[CarlosFonke]

"I believe that given another 50-80 years, mankind will learn most of what there is to know about how everything works and will be able to manipulate reality with what we would call today 'godlike' powers."

See 19th century physics.

[null and void]

*yawn*

Wake me when they prefect The Manslator

[RobRoy]

Are you referring to things like the claim that the old head of the patent office saying that everything that can be invented, has been invented?

I remember, back in the mid-1970’s when I sold stereos that my buddies and I were all over all the articles about flat screen TV and it would be out some day, but all the predictions were baloney. The technologies never panned out.

Yet here we are, now...

There was a show on the history channel back in the mid’1990s about technology. Their prediction at the time was that if you took a “modern” man and projected him 25 years into the future, he would think the world worked on magic. I think they were right. Many of the things we take for granted now were unthinkable then. Literally.

One case in point: http://www.questvisual.com/

Remember, in 1995, a small flat screen tv was $25,000, few people had cell phones, and they were AMAZING in that you could actually save phone numbers on them. ;)

And few people used the internet or were even aware of it. And then there is medical technology...