-witch-communist-demon in the 22nd century. it's going to be awesome.

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At least you can get a decent bowl of noodles in a dystopian city.

I voted Mad Max. The second image didn't appear.

the second img was the jetsons but that was the joke option anyway

1 and 3 at the same time?

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/01/23/some-addicts-are-so-desperate-for-drugs-that-theyre-now-taking-medication-prescribed-to-pets/?utm_term=.2791f0dd1119&tid=sm_tw&tid=sm_tw&tid=sm_tw

The first was on a Friday in October 2014, when Pereira took the injured 4-year-old dog to the Elizabethtown Animal Hospital, not far from Louisville. After the veterinarian sewed up a cut, Pereira requested Tramadol, a drug used to treat pain in both animals and humans. She said the pup had been prescribed the medication in the past and had responded well to it, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

So the vet gave it to her.

Three days later, she returned — saying her child had flushed the pills down the toilet.

So the vet gave her more.

But it was this third time, on Dec. 4, 2014, that the veterinarian became suspicions. The dog's old cut had not yet completely healed and the animal was back with another. Again, Pereira asked for Tramadol for the dog.

“That’s when I took notice,” Chad Bailey, the veterinarian, told The Washington Post in an interview last week. “The cut looked sharp and clean — not like the kind in nature when a dog is cut on a fence or in a fight.”

Police said Pereira had been intentionally wounding her dog and “vet shopping,” visiting vet after vet to obtain prescription medication for her pet, then taking it. Although these cases appear uncommon, authorities say they underscore the nation's widespread opioid epidemic, showing the lengths people go to obtain drugs for personal use or for sale on the street.

as far as the lengths that people go to obtain opioids "vet shopping" doesn't seem so severe

imo, taking the meds that a vet prescribed for your pet is very mild on the drug addiction self-degradation scale. deliberately harming your pet in order to get ahold of those meds obviously drops much lower on the scale, but it's still nowhere near the bottom.

My partner has an NHS prescription for some decently strong opioids, she can get much more than she needs and ever uses per month as well. But I'm just not ruthless enough to think of it's hustle bustle potential ..... yet!

i guess i'm not blase and worldly enough, since my reaction was not "yawn, that's nothing" but "this is fucking horrifying"

addictions can get you to the far outer edges of fucking horrifying

so can your mom

shows how little you know about my mom

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/01/24/three-men-raped-a-woman-in-sweden-on-facebook-live/?tid=sm_tw

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/01/27/onlookers-yell-at-man-drowning-in-a-venice-canal-go-back-where-you-came-from/

As the man bobbed in the water, onlookers pulled out their smartphones.

“Go on, go back where you came from,”one man yelled. “Africa!” shouted another. “He is stupid. He wants to die,” said a third, caught on film. Someone in a nearby water bus threw out a life vest, but the man in the water didn't grab on. Spectators began to wonder if he was suicidal. One woman suggested to a neighbor that he was just pretending.

Finally, tourists at Venice's Grand Canal began to laugh as 22-year-old Pateh Sabally of Gambia drowned in the canal's icy waters.

every generation gets the kitty genovese it deserves

Guys, in 2017, a black man drowning in the canals of Venice became newsworthy.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/01/26/human-pig-hybrids-created-scientists-breakthrough-organ-transplants/

what do you guys think of the first human-animal hybrid they just created? it makes me feel very nervous. they are creating chimera embryos.

they want to grow organisms to harvest their organs for use in human, but they cannot use the organs currently produced. this is because they are mostly pig cells and they still want to perfect the mix. injecting human stem cells into a pig embryo is holding them back - what is to stop them from injecting human embryos with pig or other animal stem cells?

will these new being have any rights? this is some scary future shit happening for real now.

beings

I feel there must be a badly formed joke about the police in there somewhere.

Now a team at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in the US has combined both concepts and shown it is possible to grow human tissue within a pig. The achievement took four years, 1,500 pig embryos and the stem cells from 40 people.

“This is an important first step. Our next challenge is to guide the human cells into forming a particular organ in pigs.

“The ultimate goal is to grow functional and transplantable tissue or organs.”

To reach the current point, the scientists first created a rat-mouse hybrid by introducing rat cells into mouse embryos to see if animals could still develop using the DNA of another species.

After the tests were successful, the team genetically edited out part of the mouse DNA which is critical for the growth of organs, and repeated the experiment in the hope that the rat DNA would fill in the gaps.

As predicted, the rat cells completed areas which were missing in the mouse DNA, forming a rat heart, eyes and pancreas within the mouse.

The team then set about introducing human cells in pigs, a far more complicated procedure because pigs have a gestation period that is only one third as long as humans, so cells must be placed with perfect timing to match the developmental stage of the animal.

"It's as if the human cells were entering a freeway going faster than the normal freeway," added Dr Izpisua Belmonte. "If you have different speeds, you will have accidents.

The chimeras can also be used to help scientists understand early human development and the onset of disease, and even provide a testing platform for new drugs.

i played this video game!

when you accidentally create a giant monster pig covered in screaming human faces, no need to dispose of it, you can still inject it with experimental drugs!

Have you really looked at your hands lately

on the plus side, in 10 years, they can actually make the teenage mutant ninja turtles IRL

http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/02/woman-found-guilty-of-livestreaming-her-friends-rape.html

Lonina’s defense attorney told the New York Times that she thought livestreaming the attack would somehow stop it. “She got caught up in the likes,” he said.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/chicago-teen-reportedly-gang-raped-as-40-people-watched-on-facebook-live/

meteorite please