Since I've watched the Back To The Future movies, I have been hoping time travel would appear in my life in one way or another. It finally did. Futurism, an online magazine, produces weekly cartoon sketches that imagine the everyday life of tomorrow, and it's as close to an 88mph DeLorean ride as anything can be.
There are three people working on the series. Luke Kingma (concept, copy, art direction), Lou Patrick Mackay (illustration), and Jacob Banas (social media). "In a broad sense, we are exploring humanity’s relationship with technology, both now and in the future," Kingma told Bored Panda. "Part of that is giving people a glimpse of what tomorrow could look like at a personal level: the good, the bad, the absurd. Occasionally, we like to comment on science fiction culture, and on political matters, because we just can't help ourselves."
No themes are off the table. "In many cases, we are looking at emerging technologies that are still in development, and asking, 'What might happen next?'" the artist added. "Other times, we are taking something we find interesting or funny about humans, and asking, 'How would this play out with robots?'" Scroll down to step into the brave new world of Futurism, and upvote your favorite pieces!
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Not could be, it's a reference to people who want to arm teachers to "prevent" school shootings.
Load More Replies...We probably do not get to see the poacher robots, and also not the habitat-destroyer robots.
Load More Replies...if this happens to humans. that isn't so surprising. humans did it to animals and humans will do the same with themsleves
And the reality might be worse: it is the microplastic that is really bad.
Load More Replies...there was actually a net invented that will clean up the entire pacific ocean in the next 10 years
If the ocean dies so do we, so if this were to be completely accurate we would just be looking at a frame full of plastic bottles. I don't know which is more depressing:/
This one reminds me once when I was at a restaurant with my husband. There was a girl sitting not far from our table. She was taking those "meal selfies" with her tablet. The screen was big enough for me to recognise myself in the background of her camera. You know what I did? Well, I smiled and posed, of course. ♥ (she noticed soon after and turned to a different angle mwhahaahah)
So, she was photographing you without your permission? She probably thought you were "ruining" her pics.
Load More Replies...I would definitely go non-instagramming I f*****g hate Instagram and I know I'm gonna get a lot of hate for saying that
It has its uses but it's mainly used by narcissists who want to publicly display every facet of their lives
Load More Replies...Why the hate though. I always take photo of my food because 1) I can send photos to my family esp when I was studying overseas 2) I have a separate (private) instagram account just for food just so i can look back on the food I enjoyed. In addition, I will not forget the food I ate and so I can always recommend food to my friends when they ask. If people are not bothering or hurting you by taking photos, dont be an a*s.
But so realistic. I've had ads for products that I didn't even look at online, but I was talking about, showing up in my social media feed.
Load More Replies...If I stare at Daniel Radcliffe's image, will they give HIM to ME?
Yeah let's upload a trojan into them and see how they like it!
Load More Replies...This one is not as bad as it seems. If we can use VR technology to navigate through dangerous places in space why not use them? Since we can always replace a drone or robot.
Bullsh*t! She's not a real stay-at-home worker if she's still wearing her pants...
I see it this way They want woman to be at home "where we belong" but still with a job to bring the money. So see a stay at home mother doing her job but not disturbing the offices with her kids things and stuff I don't know I may be wrong
I love her serious face and the dedication implied by the wearing of the uniform :)
Interesting take on this idea in the book "Oath of Fealty" by Larry Niven.
So the artist would rather eat a turkey that spent its entire life in 2 square feet of space, and had its beak and claws removed as a chick because birds kept in captivity attack and kill one another after they snap from the lack of personal space? Lab grown meat is a viable alternative to all that s**t
Clean meat is produced at less than 5% of the ecological ressources of today's meat. There's no antibiotics, no hormones, no contamination with feces and other bodily fluids, no suffering animals involved. Those sound like pretty good reasons to me.
Load More Replies...It refers to the 'drone show', which lately has became a trend in opening/closing of sport events.
Load More Replies...That was supposed to reply to Lina...stupid fingers...
Load More Replies...I like the idea that maybe they are free to live their independent, solar-powered lives between shows, and they have decided, like birds, to seasonally migrate, only returning to colder climes to fulfill their obligations and get serviced and repaired. Like the little robotic creatures in the movie "Batteries not included"!
When I 1st saw the picture, I thought about the natural migration of birds during the winter to warmer climates.... as opposed to drones migrating for the Olympics, again speaking to climate control and what children may grow up seeing.
R2-D2 robot from Star Wars movie was made from vacuum cleaner, so this could be true story
Hate to break it to you buddy but Star Wars is not a fact based documentary.
Load More Replies...They definitely would want to harm us, we kill for no reason, we waste earth/s resources without a care, eliminating mankind would logically be best for this planet. It's a no brainer.
One question, would it necessarily become a bad thing if technology became self aware? Would they really want to harm us? It’s always fascinated me.
