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Hmm... I think it might be slightly optomistic to predict that much.
I think that, certainly in 100 years, these things would become science fact rather than science fiction.
I really enjoyed that game.. I won, but the clone was still out there..

Future predictins always rely on possibility instead of practicality. Flying cars are a prime example. They have been predicted for a long time, but people don't have them because they are cool but not really practical. I'll bet things fifty years from now don't change much. If anything - when the fossile fuels run out things may get worse.

I'm a little skeptical about the whole "Space Elevator" thing.

I see where a suit could turn you invisible. There's some guy who already made it possible, but It's large and hard to carry. I don't know all of the details, but I do know that it's not very practical. 50 years of work could perfect it! 3nodding

*thinks of the movie '2001: A Space Odyssey'*
All of these inventions will probably be made by then, I guess making them practical, efficient, affordable and available is what's really going to take the time.

I saw something on a similar show called 2020 where they had a hologram which... er, I think it was a copy of a persons face, and the mouth moved and the head moved, but it was... difficult for them, and the machines were pretty chunky. Plus I think they might have had to use smoke or some such. Although they did have some pretty moving dolphin holograms that weren't actually real...

It's kind of hard to judge the speed at which these things are going to advance really.

Your right, i've read that book and the books and it seems oddly similar. I think the idea comes from a basic principle though, a light utility to be used under the heat of battle.

Allow me to chime in with my own pessimistic prongnosis for the furure...

I have read in many books how human advancement has increased exponentially over the last few hundred years, and that it will continue to increase exponentially into the future, leading to unimaginable advances in science and technology. Could an ancient Egyptian have imagine the light bulb? Or a Roman the internal combustion engine? Sounds great!

I have a prediction, which I have shared with a few, and some agree with me on. We'll see what people here think. Human advancement has indeed increased exponentially over the past few hundred years as the books I read say. None of them really explain why. Here is my thoughts. What other things have increased exponentially over that same time period. First, and most obviously, the human population. It seems reasonable that as human society grows in size, its rate of advancement will increase. After all 2 billion heads is better than 1 billion... and 6 billion better still. Along with size, human energy consumption has increased. This is partly explained by the pupulation increase, as more people need more energy. But I beleive there is more. Tapping into fossile fuels was the discovery of a huge storehouse of energy. This allowed for a rapid surge in human advancement. As I mentioned earlier, when this energ source is depleted the rules of the game will change drastically. Human pupulation could fall, as will our level of advancement. In short - and this is the pessimistic part I warned you about - humanity may very well be at the apex of our civilization. What goes up must come down. Sorry for the doom and gloom prophecy. But there is hope. If we can tap a new source of energy then we may find that the end of the fossile fuel age isn't a descent into a lower level of human development, but a transition into a higher level. Then, maybe the optimistic can become reality.