# Ask the guy who is from 100 years in the future **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 11, 2012, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490 "2012-04-11T20:22:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/41 "2012-04-11T23:23:53Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > OK, here’s a slightly more realistic question. Is the “James Bond” movie franchise still alive? Movie franchise? No. Bond in the Park, yes. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/42 "2012-04-12T00:00:54Z")
How many fingers am I holding up? Do you have interpersonal telepathy yet? ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/43 "2012-04-12T00:54:44Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > Who has been posting under your user name since Dec. 2002? That was me, I do have a time machine after all. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/44 "2012-04-12T00:55:51Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > No, I cannot change my answers any more than I could remove Sarah Palin’s face from Mount Rushmore. Did they Erase Lincoln when they stopped using pennies? ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/45 "2012-04-12T00:56:31Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > How many fingers am I holding up? > > Do you have interpersonal telepathy yet? 1 and yes and dogs playing poker is the answer to the question you were thinking about ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/46 "2012-04-12T01:00:07Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > Do you have interpersonal telepathy yet? Windows MT. ™ ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/47 "2012-04-12T01:15:24Z")
What new genres of music were invented in the last 100 years? Whatever happened to North Korea and their dictatorship? Has Africa become full of prosperous democracies or are the countries there still troubled? When was the first AI politician? What happened to energy? Do you still need coal, gasoline and natural gas? Are wind turbines and solar-voltaic considered primitive compared to what you have now or do you just have really advanced forms of the kinds of energy generating technology we have now (fossil fuels, wind, solar, nuclear, etc)? Is it possible for someone who is not heavily augmented with technology to understand and function in your society? Even in 2012 it is becoming harder to function w/o internet and a smart phone (at least function efficiently). ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/48 "2012-04-12T02:00:21Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > You are referring to global warming I am sure. We solved that problem by dropping ever larger sizes of ice cubes in the ocean thus ending the problem once and for all. But… ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/49 "2012-04-12T02:23:04Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > but… once and for all! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/50 "2012-04-12T02:25:58Z")
Does Facebook exist in 2112? ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/51 "2012-04-12T02:54:00Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > once and for all! So I take it either you’ve discovered the wonderful television show Futurama from our time, or it’s still popular in the future 🙂 Was there anything else that Futurama accurately predicted about the future? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/52 "2012-04-12T03:06:01Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > But… It takes energy to make ice, producing heat which uses more energy than it takes to melt even larger ice cubes. In this century, we respect the laws of Thermodynamics! ---
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/53 "2012-04-12T03:06:25Z")
What questions would you ask of the man from 2212? ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/54 "2012-04-12T04:29:17Z")
Does my novel ever get published? Just what -was- the deal with the horses? (I’m sure from a historical perspective the question’s a pretty obvious one) ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/55 "2012-04-12T12:08:14Z")
Galactor the Evil Galactic Overlord has been pushing his forces towards Earth for quite some time now. Has he ever successfully invaded Earth? Is Queen Galacta IX still queen of the galaxy in 2112? ---
**Author:** ![Ruby\_Slippers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/94ad74/32.png) [@Ruby\_Slippers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby_Slippers)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/56 "2012-04-12T12:21:12Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > There are no statues of anyone I am afraid after the incident with you-know-who mentioned earlier in the thread. I will say that we didn’t fully realize what a scourge statues were until we finally rid ourselves of them. > > As to Faster than Light travel, no not even by 2112, although we are close to Faster than Lite travel which is a third less faster than (hypothetical) Light travel. If there are no statues, where do pigeons poop? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/57 "2012-04-12T12:33:01Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > It takes energy to make ice, producing heat which uses more energy than it takes to melt even larger ice cubes. > In this century, we respect the laws of Thermodynamics! The ice isn’t produced–it’s mined from an asteroid. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/58 "2012-04-12T13:03:40Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > The ice isn’t produced–it’s mined from an asteroid. I take it the price of kerosene has gone _way_ down. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/59 "2012-04-12T16:01:29Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > How many fingers am I holding up? Just one. And that’s really rude. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-is-from-100-years-in-the-future/618490/60 "2012-04-12T16:15:46Z")
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