The Year 2057 - DPChallenge Forums

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

01/30/2007 12:16:06 AM · #26

Originally posted by yanko:

Originally posted by theSaj:
This should be made a challenge! Take a picture that depicts what you think the world will look like in 2057.

Why don't you just give Scalvert the blue ribbon now?

Nope...he is getting the 3rd place ribbon for this challenge.

robs

Canon EOS R6 Mk II

01/30/2007 12:26:25 AM · #27

Originally posted by crayon:

....while the flying cars would be invented, i doubt it will hit the streets big time - yet (in 50 years)....

I gota disagree -> Give the average driver something that flies and you will get a lot of them hitting the streets literally in a ball of flames :-)

I saw it tonight - obviously the part about fling cars is rubbish as is most of the stuff about old computer viruses effecting anything apart from the "police" computers. 50 years is too soon to see changes on this scale - if ever.

EducatedSavage

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II

01/30/2007 12:35:25 AM · #28

I like the idea of flying vehicles for Emergency Personnel and maybe public transport, but that's about it. I would hate to see the average joe flying considering how badly he does on the street.

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II

01/30/2007 12:39:18 AM · #29

Originally posted by EducatedSavage:

I like the idea of flying vehicles for Emergency Personnel and maybe public transport, but that's about it. I would hate to see the average joe flying considering how badly he does on the street.

Nooooo on the show the vehicles were computer operated so no crashes or traffic jams. Great idea, however unlikley.

EducatedSavage

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

01/30/2007 12:56:46 AM · #30

Oh, true! I just keep thinking about the intermediary stage... you know, where they're half and half?

That self-piloting car race they showed was pretty amazing, though! I kept thinking about that in my Cognitive Psych class today when the teacher was discussing why computers can't perceive stuff as good as us. That and the cute Honda robot (whose name I can never remember).

Art Roflmao

Canon EOS-6D Mark II

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

01/30/2007 03:27:53 AM · #31

Originally posted by EducatedSavage:

Asimo?

Art Roflmao

Canon EOS-6D Mark II

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

01/30/2007 03:37:52 AM · #32

Originally posted by MichaelC:

ok I'll be serious for a moment.

4 years ago I had an aortic valve replaced in my heart. Prior to the operation I had to have an angiogram, risky & expensive. Now after a checkup last week at the cardiologist there was a little blip on the ECG he didn't like.

Until recently he would have recommended another angiogram, but now he has access to a new machine that goes 'bing' which takes 3 minutes to do a 3d scan of my heart - no operation necessary, unless they find something, of course:)

I was very impressed with the heart valve they grew from tissue. We are probably capable of incredible advances, but so many are dependent on market viability and nobody looks to invest 15 or 20 years of R&D without guarantees or government subsidies.

Good luck with the tests, Michael. Let us know how it goes.

01/30/2007 09:41:06 AM · #33

Originally posted by Art Roflmao:

Originally posted by EducatedSavage:
Oh, true! I just keep thinking about the intermediary stage... you know, where they're half and half?

That self-piloting car race they showed was pretty amazing, though! I kept thinking about that in my Cognitive Psych class today when the teacher was discussing why computers can't perceive stuff as good as us. That and the cute Honda robot (whose name I can never remember).

Asimo?

Yep, that's the one.

I was amazed by the self-piloting car race. It's been held for several years now and the GEEKS that program those cars are incredible. Several hundred miles though the desert navigating on computer functions only?!?!?! WOW and they said 5 of 22 finished the entire race last time.... that's cool!

01/30/2007 10:00:20 AM · #34

Originally posted by robs:

Originally posted by crayon:
....while the flying cars would be invented, i doubt it will hit the streets big time - yet (in 50 years)....

I gota disagree -> Give the average driver something that flies and you will get a lot of them hitting the streets literally in a ball of flames :-)

I saw it tonight - obviously the part about fling cars is rubbish as is most of the stuff about old computer viruses effecting anything apart from the "police" computers. 50 years is too soon to see changes on this scale - if ever.

Really, but it was only about 50 years if not less that we went from a completely horse and buggy society to a automobile and train society.

The real issue with flying cars is traffic control. I think the major advancement we'll see will be cars that drive themselves.

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro

01/30/2007 10:01:44 AM · #35

Originally posted by idnic:

WOW and they said 5 of 22 finished the entire race last time.... that's cool!

The year before none of them finished.

Spork99

OM System OM-1

01/30/2007 10:04:29 AM · #36

Originally posted by idnic:

Originally posted by EducatedSavage:
I like the idea of flying vehicles for Emergency Personnel and maybe public transport, but that's about it. I would hate to see the average joe flying considering how badly he does on the street.

Nooooo on the show the vehicles were computer operated so no crashes or traffic jams. Great idea, however unlikley.

I hope those computers will not be running Windows. The Blue Screen of Death, followed shortly by the Big Orange Fireball.

Canon EF 35-135mm f/4-5.6 USM

02/03/2007 03:31:13 PM · #37

Just noticed Discovery is replaying this today if anyone missed it and wanted to see it.

kawana

Sony Alpha a7R

Samyang 135mm f/2 ED UMC

02/03/2007 10:01:37 PM · #38

sounds like it would make for some very interesting images, id imagine this would have to be either an advanced, or more likely an Expert editing challenge. Most people dont have a spaceship or raygun handy in there storage shed.... i dont anyways.

Trinity_12_12

Canon EOS-30D

02/11/2007 08:11:04 AM · #39

My view of the world in 2057:

We won't have to ever mow the lawn on a Saturday morning because scientists will have discovered how to cross garden lawn with a tape worm. It will grow in segments and the old segment will break off as the new one reaches 2 inches. The old segments will be a natural mulch. Garden stores will sell a spray with the fragrance of 'Newly Mowed Lawn' which we can spray on for those who will miss this.

We will have 'hovercraft type' umbrellas that will hover above our heads at all times using sensors to follow our every move, to protect us from the UV rays.

There will be an invisible force barrier along our coastlines to keep the sea at bay as it rises due to global warming. This will transform our coastlines into permanent aquariums as the sea rises higher and higher.

Movies and tv will not be watched on screens but will be projected in 3D from multiple cameras in the corners of the room onto a space in the middle of our floors. Imagine having a war fought in miniature on your lounge floor!

Okay....okay....I'm going to put the vodka bottle away now and take a nap. LOL

SteveJ

Canon EOS-7D

Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM

02/11/2007 08:45:43 AM · #40

Originally posted by MichaelC:

Sorry MichaelC couldn't resist this: That was his microwave cooking his dinner, or is that 'ping'?

Hope you are well.

Azrifel

Fujifilm X100VI

02/11/2007 09:46:32 AM · #41

In 2057 95% of the population will be anihilated by the first nuclear world war, new diseases, starvation, drought, natural disasters and pollution. The remaining 5% suffer from the above but manage to adapt. These are the people who live in the really remote isolated unaffected areas. Their ways of life are back to pre-electrical principles, but that doesn't matter as they hardly used that kind of stuf anyway.
Humans have destroyed nature. All Amazone forests are gone, oil supplies have dried up, the northpole icecap doesn't exist anymore. But fortunately humans are now almost gone and the earth can take a couple of thousand years to rebuild itself, until humans repeat the cycle.

02/11/2007 09:53:19 AM · #42

Originally posted by Azrifel:

Sander, you're a ray of sunshine! ;)

02/11/2007 10:36:22 PM · #43

Originally posted by kawana:

What do you mean? Spaceships are everywhere...