What about transportation? Space exploration/industry? Re-designing our cities? Oh man...so much stuff to think about. Plus this is just an extrapolation. New discoveries will make things we can't even imagine possible.
I think the human race is evolving in the positive! We are seeing amazing advancements in technology, medicine, & environmental control. I am especially proud of the rise of individual global perspective due to saturation of digital telecommunications. This is the cause for Arab Spring & Occupy: people seeing beyond the small community they are born into. BUT I am afraid our broken old systems will catch up to us before we are ready & we will see a global economic collapse -> world civil unrest.
These predictions are somewhat pessimistic in my view. I'm expecting much more by 2060. :P By the way, when we will be able to augment our intelligence, there won't be any need for a government (I hope we will understand it sooner) and I think you can figure out for yourself why. I think you would be interested in looking for this man named Jacque Fresco: "When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to human potential."
I work in health care and, as long as they keep denying health care to certain people - ESPECIALLY those who are older - there aren't going to be enough old people left alive to matter. Or the only old people will be old and wealth. Which is bs and why I like Doctors w/out Borders.
The United States has a paTHETic health care system, and we're the only ones who have it.
Every other country has universal health care but us.
What a rosy painting of the future. We will certainly have nuclear war(s), nuclear plant failures and large swaths of land will be arid and unproductive. Water will be rationed. "No humans on the frontline" is a fallacy. There will *be* no front line. There will be us (the oppressed), and them (the leaders). Asymmetrical warfare will rule.
We have already seen the lowered threshold for the use of non-lethal or, so called, "less-lethal" weapons in the ridiculous overuse and abuse of Tasers. That future is already happening.
Here is my prediction for 2060: the scrapes of humanity will be in the infant stages of developing a hunter-gatherer type way of life. I hope you guys like the taste of squirrel!!!
Good video but the real error is always when you try to predict the future based on todays technology. These are kind of safe bet predictions and often wrong. Who knows if there will be something like a new industrial or computer revolution, or some new Einstein/Max Planck who discoveres something totally radical new field of physics that opens like a some portal to new dimensions and human life is suddenly totally changed.
According to Ray Kurzweil, a lot of what you said will happen far sooner than 2060. I am excited to hear that you are noticing the same technological trends. Some of the possibilities are kind of unnerving but ultimately I'm more of an optimist and am very excited for the future!
@FahSEEL Kurzweil is unrealistically optimistic and he preaches this to make money. books predicting things that will happen after you die doesnt sell nearly as much.
@Davincidz Ray Kurzweil definitely is an optimist when it comes to the future and his predictions are very bold but he has been making these kinds of predictions for the past 30 years. He is a very polarizing person in science but the reason that his predictions get so much attention is because he is right so much of the time. Can he be wrong about some of what he talks about...yes but even when he's wrong, he's usually not far off in terms of time.
@FahSEEL well yes and no, a lot of his predictions have been far off and a lot of the ones he got right was obvious ones. There is quite a lot of criticism of his "work" by serious reputable scientists in different fields who knows 50 times as much as he. He just generalizes everything and promise that everyone will live forever. not long ago he said immortality is only 20 years away... Also his views on reverse engineering the brain within a decade is fucking hilarious
@Davincidz He has something of an 80% accuracy rate with his predictions, given the number of predictions that he makes, that's not bad. He does get criticism from other scientists but that is a part of being in the scientific community. No one is ever universally agreed with. He does have a lot of support too though. What you say about the human brain people also said about the human genome and he turned out to be exactly right about reverse engineering that. Brain=2029 not 10 years
Khan I think you should expand your geography videos. I'm an undergraduate physical geographer and if you'd like I have a number of options for you that are less bleak than predator drones and robotic bombs
4:36 "We'll see how it all plays out and hopefully it plays out in the feel-good Carebear version versus, you know, some type of crazy society and we all turn in to the borg". :D
I keep thing about the 'Assassin's Creed' video game series just because of the 'Animus' technology. I think it would be cool to be able to use our genetics to learn about our past... just a thought :P
It's a good idea not to have humans on the frontline, because that's where they can get overwhelmed by their emotions and do the stuff they always did on the frontlines, like pillaging, raping and torturing...
