Visions of the Future 2

[Domzdream]

It's 2012 lads! and lassies. Get ready for some big changes.

[magus5200]

1:40 OH LOOK! KINECT!

[HiSaysMel]

Mr. Saturn!

I never would have noticed you here if it wasn't for EB central!

[ert94464isback]

7:20 Mr. Saturn BOiNg

[Harshal2DaG]

All these realizations and topics of the video are surreal and freaking awesome...but I just hope that it doesn't go in the "SkyNet" direction...human nature always has a tendency to get it self into situations esp with tech that are just messy...I'm hopeful though...Oh and of course, Dr.Kaku is FREAKING AWESOME. :)

[Domzdream]

AT 08:37)

Jaron is unfortunately one of the most unattractive people on this planet. But what a brain!!!

Also, the man can play beautifully with various kinds of instruments.

[myballwall]

Sun glasses makes Kaku look like a drug user!!!

[346ZackFair]

Project Natal was released...there you are the controller so in the future I think virtual world will be in Project Natal and you are the controller everything you want to do will reflect.

[codemonkeyslikeme]

....or virtual lap dance! :D 

[tribaltroll21]

Because such a machine/ virtual/ artificial world will have been invented long before a fully working bio-porting (teleporting) machine/device.

[tribaltroll21]

I can imagine in the way way future when humans and/or other species and/or races [( for example when we colonize Mars human children born there will be known Martians, believe it or not) us 'regular humans' might then known as Earthlings, (to them.) We'd still be humans but under different sub categories, but will they???] (Different evolutionary paths will spring )But anyways....I can imagine far off 'beings' communicating through some sort of tele-presence machine/virtual/artificial world.

[noobdles]

plug me in. :)

[g0tcadaver]

lol michio is getting all up in that girl

[noobdles]

@g0tcadaver ménage à trois !

[RichNDangerous1]

glasses that have tv/internet etc AND can analyze you w/o even speaking? no thanks. thats the problem with the world now... too much focus on technology and less face- to-face interaction

[iPlayWithPhysics]

@RichNDangerous1 Who cares, technology FTW.

[lordmerlin10]

second life is interesting...but i will wait a couple of years..with visual and sensual feels and i can have sex with the girls i fantasize with....

[Raethehedgehog]

Who else saw the Mr. Saturn from Earthbound at 7:20?

[Scizor41]

I like to play a virtual pokemon game ... how epic would that be!!

[lilHippo]

@Scizor41 it would blow your FUCKING MIND

[Ironhide0563]

Michio Kaku is so smart he can pimp it out with 2 girls while computing the possibilities of the future simultaneously

[TehEliteBrotherz]

No one right now has the evidence to disprove or to prove god so what i'm doing is it doesn't hurt to believe in god if he's not real but it will hurt not to when he is

[redlightning0001]

Ghost in the shell was true :P

[Esphidia]

Virtual is nothing compared to being real.

[rickdelagarza]

Michio Kaku should meet Jacque Fresco.

[javonne]

@rickdelagarza BRO, MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY!!! lol Jaque and Michio would design a BADASS world. I also have a lot of ideas for the Venus project, I made a futuristic boat :D

[laurisfloris24]

illuminati

[Irockz707]

LOL, this is on TV right now. I LOL'd at the Mr Saturn when I seen it.

[TheWorldEndsWithYou0]

7:20

In future! Zoom! Virtual! 10,000 friends, all are Mr. Saturn! Boing!

[TheMerlinOfAR]

Who is Mr. Saturn?

[spartacandream]

Why not our family join and be a part of the virtual family? Or be our virtual family?

This is just awesome how far we come. Too bad people are talking about the Bible instead of how truly great we humans have become and are becoming. We're so much better than the Bible. We created the BIbles, now let's destroy them and use it to make recycled paper to design video games with.

[jmonteleone0927]

Vitural world sounds like the matrix but by choice not becuase of slavery. We are going to lose everything that makes us human.

[ParadoxJuice]

Hmm, you know, this is some pretty interesting stuff. Its as if people are acting out all the personalities that they have been keeping suppre-OMG MR. SATURN AT 7:20 THAT'S AWESOME!!!!

