Earth of 2113 may resemble monstropolis?

[tmazanec1]

With science and technology accelerating as they are, in 100 years we may have the ability to shape ourselves as we wish, give ourselves new organs with new capabilities, and be as varied in our body plans as the monsters. Will Earth after the Singularity resemble the Monsters movies?

[pitbulllady]

Jul 8, 2013 14:21:34 GMT -5 tmazanec1 said:

With science and technology accelerating as they are, in 100 years we may have the ability to shape ourselves as we wish, give ourselves new organs with new capabilities, and be as varied in our body plans as the monsters. Will Earth after the Singularity resemble the Monsters movies?

I don't think so, not to that extent, no. We've seen people make predictions about how the world, how our cities and how WE would look in the past, that didn't even get close, with the exception of Orwell, who hit it pretty well. I know when I was a kid, and that was less than a hundred years ago, lol, I saw a lot of pictures that predicted our cities would be all gleaming, sparkly-clean towers and everyone would ride around in flying cars, there would be no poverty or crime...and of course, that never happened. We will have some amazing advances, yes, but I do not think our appearance will be drastically altered or that our cities will look radically that different. We are no closer to having the technology to fuel our world with a cheap, endless and clean supply of energy today than we were when I was a child, sadly, and a lot of what makes Monstropolis look so appealing is the fact that there's no pollution, no garbage. The monsters have figured out how to eliminate that issue and we're not even close.

pitbulllady

[CrazyDiamond]

Ten years ago, I asked my schoolmate's father, a physicist at a university, when will we have nuclear fusion reactors as the source of all energy. His answer was brilliant, he said: "Some technologies are always 'five years from now'. If you ask me today, I'll tell you 'in five years'. If you ask me five years from now, my answer will still be 'in five years'. Nuclear fusion is one of them, just like artificial organs."
Anyway, the real question isn't whether the technology will exist on paper or in a lab, but whether it will be available as in inexpensive or legal for the general public.

By the way, pitbulllady, I think Huxley got even closer to current reality than Orwell in his predictions By the way, did you know that both stories originate from this story by Jerome K. Jerome?
www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/cultn/cultn014.pdf
I think I've mentioned it somewhere before...

[RandallBoggs]

I doubt humanity will ever achieve what we see in films. 100 years? Maybe a few things, but nothing so radical as what we may imagine.