What things will die out in the next 10 years?

Page 3 of 4 [ 56 posts ] Go to page Previous 1, 2, 3, 4 Next

Joined: 18 Jun 2012
Age: 60
Gender: Female
Posts: 20,484
Location: Aux Arcs

25 Dec 2013, 2:17 pm

I'd hope idiots,but they seem to be thriving.
My guess is chemical food additives,more people seem to be demanding food that is chemical free.
Some cancers and illness seem to be heading out thanks to new medical technology.
No telling how many creatures we will push over the edge to extinction.Tigers,turtles,etc...
Arctic ice.
Water that has no trace of no trace of man made chemicals.Big demand for water purifiers.
If the right meteor comes along,us.

_________________
I am the dust that dances in the light. - Rumi

Kurgan
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 6 Apr 2012
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Posts: 4,132
Location: Scandinavia

25 Dec 2013, 4:14 pm

AspieOtaku wrote:

Hopefully religion being one of those 10 things, particularly the Abrahamic religions so i dont have to be hated for not believing in some invisible imaginary make believe being from a book of fairy tales that contradicts itself time and time again and provides no physical evidence of any existence. The whole worship this being or burn for an eternity doesnt sound very nice not to mention people blowing themselves up for an imaginary friend doesnt help things with society either not to mention forbidding science advancements like stem cell research and cloning and such which could help the human race progress by far. I just notice most of the advanced countries are mainly athiest take a look at Shanghai Tokyo etc mostly athiest populous heh. If religion is done away with there would be a lot less wars and crap.

When was the last time a christian country attacked a christian country? The USSR and the PCR were enemies until the 1980's, despite being both officially atheist countries.

puddingmouse
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 24 Apr 2010
Age: 38
Gender: Female
Posts: 8,777
Location: Cottonopolis

25 Dec 2013, 4:38 pm

Fnord wrote:

Poetry that rhymes and has regular metre.

Well, I'll still be writing it.

I think (not just hope) AIDS will disappear (not HIV, though)

_________________
Zombies, zombies will tear us apart...again.

smudge
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 6 Sep 2006
Age: 37
Gender: Female
Posts: 7,716
Location: Moved on

26 Dec 2013, 9:14 am

Venger wrote:

smudge wrote:

I think people are mad to download music. Mp3s are so inferior to CD quality.

The physical copy of the CD w/sleeve is usually better for collection purposes too, especially if you're a big fan of the artist.

True, and looking inside the sleeves brings back memories for me. I'm sounding old.

Kurgan wrote:

Vinyls also have superior quality to CDs, but ultimately yielded to CDs because of portability issues. The very same thing happened to CDs in favour of streaming and MP3s. Given that Spotify Premium allows 320 kbps, you no longer notice much of a difference compared to CDs.

I only heard that vinyls had a "warmer" sound than CDs, but I didn't think they were better quality, especially since they get scratched and aren't crystal clear like CDs...unless they're scratched too, but they aren't so easily.

_________________
I've left WP.

Venger
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 15 Apr 2008
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,519

26 Dec 2013, 10:00 am

puddingmouse wrote:

I think (not just hope) AIDS will disappear (not HIV, though)

Perhaps Magic Johnson will finally reveal his secret miracle cure for HIV/AIDS. lol

pete1061
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 12 Nov 2011
Age: 55
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,766
Location: Portland, OR

26 Dec 2013, 10:32 am

Misslizard wrote:

Unfortunately, a LOT of profit is being made off of the use of chemical food additives, was well as the insane amount made off of treating rather than curing cancer. It's going to be a long hard battle to get rid of those things.

...and I keep hoping for the meteor :wink:

_________________
Your Aspie score: 172 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 35 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie
Diagnosed in 2005

The_Walrus
Forum Moderator

Joined: 27 Jan 2010
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Posts: 8,878
Location: London

26 Dec 2013, 12:20 pm

pete1061 wrote:

Misslizard wrote:

Unfortunately, a LOT of profit is being made off of the use of chemical food additives, was well as the insane amount made off of treating rather than curing cancer.

If a company could create a drug that reliably cures or prevents cancer then they'd make a killing (if you'll pardon the turn of phrase). The market would favour the development of that drug. A company that stumbled across such a drug would definitely push it so that they could make as much money from it a) whilst it was still in patent, and b) before other companies stumbled across it.

Kurgan
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 6 Apr 2012
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Posts: 4,132
Location: Scandinavia

26 Dec 2013, 2:41 pm

Venger wrote:

puddingmouse wrote:

I think (not just hope) AIDS will disappear (not HIV, though)

Perhaps Magic Johnson will finally reveal his secret miracle cure for HIV/AIDS. lol

The treatment is to either be very rich or to live in a welfare state. That way, HIV won't progress into AIDS.

