Laptops, Smartphones, Tablets - Stupid ancient technology...

I imagine that transportation, as you suggest, will be high on the list of new technologies, as well communication devices. Power generation will have to be a priority, as the oil that we currently depend so heavily on will no longer be available.

I have a feeling that we will not have calculator kind of iPhones in the future. People get so lazy with the advancement of technology. So my guess is that the new phones would be either something that can be worn like a wrist watch or they would look like headphones so that they can be worn around ears. Next computers, I think there won't be any keyboards at all. They will not even look like iPads which are said to be replacing laptops by 2015. We already have Siri application on iPhones. I suppose such technology will completely replace keyboards. In short, people will have voice over computers. Siri like technology might also replace keypads on cell phones. All cars will run on electricity or water. As shown in iRobot, people will be scared of driving anything that includes gas. They might even find the whole concept disgusting because of the grease factor. Many systems will operate through computers. The future generation might not even have security guards and soldiers anymore. Right now drones are too much in demand. Scientists are even trying to give them intelligence to decide whether a person needs to be killed. So probably they will see the real "skynet" era.

3,000 years from now... hm. IF the human race is still in existence (and that's a big "IF"), we will probably be nothing but globs of fat with little finger extensions as we push buttons to bring us food or drink or clothing or whatever we might "need." Our technology will have trapped us completely so that we never see another human being in reality, only through a projected image (can't think of the word I want to use.). We will have eyes, but our ears will have almost disappeared, only being small holes that we sometimes plug audio sensors into. Our homes will be little more than nests because we won't need anything else. Robots will do what cleaning is necessary. We will never go outside for anything. BUT... what would I like to see "invented"? A better world. People who can talk face to face, even with technology in the way. Open, green spaces where people can walk and talk without fear of each other. I'm not sure technology can do that.

I think that in the future we will probably have thinner yet wider phones, if even that. Our computers would be micro chips we carry around in our pockets and go to terminals to stick in and use as we please. I think our jobs would all be more computerized. Even as a cashier we'd probably sit at home and "check" the people out whilst they shop online. Deliveries would be faster if we had Instant Teleportation. I think our cooking instruments would make our food faster, and I imagine we'd have more packaged foods. I don't really look forward to a tomorrow like that. I'd rather technology be more broadened in the agricultural aspect to help farmer's, but not to harm the environment or us. What I would like to see is less factories and more nature.

Hi Vvance, As far as computers go, I think they will focus more on "learning computers", like the "neural-net" CPUs that the Terminators have in the movie. There has been research on that front, but human thinking is very hard to duplicate, but I think they will achieve some sort of computer that can learn to understand what the user wants. I think they can make the physical devices smaller, but a limit will be reached because our hands are still the same size. I like typing on a keyboard, it's frustrating trying to text on a phone, and I refuse to use that text shorthand, I did't spend all those years in literature and grammar to say "before" as "b4", that's a bingo call. I have read a few articles that there is research in teleportation "beaming" objects. You can already beam electrons as signals, and recompose the data from the signal, but as far as de-constructing and re-constructing on a molecular level, that's going to be hard, especially with a living creature. But if you think about it, much of our progress has to do with the original discovery of the electromagnetic spectrum. In the USA electricity is clocked at 60Hz, LCD monitors generally clock at 60Hz which is the minimum rate where a human won't notice flicker. So that clock speed is easy to attain. Marconi discovered radio waves, which are EM waves; our cordless phones and wireless modems operate at a higher frequency, but they are EM none the less. And we know that the EMP (ElectroMagnetic Pulse) generated by a nuclear explosion will disrupt anything that uses EM in the blast radius. The future will definitely be interesting.

Your topics seems so odd and deep but very realistic for me. Personally, I hope people in the future can invent spaceships that can travel to other planets and galaxy for only few minutes of travel time. And I hope people can live longer because they will discover more vaccines and cures for all life threatening diseases such as cancers.

This speech is to be seen. Especially inherently subject to of teleportation. Albert Einstein said that "anything that has mass can travel at the speed of light" and also "You can not exceed the speed of light." I certainly do not be surprised if in 3000 years from now this theory half a century ago, could be broken. I, however, changing the subject, I support the technology, if you judge the new digital systems a "crap", means, regression, not progress! I'm not of course be argued that the ancestors of the stone age were ignorant. Indeed, in certain respects at times I would say the most intelligent of the contemporary human being.

I think 3000 years from now our lifes will be more easy, if we want somethings just says and it will be there, but I'm affraid the world will be like in the movie, the robot take over the world or there are dangerous viruses that make human become mutant,. That my imagination ^_^