20 years from now...

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I know people always talk about this kinda stuff, but its interesting and i havent seen a thread like this lately.

So, in 20 years time what do you think things will be like?
Will there be another global war, perhaps spurred by survival more than any kind of idealogical doctrine. Maybe Britain will be a big ice berg and half the world will be covered in ice.
Perhaps no major disaster will happen beyond Gabe having a heart attack and the delayed hl3 being postponed indeffinately...
 
In 20 years from now I will be living in a remote tropical island because some actor/actress decided to run for president and was elected.
 
I'm going to put in the obligatory delay joke out now, just to get that out of the way:

Maybe in 20 years, they'll finally release Half-life 2! ROOFLE!
Oh, wait. Farrow actually beat me to it. And here I was thinking I was Mr. Originality. :)

Anyways, if I don't have a robot by the time 20 years roll past, I'm going back in time to punch Issac Asimov.
 
in 20 years time, i'll still be the stupid numb bastard that iam now
 
/me does the La Bamba voice
in the year two thousaaaandd...

Mr. T will tell the world that he doesn't have a mohawk haircut, he just went bald on both sides of his head.
 
I think its gonna be like it was twenty years ago: a lot more like today than anyone wants to think. Of course there will be more cool stuff, but I'm not anticipating a historical singularity or anything.
 
Well, for starters we won't be posting here. We'll be 30 year old's posting on halflife3.net instead. Hurrah. And somehow America falls in love with Swarcheneggar so much that he becomes President Swarcheneggar. Promplty Nukes Iraq and Korea.
 
In reply to Direwolf

I dunno, i mean the world has changed a lot in the last 20 years. I dont know how old you are, but i think that under the age of 30-40 its hard to really see the change. If you are still in your 20's then you kind of grow up during the changes.

Anyway, i can see what you are saying but look at 1940 and 1960...two very different times.


I just think that stuff will happen that will no longer be smoothed over by the media. IE stuff in the rest of the world...
 
I was thinking more broadly than that. I'm certian society will have changed a lot, as will have politics.
But we're not going to be living like the jetsons or anything. People will still live in the same communities and work the same jobs, and life will still be similar to what its like today.
 
Oh yeah i get ya...But still there are things that can change all that quite easily. I just think, and morbidly (i say that because it could be bad, i dont know) hope that something big will happen.
 
Well if things go well, ill be dancing around with a flamethrower in my hand burning people, but asuming it doesnt id honestly say that things may have advanced a little, but not much of importance would had happened, just the usual stuff, terrorism would had been crushed and things would had calmed down a bit. Global warming would had flooded a few low lying countries and perhaps a few random animals would had become extinct. But the cool thing is those cool finger phones would had come out, i mean how cool is that now ill never be accused of picking at my earwax. :D. I want a robot dog, maybe a giant killer robot that hunts monkeys, oooh i cant wait. Mutating fish maybe? Perhaps www.pornstarsxxxlotsofpornhere.com will elect one of their girls to become president. Always a posibility. And yes i was bored
 
Well you could have something along the lines of what they call a historical singularity, that changes everything and causes a paradigm shift.
IE the invention of flight, the car, and the end of slavery. The internet may very well have the potential to do this.
 
The invention of flying slave cars! and way to say paradigm :p

I think that maybe, just maybe, VR will become mainstream for games. halflife3 anyone?
 
