100 years ago we didn't have TV, instant coffee, or even corn flakes

[MrScorpio]

Think up some stuff we should see in the next 100 years.

Flying cars! I want my flying cars, goddammit

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

1. Corn Flakes were invented in 1894

[DELUSIONAL]

7. That's what I thought when I saw the headline

Kellogg -- and the health food movement that started in Battle Creek Michigan. Near the turn of the century --

no link -- just my memory for trivia.

[BiggJawn]

14. Yeah, but they weren't marketed for "normal" folks until 1906.

If you had 'em before then, you must have been a resident of Kellogg's Home for Un-Repentent Wanker-Offers in Battle Creek...:D

[DELUSIONAL]

16. according to mythology of Battle Creek

The Seventh Day Adventists invented corn flakes -- and Kellogg stole the idea. Battle Creek had health resorts the SDA were into health issues long before it became popular. Some of the health resorts had some rather extreme "health" treatments.

More trivia from my SDA relatives.

[Katarina]

19. No kidding!

Have you ever watched Road to Wellville? I would say rather extreme health treatments. Ugh.

[DELUSIONAL]

21. That title sounds familiar

I've read about the "health" treatments of the turn of the century 1800s to early 19 hundreds. Hot/cold treatments, enemas, high colonics strange diets. Some of it may have been useful -- walking, fasting, country air etc. but very little science. The SDA had a prophet who used automatic writing to suggest health treatments -- that was "science" to this religion.

[BiggJawn]

22. There ain't enough room in me...

...for that much Yogurt!

[hickman1937]

27. According to Uncle John's Bathroom Reader

Dr Kelloge was a Seventh Day Adventist. It was his brother who decided to market the flakes(developed in the institute kitchens) causing a rift between the brothers that was never mended

[DELUSIONAL]

28. Gosh -- I remembered most of the story!

I knew there was a rift -- I assumed that Kellogg was the mythical villain.

This should be a question for trivial pursuit!

[LeftyMom]

26. as a cure for masturbation

really.

[PartyPooper]

33. I heard it was Graham Crackers invented as a "cure".

[LeftyMom]

37. Maybe you're right

[7th_Sephiroth]

38. it was invented

to calm sexual appitite by filling the food appitite

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

42. it didn't take

:evilgrin:

[Archae]

2. Warp drive!

Well, Star Trek said so...:crazy:

[trotsky]

4. Fuck warp drive. Gimme the holodeck!

I'll never get another thing done.

"Computer, have Leutenant Troi and Seven of Nine report to my quarters for a de-BRIEFING immediately."

[tjwash]

29. Quick, get this guy some corn flakes

:-)

[seriousstan]

3. Corn flakes were invented in 1894.

Kellogg didn't start as a company selling them until 1906.

[MrScorpio]

10. Okay, you got me on the invention date

Damn About.com

[kuozzman]

5. Microchips implanted in our bodies.

So the Chimps daughters, as President and VP, can monitor us.
:scared:

[jeff30997]

6. Holodecks !

Hurry-up dammit ! I can't wait a 100 years.

[da_chimperor]

8. Death rays!

Wait . . . nevermind. Can I change that to tribbles? :shrug:

[dr.strangelove]

9. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him, we have the technology

Gentlemen, we can rebuild him . . . we have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before, Stronger, Faster .

In 100 years there will be a shitload of bionic people and bionic dogs running around, stopping crime.

[fluffernutter]

11. a cure for cancer and aids. flying cars would be cool too :)

[daydreamer]

12. That I can handle but no anesthesia?

[tjwmason]

13. Regarding 'instant coffee'

lucky 100 years ago; ditto corn flakes (did you know that they have more salt in than sea water).

Regarding flying cars, shouldn't you be checking the oompa loompa vs. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang thread.

[woo me with science]

15. here's your flying car

i want a red one.

http://www.moller.com/skycar/

[BrotherBuzz]

20. You stole my thunder....

Moller developed that thing just up the road from me. They are planning to build a business/theme park to promote it at the old 'Milk Farm' south of Davis, California (probably be completed about the same time the FAA lets them fly it untethered - never). Hey, I understand if the FAA let them untether the damn sucker, it would travel 300+ MPH! You can have the red one, I'll wait for a stealth midnight blue model M 400. Cool!

[TahitiNut]

17. Orgasmatron.

Of course.

[Reverend_Smitty]

18. I think one actually exists...

I was watching a show on Discovery Health last week. Turns out some doctor has already invented it...for women only

[mdmc]

23. interstellar communication

im@gine

[Shadowen]

24. Practical nanotech.

With that, the rest'll just fall into place. Advanced medicines, more efficient manufacturing, replicators, super tensile solids, "perfect" materials...

[porkrind]

25. nuclear winter?

A fascist global corporatocracy in which we are all serfs/slaves? Endless war? Superplagues? Famine? Contamination of the food supply by genetic meddling? A "gray goo" nanotech catastrophe? Extreme global warming causes extinctions?

I sure some great things will happen, and I want to be optimistic, but there are some serious storm clouds on the horizon. Social progress is at a standstill. Life on earth won't get better with only just technological progress. The future ain't what it used to be.

[tjwash]

34. I'm thinking more along the lines of a super-winter brought on...

...peak oil running it's course, and our population finally running out of oil. We have pumped so much greenhouse gas in our atmosphere by burning fossil fuels the last hundred years or so, that the planet's due to balance itself out very soon.

This effect is clearly seen in our oceans. Algae and plankton abound more than ever because of all the extra CO2 that they love to eat. Once the extra co2 is removed, they'll suck up the blanket co2 that keeps us from freezing, and then, it's winter for a looooooong time.

[HEyHEY]

30. A way to make spam taste good

[EstimatedProphet]

31. Good god no! You don't want flying cars!

Think about the idiot that cuts you off while driving because he's reading or shaving or playing a banjo or performing surgery on a small animal or something equally stupid to do when driving. Now, have that happen 5000 feet in the air.
As far as cool stuff goes though, I'd like to see the ability to replace a lung with a compressed air canister, and personal force fields. Somebody equipped like that could go for a walk in outer space or on the moon or anothe planet. Very cool. John Varley's Steel Beach talks about the idea.

[Bouncy Ball]

32. A way to have electricity with no cords or plugs.

I'm working on it. But I haven't gotten anything but....what I just wrote. I have an English degree and I find that is not helping.

[7th_Sephiroth]

39. Research Tesla

he had it about down pact, but one lil miscalculation and russia claims a n asteroid took out a 15 mile chunk o its landscape

[tk2kewl]

35. How about REAL RENEWABLE ENERGY!

Pretty please.

[qwertyMike]

36. Hey dude

I was born in Ireland in 1945

What's this 100 year stuff?

Corn Flakes? That isn't food
First TV I saw when I was 16, and that was hazy because of the mountains back home.

But we had the Cisco Kid!!!!!!!!!!!!
My Dad got a car around that time - Ford Anglia
Chocolate was still rationed in 1952.
That's why I don't have a sweet tooth and am not FAT
:)

[Jack Rabbit]

40. I can live without all three

!!

[KG]

41. nueral shunts to plug into the internets.

thanks dan simmons!

[LynneSin]

43. We didn't have Fox News, Matt Drudge, Ann Coulter, Rush Limpballs....

....ahhh, them were the days!