ITT: "Futuristic technology" cliches that will either never be possible or never catch on

ITT: "Futuristic technology" cliches that will either never be possible or never catch on.

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Jetpacks and flying cars. FAA would throw a shitfit and people can barely drive, let alone fly

Virtual Reality

And not that dumb shit people strap onto their face nowadays

virtual porn is fucking amazing!!

Yea, theres no insurance company in existence that would cover a flying car.
Shit is strict enough just owning a normal private aircraft.

As far as other future tech goes.. I can't confidently say what 'can never be possible' in my lifetime.
We've already got teleportation (..sort of, we can do single particles right now) and long distance space travel is more of a money/economics issue than a physical one one right now

Video calls
Don't get me wrong they have their small niche in reality (family over seas, video-conferences, etc) but look at older movies' expectations -- it's like no one ever expected to be able to be mobile on a phone and what that would imply about even desiring a visual aspect.

In the same vein as OP puts up, holograms. So what if you have a fucking hologram coming out of your phone or a HUD on your contact lens -- for daily use it's just a distracting gimmick while you're walking/driving/working

Seconding.
While its not holodeck levels of immersion yet, seeing a chick straddled over your face and sucking your dick in VR is pretty fucking great.
As soon as they lower the price of entry for the 'good' VR headsets, that shit will boom and change porn forever.

>long distance space travel is more of a money/economics issue than a physical one one right now

Nah, we still don't even have a viable way to reach the nearest star, even if money was no object. Until we figure out a propulsion method that comes anywhere near the speed of light, all we can hope to explore lies in or near our solar system. Sucks, but there it is.

Solar sails are intriguing, though.

I was reading a book written by a sociologist in the 1940s where at one point he noted how the telephone had led to a major decrease in letter writing and that people have gotten worse at it as a result. He then wondered if future advances in communications would lead to the end of written communication altogether with face to face communication being the norm.

>FAA would throw a shitfit

They have already been throwing a shitfit since the 90's. Flying car prototypes already exist from multiple different companies and engineers but haven't been allowed clearance to fly.

I remember when I was younger I thought calling everyone through a video thing was fucking amazing, and would revolutionize the world or whatever.
20 years later, it works, and its fine, but its far more convenient just to send a text or call someone. Kinda wierd how that works out.

That shit is entirely possible, but not how you're thinking.

There will probably never be actual holograms that complex. It would be too complicated and costly to do. Instead there will be what we already have. Augmented reality. Just watch any news program where they seemingly project three dimensional weather related stuff in the studio. Or watch any football game where they digitally paint shit on the field in real time. Its not actually there, its just being overlayed in the video. Now imagine everyone has some kind of occular implants or a computer in their head. The computer receives a wireless signal telling it to overlay that augmentation in space based on what you're looking it. Boom, movie like holograms that everyone can "see"

Anyone that didn't have one of those computers or implants however wouldn't see shit.

Will brain implants into cybernetic bodies be within our lifetime? Last I heard age reversing drugs are 30 years away

Which one are you using senpai

>There will probably never be actual holograms that complex. It would be too complicated and costly to do.

Why does everyone on Sup Forums act like they know what they're talking about

Sex robots. I can see feminists putting a stop to that quickly.

Eh, I'd make an argument that holograms would be useful as a way to run CAD. Could be very useful for someone designing a complex system to be able to stick their head inside it and look around in a way that a display on a monitor wouldn't allow as easily.

I'd really love to believe that "occular implants" would one day be possible. One of my greatest fears is going blind one day, and as a result I'm hyper-empathetic when I see blind people in public. Imagine finding a way to digitally bypass a damaged optic nerve and beam/wire an image directly to the brain's visual processing center...

Problem is that there isnt a traffic system conceivable to accommodate that much air traffic. And dont even get me started on DUI's and accidents. You think a highway pileup is bad? Try one thats 200ft above your house

I don't see brain implants happening in our lifetimes, but medical advancements in bionic limbs and everything else have already gone full Deus Ex without the world noticing.
ted.com/talks/hugh_herr_the_new_bionics_that_let_us_run_climb_and_dance

Its true. You could do it, but why when it would be much cheaper to just augment your own perception?