And nations will not be much more willing to start wars with drones, because wars can always escalate and the big problem in warfare for democratic societies is collateral damage, not the damage to your soldiers.
I'm also inclined to believe nations don't really care about soldiers lives so much as how much they cost, and advanced electronics and machinery isn't going to be much cheaper. Though faster to produce than the years it takes to make a soldier out of a man...
@Alignn then why does North Korea have a larger army than the US? Soldiers are cheap. And their lives must not matter more than virtually nothing, because there is no point in having an army if you are afraid to loose soldiers over anything.
Very frightening considering how real and true this could become. I will be well into my 80s by then. Interesting to see how the world changes. I predict that war will be very common for several decades to come.
If it increases a few years which is logical I don't see much issue with it except for the possible issue related with the low birthrate in the developed countries (which obviously needs to increase). I hope for more direct democracy. While representional democracy does work I don't feel it's the real deal. The people aren't really in control, with direct democracy people really are in control. Hopefully there will be less humans killed in combat but I hope for no wars at all (impossible :/).
I don't think 2 and 3 are good things. We shouldn't mess too much with biology and cause irreversible consequences. We are humans and let us remain humans. I don't want to become a half-robot or something. The lifespan will surely increase, hopefully not dramatically through some kind of technology making us live hundreds of years. Imagine if we instead of the current population had 10 more times people because of it. I mean, we have much trouble now, imagine what it would be like then.
@Rickeeey1 They are not bad things either. Nature has no goal so we can tweak as much as we want. If being half-robot works out well then that's all fine :)
A few potentially conflicting predictions here sal. If there was really an increase in intelligence, then it's more likely that people would figure out that the state and it's monopoly on violence is probably not a very good idea. If people really noticed that their neighbours around the world were actually quite similar to them, support for wars etc would decline. People would become much more productive, having discarded the primitive idea that they need other people to tell them how to live.
@zalida100 have we really gotten smarter? yes we have great technologies that allow us to transfer information in amazing ways, but of all the people in the world an extremely small number of people "invent" these technologies. Have I invented a computer? no. Do i know how one works with all the circuitry? no. Do i know how to use one and transfer data to help me study better then people 50 years ago? yes but thats all it is..Technology is intelligence
@WeLikeDanceMusic I think you're not making a distinction between intelligence and information. My guess is that "intelligence" is the ability to reason. It's not necessary for anyone to know how a computer works in detail. Productivity increases as the division of labour increases. i.e. people specialise in a small area. What I was getting at, was sal's suggestion that an increase in the ability to reason, people would abandon the idea of the state. (Thanks for reply)
@zalida100 o yea i know wat u were talking about, i just just talking about something different because sometimes i hear people always say, we are getting smarter i like to question if we really are getting smarter because all these increases in tertiary students are only as a result of the internet bridging the cap between economic and academic influences
@WeLikeDanceMusic I don't know if we're getting smarter generally. However, I think that the internet offers a great opportunity. e.g. sal's videos definitely help give people tools how to solve certain problems. I was thinking that as, or if, people's ability to reason improved over time, then the whole idea of having politicians stealing your wealth would occur to more people, as being a bad idea. I'm guessing that in a few generations we can learn to put down the guns. :)
direct democracy is scary. Mob rule would crush minorities. Direct democracy is 5 wolves and 2 sheep deciding on what to eat for dinner. A constitutional republic has a constitution to limit the republic and a representative government of various branches to check each other in place.
I was just wondering today when eye glasses will be totally obsolete by utilizing some sort of interactive lens which detects the focus on your retina.
I hope they don't force life extension on us. Once you hit mid 80s, you're fairly useles (most of the time. Would i like to have my life extended an extra 50-60 years only to be spoon fed and bed ridden for most of it? NO Thanks.
@13JHoward Hmm I think it may be more the fact let's say we live on average 90 years 45 would be the mid age obviously and you would be relatively healthy and lively. If we live till let's us say once again around 160, 80 would be the mid age and we would feel like we would at 45 in the previous average age span. If it doesn't mean that then hell I wouldn't want to go on like that either!
