Analysis of futuristic concepts (ideas of futurism)

Submitted by diaskeaus on Tue, 02/14/2006 - 11:42
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  1. Alternate sources of energy (solar, cell, geo, gas)
  2. Enhanced food by genetics
  3. New forms of sustenance or bodily adaptation to new forms
  4. Personal identification as compulsory (advanced forms)
  5. World governments; citizenship requirements; universal governments
  6. Megacities and enclosed living habitats
  7. Genetic aging
  8. Genetically altered/created animals (entertainment/food)
  9. Survival family replaced with business family (birth controlled)
  10. Advanced forms of birth control --- perhaps bodily augmentation
  11. Machine and body used in conjunction (healing, extra sensory, etc.)
  12. Nanomachines as source of power, health, death, ability
  13. Enhanced clothing/wearables
  14. Instantaneous wars
  15. Increase in population (because of health standards)
  16. Fall of nations; rise of multi-nations
  17. Increasingly wide gap of rich/poor (corporation/partner jobs)
  18. Community art rather than individual (enhanced by technology)
  19. Language universality --- universal language, and translators
  20. Cloning and the manufacture of humans and animals
  21. Information pirates instead of sea pirates
  22. Use of robots as smart slaves, eventually, replacements
  23. Faster, more efficient travel (mega-airports)
  24. Immediate imaging communication
  25. Digital/credit transfer from gold to credits
  26. Virtual reality as medium of reality and communication
  27. Increasing exploration into sea technology (sea habitats, etc.)
  28. More individual destructive power
  29. The ability (by stimulating nerves) to control behavior
  30. Wars over rare resources
  31. Animals (high species) as intelligent, communicate creatures
  32. Light as a power source for everything
  33. Bodies as carriers of organisms
  34. Residential centers as megacenters
  35. Soldiers, with armor, as supersoldiers
  36. Body density controlled by machines rather than physicality
  37. Genetic designing of biological structures (including humans)
  38. Formation of virtual countries-borders-nations
  39. Use of air as fuel supply
  40. Cities being built upwards instead of landwise
  41. Deadly engineered diseases
  42. Thought instead of vocal conversation
  43. Scientific specialization as sage-only (specialists)
  44. Internet wars and centralized system
  45. Global species, not regional
  46. Resurgence of old, architectural styles, combined with new
  47. Diamond as source of conductor and electrical assistant
  48. Cyrogenics as a means for survival, study, and support
  49. Rise of separatism and fundamentalism
  50. Vehicles designed for safety; smart cars
  51. The elimination of privacy, except in radical situations
  52. Silent machines
  53. New caste system: leadership, skilled, un-skilled
  54. Creation of artificial life-forms (with biological systems)
  55. Megaprisons, with increased criminal rate in megacities
  56. Criminal world to go underground, to prevent electronic monitoring
  57. Education as digital, virtual experience; short-completion
  58. Rise of multicenters, rather than multi-nations or nations (control aspects)
  59. Occupations focus on skill, not status or general knowledge (dumbing)
  60. Human analysis and colonization of other moons and planets
  61. Computers/machines made of fabric and soft covering
  62. Fuel cells replacing batteries and other forms of power
  63. Drugs as part of culture, like food (not criminalized)
  64. People working till they die (no retirement)
  65. Teachers not as specialists of knowledge but of learning
  66. Automated translation systems
  67. Communicate distantly hands-free
  68. Genetic/biological manipulation to fit out space/environs
  69. Businesses run virtually --- in virtual, connected locales
  70. New brand of thievery --- virtual thieves
  71. People live longer; many, many people like this
  72. Hearing aids as hearing enhancers --- stylish
  73. Rise of the Singulars --- humans who believe they are superhuman
  74. Use of solar to fly space --- sunjumpers
  75. Use of magnetism to power vehicles and machines
  76. Terraforming Earth and other planets for life
  77. Holographic visualization
  78. Ban against inter-racial breeding (racial incest)
Author Comments: 

Some concepts that might happen in the near future.