Dux said:
Well, for starters we won't be posting here. We'll be 30 year old's posting on halflife3.net instead. Hurrah. And somehow America falls in love with Swarcheneggar so much that he becomes President Swarcheneggar. Promplty Nukes Iraq and Korea.
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Half-life 3? Are you kidding? HL2 is almost out and that would make it almost 6 years after the release. If this pattern keeps up and Valve doesn't go out of business or conclude the game, we will be at Half-Life 5! Wow, that sounds so weird... Think of how HL1 will look in 20 years... Or even HL2... The graphics will be so amazing in 20 years. It's enjoyable to think about.
 
vegeta897 said:
Half-life 3? Are you kidding? HL2 is almost out and that would make it almost 6 years after the release. If this pattern keeps up and Valve doesn't go out of business or conclude the game, we will be at Half-Life 5! Wow, that sounds so weird... Think of how HL1 will look in 20 years... Or even HL2... The graphics will be so amazing in 20 years. It's enjoyable to think about.
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I trust that you have never heard of exponential growth? :O
 
how about a thread like this one only "where gaming will be in 20 years". much more interesting :)

im too scared to make one though. someone else do it
 
20 years from now there will be a writer whose novels (and perhaps plays and film with a game tie-in) will have re-shaped the world for the better.
I intend to be that writer.


<Sits back and does no writing of no merit whatsoever>
 
20 years from now...


man utd will get relegated all the way to the third division, managed by a head in a tank of water alex ferguson.

europe will become one big 'country', forgoeing any hard borders between EU members and generally moving forward under the same government and direction.

hopefully they'll stop spending money on war and invest in cures for cancer and such by then.

tony blair will realise what a muppet he's been and go to beg for forgiveness at churchill's grave.

britney spears will make a hardcore porn movie for her male fan base after he singing career vanishes.

christina aguelera (spelling?) will become a nun.

alan shearer will become coach of england and guide them to a world cup win at long last.


.....
 
halflife2.net will have 14,000 forum members

muahahahahaha
hahaha
haha
 
Dedalus said:
20 years from now...

christina aguelera (spelling?) will become a nun.

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AHAHAHAHHAHAAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA! AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHA! ROFL! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!

...AHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH!!!!! LOL!
 
hmmm... interesting thread...
i belive the world will be engulfed by a rich - poor community, with the rich gaining so much damn money and forcing all the poor to live in slums- then ther'll be a big revolt, forcing the rich out of power, then EVERYONES porr and there are no technological advances and WE'RE ALL F***ED!!!
Plus aliens will make contact- ittl turn out to be a hoax, and a new religeon will be started who worship bunnies, Oh, and evreyone will take the "be nice to the minority- e.g. different cultures / sexual preferencs" and everyone who ISNT gay or black will be criticised.
and forumites will rule the world... and number of posts will be a currency, and spammers will be publicly executed.
 
In 20 years, everyone will be fat, women will rule the world, and we'll be in the midst of a war betweent he younger and older generations. Only we won't be able to see what's going on because all the electricity will have gone out. According to BBC's If anyway.
 
In 20 years, the first genetical enhancing will begin to be tested in humans.

The average life span of a person in a 1st world country will be 100 years old.

"The 9th power" will have been published freely around the net. No one d/ls it or reads it. The author enters a re-hab clinic for a serious case of depression.

Hiperterrorism rules the foreign policy of the world.

Bio weapons that can anihilate mankind in 1 month are made by DARPA.

The Echelon system gets UN approval and endorsement and it finnaly enters full operational status, watching 100% of of all digital communications in the world.

US & China fight the Neo Cold War.
 
Wow who cares about game graphics, think of how much pr0n will evolve think of the videos!! I cant wait!!
 
sounds pretty much like '1984' (george orwell) to me sprafa, heh. :)

oh i forgot; in 20 years, i'll hopefully be 37.
 
Oh, sorry, I obviously have no sense of humor whatsoever. :rolleyes:
 
Well in fairness I never claimed it was a funny joke...
 
I don't plan on being alive 20 years from now, with the way the worlds going who'd want to be.
 
20 years later machines will rule the world. People live in an underground city. The sky is destroyed and the earth surface is swarming with flying robots with red eyes. And one day someone will save the world....

wait this is not the matrix thread? sorry.

Pobz your avatar is nice :)
 
20 years from now, Gordon Freeman will probably be a big man in politics after almost single handedly beating off the entire combine army.

Also, I will be hes nr.1 henchman. :D
 
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