God I fucking hope not.
Imagine all these rich assholes being able to cheat death even more than they can right now.

They already attempt to clone themselves but they just come out retarded,like Barron.

Actually thats about 5 years away and will cost you 10 grand, 12 if you want the socially intelligent model

We don't need anymore technology. We're advanced enough. We don't need to lose our jobs to robots.

one of the few things that definitely will be possible and catch on, you failed the thread you moron

Personally Im cool going full robot. Question is, will they give me a payment plan to get it?

I don't think consciousness transfer possible under any circumstance of our current understanding of the brain. Closest you might get is gradually having your neurons converted from flesh to mechanical one at a time until your brain is a metal slab you can plug into a robot.

You don't have to be an expert to suggest such a thing. "Free floating" holograms that could be viewed from any angle would be insanely expensive to pull off, assuming it's even possible without some gimmick/trick. You can't "stop" light and suspend an image mid-air unless it has some mass to project on and reflect back to your eye. But even a convincing "cheat" would require a shit-ton of R&D that may never pay off.

I got the Rift. (kinda wish I would've saved up more for the Vive)
The 'games' on it are alright, I guess, but the 360 degree immersive porn is where its at.
Imagine being 'in' the porn, where you can look around and shit, and the girl (or guy) is literally right there in front of your face.
Its pretty nice.

Which flyover state do you hail from?

a world that is worth living in

>We can't install these automated pee/shit collector machines, the shit-cleaners will be out of a jerb!

VR is not possible

>flying cars

Flying cars will be a possibility when have have fully computer controlled driving/flying.

Pennsylvania. Fuck technology. I'm going to live in the mountains with a stick and a rock

Flying cars will become a reality once we figure out how to build autonomous flying cars.

That's the only way to introduce them into society that isn't a complete clusterfuck.

Pretty much any mecha like in Pacific Rim. Giant robots would only catch on if they are used for sport like Battle Bots (in fact I see A LOT of potential there), but military/defense use? Never happening.

Technologically advanced aliens

To be honest bros, if we ever have the technology to explore space and finally see a planet with aliens, chances are theyre primitive as fucks and its best to leave them alone and let nature do its course, then we become the aliens to them what aliens meant to us; technologically advanced niggers

post-scarcity.

Literally every corporate entity is fighting tooth and nail to ensure scarcity continues to exist forever.

Pretty interesting hypothesis
>mfw memes are humankind's current step along the written word's advancement into direct transcendent communication

Barron's just autistic because Trump's semen was old and shitty by the time he was conceived.

The funny part is that's the whole reason Trump jumped on the vaccines = autism train.

They already exist assuming you don't go totally blind. They have various glasses that use light to bounce off objects in your path. The light increases in intensity as you near them, allowing you to avoid things. Others that actually implant allow the nearly blind to see the edges of objects as shadows.

They're expensive though.

Why do you even need a job when you can build an autonomous factory and use the wealth generated by the factory to financially support the community surrounding it?

Looks like I'll be looking up the Vive when my build is done this summer

Airline companies and all the corporations related to them will find a way to block flying cars the same way they have blocked America from upgrading it's railroads to accommodate Japan-tier high speed trains. It's one of those cases when capitalism actually has gotten in the way of progress.

it depends on the NEED for giant robots.

It made sense in Pacific Rim's context since they needed the robots to fight kaijus.

but in the currently world, there isno need for giant fucking robots so it wont likely happen

Oh for sure, we already use 3D displays for stuff like that, I'm not saying it wouldn't be useful to have holograms for that, but they won't be practical for ordering a cheeseburger.

Why not construction bots? Like a backhoe, bulldozer, crane and all that other shit rolled into one. Or as a riot deterrent, being big, metal, tall and intimidating as fuck.

t.Anprim

Go on...

I'm pretty sure when people say 'flying cars' they mean current cars but off-the-ground, not neccessarily have to be in airspace

I don't see them competing in the same market. Flying cars are more about facilitating travel on a more local scale than airlines.

