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Poll: It’s 2028, What’s Your Life Like?

Started by sbspalding · 10 months ago

Roll up your sleeves, hop in your time machine and join me for a ride. Consider for a moment the changes we have seen since 1988 — the Internet, the popularization of the cell phone, the whole realm of genetic science hitting the forefront. Now I want you to project yourself 20 ... Continue reading »

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  • Breeze

    10 months ago

    What an exciting poll. I chose AI and Robotics...2nch choice: Health/Genetic.
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  • sbspalding

    10 months ago

    Interesting stuff, any expectations for where AI / Robotics will go?
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  • painfull back

    10 months ago

    I will be dead by 2028, is that good enough for you?
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  • Dayton Lawyer

    2 weeks ago

    There is always one happy person, isn't there :)
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  • ophelia_chong

    10 months ago

    I was stuck between Robotic and Genetic. But I figured by 2028 i will care more about having my diaper changed than having great boobs.
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  • sbspalding

    10 months ago

    Robotic boobs?
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  • ophelia_chong

    10 months ago

    nah. choice between Robotic Diaper Changer or Genetic Boobs (made from the mouth swabs of Pamela Anderson and a Guernsey Cow).
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  • sbspalding

    10 months ago

    Couldn't you just get a robotic diaper that changes itself?
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  • db3b

    10 months ago

    I just hope street vendors won't be peddling rat meat like they are now encouraging in India......
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  • sbspalding

    10 months ago

    Wow, do you have a link or something on the story behind that one?
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  • ophelia_chong

    10 months ago

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/755...
    "An official in the Indian state of Bihar has come up with a new idea to encourage low caste poor people to cope with food shortages - rat meat."
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  • sbspalding

    10 months ago

    Well I'll be . . .
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  • Chillstar

    10 months ago

    And you think eating pigs is any better?
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  • sbspalding

    10 months ago

    Well from the commentator above it doesn't seem to be entirely well received.
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  • Getting out of here

    10 months ago

    These are a bizarre set of choices. Economic will be a bigger factor for US residents - namely they won't have enough money for anything on your list.
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  • John

    10 months ago

    Roboticists and AI researchers will fix all the other problems. We just have to worry about the ramifications of the alien intelligence that will result from the true creation of an AI. This is my PHD thesis.
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  • sbspalding

    10 months ago

    aye? I'd love to hear more about that - feel free to send me an email
    sbspalding a t gmail dot com
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  • Business Notes

    10 months ago

    I like the thought provoking poll question. While I think all of them will have a great impact I voted for Energy/Environment. Since everyone seems to think we will be out of oil by then I think there will have to be incredible advances in alternative energy, which will also impact the environment.
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  • MaggyYoung

    10 months ago

    Interesting that comments on eating rats & pigs have appeared, since I read in today's paper that a scientific expert has advised that we should have one meatless day, ideally more, a week in order to protect the environment from pollution due to mass breeding of livestock. Seems a pretty simple change to make. So by 2028, we are eating less meat of all sorts, but climatic change will be an increased concern due to the build-up from past neglect & the effects by then will be so evident that it will have become impossible for politicians to sideline it.
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  • Jessica

    10 months ago

    hmmmm! this surely is an interesting thought. However, I entered the "AI" was not sure that I and only two other guys are thinking on the same lines :-(

    I think technology is changing really fast and it is really difficult to see 10 years down the line.


    Cheers / Jessica
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  • San Antonio Lawyer

    10 months ago

    I love the idea of getting a robotic diaper that changes itself :)
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  • wilson

    10 months ago

    Well, I voted for the "Robotic/A.I" as in that moment, we might able to get ourselves a "robot lover" as well...!

    Thus, the robotic/A.I is far beyond our imagination in this decade!
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  • Mr Article

    10 months ago

    I'm probably sleeping under a bridge and eating beans out of rusty cans because i blew all my cash on t shirts lmao.
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  • Mark

    9 months ago

    I think in 2028 we will be dependent on machines for everything and this is going to cause a big problem for us because we will get lazy and we will be dependent on machines for everything.
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  • Las Vegas Realty

    9 months ago

    The idea of Robotic diaper really makes me laugh. But that is not impossible to happen.
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  • Left Hand Drive Cars

    9 months ago

    These are a bizarre set of choices. Economic will be a bigger factor for US residents - namely they won't have enough money for anything on your list.
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  • Bogdan

    9 months ago

    very interesting stuff, i know my life is very busy at the moment, so what can i say every one has a busy life.
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