What will people be using now in 5 years and what will they be using it for?
Assuming that networks like myspace, facebook, tumblr, and other blogging sites will probably still be popular five years from now. I'm sure they will change, probably become even more addictive. Five years from now, we will probably be using those sites a little differently as well. They have already turned a different directions since they have started. More people meet over the internet rather than face to face. A lot more advertising and spam will take over some of those sites. Money will start to play a bigger role in new applications for those type of sites. Maybe even the news will begin to get more involved just because those sites are usually the most populated. It's hard to say what will be going on over the internet 5 years from now, it changes so frequently that we almost don't feel the changes that are happening. We connect a lot through this the internet. It's possible that a lot more jobs will start to form where you spend most of your time on the internet. There probably will be a lot more help lines to where you talk to someone over the internet rather than over the phone. Maybe we won't even actually talk to a person but rather a computer.
new technology .... I'm guessing books will probably be less likely to be printed and more popular on screens.
15 years from now ....
Technology-wise, a lot will change. The technology we use now, what makes it 15 years, will probably be smaller. New companies will have formed promoting their new technology. Maybe a company like Apple will make it, or maybe a new company even more popular will come along. Our music, tv shows, movies, and cyperspace will all be affected. CD's have already become less popular, I'm guessing in 15 years most of our music will be bought through something to where we don't even have hard copies. Movies, like dvds, blu-rays, and now 3d disks will probably stay around a little longer. Everything we see will probably be a little more in your face, popping out like we're wearing 3D glasses. I can assume then that healthy-wise we will all be affected. Such as worse eye sight, hearing, headaches, ect. Our media will probably become a little more controlling, not that it isn't already but it will be even more so. Everything will move at a much more rapid pace, new technology will show up that will make us even lazier. There's really a lot of possibilities and the weirdest thing is that their are people out there that already know what our future will look like. The first flying cars might come out but probably not be popular yet, faster transportation, less actually face to face communication. A lot will be digital.
50 years from now ...
There will defiantly be an over population of people, technology, trash, ect. The types of jobs we have now probably won't be as popular anymore. Technology might take over a lot of the jobs we have. The way we live will become closer, everything will be much more populated. I can't really see there being too much ground space, or as much as there is now. A lot will change in technology, a lot is always changing in technology. What we see or do now will be out of date. Our laptops, maybe they won't even be laptops. As popular as they are now, if they are around the size of our cell phones now will be our laptop sizes with expandable screens. I'm thinking our screens will probably be like holograms. Our bodies will probably have our own new technologies built in. We might all have this type of communication build into us to where we connect more in that way.
other subjects to consider for the future ......
sports - I know that sports right now, and have always been, really popular. I'm assuming that our feelings toward sports aren't going to change. What I see changing is how we play sports. I feel like the way we play against each other will be more like clocking in to a building, stepping into a room or area of your own. Where a type of computer will download your skills and you will play virtually against other teams that could be in a different rooms or buildings, or maybe states, countries, ect. Distance will not be as much of a problem. It might be rare to actually see other teams. But there will also be a way to view those players actions so that it still looks like a game.
exercise - For me, this is important. This is something that already really isn't that popular anymore. I really want to know how they are going to change exercise in a positive and useful way in the future. Already there are things like WiiFit, but those types of things aren't as beneficial as they advertise. I have yet to hear a "success story" involving exercise and technology. Maybe our exercise will be just how we will play sports. We'll go to our own private rooms, clock into a computer and have the ability to change the temperature and scenery of the room to better fit our atmosphere to how we like to workout.
food/health - What I think about is also from the movie the Island. To where a computer tests your sugar levels, cholesterol levels, and your overall health to decide what we will eat. I can't really imagine how food will change, but it most certainly will. There will be a day in the future where we won't go to grocery stores, we'll have some sort of hook up in our houses that our food will get sent from and we'll pay like atms.
transportation - I know flying cars are already a possibility but I wonder how our trains, airplanes, buses, and subways will be effected by the changes of the future. We will have a need for them if we have cars that fly? Will they travel faster? Will public transportations become more popular or even less popular?