[OcarinaOfTime554]

Mr. Saturn :D

[IMMADARKDRAGON]

7:20

Mr. Saturn totally stole the show.

[kalloused]

lol secondlife

[xxxXdragonXxxx]

0:22 invasion of privacy?

[Goldor2005]

Constant invasion of privacy, as a way of life for everyone.

[nickdotvr]

Look up PRIVACY IS DEAD, GET OVER IT on here and you'll realize this info is hardly private even if people enjoy having the illusion that it is - ignorance is bliss.

[DoNotLaughAtMe]

@nickdotvr lol so true.

[herbule]

Your subconscious does all this naturally.

[SonicBlast190]

Mr. Saturn at 7:20

[TheWorldEndsWithYou0]

7:20

[DeDaDoDu]

7:20 BOING

[alphazero924]

I saw Mr. Saturn. I lol'd.

[rofra3]

traduzcanlo!!! please

[elementindustrial]

2nd life is so boring!

[EyalBenArye]

"with virtual reality we could live out our fantasies" - and in RL we can't? :p

if anything i think progression allows us to live fantasies in RL that we couldn't before:

how many people have imagined a magic carpet before we had flight?

sexual fantasies? welcome The Pill and see the dawn of open marriages. and making love with wireless microphones stickied hearing heart rates at high volumes? amazing.

in the future? add to that genetic treatments and imagine the possibilities.

[KROMEXICAN]

does anyone know the name of the song that starts at 3:02?

[yadaman]

WHOO! Mr. Saturn! :D

[5random1]

"real" reality? LOL

[SentorPaco]

yayayayayay go mr saturn!

[Flameguy42]

Mr. Saturn FTW WOOT

[mockingarab]

I think Beyond Kaku's futuristic visions: the mouth will be useless, I don't think we will need to talk or eat anymore, we will just get a rid of it. As we reach immortality we will look like Aliens.. we are those Aliens who live in a parallel universe, they are our more evolved form, big eyes for enhanced vision, larger expanded brain... etc.

[Darkokirby]

Mr

EFFING

SATURN

[blahmaen]

virtualvirtualvirtualvirtualvi­rtualvirtual....MR SATURN HAS COME TO BRING ENTERTAINMENT :D

[alipoo21]

falling in love in Second Life...love it haha. got to play some time

[fmonkay456]

Hi Hi Hi. YoU COmE BuYiNG? YOu CAn SeLL, tOO. i, MR. SAtuRn, BOiNG, CAn dO aLL FOr yOu. WhAt dO yOu WaNt ZOOM?

[michaelonlign]

WHAT YOU BUYING ZOOM?

[uscdrew8531]

MR SATURN!

Boing!

[Millhouse013]

Mr. Saturn!!

YEAH! BOiNG! ZOOM! DAKOTA!

Man, that's so awesome. Who wouldn't love to be a Mr.Saturn in Second Life?

[irvrod]

dude not to be an ass or anything but isnt this a little mind blowing and very scary????

[gamerlayne]

Dude I saw Mr. Saturn in there.

[thegiraffe94]

Mr. Saturn!!!!!!

[Difegue]

Oh god the boing Mr.Saturn at 7:20

Zoom Zoom Zoom Dakota

[KyoAkiyamako]

Kay-O!

[legotrekker]

I just watched this last night, really cool, 'specially the bit about Mr Saturn :D

[wantslatioslots]

If you prefer to live in virtual reality, then your regular reality must really suck. I'm calling no family. If their life sucks that much, then I say let 'em have their fun.

[Perapsam]

Lol 7:20! Earthbound's Mr Saturn!

[KurodaMichiyo]

Holy crap! Yes! 8D

[TheCreator4]

Isn't that awesome! :D

I bet the people who made this show didn't realise what they were refrencing. :P

[brunoisnogame]

wow these mother fuckers has less than a life than me. Thats fucking sad.

[mrhitman999]

they already have those internet glasses there like 2000$ but they use real wi fi like the iphone and u could watch movies on them there badass

[sorrowfulscreams1516]

lol Michio is a furry XD

[MhAcK02]

So This means that every human being on earth will no longer have any confidentialities or privacy because all of humanities individual information is in stored in a microchip that can be seen and reviewed by many people???wooaahhh, too much high tech!?i disagree on that.

