The Future is Now

[Fetus4188]

I've been looking at some of these recent skyscraper threads and have been in awe at how amazing these buildings that are going to be finished in the near future are. Many of them look like they came straight out of a sci-fi film for something. Does anyone else get the feeling that we're enter a completely new stage of humanity?

You can look at many of the buildings here: http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/? (thanks to Marla for finding this site
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[~Corsair#01~]

Architecturally, certainly. Computers, definitely. Now all we need is advanced food an we're good to go.

 

[Cheetah]

Advanced food? In many sci-fi stories humans eat mostly like we do now IMO.

What we need is new, more futuristic clothes, and a new futurespeak, so to say.

And then just realise that we live in the future!

 

[WillJ]

Not until we all start wearing the exact same shiny outfit.

 

[~Corsair#01~]

Not until we all start wearing the exact same shiny outfit.

Actually, I predict we'll all wear nothing, and be protected from cold by portable forcefields.

 

[stratego]

Not until we all start wearing the exact same shiny outfit.

In Japan some people are already wearing something like this. They're light weight long sleeve shirts and pants that are air conditioned inside.

 

[Amenhotep7]

The Burj Dubai's gonna look so awesome.

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

My god, the Chinese have some really weird (not bad though) looking buildings being constructed, that are going to be really tall. One's that are as wide as they are tall, but with a huge hole in the centre. China is going to look really cool.

 

[JtheJackal]

Paper thin computer screens, invisbility clothes, commercial space flight. The world is definitely getting futuristic

 

[Syterion]

That's a great pic Amenhotep. One thing I'd like to do is time how long it takes me to run the whole shadow.

 

[G-Man]

Architecturally, certainly. Computers, definitely. Now all we need is advanced food an we're good to go.

No! I was actually asked to eat one of these new fruits that look like plastic toys and I just couldn't do it.


Syterion - Not very long if you do it when the sun is at its heighest. Then again, during this time you'll probably melt if you'll step outside.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Sorry to poop the party, but don't forget about all the fighting that's going on. We still got terrorism, al qaeda finding ways to get their hands on nuke bombs, and conventional nation vs. nation warfare.

 

[Perfection]

Now all we need is advanced food an we're good to go.

What about Dippin' Dots?

 

[Fetus4188]

Sorry to poop the party, but don't forget about all the fighting that's going on. We still got terrorism, al qaeda finding ways to get their hands on nuke bombs, and conventional nation vs. nation warfare.

Who said the future was peaceful?

 

[Cuivienen]

Does anyone else find it odd that we went from 1974 (Sears Tower) to 1998 (Petronas Towers) without any new "tallest building," but we've now got six buildings under construction, all to be finished before 2010, which will all be taller than the Petronas Towers?

 

[stormbind]

I don't think we are at a new stage of development at all. I think it's just people being overly-competitive, and for the first time, there are new players in the far east. Big buildings probably makes up for having little cars

 

[Cuivienen]

Actually, I think a lot of it is the Chinese trying to reenter the world community. Since they're still a dictatorship, state-sponsored high-rises are a quick way to make their cities look better; the public can't complain that the money is better spent on just about anything else. Most of the skyscrapers under construction are Chinese.

The Freedom Tower is an anomaly; 9-11 happened at just the right time for the US to have a "tallest-building" for a little while. I wonder if they're going to change the plans for Freedom Tower to make it taller than the Dubai skyscraper.

 

[Fetus4188]

My enlarged American ego requires the Freedom Tower to be taller. Go find the designer and tell them to double all the dimensions!

 

[Cuivienen]

I would not be surprised.

 

[alphanav1]

The sad thing is that Americans are so scared of another terrorists attack; the Freedom tower only has 72 floors. It is only 457.2 m tall, without its antenna and spire. It has forty stories less than the World Trade Center towers for Christ sakes. Not counting the Jakarta TV Tower, it’s the 4th tallest building barely edging out Taipei 101. I’m glad that people else ware are not giving into their fears like we are. I mean Burj Dubai will have over twice as many floors. So much for American resolve and not letting terrorists change their way of life.

Fixed some grammatical errors