POST 2 Technology Mason Saunders

For my prompt I am choosing to discuss future technology and it's potentials, both beneficial and not. If we look at previous guesstimates of how the future would turn out and contrast it to how the world is actually going, it becomes evident that we are typically grossly wrong. For example, according to Back to the Future II, we should be driving flying cars and having our dogs walked by robots. These, unfortunately, aren't innovations that have yet taken off in our society. While some things have actually occurred, like the ability to control things with contacts that read the motion of your eyes, none of these gadgets which have been created will really ever be economically sensible purchases. If I were to make a prediction of the future in the world, say to around the year 2150, I would have to guess that with the worlds looming population, excessive population, and nuclear capabilities, the most intelligent and obvious route for technological advances will be straight upwards. A Mars colony is not unrealistic if the advances made in the next 150 to 300 years follow the general trajectory that we have been on for the last few hundred.