[Luphrecio]

yeah fuck that, my profile aint gonna be on display so anyone with some crazy sunglasses can see my profile. . .fuck that.

[MadPutz]

no, people will still decide what about them is public and what is kept censored or secret

[warlowl]

how much do they make irl?

[gurlndc19]

fuck the Bible... its 2008 now no ones believes in the Bible anymore it's all human made bullcrap book

[snipnflip]

You may say that but it has predicited most of what is happening today its really facinating it also predicts the rnid chip which the government want to chip everybody with eventually

[SeanKey71]

The bible never made concrete predictions about dates. Those predicitions are human interpitations of information that was extrapolated out of context from the original intent of the bible. The original intent of the written bible was to give christianity and the roman empire a canon of laws that hold the catholic church and the roman empire as the center of the universe and their rule was given to them by God.

[klegster]

@SeanKey71

Aye, you are correct, there is no mention of dates, even for the pagan and catholic time of christmas. Christ was not born on Dec 25th, he was born in the fall time.

The catholics took that date from the pagans who worshiped another god during that time.

The catholics are far from Christ and the Messiah only gave one rule against her and about her, it is to get out of her, for she is the mother of harlots.

[malice1337]

@SeanKey71 even kaku said that their is a higher being in another dimension if you ever read any of his book the reason you cant see and hear god is because because he may be in a higher dimension something had to create the particles and neutrons and atoms etc. for the big bang so instead of being ignorant do your homework

[Hellyazmaster200]

@SeanKey71 Yep, I'm Catholic and I completely agree with you..

[beyonddeadstudio]

@SeanKey71 you had it right up to the whole christianity/roman thing. early christians (the original disciples) who wrote the bible were at war with the romans during the time the new testament was written. it wasnt adopted as the religion of the roman empire until the 300`s.

[pastageek2]

@SeanKey71 the Bible does not give the catholic church a right to rule, and those "extrapolations" are done very studiously by ppl who check things out.

[pastageek2]

@pastageek2 Amen.

[pastageek2]

@SeanKey71 yeah I'm sure idolatrous religions are all about writing books with text before time and speaking against some of their foundational superstition. Read the Bible before you sling mud. In fact don't sling mud at all since that is considered a fallacy. Also try reading about prophecy before you dis it. Just saying.

[SeanKey71]

Thowing out the baby with the bath water are we. You may say the bible is crap but that is actually like saying a text book is crap. They are just books. The bible has some interesting parables about life in the middle east in the ancient times, but yet we say that it is a piece of crap and it should be thrown out. How narrow an idea. Are you into book burining of anything you think is a piece of crap?

[wraith1988]

@SeanKey71 Yeah but no one is going to come up to you with a copy of Green Eggs and Ham and tell you that Sam I Am is right and if you don't eat green eggs and ham you are doomed for all time unless you beg his forgiveness, and that researching and inventing a refrigerator to not let ham and eggs go green is a terrible unthinkable evil.

Bible has some good moral stories, and it has some tales that are no longer relevant today, like anything else just take from it what you can use.

[Keithos86]

I wish that were true. Sadly, there are a lot of stubborn and ignorant people out there still tha refuse to come to terms with reality.

[Q3o5]

You got it all.. Of course no one believe in the bible.. Jesus and God was a Lie..

[Oop984]

shutup that book has loads infomation in it be gratefull to jehovagh

[malice1337]

@gurlndc19 even kaku said that their is a higher being in another dimension if you ever read any of his book the reason you cant see and hear god is because because he may be in a higher dimension something had to create the particles and neutrons and atoms etc. for the big bang so instead of being ignorant do your homework

[javonne]

@malice1337 did you also hear him state his position on extraterrestrials? so before you go thinking he's a proponent of the "God" propaganda, do some research yourself before calling anyone else ignorant Kaku says their "COULD BE" not "there is" no scientist does that, unless it is proven

[filipminic91]

@gurlndc19 Not really... I do not like religion in sens of medieval ages,but religion is a moral guide most of all and no1 can prove that god is real or not(and it depends what you call god).Anyway thumbs up for Michio Kaku!

