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Future Technology 500 — This site features predictions of future technology based upon current emerging tech and inventions plus trends.
This post was deleted for the following reason: this looks like SEO spambait and I've clicked around it a whole bunch. If there's something really going on here, please find a way to make that clear in your post. -- jessamyn
This could be really cool, but isn't very deep. My favorite site for this kind of thing is Technovelgy.
posted by StrikeTheViol at 5:27 PM on April 18, 2011
posted by StrikeTheViol at 5:27 PM on April 18, 2011
Your future motorcycle will be a pushbike and your future energy will be a turnip.
Sorry to break it to you. This site has more value as retro-futurology than out else.
posted by Jehan at 5:27 PM on April 18, 2011 [1 favorite]
Sorry to break it to you. This site has more value as retro-futurology than out else.
posted by Jehan at 5:27 PM on April 18, 2011 [1 favorite]
And this comic tells you when it'll happen.
posted by Hardcore Poser at 5:31 PM on April 18, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Hardcore Poser at 5:31 PM on April 18, 2011 [1 favorite]
Future electronics will go way beyond the iPad..
Wow.
A single link to a 450 word story.
There aren't even five hundred words in this story, let alone the 500 Future Tech trends I expected.
posted by charlie don't surf at 5:36 PM on April 18, 2011
Wow.
A single link to a 450 word story.
There aren't even five hundred words in this story, let alone the 500 Future Tech trends I expected.
posted by charlie don't surf at 5:36 PM on April 18, 2011
Here are just a few additional sources of future energy:
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• Anti-gravity
I can't even muster outrage or snark at this: this just makes me feel sad.
posted by UrineSoakedRube at 5:39 PM on April 18, 2011
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• Anti-gravity
I can't even muster outrage or snark at this: this just makes me feel sad.
posted by UrineSoakedRube at 5:39 PM on April 18, 2011
This site is about a foot wide and a millimeter deep, and the post even thinner and more press-release-SEO than I would have expected.
I'm happy, though, that Future Technology 500 seem to be looking at more than just the future of technology-- they've explored everything from the mid-90's to the mid-2000's to find their logo.
posted by dersins at 5:46 PM on April 18, 2011
I'm happy, though, that Future Technology 500 seem to be looking at more than just the future of technology-- they've explored everything from the mid-90's to the mid-2000's to find their logo.
posted by dersins at 5:46 PM on April 18, 2011
Finally, a website that re-creates the feel of all the classic 50s and 60s sci-fi where the Space Husband went off to his 9-5 at the Packard Rocket factory in HyperDetroit, returning home to his Space Wife (in her SynthCotton housefrock) for a meal of reconstituted BeefsteakMeal with PseudoPotato, before settling down to catch the evening newsvid on the telescreen (possible while enjoying a polypipe of ultrabacco).
posted by Panjandrum at 5:51 PM on April 18, 2011 [4 favorites]
posted by Panjandrum at 5:51 PM on April 18, 2011 [4 favorites]
There is a wonderful place depicted on the covers of Popular Science and Popular Mechanics, where the future is full of firefighting robots and flying cars that whizz about the brightly colored metal buildings and whitewashed streets of preplanned cities. Then it eventually shades into the Usborne Book of The Future and gets even ten times cooler as humanity expand into space.
This website does not show that techno optimist, Promethean future, although it very much would like to. But there's a lack of fine detail and non attribution of sources here. An intriguing idea, but its not up to the level of a Popular Science puff piece just yet.
posted by Kevin Street at 5:52 PM on April 18, 2011
This website does not show that techno optimist, Promethean future, although it very much would like to. But there's a lack of fine detail and non attribution of sources here. An intriguing idea, but its not up to the level of a Popular Science puff piece just yet.
posted by Kevin Street at 5:52 PM on April 18, 2011
This looks like one of a thousand search engine optimized content farmed websites trying to grab some narrow audience with regurgitated editorial that's been written in search engine standard English. Am I missing something here, because there arn't even 500 technology trends listed.
posted by humanfont at 6:01 PM on April 18, 2011
posted by humanfont at 6:01 PM on April 18, 2011
Am I missing something here, because there arn't even 500 technology trends listed.
Man, you've got to use your third eye to see beyond what your eyes and imagination now tell you is possible.
posted by Jehan at 6:07 PM on April 18, 2011 [1 favorite]
Man, you've got to use your third eye to see beyond what your eyes and imagination now tell you is possible.
posted by Jehan at 6:07 PM on April 18, 2011 [1 favorite]
"Cure cancer please."
Soon, tiny little robots surgeons will beat cancer by operating on individuals cells from inside your body! Turn to page 63 to find out more...
posted by Kevin Street at 6:09 PM on April 18, 2011 [1 favorite]
Soon, tiny little robots surgeons will beat cancer by operating on individuals cells from inside your body! Turn to page 63 to find out more...
posted by Kevin Street at 6:09 PM on April 18, 2011 [1 favorite]
This site like SEO spambait. But up a bunch of articles about 'the future X' so that random googlers come across it. There's really nothing informative here. There aren't even links or any kind of analysis.
posted by delmoi at 6:17 PM on April 18, 2011
posted by delmoi at 6:17 PM on April 18, 2011
If the header art is any indication, everything will look like early 1990s computer graphics.
posted by Scoo at 6:29 PM on April 18, 2011
posted by Scoo at 6:29 PM on April 18, 2011
In the future, the future will be foretold by spam bots.
A writer friend of mine told me his new secret was to only write, "The Future of X," articles, where X is art, music, architecture, film, etc. He says it works every time, he's sold them all.
posted by StickyCarpet at 6:33 PM on April 18, 2011 [1 favorite]
A writer friend of mine told me his new secret was to only write, "The Future of X," articles, where X is art, music, architecture, film, etc. He says it works every time, he's sold them all.
posted by StickyCarpet at 6:33 PM on April 18, 2011 [1 favorite]
I figure the in the future stuff is mostly the same but more of it so I figure we will have:
Twitter implanted in our brain, Twitter is now video based and ad supported , old spice ads play endlessly in our peripheral vision.
Everyone will be employed by facebook, our jobs will be clicking "like" buttons and playing farming sims. Food and rent will be paid for with FaceCredits that we earn by raising virtual sheep and selling them to china.
Sasha Obama will be the second female president. The first will be the bush twins who will have won a supreme court case to be co-presidents.
posted by Ad hominem at 6:35 PM on April 18, 2011
Twitter implanted in our brain, Twitter is now video based and ad supported , old spice ads play endlessly in our peripheral vision.
Everyone will be employed by facebook, our jobs will be clicking "like" buttons and playing farming sims. Food and rent will be paid for with FaceCredits that we earn by raising virtual sheep and selling them to china.
Sasha Obama will be the second female president. The first will be the bush twins who will have won a supreme court case to be co-presidents.
posted by Ad hominem at 6:35 PM on April 18, 2011
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