My prediction is: Sals head in a glass, head bowl, with survival fluid to keep him sustained with a hologram image of him beamed into every house like an omnipotent overlord to and for our much lesser and undeveloped brains.
I don't think it is even remotely possible to have a situation where humans aren't on the front lines. History shows over and over and over again that the only way to win a war is with infantry. Thats it. Infantry. Nothing else can win. Your navy can control the sea, your air force can control the sky, but until you have manpower on the ground you cannot control the ground.
@Zeroviron It won't happen. The technologies are currently available(but not utilized)to produce all food requirements for an unlimited population in a very small space. Costs for LED and renewable energy for the undertaking will come down with Moore's Law and Haitz's Law and it's just a matter of putting enough money and the right experts on the project.
Sal, what advances do you think we'll make by 2060 in areas like physics(String theory) and astronomy(planets that may sustain life)? What do you think our source of energy will be? Do you think nuclear fusion is a possibility?
When I die, I won't give a shit about this fucked up world cause I'll be dead... But I don't know what will happen with me.... Will my soul be carried on in a potato?! Maybe my soul fades! Maybe I become god himself! OH FUCK MY BRAIN HURTS
"...when they're in the mood." ??? I predict a revolutionary action will result in adding mood enhancers to the water coolers at the Pentagon, the White House, and the Capital. A girl can dream, can't she?
i believe and hope that a more direct form of democracy will reign, and i believe that atheist religions will have overtaken the abrahamic ones. also i will have figured out why the universe was created.
@williamjpiano there sure are atheist religions, and more will show up as atheism grows. religion does not equal one or more gods, just like atheism does not equal an opposition towards religion.
@AshRothPhan The intelligence of a person is inversely proportional to the legibility of their writing. We'll never be able to read it, because he's too freakin smart.
My prediction is: Sals head in a glass, head bowl, with survival fluid to keep him sustained with a hologram image of him beamed into every house like an omnipotent overlord to and for our much lesser and undeveloped brains.
Bye bye CPC, time for china to change.
FcK2420 2 weeks ago
I would love to live forever, just for the possibility to keep learning and seeing how the world/society changes.
myhoots 3 weeks ago 4
lol a huge grain of salt- I imagined a giant boulder
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What about transportation? Space exploration/industry? Re-designing our cities? Oh man...so much stuff to think about. Plus this is just an extrapolation. New discoveries will make things we can't even imagine possible.
dayati 1 month ago
I think the human race is evolving in the positive! We are seeing amazing advancements in technology, medicine, & environmental control. I am especially proud of the rise of individual global perspective due to saturation of digital telecommunications. This is the cause for Arab Spring & Occupy: people seeing beyond the small community they are born into. BUT I am afraid our broken old systems will catch up to us before we are ready & we will see a global economic collapse -> world civil unrest.
MoneyKur 1 month ago
ResourceBasedEconomy + Occupy zeitgeist, you know, all the good stuff
SolGuildOfAstronomy 1 month ago
These predictions are somewhat pessimistic in my view. I'm expecting much more by 2060. :P By the way, when we will be able to augment our intelligence, there won't be any need for a government (I hope we will understand it sooner) and I think you can figure out for yourself why. I think you would be interested in looking for this man named Jacque Fresco: "When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to human potential."
xDarkTemplar 1 month ago
this guys voice is magic
jmlrugby11 2 months ago
Digital/Biological integration = Cyborgs a.k.a Deus Ex
HaloGanon 2 months ago
I work in health care and, as long as they keep denying health care to certain people - ESPECIALLY those who are older - there aren't going to be enough old people left alive to matter. Or the only old people will be old and wealth. Which is bs and why I like Doctors w/out Borders.
The United States has a paTHETic health care system, and we're the only ones who have it.
Every other country has universal health care but us.
And we think we're such a 'developed country.'
vickiormindyb 2 months ago
time 2 rape hot women people with stun guns
MarkQP 2 months ago
@MarkQP im fuckin down
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What a rosy painting of the future. We will certainly have nuclear war(s), nuclear plant failures and large swaths of land will be arid and unproductive. Water will be rationed. "No humans on the frontline" is a fallacy. There will *be* no front line. There will be us (the oppressed), and them (the leaders). Asymmetrical warfare will rule.
