We will see in our lifetime:

What is graviton detection? Just before I make any votes!

I'm gonna change that to "THeory of Everything"

Is that what it means? or are you just going to change the option?

Actually I changed it to einstein's demise ;P

Interesting poll, my votes are in!

I would say all of them are reliant on some major hurdle. Should we get over it, I see most of them coming true. I don't think teleportation will happen. I don't see the detection of gravitons very soon. Should we see nuclear war, there's a good chance or lifetime will be over. I would rank them, in order of most likely:

-Designer Babies

-Mars Colonization

-Fusion Power Plants

-Longer Lifespan

-Nuclear War

-Graviton Detection

-Teleportation

 

[Edit] Well you changed one on me. I would still say it goes in the same spot, though.

I would think mars colonisation would come first as people have already started sending probes to mars. Designers babies, I don't think so for a long time. The human genome project isnt complete and won't be for a very long time.

 

By the way, the gravitron detection is not there anymore, its "Einstein's Demise"

I guess that is dependent on what blike ment by "designer". I saw it as saying that we can make the odds of a baby having a certain trate (brown hair) better or worse dependent on the parents wishes. I guess it could be saying that all physical and mental characteristics are completely controled. If that is so, I would lower it on my list.

yeah, that is what he meant. The idea is that people (scientists) can decide what traits are passed on from the father and mother to the baby. Eventually, everyone in the world would look like a model and everyone would be smart, and the science forums would be full of people!

Hey blike, would you be able to remove a vote for designer babies for me. I will move it to second from the bottom on my list now, too.

I checked designer babies, fusion power plants, and nuclear war (although whether or not it is actually considered a war will probably be retrospectively reliant on historical interpretation).

I can see designer babies becoming a reality within 10 years; probably about 50 for a fully functional fusion plant

I can see teleportation coming true in 2100, cold fusion about 2045, designer babies 2030, einsteins demise very soon 2015 maybe, longer lifespan 2040, mars colonization 2035, nuclear war 10,191 (as in Dune).

Don't you think that mars colonisation would be a bit earlier, like 2020 or something?

what in the world are the designer babies?!?

 

by the way, i voted for all of them, which i guess is the equivalent to none of the above.

 

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what exactly do you mean by:

 

Don't you think that mars colonisation would be a bit earlier, like 2020 or something

 

my idea of colonization is setting up a long term facility or society on a piece of land, in this case mars and not a simple mars walk for a few hours and then return to earth.

oh ok!

 

what in the world are the designer babies?!?

 

Look at my post. Post #10

designer babies and a working Fusion generator, the rest seem a little unlikely (I hope I`m wrong about the Lifespan part though!) )

I'm sure we'll have the technology to shift our lifespan to 100+, but it won't be distributed widely enought to actually move average human lifespan.

yeah, that`s how I figured it too

 

I`de esstimate perhaps a 5-10 year increase on average above todays avg, in our lifetime, what is todays anyway? is it about 75 or something?

69 for men, 74 for women or thereabouts... I forget the exact figures.

Aaaah, the old "Three Score and Ten"

 

so going on that the avg would be about 71.5, I recon about avg 76 to 80 in our lifetimes then

I would think that the scientists would (if possible) increase the average lifespan by much more than that, definitely. Not only 5 years!

I would think that the scientists would (if possible) increase the average lifespan by much more than that, definitely. Not only 5 years!

 

to what end?

i personally wouldn't want to live that long 'till i loose my sanity and be unable to control my bodily functions

 

unless ofcourse they develop something that extends or improves one's cognitions.....

LOL!!! To what end? I would say at least 150 or more. I don't think anyone has actually lived that long. The highest I remembered was 121 or something!