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[quote who="AncientEmperor" reply="25" id="2097584"]i think every one here can not comprehend the human races technological capabilities. look at us 2,000 yrs ago, we were nothing but primitive people who were just beginning to understand civil life. the next 1,000 yrs we conquered civil life, sea farring, the earth itself, and we began to dream of flight. in the last 1,000 yrs we had a major boom in technological advancement, mastering: mechanics, electricity, industry, flight, the auto mobi

[quote who="-CU-Raptor" reply="17" id="2097212"]The biggest thing we will see with in the next 100 or so years is the improvements in nano technology. Current experts on technological development predict nanobots will be able prolong the human life time forever, and thats easily technology available in 100 years. [/quote] Even with nanobots the human lifespan can never be infinite, not unless you were able to download your entire personality, complete with memories, into s

[quote who="Jalicos" reply="7" id="2096211"] Back on topic, I like science fiction for the unusual concepts it supplies. Amazing gadgets, engaging mysteries, and possible futures are all interesting, but my favorite stories are the ones that make me go, "Whoah! I never thought of that before." I've found Vernor Vinge, Charles Stross, and to a lesser degree Peter Hamilton and Cory Doctorow useful in this regard.[/quote] Have you ever read anything by Isaac Asimov? If not, I sugges

The thing I dislike about the whole time distortion thing is that perhaps the colonists will be fine, but their lives won't. Their lives back on Earth will be gone forever. Plus, if it takes them a thousand years to reach their destitination, imagine how archaic their technology would be by the time they got to whever they were going. As to the whole extraterrestrial civilization thing, I believe that we probably won't find as many races as violent as we are out in the

I agree with the poverty thing. Ultimately androids will take over the labor that humans can't do efficiently or effectively such as custodial duties, garbage collection, construction, and so forth. And I say androids because building several specialized robots that preform only one specific task would ultimately be too costly for the corporations that create them and the businesses that contract them. Androids, being human-like in form, can "learn" to use human tools and can therefore become

Hello all, I am obviously new here and, because I cannot find any kind of introduction thread or area, I have decided to introduce myself in this topic. I am very interested in science fiction (as I imagine most people who like Sins of a Solar Empire are), I happen to do some science fiction artwork (mostly spacescapes but I also write some stories). I was just wondering, what is your favorite thing about science fiction? The