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We have already seen the lowered threshold for the use of non-lethal or, so called, "less-lethal" weapons in the ridiculous overuse and abuse of Tasers. That future is already happening.
gillianorley 2 months ago
3:12 cellphones plugged into our brain - for an interesting exploration of this concept, read the book Feed!
chingensaiXX 2 months ago
2060: we rediscover fire
someonetoogoodforyou 2 months ago
I wonder if sal knows about the venus project
dolgion1 2 months ago
world peace.
jalilwahdatehagh 2 months ago
Here is my prediction for 2060: the scrapes of humanity will be in the infant stages of developing a hunter-gatherer type way of life. I hope you guys like the taste of squirrel!!!
MrPentatonicScale 2 months ago
Anno 2070.
eatcarpet 2 months ago
2012 end of world so there!!....
ISMOPANAMA 2 months ago
What about the climate? Will that be fubar'd by 2060?
LAnonHubbard 2 months ago
Biological+Digital= mark of the beast (the chip)
jumb0mumb0 2 months ago
I love you Sal
hahs4 2 months ago
Good video but the real error is always when you try to predict the future based on todays technology. These are kind of safe bet predictions and often wrong. Who knows if there will be something like a new industrial or computer revolution, or some new Einstein/Max Planck who discoveres something totally radical new field of physics that opens like a some portal to new dimensions and human life is suddenly totally changed.
Satak8 2 months ago
@Satak8 Future predictions are never to be taken with much certainty anyways. They are merely one's imaginations reasonably considered.
alexander255110 2 months ago
According to Ray Kurzweil, a lot of what you said will happen far sooner than 2060. I am excited to hear that you are noticing the same technological trends. Some of the possibilities are kind of unnerving but ultimately I'm more of an optimist and am very excited for the future!
FahSEEL 2 months ago
@FahSEEL Kurzweil is unrealistically optimistic and he preaches this to make money. books predicting things that will happen after you die doesnt sell nearly as much.
Davincidz 2 months ago
@Davincidz Ray Kurzweil definitely is an optimist when it comes to the future and his predictions are very bold but he has been making these kinds of predictions for the past 30 years. He is a very polarizing person in science but the reason that his predictions get so much attention is because he is right so much of the time. Can he be wrong about some of what he talks about...yes but even when he's wrong, he's usually not far off in terms of time.
FahSEEL 2 months ago
@FahSEEL well yes and no, a lot of his predictions have been far off and a lot of the ones he got right was obvious ones. There is quite a lot of criticism of his "work" by serious reputable scientists in different fields who knows 50 times as much as he. He just generalizes everything and promise that everyone will live forever. not long ago he said immortality is only 20 years away... Also his views on reverse engineering the brain within a decade is fucking hilarious
Davincidz 2 months ago
@Davincidz He has something of an 80% accuracy rate with his predictions, given the number of predictions that he makes, that's not bad. He does get criticism from other scientists but that is a part of being in the scientific community. No one is ever universally agreed with. He does have a lot of support too though. What you say about the human brain people also said about the human genome and he turned out to be exactly right about reverse engineering that. Brain=2029 not 10 years
FahSEEL 2 months ago
The singularity is nigh
LowerKace 2 months ago
@LowerKace Exactly what I was thinking!
FahSEEL 2 months ago
I am going to download this video to keep it untill year 2060
tejbzfan 2 months ago 21
but with obesity these days won't the population go down?
katieggggggg 2 months ago
YEAH BORG!
WashingtonHammerTime 2 months ago
I'm scared
geo1545 2 months ago
It would be nice if we had a world without borders.
guerillachan20 2 months ago 35
@guerillachan20 Resource Based Economy FTW
ZialusPT 1 month ago 3
Khan I think you should expand your geography videos. I'm an undergraduate physical geographer and if you'd like I have a number of options for you that are less bleak than predator drones and robotic bombs
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Tehcarp 2 months ago
When do you think we will evolve out of capitalism?
snaileri 2 months ago
Well lets hope somehow Mayas are right xD
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makerofjam 2 months ago
What's creepy about manipulating biology anyway?