[lilHippo]

@gurlndc19 Hello i am you from the future 2011 and we've comepletely removed the bible from our way of life

[UnifiedaxxS]

@gurlndc19 i get you dont believe the bible but why do you gotta cus

[pastageek2]

@gurlndc19 actually lots of ppl believe it b/c well the Universe and life need a creator. Since the Bible is the only one that offers a transcendent creator and is the only belief system that explains why we have laws of logic and why the universe is intelligible, then it is the only logical choice. Also, Jesus is the only one who offers hope of any kind. Magic (much like superstitious darwinism), mysteries, and karma do not. Calling something bullcrap is mud slinging.

[wraith1988]

@pastageek2 when people talk about Jesus and the bible in the same sentence that they use the word 'Logic' it makes me giggle.

[pastageek2]

@wraith1988 when ppl make jokes based on popular misrepresentations and mudslinging, I worry.

[ZandJproductionz]

@gurlndc19 You're either stupid or want to go to hell

[pastageek2]

@gurlndc19 so I guess the part in Isaiah 42:5 about the expanding universe is all made up. I guess Hubble is made up too. Btw, lots of scientists believe the Bible including several professors @ my school. Read a book.

[TheKariboDude]

where can i get second life/ virtual world? im not that great at the internet lol

[Sergionewyork]

I download that program .... but there are many boring steps .... so i stopped usiing it.... not very succesful!

[Domzdream]

I can't wait to play doom3 in VR!

Yes, I'm watching the series again.

[TheCreator4]

Mr. Saturn at 7.20 :D

[MegaSpy21]

Woo! Mr. Saturn!

[Domzdream]

I'm so glad that I'm working in the computer game's industry. I'm an artsist.I think that games will look super realistic before going onto VR. Can't wait!!!

[Domzdream]

I must say, I've always wanted to be the first guy to make VR games accessible in your average home. I'm a pc game nut, so running inside a VR game is probably the single most exciting event I'm waiting to happen in my life. But it's a very expensive project to dedicate your life to and tricky. Because the average tax payer should afford it, not just the rich. Watch, it'll happen.

[Clandestine06]

virtual reality?

[Domzdream]

Hell, yes. I simply cannot wait. I'll always be aware of what's real and what isn't, because to me reality is far more important than VR. VR will be more for weekend entertainment only.

[Clandestine06]

wikid man, i share the same enthusiasm as you about it!:)

[MadPutz]

Yeah imagine being in a massive battle with a million other gamers. It will be like living lord of the rings or star wars.

[Domzdream]

This will happen someday. Mark my words. Hopefully still in our life times. I can't wait for virtual reality to kick in.

Wait til quantum computers become a reality.

[Domzdream]

Unfortunately there will be HUGE repercussions due to VR. Dealing with what's reality philosophy, to subjectivity and ojectivity with these same applications in both the different worlds provided (real and virtual worlds). Later one will simulate the other senses with electrical stimuli to make that VR world as real as the Real world. In the end, it'll be so confusing. But how cool would it be to catch that rocket ship to venus or whatever that you normaly could not. I for one simply can't wait!

[Domzdream]

There are endless possiblilities. It's interesting what he said about having bsiness meetings in a vitrtual room. I used to think about this since I was little. There will be as many problems as there will be solutions and pros as many as the cons. Humans will live in the real world and the virtual world. There will deffinitelly be a double life. Imagine being hooked up to a bed where your body is fed nutrients, but your mind is in this virtual world for whatever length.

[undefinedminded]

buttseks

[Domzdream]

HA ha ha. Indeed, there's something for everyone.

[DeimosSaturn]

He simply asserts that this isn't "simply escapism"...but how is it not exactly the definition of escapism? Second Life is nothing more than an extremely inefficient instant messaging system with an overly sophisticated interface. It's basically an MMORPG with out any fun.

[DeimosSaturn]

He simply asserts that this isn't "simply escapism"...but how is it not exactly the definition of escapism? Second Life is nothing more than an extremely inefficient instant messaging system with an overly sophisticated interface. It's basically an MMORPG with out any fun.

[studiochronoqua]

HE HAS A SECOND LIFE!!!

sweetness!!!!

