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Re Watching this movie. Its suppose to take place in the year 2054 and feature a number of cool technologies that are already out today. I would like to know your thoughts on their future and how plausible is it?
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Minority Report
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, Aug 07 2012 03:27 PM
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Posted 07 August 2012 - 04:49 PM
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Re Watching this movie. Its suppose to take place in the year 2054 and feature a number of cool technologies that are already out today. I would like to know your thoughts on their future and how plausible is it?
Most futuristic or sci-fi movies underestimate our technological progress at the exponential rate.
We'll probably surpass the technological capabilities shown in Star Trek: Next Generation in its own timeline.
Edited by Raklian, 07 August 2012 - 04:51 PM.
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Posted 07 August 2012 - 06:08 PM
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Definitely, Star Trek underestimated technology badly.
Tricorders, communication etc. There was a whole thread about why it was wrong. By the 23rd century we will have much more advanced technology than they showed.
The Minority report showed computers being interacted with gloves that you slip on. I assume some sort of a Kinect interface, but it is wrong. Check this out.
It also showed flying cars, I really don't think we will have them by the end of the century. I could be wrong, because it all depends on if room temperature superconductors get produced by then, and then for it to be deployed on a national scale so all cars can float.
E-paper was also shown, and by mid century I am sure that is going to be used all over the place. I am unsure what will happen to newspapers. Companies won't make newspapers with E-paper, since they use so many sheets and it would get expensive. You would probably use a bendable display that could read newspapers and books like a real physical object. We may even use claytronics to morph our devices into anything, although that may also come later than mid century.
Insect sized robots, absolutely.
Personalized advertisement, have you logged onto any google, amazon or facebook service in the past years?
Retinal scanners, I would think we have a more secured way of doing things by then, the technology would probably exist to be everywhere but it can be faked. Heat patterns and veins in people can't as easily be faked. We may be able to scan the vein patterns in a person, or heat patterns.
Jet-Packs, sadly, no..
Crime prediction, probably a better system for finding patterns in criminal behavior, already police stations can run programs and get "hot spots" where a crime may occur.
Multi-touch surfaces, already here today in my pocket. Microsoft surface (I've used one before) is a really neat device.
Tricorders, communication etc. There was a whole thread about why it was wrong. By the 23rd century we will have much more advanced technology than they showed.
The Minority report showed computers being interacted with gloves that you slip on. I assume some sort of a Kinect interface, but it is wrong. Check this out.
It also showed flying cars, I really don't think we will have them by the end of the century. I could be wrong, because it all depends on if room temperature superconductors get produced by then, and then for it to be deployed on a national scale so all cars can float.
E-paper was also shown, and by mid century I am sure that is going to be used all over the place. I am unsure what will happen to newspapers. Companies won't make newspapers with E-paper, since they use so many sheets and it would get expensive. You would probably use a bendable display that could read newspapers and books like a real physical object. We may even use claytronics to morph our devices into anything, although that may also come later than mid century.
Insect sized robots, absolutely.
Personalized advertisement, have you logged onto any google, amazon or facebook service in the past years?
Retinal scanners, I would think we have a more secured way of doing things by then, the technology would probably exist to be everywhere but it can be faked. Heat patterns and veins in people can't as easily be faked. We may be able to scan the vein patterns in a person, or heat patterns.
Jet-Packs, sadly, no..
Crime prediction, probably a better system for finding patterns in criminal behavior, already police stations can run programs and get "hot spots" where a crime may occur.
Multi-touch surfaces, already here today in my pocket. Microsoft surface (I've used one before) is a really neat device.
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Posted 07 August 2012 - 11:42 PM
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In minority report flying cars were used only by the police and for emergency response type situations. I feel as though by 2054 we could very well be using flying vehicles specifically for such reasons. That would greatly reduce the time it takes for an emt to respond to a car crash or a firefighter to get to the house on fire. Not for civilians but for emergency response and/or police business flying cars and such could come in handy helping to save lives and reduce crime.
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Posted 08 August 2012 - 03:49 AM
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How do you think cars will fly then? We don't have any technology that lets us float on air without either going really fast and gliding over air (AKA airplane) or using rockets.
Superconductors would let us float on tracks. That just pushes traffic up, but combined with self-driving and the little friction that would be encountered it would make driving safe and really fast.
If police cars and emergency vehicles are able to fly by 2054 than we would need to install a nation wide road system of room temperature superconductors, and if that is the case it would be nothing to add that to civilian transportation.
Superconductors would let us float on tracks. That just pushes traffic up, but combined with self-driving and the little friction that would be encountered it would make driving safe and really fast.
If police cars and emergency vehicles are able to fly by 2054 than we would need to install a nation wide road system of room temperature superconductors, and if that is the case it would be nothing to add that to civilian transportation.
"I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.” -E.B. White
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." -Albert Einstein
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." -Albert Einstein
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