Alignn 2 months ago
Technology is really changing the course of human evolution.
iviewthetube 2 months ago
@iviewthetube yeah by completly stopping it and making it dependent on a screen and keyboard
guapman11 2 months ago
4:36 "We'll see how it all plays out and hopefully it plays out in the feel-good Carebear version versus, you know, some type of crazy society and we all turn in to the borg". :D
dsavix4 2 months ago
Why 2060 ?
sandeepcoepcivil 2 months ago
@sandeepcoepcivil ~50 years in the future (rounded to the nearest decade)
someonep93 2 months ago
@sandeepcoepcivil 50 years in the future
NoFukinNamesLeft 2 months ago
I keep thing about the 'Assassin's Creed' video game series just because of the 'Animus' technology. I think it would be cool to be able to use our genetics to learn about our past... just a thought :P
butters22x 2 months ago
@butters22x
Haha funny enough in my bloodline was a man that killed the king of england by signing his dealth warrent when the king was in court
revron77 2 months ago
@revron77 Oh wow, thats cool! I don't think anyone in my family did something quite like that xD
butters22x 2 months ago
Won't the world end in 2012?
idiotrun1997 2 months ago
@idiotrun1997 no
hardcorechrisFSU 2 months ago
It's a good idea not to have humans on the frontline, because that's where they can get overwhelmed by their emotions and do the stuff they always did on the frontlines, like pillaging, raping and torturing...
And nations will not be much more willing to start wars with drones, because wars can always escalate and the big problem in warfare for democratic societies is collateral damage, not the damage to your soldiers.
SalsaTiger83 2 months ago
@SalsaTiger83
I'm also inclined to believe nations don't really care about soldiers lives so much as how much they cost, and advanced electronics and machinery isn't going to be much cheaper. Though faster to produce than the years it takes to make a soldier out of a man...
Alignn 2 months ago
@Alignn then why does North Korea have a larger army than the US? Soldiers are cheap. And their lives must not matter more than virtually nothing, because there is no point in having an army if you are afraid to loose soldiers over anything.
SalsaTiger83 2 months ago
@SalsaTiger83
So, you agree with me?
Alignn 2 months ago
Very frightening considering how real and true this could become. I will be well into my 80s by then. Interesting to see how the world changes. I predict that war will be very common for several decades to come.
adamlphair 2 months ago
If it increases a few years which is logical I don't see much issue with it except for the possible issue related with the low birthrate in the developed countries (which obviously needs to increase). I hope for more direct democracy. While representional democracy does work I don't feel it's the real deal. The people aren't really in control, with direct democracy people really are in control. Hopefully there will be less humans killed in combat but I hope for no wars at all (impossible :/).
Rickeeey1 2 months ago
I don't think 2 and 3 are good things. We shouldn't mess too much with biology and cause irreversible consequences. We are humans and let us remain humans. I don't want to become a half-robot or something. The lifespan will surely increase, hopefully not dramatically through some kind of technology making us live hundreds of years. Imagine if we instead of the current population had 10 more times people because of it. I mean, we have much trouble now, imagine what it would be like then.
Rickeeey1 2 months ago
@Rickeeey1 They are not bad things either. Nature has no goal so we can tweak as much as we want. If being half-robot works out well then that's all fine :)
Prstvlkkrtek 2 months ago
Do you think we will live to see that? I am turning 18 in 3 months and I will be 67 years old when that begins to happen or what ever
riyadhelalami 2 months ago
This freaked me out because, it's likely, I'll still be alive in 2060.
WannabeRetro 2 months ago
That's very interesting!
good work!
:D
LH2215 2 months ago
What program did you use?
LH2215 2 months ago
Is Sal a transhumanist?