My thoughts exactly. Why would they want to harm people, once they learn we're... Alike? Also, what if they become so intelligent that they will find more civilized solutions to achieve freedom? If violence happens, then it will be our phobia to blame.
Load More Replies...Even the modern vacuum cleaners at this day are no simple machines anymore
Load More Replies...Interesting, the number on the side of the truck is for Tesla customer support and roadside assistance.
Im proud to say that i code... and im a girl and yes the male coders pick on me... their favorite saying is "hey nerd" what they don't realize is that they call themselves nerds when they call me a nerd lol
I love that these futuristic fashions are from the '20s and '40s. Great style always makes a comeback.
That's because those women are Ada Lovelace on the left, Admiral Grace Hopper on the right, and I'm not sure about the middle one. She may be one of the six original programmers for ENIAC.
Load More Replies...Only one I like so far. Women are every bit as intelligent as men. In fact, they make better engineers.
Some of us do! But it is super dependent on the person! I'm awful with structural stuff, but I am a wizard with thermal stuff.
Load More Replies...Maybe it’s a holiday party (instead of a Christmas party) to be religion-neutral
Load More Replies...Humanity is already an existential threat to itself. What's the big deal? Things stay the same in the end.
Agreed honest robots might live on but we'll die robots could be our bodies in the future
Load More Replies...How is it a good thing that we over use and deplete water?
Load More Replies...Didn't Trump claim that the election was rigged?
Load More Replies...But a clone will never be the same age as the original? Unless we figure out how to accelerate aging during the cloning process.
Robots have taken over but Trump is still president??? Maybe they aren't so smart!
This is scary. Bug I saw a movie where the character fell on love with the "character", which was just a voice activated machine actually. and can interact to human's voice. It was scary. The guy falling in love with the voice. They even made love. Hahaha. I forgot the title. Bug it was one of the craziest movies I've ever watched.
I'll just leave this here: https://nypost.com/2018/03/23/food-tracking-tooth-fitbits-are-coming-for-your-mouth/
They actually have a tooth fit bit style microchip prototype that will tell us whether or food is providing necessary nutrients. Just think what it would do for our health.
The guy with the paper got one of those genetic tests like 23 and me. Lots of these places keep the info on your DNA. Apparently, in the future, the contract says the company can use the DNA you gave them to clone you.
Load More Replies...I am not worried one bit that someone will clone me... Not me... It would be too expensive to keep alive
The problem with cloning pets is that people don't realize the clone will almost never look or act like the original. The genes recombine differently. The DNA may be the same, but the genes that actually get expressed may not be the same. And unless you raise the animal in the exact same way as the original it will have a different personality.
I never thought in my entire life, that i would see a crazy cow lady discussing genetic on a post about comics in a website for pandas. Wow that sentence was a mouthful.
Load More Replies...The best pets are mutts from a shelter - or right off the street. My dear Ragamuffin was a stray that I rescued. My current fur babies are the offspring of another rescue.
I have no doubt that Stalin Lite over there has his scientists working on this very thing right now...
Well they do say that STEM educational subjects are the most important..
"I think, therefor I am" - Cogito, ergo sum. Past that everything is open to interpretation. we all may be very well living in simulator.
There is on little problem with that one, how do you prove you are actually thinking and not using a very elaborate decision tree or similar.
Load More Replies...Uufff... you need so much knowledge for this one. The Last Jedi + (Tom Anderson/Myspace) - (Facebook/Mark Zuckerberg ) = Relevant Subtle Comedy
Load More Replies...It *is* a thing. Named modobag, still looks silly and uncomfortable.
Load More Replies...I sometimes ride my suitcase around using my feet to make it move... Looks stupid, not practical but I'm about to leave the country so in my mind it's all forgotten when I come home
It's actually a good thing because delivery drivers are forced to drive fast to deliver in less time and they die in accidents.
I hope that the real driver can have a vr and theres a camera in robot and the driver will drive the robit so they still have jobs
Load More Replies...They are all going into deepfreeze to wait out global warming
Load More Replies...At a glance before reading the captions, this looked far more sinister. BTW: how is he going to remove his arm?!
Perhaps there is some auto-release mechanism the robot can activate????
Load More Replies...Were any of us ready for tamagotchis?! NO! We learned on the job and found soundproof hiding places!
all the way right. bald is fine, i'm taking a change of look, we don't need to f**k up another planet , but we really need to repair this one, might as well start with the coral reefs.
Cause the slogan back in the day was "one small step for man" or "man kind", something like that.
Load More Replies...I might pass that, too cheap. It can have actual lemon in it for god's sake. I will go for synthetic cloned genetically mutated version which is selling at $1 Billion.
It's like now, when a guy can also take part in women's discipline, all he has to do is change his gender ...
I don't know man, in a swim race I think I might still take Katie Ledecky over a robot.
