Things from sci-fi you would love to see during your lifetime

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**Brother Captain Alexander**

It's an easy question: what things from sci-fi you would love to see during your lifetime?

Write them in two categories: possible and not possible.

Possible:
-Loader from 1986 Aliens, always loved them and I would actually like to see them in use. Not very hard to build now with the tech we have available.
-Hover cars, still early in development but high promises for now.
-A.I. driven cars, in some 20 to 30 years this wil lbe standard in the West ( car driving instead of you ).
-Colony on the Moon, the most realistic we will get from coloniztion in the next 80 years or so.
-Fist Human space port, like an ISS but made to build ships in space.

Not possible:
-Colonization of Mars, doubt that we wil lsee this any time soon.
-First War Engine, they will need to do some serious thinking here an I doubt we will ever see it.
-Teleporters, while they can do this now with few atoms we are so far from small object or Human being.
-Replicators, there is a nice theory here with utilization of nano-robots. But for now still far away...
-Contact or confirmation of with alien life, even if they do it we would find it out in like few years. Maybe we wil lfind soem primitive life under the ice of Europa or on some other place, but actual intelligent life - who knows?

**KalashnikovMarine**

Brother Captain Alexander wrote:

-Loader from 1986 Aliens, always loved them and I would actually like to see them in use. Not very hard to build now with the tech we have available.
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Already happening, Raytheon is using warehouse work as part of it's exoskeleton development programs.

For me I want to see nanotech at an incredible scale, no idea if it's possible or not any more tbh. I wouldn't have said we'd be on the cusp of curing aids or would be able to make a blind man see inside of a decade a year ago, never mind being at both those points the very next year.

**LuciusAR**

Holodecks would be cool, but if they where invented I think society would collapse. Why face the real world when I can live whatever Holodeck fantasy I choose?

**master of ordinance**

Oooohh well then:

Possible:

Deffo on those loaders they are so cool

Rail Rifles

Plasma Tech

Powered armour suits

Energised Melee weapons

Maybe not quite so possible:

Teleporters

Actual space craft

Not sure on replicators but they would be nice

Cold fucion power plants

war engines

**Fafnir**

Cybernetic implants, a la Ghost in the Shell, as well as cybernetic prosthesis.

**PredaKhaine**

Hoverboards.

According to Transformers the Movie, we should've had them by now. We've got 2 years till back to the future 2 is proved wrong. I want a real working one, I can use on a daily basis.

This seemed relevant
http://gawker.com/5667202/11-things-from-back-to-the-future-ii-that-actually-came-true-and-3-that-havent-yet

**Leigen_Zero**

In the standard two categories:
*possible-ish*
Total immersion videogames/holodecks/artificial realities/etc
Functional sci-fi style robots (none of the arm-on-a-set-of-tracks milarky)
Rail/Tesla weaponry

*not-exactly-possible*
Space Colonisation
Contact and regular communication with extraterrestrial life

**RossDas**

FTL travel, or anything that will allow us to reach another inhabitable system without the journey spanning multiple generations of travellers.

**Albatross**

I'm not sure that the human race is ready for contact with intelligent alien life

**Frazzled**

-Cold fusion
-Powered shields (nuke no war no more!)
-Mork from Ork's Nukeaway! clean up all those unsightly nuclear spills!
-Star Trek's human economy

**Fifty**

Bionic limbs would be cool. I think it is possible that in the not-too-distant future, wounded soldiers from 1st world countries might be able to get these. Probably first though will be for rich folk who have lost limbs getting them, as they'll be expensive as sin.

**LordofHats**

I just want my flipping Jet Pack already.

**rockerbikie**

Bionic limbs would be pretty cool.
Advanced Genetic Engineering.
Interactive internet like on Futurama.
Cold Fusion.

**pgmason**

Frazzled wrote:

-Star Trek's human economy

Isn't that a tad socialist for you?

**Frazzled**

pgmason wrote:
Frazzled wrote:

-Star Trek's human economy

Isn't that a tad socialist for you?

If you're going to go, go the whole hog. I would like the replicator to replicate me seven Austin Heeleys please, one for each day thank you.

**Albatross**

Frazzled wrote:
pgmason wrote:
Frazzled wrote:

-Star Trek's human economy

Isn't that a tad socialist for you?

If you're going to go, go the whole hog. I would like the replicator to replicate me seven Austin Heeleys please, one for each day thank you.

O RLY?

Frazz, meet Austine Healey, former England Rubgy player and red hot dancer.

I think you'd suit green.

**whembly**

Star Trek's Replicators

**KalashnikovMarine**

Bionic limbs are in work! Like live testing in work.

I'd also like to see wide scale implementation of thorium reactors.

**Grey Templar**

Bionic limbs are already here. They're just clunky and unrefined.

Power Armor

Space Colonies

Space Craft that can take off and land like an airplane

practical Fusion power

Sarcastic Robots

**Easy E**

Jacking in like in various "Cyberfuture" worlds.

No more carpal tunnel!

**Piston Honda**

transplant my brain or memory into another body. 3D organ printer.

**djphranq**

That gun from The Fifth Element... the one that can shoot bullets all at the same spot.

Those 'voice' gun thingies from Dune....mmmmmmmmmmmm CHA!!!

"Kara"

Those transporter discs from Ringworld.

Those pleasure wires from Ringworld.

The Kzin from Ringworld.

Rishathra. (aaaaahhhhhh yeahhhhhh)

RIngworld.

The bike from Bicycling through Space and Time.

Knives that toast bread while you cut it.

Round planets >.>

**Ouze**

Sex Robots.

**Grey Templar**

Ouze wrote:
Sex Robots.

Depending on your definition, these already exist.

**Velour_Fog**

Colonisation of Mars or the moon.

Asteroid mining.

I'm really interested in what we could do outside this planet, but I don't think much will happen until the situation with resources and overpopulation becomes really desperate.

Grey Templar wrote:
Ouze wrote:
Sex Robots.

Depending on your definition, these already exist.

Pretty sure he means in the sense of artificial people.

**Ouze**

Grey Templar wrote:
Ouze wrote:
Sex Robots.

Depending on your definition, these already exist.

While it's true that a hooker with hearing aids may be a cyborg, she (or he, there's no judgements here) is definitely not a sex robot by my definition, good sir.

**KalashnikovMarine**

Ouze wrote:
Grey Templar wrote:
Ouze wrote:
Sex Robots.

Depending on your definition, these already exist.

While it's true that a hooker with hearing aids may be a cyborg, she (or he, there's no judgements here) is definitely not a sex robot by my definition, good sir.

I think he was meaning more those creepy arse realdolls *shudder*

**orkdestroyer1**

Possible:
companion cube
ballistic knife
EMP grenades
fusion reactors

impossible:
portal gun
gravity gun
time machines built out of deloreans

**Ouze**

orkdestroyer1 wrote:
Possible:
ballistic knife

What do you define a "ballistic knife" as? If you mean a knife that shoots the blade, those are totally available now (depending on your locality, they're pretty unlawful in the US).

**master of ordinance**

djphranq wrote:

"Kara"

Oh hell yes definetly