2030

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AJS-

15,366 posts

235 months

Saturday 13th October 2012
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Longer lasting batteries would be good. I'll be 52. And if there's any justice at all I'll be ruling the world with an iron fist and setting lots of things right.

Rushmore

1,223 posts

141 months

Saturday 13th October 2012
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There will be halal fuel everywhere, and men wearing burkas.

LovelyTia

553 posts

179 months

Saturday 13th October 2012
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Fuel will keep rising till most people can't afford it.
I'll be 43 (I'm only just 25 now so thats a scary thought)
I will own my dream car.
Mobile phones will be implantable or disguised (such as the glasses google are currently working on)
Cars will become less reliable on the driver being competent and more reliant on the technology that powers them.
The only certainty is I'll be one parent down by then.

Johnnytheboy

24,498 posts

185 months

Saturday 13th October 2012
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srebbe64 said:
2) Charging a mobile phone every day
Yes, we will look back and laugh.

Ten years ago the indestructable Nokias went about a week without charging, so by 2030, phones'll need doing about every six hours at this rate.

Cock Womble 7

29,908 posts

229 months

Saturday 13th October 2012
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fk me, I'll be 63.

In theory.

AJS-

15,366 posts

235 months

Saturday 13th October 2012
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Johnnytheboy said:
srebbe64 said:
2) Charging a mobile phone every day
Yes, we will look back and laugh.

Ten years ago the indestructable Nokias went about a week without charging, so by 2030, phones'll need doing about every six hours at this rate.
This is very true. I think 6 hours is optimistic. And you will need a team of computer programmers to make a call anyway.

Microsoft Word will also be utterly incomprehensible by then and I'll make my fortune selling typewriters.

Cock Womble 7

29,908 posts

229 months

Saturday 13th October 2012
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AJS- said:
I'll make my fortune selling typewriters.
I'll buy that for a dollar.

BoRED S2upid

19,641 posts

239 months

Saturday 13th October 2012
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I better have a hoverboard.

AJS-

15,366 posts

235 months

Saturday 13th October 2012
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Cock Womble 7 said:
AJS- said:
I'll make my fortune selling typewriters.
I'll buy that for a dollar.
Or £40m at 2030 prices.

Cock Womble 7

29,908 posts

229 months

Saturday 13th October 2012
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BoRED S2upid said:
I better have a hoverboard.
I'm still waiting for all-over silver jumpsuits and meals in pill form that the comics of the '70s promised me.

madala

5,063 posts

197 months

Saturday 13th October 2012
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Wow....only eighteen years away....Hmmm....I would not be putting any money on me being alive by then.

fomb

1,402 posts

210 months

Saturday 13th October 2012
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blearyeyedboy

6,252 posts

178 months

Saturday 13th October 2012
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2030... sounds like a good time for dinner. wink

Biker's Nemesis

38,534 posts

207 months

Saturday 13th October 2012
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Killer2005 said:
I'll be 48. Christ thats scary
I'll be 65!

Anubis

1,029 posts

178 months

Saturday 13th October 2012
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Hopefully people will have tired of 'the new iPhone 32 now with smileys' or whatever it has.

People will laugh that we didn't use nuclear power when most power stations are nuclear. Mobile phones will be replaced with something more holographic and not a lump of plastic or metal.

We would laugh that every single day millions had to turn up at a particular desk to work - it'll pretty much all be done at home or on the move unless its security issues.

A new colour will be found called plurble. I cant describe it because it hasn't been found yet.

Edit; predictive text will work. I will barely need to touch a keyboard and all tech is voice based

Edited by Anubis on Saturday 13th October 10:51

AJS-

15,366 posts

235 months

Saturday 13th October 2012
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Anubis said:
Hopefully people will have tired of 'the new iPhone 32 now with smileys' or whatever it has.

People will laugh that we didn't use nuclear power when most power stations are nuclear. Mobile phones will be replaced with something more holographic and not a lump of plastic or metal.

We would laugh that every single day millions had to turn up at a particular desk to work - it'll pretty much all be done at home or on the move unless its security issues.

A new colour will be found called plurble. I cant describe it because it hasn't been found yet.

Edit; predictive text will work. I will barely need to touch a keyboard and all tech is voice based

Edited by Anubis on Saturday 13th October 10:51
Most of those would have held true 18 years ago. I think you're onto a loser with the new colour though.

drivin_me_nuts

17,949 posts

210 months

Saturday 13th October 2012
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You will be taxed on your thoughts.

Every time you say a bad word about a politician, somewhere a puppy will actually be drowned. Twice for cats.

Luton will be declared an independent state.

The government will have issued a grovelling apology for the Big Bang and the utter destruction to the billions of nothing that went before it. The Muslims are outraged at the sheer destruction of the Islamic portion of the nothingness. A Fatwa has been declared on the Big bang itself. It's head will be severed and all those saying that Islam is not a peaceful religion will be beheaded with a rusty spoon.

The European Union will still not have signed off its accounts. There is now so much mistruth, lies and double-dealings, even the Italians and the Greeks start to talk about paying tax. Things are indeed that dire.

The North/South wall has been raised another twenty feet in an attempt to stave of Yorkshire curmudgeonleyness spreading further south. Many people have their doubts it will make any difference.

Scotland is now independent. The Scots are happy, the English bloody estatic. The Scots still claim taxation rights for the Margate Whelk farms... Apparently the Whelks migrated south from the Dee estuary and are therefore Scottish by birth. Alex Salmond was knighted my King Billy for his great contribution to England's national wealth (actually, his severed head was knighted in a curious and freak accident witnessed by Lord Cameron).

Life Saab Itch

37,068 posts

187 months

Saturday 13th October 2012
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hehe

Pints

18,444 posts

193 months

Saturday 13th October 2012
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AJS- said:
Anubis said:
Hopefully people will have tired of 'the new iPhone 32 now with smileys' or whatever it has.

People will laugh that we didn't use nuclear power when most power stations are nuclear. Mobile phones will be replaced with something more holographic and not a lump of plastic or metal.

We would laugh that every single day millions had to turn up at a particular desk to work - it'll pretty much all be done at home or on the move unless its security issues.

A new colour will be found called plurble. I cant describe it because it hasn't been found yet.

Edit; predictive text will work. I will barely need to touch a keyboard and all tech is voice based

Edited by Anubis on Saturday 13th October 10:51
Most of those would have held true 18 years ago. I think you're onto a loser with the new colour though.
Not so. I think TVR have been working on it for a number of years and it's only a matter of time before it comes to fruition.