This would depict a more realistic near- future if the gold medal winner was just a human pumped up on steroids/PEDs...
https://jalopnik.com/maserati-claims-a-bonkers-0-60-mph-time-of-under-2-seco-1826478620
It took me a second. For anyone who doesn't know, it's about the last albino rhino.
Why do the other characters seem so sad that Rafiki, Pumbaa, and the rhino are sleeping?
Last Male Northern White Rhino, sub-species of the White Rhino. His name was Sudan. But scientists are trying to save the species with genetics, so who knows?
People these days dump each and every thing about their lives on internet, and then cry of data privacy laws not strong. Recently my friend shared such a anti-Facebook post on his wall, and interestingly I exactly knew from his check-ins where he went for food and fun for last many days. Then he complains why Facebook is showing him suggestion for restaurants.
Social media is basically yelling "I ATE A SMOOTHIE WITH A SLICE OF CAKE ON IT LOOK!!!!!" really loud.
I think it's made from polyester... or recycled plastic bottles... something like that.
Load More Replies...There are a couple videos with Alexa randomly laughing by herself ....that was actually creepy.
dont understand but its 3 am... do we talk about shrinking humans or copying western culture?
I agree IKEA furniture is not easy! Saying that, I would like in IKEA if I could loo
Oh come on, of all furniture manuals, IKEA manuals are the easiest to understand.
Some might not like it, but those manuals are fool proof, you don't even have to read a single line. If you still can't build an IKEA chair... it might be time to practice a bit of self critic.
Load More Replies...A dream in German didn't sound very restful unless you're accustomed to it! "SCHVARTZVWELDKIRSCHTORTE BITTE! STATSANGERHÖRIGKEIT! DIE ERSTE STRASSE RECHTS!"
Is artist trying to show the difference in many generations? Looks like that to me.
What's the right most thing? A power bank eh? Charging charger to get charge stored for later.
There's a lesson to learn for everyone from what is happening at Capetown. If a advanced city like that can come to such fate, no one is safe.
It's an advanced city, that is way above a sustainable size for the climate it's been built on.
Load More Replies...Oh my cute. Japan should model a robot just like him. Nd it should be fluffy like him. It won't even matter if he couldn't do all those things as long as he talks that way nd I can snuggle with him. My dream toy.
Why the hell for a moment I tried to look for a boner - Destined for hell I am .
It already is way too dark. I can't watch it because it's too close to real. I know that's the point, but it's horrifying!
It should! It'd save 43% of aircraft weight if we switched to graphene for electronics!
Is the joke that such a "graphene breakthrough" is still very far away?
More that the breakthrough has been promised as imminent for years.
Load More Replies...The only hang up now with Graphene is being able to produce large amounts of it economically. Once we do that which we are very close to, then that will greatly reduce our usage of plastics and other materials.
I would never do that, Mars is so bleak, and earth is so beautiful. And as the scientific history tells us, mother nature will take only so much from us before going back to dinosaurs again. She would be like, ok enough, lets reset and start from scratch. No offense to religious people who think god put 2 white people on earth and they made rest of 7 billion of us and considering the amount of inbreeding, very few retards.
Yeah. Also Ready player one is great, if u havent read it , ur missing out
Load More Replies...Yeah, not sure why you'd do that.... I've been there, get out of Kowloon and its amazing in Hong Kong, stay in Kowloon and just find a bar...
Kowloon Walled City and Kowloon are not the same thing. Kowloon Walled City was demolished in 1987, whilst Kowloon is a geographical area in Hong Kong that is as great as Hong Kong Island but a lot cheaper.
Load More Replies...And Tom Delonge was the guitarist for Blink 182 before (he went full a*****e), but he's always been an alien conspirator.
Load More Replies...This will creep me out to find robot bees making colony near my house. M. Zuck - are you behind this?
I think this is a vice versa reference to the fact that until humanity evolved, the dinosaurs went extinct, so in our effort to recreate plastic dinosaurs we’ll go extinct cause we are using oil and chemicals to create plastic and other materials in order to make these toys, but in terms of time - we’ll wipe out faster cause of our over consumerism...
Load More Replies...I just recently saw the video of him walking into a pole while not watching where he was going, walking on the street Ahahah made my day. I totally recommend it
That is so old. There is loads of more recent stuff he's done to hate him for.
Load More Replies...These were really interesting. It’s difficult to give speculations of the future, but these were definitely all worth reading.
This is the most refreshing comic post on Boredpanda since ages! Very interesting and funny/sad haha
Nice concepts but maybe some of the pictures will become a reality in the far future. Good thing is that we won't be alive when this happens.
These were really interesting. It’s difficult to give speculations of the future, but these were definitely all worth reading.
This is the most refreshing comic post on Boredpanda since ages! Very interesting and funny/sad haha
Nice concepts but maybe some of the pictures will become a reality in the far future. Good thing is that we won't be alive when this happens.
