The Future

[Kamina]

Being the youngest one on the forum means I don't know a lot. I don't know much as all you other furs. But I know for all of us 2014 was a good year. But what about the future? What does it have planned for all of us? For example, The U.S Marine Corp. just recently finished a fully operational laser beam defense turret on there most recent battleship. Technology is running the world right now. But I have a question for all of my furs. What do YOU think the future has in-store for you, and your country?

[SilverSolstive]

I think America will soon become a corrupt country if not already then will show its corruption. As for my future I don't know.

[Ryan Naismith]

Hopefully, I can join the US army as an engineer officer, of the Sapper variety. Though flying an attack helicopter seems really cool. Oh well, I've got a while!

[saph the sergal]

well im gonna be starting a game dev course soon so that will help expand what i can do alot and hopefully move out find a 2 room house get my dream pc built and do twitch streams

[Arco]

I hope America get's its act together soon, can sometimes be embarrassing to live here.

For myself though I'm really hoping the future plays out well.  I'm starting schooling this year to get a degree in aeronautics and become a pilot.  Should be an interesting year to say the least.

[MrRazot]

As long as I achieve immortality I'm cool. Bring on the brains transplanted into cybernetic bodies.

[hennessyvenom]

I first read as "technology is ruining the world" both are true though.
My plan for the immediate future is to hone my survival skills to hike the Appalachian trail my 2016.

[anoni]

I think America will soon become a corrupt country if not already then will show its corruption. As for my future I don't know.

haha, "will soon become", as far as countries go America is pretty corrupt today xD Problems with having a free market I think

Well, you can never predict the future really, all predictions turn out to be different but here is my guess

  - With the recent terrorist attacks, Islamphobia becomes stronger around the world, the publicity and hate may actually fuel more attacks, and a new age of terrorist fear will be among us. Get ready for more police and governmental powers as a response.
  - Some cool neat technologies will hit the market. Wireless charging, google glass, self driving cars, these things will eventually ease into commercial markets. Computers will still follow Moore's law and so will get exponentially faster and in general things continue to be getting more mobile. Though I think with the recent trend of emerging technologies, the age of mobilization is nearing it's end as we've become as mobile as we can get (this will increase but at a decreasing rate I mean). I think we could perhaps be entering a new technological age of autonomy, where the idea of robots doing things with little interaction of a human is the industries focus. I get this idea from Amazon Echo and Google's self driving cars.

  Those are the only predictions I can really come up with atm.

[White Wolf Guardian]

  - With the recent terrorist attacks, Islamphobia becomes stronger around the world, the publicity and hate may actually fuel more attacks, and a new age of terrorist fear will be among us. Get ready for more police and governmental powers as a response.

https://www.middlebury.edu/media/view/361902/original/bleich_2011_abs_dec_islamophobia.pdf

I have to disagree, but I know that news media which gave birth to the neologism definitely continues to sell that belief. As many people of course, buy into whatever they hear from a news source that says indirectly "Be concerned, be concerned!"

http://web.stcloudstate.edu/teore/SocialProblems/THE%20NEWS%20MEDIA%20THE%20PROBLEM%20FRAME%20AND%20THE%20PRODUCTION%20OF%20FEAR.pdf

[Chester]

I think Canada will keep on keeping on, and that's a very Canadian perspective. We will just continue to kind of be here. People can fight wars, debate giant geopolitical issues. In reality, we're just too far out of the way and too complacent for anything to bother.




I got a promotion and have lots of things I'm getting into. Also renting my very first own apartment without roommates or anything come February. So that's pretty exciting!

[Kamina]

I think Canada will keep on keeping on, and that's a very Canadian perspective. We will just continue to kind of be here. People can fight wars, debate giant geopolitical issues. In reality, we're just too far out of the way and too complacent for anything to bother.




I got a promotion and have lots of things I'm getting into. Also renting my very first own apartment without roommates or anything come February. So that's pretty exciting!

Congrats on that, man!

[Teiko]

Hey Arco!!
Only my second day here and I've already found a fellow fur-pilot we should go on a xc together to build some hours.


If I had a say in the future, it would be to shift focus towards space exploration and expansion. Lately the U.S. has been pretty sketchy in the science department because we don't have incentive to do science anymore. Apparently curiosity and thinking about the future isn't enough to concern people.

I REALLY am looking forward to the exploration of Europa which could potentially yield life. I think it may be launched within the next couple decades.
I'm also cautiously optimistic about the evolution of teleportation, seeing as how we've managed to do so with individual atoms.
I'm also anticipating a full-on conversion to electric cars and expansion of light rails, as electric car prices drop, and charging ports become more widespread. The new concepts are controversial for lots of people but I believe the newer generations will be embracing it more.

[Angder]

Self driving cars will either become universal, or will be completely banned, depending on if anything goes wrong in their first 2 or 3 years of operation.

[Teiko]

I think it's literally impossible to out-stupid the drivers here in Seattle. If self-driving cars caused 10 casualties per day it would be an improvement 

[Angder]

trouble is the media wont care, if even 1 person dies of self-driven car malfunction (or stupidity for that matter) it will be front page news across the country, (or possibly just the state in America, cos America is big  )