Helicopter companies would be in trouble.

The bigger issue is shit like noise pollution and other unintended consequences.

The Fermi Paradox is pretty sobering.

youtube.com/watch?v=sNhhvQGsMEc

>capitalism has gotten in the way of progress

That's corporatism or "state capitalism" as some people call it, not genuine capitalism.

Basically this. Think of it like uber, but instead of calling a driver you summon an autonomous flying car. Since the flying cars are autonomous they can arrange themselves into very orderly flight paths at certain designated altitudes. It would be logistically reasonable in a way that human piloted flying cars would not be.

its really sad in a way

Once we have the technology to reach light speed in seconds, were still infants in space travels compared to the Aliens who visited us, but were too technologically advanced to primitive Aliens to make a difference for them

Since there's nothing to crash into 1000 feet in the air (apart from other flying cars and birds and shit) that means no good reason for speed limits, which means no point in the US is more than 10 hours away from any point in the US.

So airlines and flying cars are most certainly the same market.

Question bros

We looked into a super telescope one night, and we see a Huge fleet of alien space ships which we assume to be war ships, but they just passed earth and seemed to not give a shit, and we all assume that they are about to go to war.

Would that inspire or scare people? I'm really leaning on it scaring people, we finally realize that there is indeed Aliens out there, but we also see how technologically advanced they are, we realize we are not alone, but we also realize that we're defenseless as fuck if said Aliens choose to attack us.

What would be the most logical thing to happen? Religioncucks finding a way to include the aliens in the bible, pushign that god also made them?

Would the world pull out its resources and finallu work together to advance our weaponry?

Was it ever explained why they didn't just make a big fucking gun in Pacific Rim? Because I'm pretty sure that's more likely than the world deciding giants robots are the answer.

It's also horseshit

Because a gun can't move and will have to rely on precision.

Those giant robots move and think like people

The monsters had toxic blood that fucked the nearby area and made it uninhabitable.

The bigger the gun the harder it is to aim and the more collateral damage it would cause.

And since every monster went straight for densely populated areas every time, they had to think of a way to minimize collateral damage.

Just ignoring how all the big robot fights destroyed half the cities they were supposed to be protecting, of course.

I like to be optimistic when I think about life in other places of the universe.
Theres far too many planets out there to think that we're the only sentient beings in existence.
Even if life is an accident that only has a 1 in a billion chance to happen, that still leaves trillions of planets, if not more.

The trouble with this is that theres really no way for us to get to them, or let them know we exist.
Even if there was life a handful of lightyears away, by the time we or any of our mesasges actually get there, life could've already flourished and went extinct a dozen times.
Or even the opposite, what if there was already a giant spacefaring civilization right next door who saw our planet, but by the time they get here or send a message, we're already gone?
Its frustrating

The Bible never affirms or denies the existence of life outside of Earth.

>Would the world pull out its resources and finally work together to advance our weaponry?

if nothing else, this. we might look to our various gods at first, but once they started coming towards earth, all of humanity would rise up at once.

i'm of the belief that if something cataclysmic were to arise (one that we don't bring upon ourselves) that humanity would actually achieve world peace, we'd settle all differences and work together for a better world. a giant meteor, aliens, some crazy huge solar flare, whatever, we'd be forced to understand that we're all on this rock together and we'll die standing above all else.

First it would be impossible to distinguish an alien space ship from a war ship.

More importantly space is too empty to "just pass Earth". Either they would be passing by at 'fuck that's far away, I wonder what they're doing'-distance or they would be coming to our Solar System.

To answer your hypothetical, of course humans would respond to being last in an arms race by trying to catch up, we are definitely that retarded.

If man was made in god's image, that means man is the only sentient life in the universe.

or something like that.

Nah m8 it's a fuel issue. A flying car that fits 6-8 people isn't going to have enough space to fit fuel required for long flights. Assuming of course the flying cars are built to integrate into an urban area. Once you start talking about things that are more of a flying bus than a flying car, you're basically talking about airplanes.