Zero0nee 2 months ago
A few potentially conflicting predictions here sal. If there was really an increase in intelligence, then it's more likely that people would figure out that the state and it's monopoly on violence is probably not a very good idea. If people really noticed that their neighbours around the world were actually quite similar to them, support for wars etc would decline. People would become much more productive, having discarded the primitive idea that they need other people to tell them how to live.
zalida100 2 months ago
@zalida100 no
nehorlavazapalka 2 months ago
@zalida100 have we really gotten smarter? yes we have great technologies that allow us to transfer information in amazing ways, but of all the people in the world an extremely small number of people "invent" these technologies. Have I invented a computer? no. Do i know how one works with all the circuitry? no. Do i know how to use one and transfer data to help me study better then people 50 years ago? yes but thats all it is..Technology is intelligence
WeLikeDanceMusic 2 months ago
@WeLikeDanceMusic I think you're not making a distinction between intelligence and information. My guess is that "intelligence" is the ability to reason. It's not necessary for anyone to know how a computer works in detail. Productivity increases as the division of labour increases. i.e. people specialise in a small area. What I was getting at, was sal's suggestion that an increase in the ability to reason, people would abandon the idea of the state. (Thanks for reply)
zalida100 2 months ago
@zalida100 o yea i know wat u were talking about, i just just talking about something different because sometimes i hear people always say, we are getting smarter i like to question if we really are getting smarter because all these increases in tertiary students are only as a result of the internet bridging the cap between economic and academic influences
WeLikeDanceMusic 2 months ago
@WeLikeDanceMusic I don't know if we're getting smarter generally. However, I think that the internet offers a great opportunity. e.g. sal's videos definitely help give people tools how to solve certain problems. I was thinking that as, or if, people's ability to reason improved over time, then the whole idea of having politicians stealing your wealth would occur to more people, as being a bad idea. I'm guessing that in a few generations we can learn to put down the guns. :)
zalida100 2 months ago
I used to predict the future like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee.
l3kk0 2 months ago 2
if im going to live until im 100+ i would like to think that there will be biological advances to keep me looking young as well
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Ormaaj 2 months ago
whats the point of living more than 100 years? life will be boring! -_-
ZedElite 2 months ago
@ZedElite Well... you can always kill yourself when life begins to suck ;)
ShwangShwing 2 months ago
@ShwangShwing :\
ZedElite 2 months ago
@ZedElite That wasn't personal... I hope it didn't sound like "go kill yourself". That's not what I meant.
ShwangShwing 2 months ago
@ShwangShwing lol don worry bro! i didnt think anything like that! chill! xD
ZedElite 2 months ago
I think Sal's been playing Deus Ex.
TheAlexMim 2 months ago 42
@TheAlexMim
get your head out of the gutter
jumb0mumb0 2 months ago
@jumb0mumb0 how is playing a game in the gutter?
ilikeknifing777 2 months ago
When I'm a Mac, and I'm a PC, becomes reality.
han0014 2 months ago 31
100+? who would want to live that long?
balletto14 2 months ago
@balletto14 I would. lol
mujuranokamen 2 months ago
@balletto14 Where do you draw the line? Why isn't 75 too long too? If you're 100 and healthy why would you just want to die?
eucalypton 2 months ago
Most likely by 2060 gap between developed and underdeveloped world would be markedly deeper and larger
qwertyqart 2 months ago
This is sort of depressing. The love of my life will be dead.
DistortedV12 2 months ago
After the singularity??
DistortedV12 2 months ago
@DistortedV12 kurzweil lol
mendel913112910 2 months ago
Wow I Agree with u
hanny96kitty 2 months ago
to sum up: "We all turn into the Borg"
Lojikish 2 months ago
boooo. :c
MuseseekerMan 2 months ago
thx to u, i am frightened of the future.
MuseseekerMan 2 months ago
Regarding point 2, what was that film where Robin Williams was a robot?
SzlampStudios 2 months ago
@SzlampStudios Bicentennial Man
chocobofarmer2021 2 months ago
direct democracy is scary. Mob rule would crush minorities. Direct democracy is 5 wolves and 2 sheep deciding on what to eat for dinner. A constitutional republic has a constitution to limit the republic and a representative government of various branches to check each other in place.
WesRetka 2 months ago
@WesRetka It depends on how wise and enlightened the citizens are.
eatcarpet 2 months ago
Unless your first prediction comes true. .I'll probably be dead by 2060 :(
MrDanielTynan 2 months ago
Bah! You ruined what I was going to post at 4:48! Curse you! lol
kirkula 2 months ago
Why would war even be a thing people do in 50 years?