I do too!!!

[lateblossom]

LMAO omg, that made my day XD He IS a furry!

[Colombian459]

Ok this is no question that this will happen-

but what happens when we hit a global recession, or an invetible oil peak?

[aphr0disiacx]

Wow! future will be like living in the Matrix. Imagine not taking the blue pill or red pill that it so becomes our future reality.

[pepetruelo]

Just think of it: in the future we will all walk around like blind people.

In the future, Privacy will no longer be a right, but a privelege of the elite.

Virtual reality may look better than life, but it can (and should) never replace your own real life.

[milesp0123]

It will not replace "real" life.

The quality of life will improve for all human beings. The days of hand-to-mouth survival will be over. Information will be accessible to all.

[pepetruelo]

I don't think so. We've had enough time and resources already to 'improve lfe for all human beings', and yet a great number of the world's population doesn't even have access to fresh water, not to mention proper food. There is a flaw in our very nature whereby a true equality among humans will never be accomplished. Technology will only widen the gap.

I hate to sound pessimistic, but it's written all over the history of mankind.

[batukhan]

We would all be equal if our environments were equal. It is only natural that some have a better life than others. It has nothing to do with "human nature".

The best part of mankind should not be held back by the worst. I'm not saying we should leave those people to die, but we certainly shouldn't overdo with the charity.

[pepetruelo]

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Do you mean that poverty and famine are a matter of chance? If so, you prove my point, since mankind can only speak of human rights and equal opportunities, but achieve very little of it- a moral contradiction. How can you even talk about the "worst part of mankind" holding back the "best"! I suppose the next step is, like the Rockerfellers would have it, to propose population reduction?

Just imagine you were part of the 'unlucky' 'worst'.

[batukhan]

What i'm saying, is that there is no FLAW in human nature. When pepetruelo said "technology will only widen the gap", then i thought that technological progress should never be held back because of social issues..

You're all so stuck in this good/evil world mentality. Get over it. Humans are not evil. War is not something only humans could think of. The history of mankind may be horrific, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

[pepetruelo]

Batukhan, I pretty much agree with Domzdream's comment. I would add that it has become quite evident that some rulers are working for anything but the interest of humanity. Do you believe Iraq, for instance, is anywhere closer to becoming a "free, democratic country"? Does anyone still believe this lie?

So I might be a bit too cautious, but I have every reason to doubt someone's intentions when he announces what the future is going to be like. And in this case, some intentions are very clear.

[Domzdream]

I agree that good/evil are religiously based ideas and are really backwards and should be discarded as such. Rather let's coin them as perhapse what's beneficial as a whole in society and what is regressing and harmful. War can be harmful or benficial, depending on which side you're standing on. You're right though, humans are neither evil nor good. We just are. We are eating, fucking, breathing, living machines motivated by self-presevation and greed.

[Kevart1208]

I so agree with Domzdream's idea that there is no good or evil, and that we should look at whats beneficial vs. whats not in progressing humanity.

[MadPutz]

I for one love being an eating, fucking, breathing, living machine motivated by self-preservation and greed... it's fun!

[Domzdream]

Hear, hear!

[Domzdream]

Yes, exactly my point too. Where do you draw the line? I agree. We might as well be like Hitler and start to weed out the weak and replace the inferior race with an arian, better, new improved race. Ethnic cleansing?? Bugger the rest?? This kind of idealism is dangerous, has been tested in society many times over, and has failed dismaly. I disagree with Batukhan completely.

[Domzdream]

Hmm. I'd argue that yes, competition is a really healthy thing for progress, but to rule out the rest due to being less fortunate is a moot point and wld get us nowhere. To create a sustainable world where the motivation for competition isnt starvation but rather something altogether is far more productive and progressive. I agree what you said about the environments rule our competiveness, but in the end we should be batlling this not supporting our selfishness, greed and self preservation.

[lateblossom]

What you say might very well be a possibility. It's quite scary to consiuder.

[Neueregel]

Great, i like it raised some ponderous questions about the nature of Virtual reality.

Imo, Second life is a pioneer VR application but needs a lot of improvement regarding graphics and things to keep you less bored.