Also if you're talking about long flights it's not reasonable to conduct them at such a low altitude. Airplanes are perfectly capable of flying at 1000 feet, they just choose not to because at 30000 feet the air is less dense, reducing the skin friction of the air on the plane leading to reduced fuel required for the journey. Fuel cost and usage are the biggest economic factors driving the price of air travel.

Compared to airplanes, flying cars would be used at higher frequency, lower speeds, and over shorter distances. Once you move outside that niche, flying cars won't be able to compete with airplanes on a cost basis.

I wonder if aliens have their own version of the internet/Sup Forums and talk about the same stuff.

>The trouble with this is that theres really no way for us to get to them, or let them know we exist.

I think the better question is;

Should we? if we did, we maybe an ant biting a giant to say hi but they thought of it annoying

No it doesn't. The image of God is personhood.

You have to think about it logically. Imagine all the effort, time, and expense necessary just to become a civilization capable of interstellar space travel. Now imagine the difficulty and expense of actually undertaking that journey. And aliens are going to do that just to...attack us? We wouldn't pose a threat to them, and it wouldn't make sense to travel vast distances for raw materials when the galaxy is likely littered with iron-rich asteroids that nobody would miss. And they'd probably expend infinitely more energy getting here than they'd gain from plundering us.

You can't convince me making a mobile big ass laser gun isn't more practical and cost effective for reducing collateral damage than making a fuck huge manned robot in order to have a melee with the monsters.

There no thats how it would go down in the real world if such a threat came to humanity.

Assuming aliums are real, then definitely.

Giant humanoid robots aren't feasible from a mechanical standpoint.

Think about just the elbow joint of such a robot. It would weigh several tons and have to snap back and forth on a single joint at speeds similar to a human arm. The forces you're looking at are just massive. You need a huge burst of power in a short period of time, coupled with materials that can withstand huge amounts of stress.

Imagine a giant robot arm moving from a resting position to punching an enemy. Performing that movement with such a huge amount of mass in a timeframe short enough to matter (ie target doesn't just move away) would basically cause all the joints to self destruct.

Giant humanoid robots are a bad idea because the physics of human joints don't scale to that level.

What if they false flag us into war, making us come together for intersteller travel and actually confess their plans for us to become a intergalactic species because they felt sorry for us.

I would watch this as a movie

>Checking on the cows at night
>Suddenly a fucking flying saucer
>Get abducted, get my anus probed
>Turns out the aliens were just doing it for lulz
>Before dropping me off, they implant a chip in my brain that hooks me up to the alien internet
>People now think I'm retarded but on the inside I'm engaging in high frequency shitposting on alien anime forums

I'm sure we have large enough caliber artillery even right now to penetrate those monsters in the Pacific Rim, and even if those weren't enough it wouldn't be a huge deal to produce even bigger guns that will conventionally fuck them up. No need for laser guns either user

Its established that the Kaiju adapts to what we throw at them each time they come.

They said that they were defeated with normal wepaons on their first couple of visits, then it came a time where it took a nuke to kill one of them.

If you put a giant laser, it would probably kill 2-3 kaiju visits, but then they would adapt, their skin would probably grow reflective surfaces or some shit.

The reason why they decided to make robots is they realized that the greatest weapon they have and has always had is the human mind and its ability to adapt in all situations which is then channeled to the robot


Also the Kaijus arent primitive aliens, we know by the end that the same way people are controlling the jaegers there were aleisn also controlling the kaijus

Those guys do have a bit of a point though.
We tried using all of our conventional weaponry short of nuking them, (which implies gunboats and even the giant guns we have in our planes) and the monsters just kept on going, spilling out arsenic and lead and whatever else was in their bodies all along the way.
Having a 'big gun' wouldn't be very practical or cost effective. How would you move it? How long does it take to set it up?
By the time you line up your shot, the creatures were so fast they'd just move outta the way.
Big, dumb robots were pretty much the only awnser.
...that, or just evacuate the area and nuke the fucker (which is what would probably happen in real life)

The big issue with capitalism as it is currently run is that new technologies that enhance worker productivity don't result in financial benefit to the workers. Increased revenue from a more productive workforce is just scooped up by upper management.