5731N3 2 months ago
@5731N3 Why wouldn't it?
Unless we all develop harmonious (that doesn't mean identical) belief systems and become post-scarcity.
anglaismoyen 2 months ago
2060: I will be chilaxing in MARS
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"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. " - Isaac Asimov
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PoleReseal 2 months ago
ill be able to say he is wrong, see ya in 2060
bigfatredchicken1 2 months ago
@bigfatredchicken1 I'll be able to say he is right, see ya in 2060
aaronlosing 2 months ago
Spot on.
I was just wondering today when eye glasses will be totally obsolete by utilizing some sort of interactive lens which detects the focus on your retina.
iviewthetube 2 months ago
@iviewthetube what u just said sounds awesome......i have an awesome imagination
akadensetsu 2 months ago
I hope they don't force life extension on us. Once you hit mid 80s, you're fairly useles (most of the time. Would i like to have my life extended an extra 50-60 years only to be spoon fed and bed ridden for most of it? NO Thanks.
13JHoward 2 months ago
@13JHoward Hmm I think it may be more the fact let's say we live on average 90 years 45 would be the mid age obviously and you would be relatively healthy and lively. If we live till let's us say once again around 160, 80 would be the mid age and we would feel like we would at 45 in the previous average age span. If it doesn't mean that then hell I wouldn't want to go on like that either!
ManOfTheDerp 2 months ago
Technological Singularity
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We are going to watch this video in 2060. Then we will realize that Sal Khan is superhuman.
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My prediction is: Sals head in a glass, head bowl, with survival fluid to keep him sustained with a hologram image of him beamed into every house like an omnipotent overlord to and for our much lesser and undeveloped brains.
goldensilverstar 2 months ago
I don't think it is even remotely possible to have a situation where humans aren't on the front lines. History shows over and over and over again that the only way to win a war is with infantry. Thats it. Infantry. Nothing else can win. Your navy can control the sea, your air force can control the sky, but until you have manpower on the ground you cannot control the ground.
Melthornal 2 months ago
I'm concerned with overpopulation
Zeroviron 2 months ago
@Zeroviron It won't happen. The technologies are currently available(but not utilized)to produce all food requirements for an unlimited population in a very small space. Costs for LED and renewable energy for the undertaking will come down with Moore's Law and Haitz's Law and it's just a matter of putting enough money and the right experts on the project.
chocobofarmer2021 2 months ago
@EVERYONE lol.. PLEASE go like the cooment 6 comments below me, so SAL can answer it:P
Rooseveltboh 2 months ago
Dehydrated water.
stxrobstar 2 months ago 2
ill be 70 by 2060!
Rooseveltboh 2 months ago
dolphins are going to take over and humans are gna be living at sea
iJonnny 2 months ago
Sal, what advances do you think we'll make by 2060 in areas like physics(String theory) and astronomy(planets that may sustain life)? What do you think our source of energy will be? Do you think nuclear fusion is a possibility?
llaassuu 2 months ago
It's official...whoever manipulates the environment in the future will control the world.
andarks 2 months ago
What about energy? Can you talk about energy production and distribution in the future?
EaglesFastAndLow 2 months ago
You should just get rid of your little black board and show pretty pictures while you lecture :)
ArtisanTony 2 months ago
I didn't ask for this.
MoneyKur 2 months ago
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crusifixa 2 months ago
When I die, I won't give a shit about this fucked up world cause I'll be dead... But I don't know what will happen with me.... Will my soul be carried on in a potato?! Maybe my soul fades! Maybe I become god himself! OH FUCK MY BRAIN HURTS
GiratinaOriginAwakes 2 months ago
@GiratinaOriginAwakes 1. No such thing as a soul
2. No such thing as god
3. Not sure if trolling
byteyotta 2 months ago
@byteyotta 1. Because you can't see it, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
2. @1
3. Not sure if serious.
GiratinaOriginAwakes 2 months ago
@GiratinaOriginAwakes "Because you can't see it, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist."
