Describe your typical day in the year 2030.

[Polaris]

Go on then.

 

[QuickTwist]

No idea. I don't even plan a year in advanced, how am I supposed to plan that far out?

 

[Ex-User (14663)]

Machines have taken over all jobs, the only way people can make money is to receive universal basic income. Thus there is no point to doing anything, so I wake up in the morning, put on my virtual-reality goggles and watch 3D porn all day. All food has become liquid and is transported straight into your veins by calling a takeout restaurant, which means we can stay in a chair 24/7.

 

[The Gopher]

Machines have taken over all jobs, the only way people can make money is to receive universal basic income. Thus there is no point to doing anything, so I wake up in the morning, put on my virtual-reality goggles and watch 3D porn all day. All food has become liquid and is transported straight into your veins by calling a takeout restaurant, which means we can stay in a chair 24/7.

You almost sound disappointed.

 

[ZenRaiden]

Probs not that different from today. Ill just be doing something better. My life tends to gradually improve.

 

[lightfire]

I walk outside of my camo tent and take a deep breath of fresh burning tires and post apocalyptic chemical air.

I pull out my non smart phone ( a refurbisbed Nokia Alcatel 7300Z flip phone) to check for texts. Nothing. I smile. Feels nice not knowing what's going on in a world as now the survivors have whored themselves out to big brands on social media.

Time to go hunt some rabid wild chicken and continue living off the grid.

That or I died because I "accidentally' got locked in a Turkey pen at a petting zoo.

 

[Cognisant]

In a cold dimly lit room shrouded in fog various machines hum and whir, pumping, nourishing, aspirating, dialyzing, filtering and analyzing. Organs of metal and glass connected by translucent tubes and rubber cables lit by LEDs blinking esoterically. In the center of it all there’s a humanoid body with its skin flayed off and its muscles withering, disemboweled, dissected, and floating in a tube. Drowned but not asphyxiated, lidless eyes staring blindly, brain exposed and perforated by countless electrode filaments.

"How long?"
"Five hundred and eighty two days."
"Cause of death?"
"Alzheimer's technically it's still alive, just..."
"Flush it, I've no interest in developing life extension for brain dead chimps."

 

[baccheion]

Machines taking over all jobs will be like customer service being outsourced to India. While stupid, I bet they try to do it anyway.

I'll be rich, retired, and messing with the girl of my dreams in a nice house. Travelled the world? Maybe. Maybe it'd be fun, but I think most destinations have been ruined. May still end up doing it, even if only due to woman pleasing.

 

[Bertrand Russell's Barber]

I'm not too optimistic about progress so if you ask me about 2030, I compare now to 2009/2010.

So, extrapolating, where I live, smart homes that track the amount of electricity you use with different devices would probably be common place, we'd also probably be paying by scanning QR codes instead of using cards or cash, we'd probably be withdrawing money from ATMs the same way too.

Similarly, the devices you use day to day will continue sending data to the cloud and be able to make better and better predictions about you. Likely, you could also leave your phone/computer to reply messages, take calls, and reply emails on your behalf. Mesh networking would probably be more common place. You could even have everyday devices like lamps and fans act as routers.

With regards to AR/VR, I'm even less optimistic. There's a hardware lag that needs to be settled first. Oh yeah, with regards to hardware, your computers will probably come with TPUs (tensor processing units) to accelerate tasks involving machine learning (of course, training is done on the cloud. All your device does is load the model and use it for prediction)

Also, personally, I hope some kind of peer-to-peer protocol that sits on top of http takes off. See IPFS and filecoin and the like.

Also, maybe we'll start using post-quantum cryptography given that quantum computers in 10 years time might be powerful enough to break the keys derived from elliptic curve cryptography today.

See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersingular_isogeny_key_exchange