Also, are you going to *force* the homeless off the streets into your internment facilities, Mali?

Also, are you going to *force* the homeless off the streets into your internment facilities, Mali?

Health Camps. Sometimes, a government has to use a weighty hand for the good of the population.

I wonder if they're going to put a cut-off date on existing internal combustion engine cars being taken off the road, or if they'll allow natural wastage to take care of it?

They could become quite coveted and valuable in a world of boring electric cars, especially Audi S4s in Ibis White, I reckon.

They could become quite coveted and valuable in a world of boring electric cars, especially Audi S4s in Ibis White, I reckon.

I'll be too old by then to care.

I reckon that by 2040 this will seem like some idiotically pointless legislation, in much the same way that it isn't really necessary to ban the sale of new steam traction engines for fear of everyone deciding that it would be better to take their kids to school in some pathetically slow ten tonne curiosity that was invented in the 19th century and powered by coal.

"I'll give you my petrol hose when you pry it from my cold, dead hands."

Sale of new Petrol and diesel cars to be banned in UK from 2040 because of air quality issues

We're just gradually winding everything down for when we become extinct

It's a pointless promise anyway. How can a 2017 government commit to something 23 years into the future?

Well, a few years ago Shropshire Council granted Veolia with a 27 year contract to run the area's recycling and refuse collections.

Giving someone a cast-iron contract and making a commitment to stop doing something a long way in the future are two completely different things though.

When we invent teleporters, what's going to happen to the roads?

When we invent teleporters, what's going to happen to the roads?

People wouldn't have hoverboards for the road, they'd teleport to the skate park.

Clarkson will theoretically be 80. He might still be around.

I don't like teleporters. I subscribe to the theory that teleporters kill you, from the moment you use one you will experience nothing ever again, but nobody else will be able to tell.

If we're in imaginary world you might as well imagine them too.

Elon Musk's underground vacuum tubes will be everywhere by then. You'll be fired in a capsule at 7 times the speed of sound to exactly where you want to go!

I don't like teleporters. I subscribe to the theory that teleporters kill you, from the moment you use one you will experience nothing ever again, but nobody else will be able to tell.

You'll be like a chewed up Pepparami in a Fleshlight.

I don't like teleporters. I subscribe to the theory that teleporters kill you, from the moment you use one you will experience nothing ever again, but nobody else will be able to tell.

Perhaps in future times they'll have uncovered the secrets of consciousness and those questions would no longer be philosophical. You won't catch me in one, though. I'll tell you that!

Perhaps in future times they'll have uncovered the secrets of consciousness and those questions would no longer be philosophical. You won't catch me in one, though. I'll tell you that!

I've often wondered about that. A true teleporter that actually sends You (capital Y) instead of just a reanimated copy of you would need to break down your matter into energy and send the actual energy to be reassembled. If it was just scanning every atom and rebuilding it from raw material at the other end, then does it just annihilate the original?

Imagine the Scene: The first time a Starfleet officer uses a transporter.

"ENGAGE"

The machine whirrs, lights flash and... nothing. The officer remains where he was. A technician comes out of a side room.

"Hello, Ensign. The machine has cloned you and sent a copy to your destination. You, the original, are no longer required for the mission. Here are you discharge papers and a ticket for your return journey by shuttle. Have a nice life!"

All of the Star Trek characters are just copies of the originals, who are living it up on Riza.

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Perhaps in future times they'll have uncovered the secrets of consciousness and those questions would no longer be philosophical. You won't catch me in one, though. I'll tell you that!

The future will be about remote manipulation rather than sending yourself somewhere.

You heard.