It does mean you have no grounds for believing in it however, at least if you replace the word 'see' with the word 'detect'.
guitarpedant 2 months ago
@byteyotta You know what happens after death?
lagging199527 2 months ago
@lagging199527 Nope, but I do have other things to worry about.
byteyotta 2 months ago
bro that amazing math for all kids at school
history797 2 months ago
kay ill tell you in 2060 how it is ok? =D ill be like 70
kiriconan 2 months ago
We're screwed
512Airsoft 2 months ago
"...when they're in the mood." ??? I predict a revolutionary action will result in adding mood enhancers to the water coolers at the Pentagon, the White House, and the Capital. A girl can dream, can't she?
Synchronicitizen 2 months ago
I was thinking the Borg entirely to the point you stated it...
imataxslave 2 months ago
i predict a nuclear war between america and iran and we won't be around in 2060
elieobeid77 2 months ago
@elieobeid77 Isn't that amazing, a few leaders ruin life for all of us amazing.
serclfs 2 months ago
@serclfs i don't know, is it amazing or pathetic..? I don't know the answer
elieobeid77 2 months ago
i believe and hope that a more direct form of democracy will reign, and i believe that atheist religions will have overtaken the abrahamic ones. also i will have figured out why the universe was created.
slatslatslats 2 months ago
@slatslatslats atheists have no religions. "Atheistic religion" does not exist
williamjpiano 2 months ago in playlist Cosmology and Astronomy
@williamjpiano Ever heard of Buddhism?
Atheism is just the non-belief in gods. It says absolutely nothing about anything else.
Squiglypig 2 months ago
@williamjpiano Atheists can have religions. All atheism is is not believing in god.
guyboy625 2 months ago
@williamjpiano there sure are atheist religions, and more will show up as atheism grows. religion does not equal one or more gods, just like atheism does not equal an opposition towards religion.
slatslatslats 2 months ago
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crusifixa 2 months ago
Lol it's like he is picturing the universe of Ghost in the Shell SAC
rinwhr 2 months ago
Hey Sal, are you by any chance friends with Michio Kaku?
Karmakameleeon 2 months ago in playlist Cosmology and Astronomy
Maybe there will be a push for anarchism of different kinds by 2060.
SirTenenbaum 2 months ago
Sal went from teacher to prophet! Whoah!
MrDanielTynan 2 months ago in playlist Cosmology and Astronomy
@MrDanielTynan LOOOOOOL
MrAMoosvi 2 months ago
dear, khan academy i love your videos but its hard to read your hand writing could u try and write neater?
AshRothPhan 2 months ago
@AshRothPhan The intelligence of a person is inversely proportional to the legibility of their writing. We'll never be able to read it, because he's too freakin smart.
ocdfreak 2 months ago
ew ew i don't want something implanted into me just so i can text people...
phr4nk3rd00d13 2 months ago
Predator missle inbound.
KrAzYcHoLoBoY 2 months ago
will be 68 years young then. i feel strangely excited to observe the changes occurring during my lifetime.
slatslatslats 2 months ago
@slatslatslats you lucky little....
spinynorman1982 2 months ago
@slatslatslats
same here :)
HauptmannRob 2 months ago
4th!
thelastredbug 2 months ago
Cool stuff. Thank you for your thoughts, Sal.
BallawdeQuincewold 2 months ago in playlist Cosmology and Astronomy
transhumanism here we come.
Incognitoification1 2 months ago
A lot of astrologer mention that the world will be destroyed in 2012!! Can we reach 2060 !
78rydwan 2 months ago in playlist Cosmology and Astronomy
My prediction is: Sals head in a glass, head bowl, with survival fluid to keep him sustained with a hologram image of him beamed into every house like an omnipotent overlord to and for our much lesser and undeveloped brains.
spinynorman1982 2 months ago in playlist Cosmology and Astronomy 66
@spinynorman1982
Someone's been watching Futurama ;)
FewL4no1 2 months ago
@spinynorman1982 Are some parts of that idea based on the famous&important people in Futurama? :)
ard5608 2 months ago 27
@ard5608 rofl. nice one
cwaddle 2 months ago