Posted on 03/30/2012 7:45:41 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Which Science Fictional Scenario Is Most Likely to Happen in Your Lifetime?
Science fiction is full of fantastic and horrifying scenarios, many of which seem like they could come true any time. But which of them is really going to materialize and which is most likely to happen in your lifetime?
Vote in our poll for the science fictional scenario that you're most likely to live to witness for yourself:
Which Science Fictional Scenario Is Most Likely to Happen in Your Lifetime?
Global Pandemic
Moonbase
World War III/Nuclear Apocalypse
Suspended Animation
The Singularity
Something Else (See Comments)
Martian Colony
(NOTE: Go to the IO9 link provided here. Scroll down on the page and then vote your choice.)
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Moonbase 23.27% (2,356 votes)
Martian Colony 2.76% (279 votes)
Suspended Animation 3.2% (324 votes)
World War III/Nuclear Apocalypse 16.61% (1,682 votes)
Global Pandemic 39.05% (3,953 votes)
The Singularity 11.31% (1,145 votes)
Something Else (See Comments) 3.8% (385 votes)
Total Votes: 10,124
Contact with alien life gets my vote.
Where is alien contact?
Also, I know what a singularity is, but I have to look up what “the singularity” means.
The entire movie “Idiocracy.”
Alien contact? I suppose it would fall under Somethng Else.
Singularity ... think computers becoming aware like “Terminator”
More at:
Brave New World.
Which Science Fictional Scenario Is Most Likely to Happen in Your Lifetime?
1984...
Bump that. We are 50% of the way there. Just waiting for Starbucks to change their menu.
Global Pandemic gets my vote as well. Tic-toc
Dystopia
America becomes like North Korea but closer to Mad Max
“The Singularity” used here refers to the belief popularized by writer Ray Kurzweil in his book “The Singularity is Near” that at some future point in time Robot intelligence will exceed human intelligence (probably around 2045 AD.) and they will take over the reins of civilization. Hope that helps; if still curious get the book published by Viking.
manchurian candidate
I wish there was another choice on the list. I remember reading a science fiction novel when I was in junior high.
It was about the massive amount of moron inhabitants of earth that were ruled by a few at the top. Everyone had been dumbed down.
Wish I could remember the author and title.
I guess I forgot, because it really WAS science fiction back then to me.
I was looking forward to a wonderful future in THIS country and couldn’t imagine something like that happening, even in the FAR future.
Both are excellent choices I think. And both scenarios are very well advanced. I think we should toss in a little “Canticle for Liebowitz” as well. We’re entering a new Dark Age, not from a nuclear apocalypse (yet), but from a general loss of respect for the type of learning that makes cultures rich, vibrant and respectful of Universally Important Things.
Sounds like “Idiocracy” if the few rulers at the top were slso morons.
I vote for moon landing, a real one, not one faked on a historic (Fatsy Arbuckle, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell and others) Burbank movie lot.
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