Think of how different the current distribution of wealth would be if the productivity and revenue gains from computers had been passed directly to workers.

What is grey skin harem anime like?

Same reason why giant insects arent a thing, their bodies would collapse because their legs are designed for a small creature. Rule of scale bros

>Having a 'big gun' wouldn't be very practical or cost effective
>Implying launching a huge R&D project to develop completely untested technology from the ground up would be

>tfw have to go into aerospace tech with a retard

Okay, the higher the altitude, the larger the vehicle needs to be (and/or the faster it needs to go) to maintain lift, due to, as you mentioned, the lower air density. A "flying car" as in a "personal transport that can fly" would clearly be unable to go higher than 10,000 feet unless it didn't require lift to fly. And if it didn't require lift, then its apparently getting around the entire air resistance thing. Also if it didn't require lift, its not using a jet engine or any other type of liquid fuel based propulsion.

So flying cars require non-liquid fuel, wingless levitation, and some means of negating air resistance. Wide application of technologies that could do any of these would instantly eradicate all current airlines.

That makes no sense, it they can survive nukes by the time the movie starts how can giant robot do damage to it?

My physics teacher had a joke about this once, sorta. It went something like this
"Insect bodies are made up of this stuff called chitin. Its super tough, but also really, really dense, and the weight scales up exponentially the larger the insect. So if you're ever being chased by a giant mutant insect, just turn around and yell at it 'Hey, your chitin to body mass ratio is disproportionate' and it'll collapse under its own weight."

aliens would likely come for the Earths genetic library , things like water, gold, helium3 whatever etc can be had in limitless abundance in space, getting this information would not require a massive invasion force and global destruction.

that would be a cool movie

>first half of the movie is an alien civilization announcing how primitive it is that we are fighting ourselves and how defenseless we are in a galactic battle
>a huge alien warship is stationed outside our planet
>we all assume that its about to send its ship and attack at any second
>second half of the movie we see earth's countries working together technologically and and everyone is called to arms to serve in the first ever galactic fleet of Earth
>we see earth finally forget their differences, presidents of each country finally uniting as one
>2nd half ends with the first ever galactic fleet (built in 10-15 years) finally going to war and destroy the huge alien warship in earth's orbit
>mfw we actually won
>huge alien fireworks then spells
>"Congratsulation! its was just a prank bro! yo uare winrar"
>they then leave a map to go find their home planet
>the earth is better for it

>what are homing missles

If some giant chainsaw can cut their limbs then it sure isn't that hard to kill desu

they became immune to radiation?

As much as i hate the idea of a single world government the scenario you're describing is a huge fantasy of mine

Weren't there giant insects in the past though?

Some space facts that might interest you.
There are ~50 stars within ~15 lyrs from us.
Most of them are activity/variabile stars so it's unlikely that life (like on earth) could be supported.
We don't have evidence for or against small planets around these nearby stars but current/nearly-there projects are aimed at studying this.
From studying galaxy evolution it is likely that only 10% of all planets that will ever form exist currently.
Most star systems (most stars are binary pairs) have multiple planets, but confident statistics on the numbers of earth-sized/composition/placement analogs are slightly out of reach currently.
Our Sun is more massive (10-500% more) than most stars in our galaxy, but because of how much bigger stars can be than our Sun, it is close to average.

I could give paper sources but I'm lazy sorry.

Bigger but not giant

Nigga fuck the radiation, what about the force of the fucking bomb

That's a silly hypothesis.

If they're FTL, they've got ridiculous computational capacity. Meaning all they'd need to know is all life on earth is built around adenine thymine guanine and cytosine, from knowing that they could build a library of every viable organism possible from those compounds. A genetic library larger than has ever or will ever exist on earth.

Because the guns are grounded to the ground and the Kaijus always come with earthquakes and tsunamis

its not about them being biologically evolved to survive a nuclear blast, they dont evolve like Doomsday does, instead they evolved to fly or move faster