Last edited by Kurgan on 26 Dec 2013, 2:49 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Kurgan
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 6 Apr 2012
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Posts: 4,132
Location: Scandinavia

26 Dec 2013, 2:49 pm

smudge wrote:

Venger wrote:

smudge wrote:

I think people are mad to download music. Mp3s are so inferior to CD quality.

The physical copy of the CD w/sleeve is usually better for collection purposes too, especially if you're a big fan of the artist.

True, and looking inside the sleeves brings back memories for me. I'm sounding old.

Kurgan wrote:

True. However, since CDs are digital, the digital signal is not a perfect, continuous capture, but a discrete approximation with ones and zeros—and thus, some (usually insignificant) infirmation will be lost. A vinyl isn't bottlenecked by bit depth and sampling rate.

zer0netgain
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 2 Mar 2009
Age: 57
Gender: Male
Posts: 6,615

26 Dec 2013, 5:35 pm

The_Walrus wrote:

If a company could create a drug that reliably cures or prevents cancer then they'd make a killing (if you'll pardon the turn of phrase).

Until the zombie apocalypse, and then we have to wait for Will Smith to find the cure. :lol:

lotuspuppy
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 14 Jan 2008
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Posts: 995
Location: On a journey to the center of the mind

28 Dec 2013, 7:27 am

I just heard on a local NPR program that all of the Hollywood film distributors will stop giving theaters 35mm film by January 1 of next year. Instead, films will be shipped on special hard drives. It's far cheaper for studios to do it this way, but the theaters need to spend $100,000 a screen to convert to a digital screen. So I guess we could say 35mm is dead, at least to all but a few puritanical film makers.

pete1061
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 12 Nov 2011
Age: 55
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,766
Location: Portland, OR

28 Dec 2013, 9:05 am

The_Walrus wrote:

pete1061 wrote:

Misslizard wrote:

Unfortunately, a LOT of profit is being made off of the use of chemical food additives, was well as the insane amount made off of treating rather than curing cancer.

That would be a battle for said company with a cure. When you are talking the kind of money that is being made off of the treatment of cancer, the pharmaceutical industry is willing to play really dirty, the kind of dirty pool that would make the mafia jealous. It's all about profits for them, they could care less if it means keeping people sick for that profit. And they WILL take anyone out who threatens those billions.

_________________
Your Aspie score: 172 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 35 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie
Diagnosed in 2005

Misslizard
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 18 Jun 2012
Age: 60
Gender: Female
Posts: 20,484
Location: Aux Arcs

28 Dec 2013, 9:07 am

The chemicals give you cancer and then you have to take chemicals to get rid of cancer.

_________________
I am the dust that dances in the light. - Rumi

ezbzbfcg2
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 15 Feb 2013
Age: 42
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,977
Location: New Jersey, USA

31 Dec 2013, 4:40 am

Kurgan wrote:

I like vinyl, but it's a lot like a brand new car. It begins depreciating in value as soon as it's purchased. Vinyl, you see, requires more physical handling than a CD, which slowly but surely damages the medium. Also, the whole mechanism by which it is played -- a needle cutting into plastic -- is more destructive to quality than a laser light hitting a CD.

That said, CDs themselves have gone down in quality. A CD made of MP3 files is not as hi-fi as a professionally mastered disc using the raw Redbook or WAV standards. I've heard a lot of commercial CDs nowadays just use MP3 files converted to Redbook, rather than raw masters recorder directly to CD.

ezbzbfcg2
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 15 Feb 2013
Age: 42
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,977
Location: New Jersey, USA

31 Dec 2013, 4:44 am

Fnord wrote:

Amateur Radio / Citizens' Band Radio

Conversation

Face-to-Face meetings

Porn Shops

Table-Top Role-Playing Games

CB has been a novelty for some 20 years now if not longer.

Conversation and Face-to-Face meetings will always be popular among NTs. Hell, it defines them.

Venger
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 15 Apr 2008
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,519

31 Dec 2013, 10:23 am

ezbzbfcg2 wrote:

Conversation and Face-to-Face meetings will always be popular among NTs. Hell, it defines them.

lol, other "pee-pull" is one of their NT special-interests.

Page 3 of 4 [ 56 posts ] Go to page Previous 1, 2, 3, 4 Next

Jump to:

Similar Topics
Elk Could Return to the UK After 3K Years In Rewilding in News and Current Events	07 May 2025, 6:50 pm AnonymousAnonymous
Quashed conviction after nearly 40 years in News and Current Events	13 May 2025, 4:52 pm babybird
Returning to Modding After 10 Years – Relearning Everything in Computers, Math, Science, and Technology	30 Jun 2025, 4:40 pm Sable Noctis
Defended murder trial, 22 years later client diagnosed ASD in Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation	21 May 2025, 5:57 pm kokopelli

What things will die out in the next 10 years? Post Reply New Topic

What things will die out in the next 10 years?