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Edited by gethyn007:
3/28/2016 9:34:51 AM
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What sci-fi/futuristic stuff scares you the most?
Maybe it's something we're already doing, maybe it's a direction we're heading. Maybe it's technological as in artificial intelligence, cloning, nano-tech, stealth, Trek-style transporters or holodecks. Maybe it involves extraterrestrials, meteors, viruses, censorship, invasion of privacy, WWIII, the end of the world as we know it, or some sort of earth-shattering discovery. Perhaps it's fascinating to you yet potentially very dangerous. It can be way out there or something you feel is far more realistic. You aren't obligated to show why you think it may happen. It's up to you.
What sci-fi/futuristic stuff scares you the most?
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Robots getting self concious. If they were like us then why would they accept having fever rights and why would they follow their human masters. I fear a man vs robot war might be coming.
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Borg.
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Ever watched Event Horizon? ;_;
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11 RepliesFilthy Synths
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2 RepliesTryphophobia scares me to death, it makes the hard skin on my heel crawl. I've said this because in every other possible situation I'm going to be more overpowered than a dovahkijn with dragonbone armour. Note if you want to defeat me throw a leaf with some holes in it to defeat me
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The off-topic fourms
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1 ReplyNow I'm probably only saying this because I just finished the game, but anyway (spoilers for Tom Clancy's The Division) [spoiler]I am terrified of catching numerous nasty diseases in real life, in the division New York has been hit by a diseases created from a mix of smallpox, ebola and a couple others. Thing is, it wasn't made in a lab as such. Instead, a man managed to reconstruct a virus genome on a computer, where he could easily tweak it to make it more deadly or contagious, like in the strategy game plague Inc. He could then basically use a 3-d printer to make a physical copy. Terrifying.[/spoiler]
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Mirelurks
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Eh, Gattica had a nice dystopian undertone that still resonates with me. But the way things are headed, Orwell's looking more and more like a prophet.
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Destiny 2.
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2 Repliesyou losing your virginity ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) [i]-OTLenny[/i]
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5 RepliesEdited by LahDsai: 3/28/2016 6:45:11 PMBeing more connected. One of my favorite times of the day is my commute to work. It's only 15 minutes each way, but while I'm driving I'm completely free. The rest of the day, if the phone rings (be it my wife, work or someone with a question), I'm expected to answer it. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen from time to time. When I'm driving, however, I can ignore my phone. If it rings, I just let it. When I call or text back later I can just say, "Sorry, I was driving," and there's no hassle. I'm kind of dreading the advent of driverless cars because I'm sure that "extra time" is going to translate to, "Now you have more time to get more work done." I'm also not too keen on more connectivity because as often as people talk about the value of privacy, all too often they willingly give it away for the sake of convenience. What's worse is that, as more people do it, the more expected it is. It's also getting increasingly more difficult to avoid. I knew a girl who's boyfriend cheated on her, so she broke up with him. He kept trying to get in contact with her to get her back and she ended up blocking him on Facebook. He could still find her every time someone tagged her in a photo or checked in, though. It got to the point where she had to specifically ask people to NOT tag her for a month or two until the guy gave up and moved on. There's also the problem of semi-obligatory conformity. It used to be that if you held an unpopular opinion, you just kept it to yourself until you were in likeminded company. Now, you need to be looking over your shoulder all the time. Take, for example, the [url=http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/03/europe/france-weatherman-sacked-climate/]French weatherman who was fired for challenging climate change[/url]. It's not just opinions either. If you do something people some people might not approve of, such as [url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1354515/Teacher-sacked-posting-picture-holding-glass-wine-mug-beer-Facebook.html]posing with alcohol as a teacher[/url], it can come back and bite you in the ass. I won't say people are becoming more aggressive towards unpopular opinions (cyber-bullying is arguably better than a lynch-mob), but they seem to be more actively trying to snuff them out (or at least have an easier time rallying). Social pressure is the greatest tool of the thought police, and the more our lives end up online, the harder it will be to avoid and the easier it will be to ostracize and push for conformity.
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My own future.
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13 RepliesEdited by FightinFinn 2-7: 3/28/2016 6:18:58 PMAI, in general. Everyone saw how quickly Microsoft's little AI test went. Now picture a "learning" AI with a body. That is bad news! Not to mention the above example is just creepy! EDIT: It appears most people share my fear!
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The fact that we don't have any practical way to communicate over large distances in space worries me. Its not a surprise that aliens haven't came here, because light takes time to travel, so all of our radio waves would take 4.2 billion years just to get to the closest star to us. We solve this, by creating a new way of communication that would have to not comply with classical physics. Imagine the possibilities if we could communicate anywhere instantly. Imagine what we would hear. I fear that not happening.
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2 RepliesDiscovering a intelligent alien species outside our solar system. If we can't even handle the racism on our own planet, how in the world could we possibly handle dealing with a alien?
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1 ReplyVR porn. Shit is addicting. [spoiler]I know we have it now, but wait till it gets more advanced.[/spoiler]
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Hackability of the evolving technology.
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I am very optimistic about the future of technology and such. I fear nothing but one thing. Classic "grey aliens" . Y'know. With the big grey heads and huge black eyes? They just creep me out I'm fine with all other aliens but greys just creep me out of my skin.
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Fullmetal everything's running around killing organics
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1 ReplyYou know those killer mannequins from Dr. Who?
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3 RepliesIt doesn't scare me but the way Jupiter's Great Red spot has shrunk by 50% in the last century is strange
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RFIDs - the idea of it becoming mandatory for everyone to have one, every new born child, etc. The reasons could be well-intentioned, like being able to locate those who've committed crimes, finding a child or elderly person with Alzheimer's or something, finding someone who's been kidnapped, easy and permanent identification, shopping convenience - you name it. It could be a "the road to Hell is paved with good intentions" kind of thing, however, when you consider the enormous amount of negative possibilities to go along with it and how easily this could be misused. It could be a major "big brother is watching you" scenario, so there goes privacy or escape should things go really south with the government. Then there's the possibility of these things getting hacked or identities being stolen, or something along those lines. Oh, and for the religious folks, there's the eery resemblance to "the mark of the beast" lol Yeah, mandatory RFIDs is definitely a scary thing.
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Microsoft Daleks
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Microsoft Daleks
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