Am I leaving out any technology that will be everywhere in 2132?
What technologies am I leaving out of Ferrets Vs Lemmings and Kenny Chronicles that are likely to exist in 2132? (yes, it used to say 2125, I’ve been using the wrong year since the comic started and I’ll be fixing that soon)
Seriously, I don’t think I’m thinking forward enough. They can put holograms anywhere(I don’t use that often enough), send power wirelessly, and they can fly. Is that ALL?
Don’t worry about saying anything that actually is already in the comic, I’ll understand if you haven’t read all the comics or forgot about something long ago. Here’s a quick run-down of answers to some potential comments:
They aren’t in space simply because they’re not in space. Humans will be on Mars and the asteroid belt by then. They’ll even be going faster than light! We’ll be able to vacation in space, but I don’t know if my characters will.
They use traditional guns because they’re practical, unlike various sci-fi standards(shoot lasers at the guy with the shiny buttons, I dare ya!). I might still create a gun that uses a currently un-predicted technology just so I have free reign over what it can do.
In 2125, “gray goo” is a powerful technology that uses nanobots to form any shape needed, and can form into a house in minutes… but one hacker can crush everybody inside. That’s why nobody uses it in the comic. Kenny’s robot uses a similar technology, but it’s less versatile. If something can take control of the robot’s arms, that thing would be more effective either shocking the victim directly or commanding the robot to ram them.
I’m hoping to give them flying vehicles & a submarine, but I have to design them first & have a reason to use them. Designing the royal futuristic aircrafts won’t be easy.
I know of invisibility cloaks, but I’m not sure what form they will take. Maybe I can just make it a cloak, but what about the floor underneath? It might be used mostly for flying things. Currently, cloak-type invisibility devices are only invisible from one angle because it’s just displaying an image of the other side. It’s possible we could bend light around an object, but it couldn’t be touching the ground or else you’ll get obvious distortion. I think that super-heated air method works from all directions, but in addition to the distortion, you’d cause fires. Also, heat-seeking rockets are headed straight at you.
SO, what upcoming technology haven’t I shown?
Railguns (for sure), Personal Shields Force Fields, Replicators, Hover Craft (Cars, or even just something to lift those heavy boxes).
Yeah, I had underestimated the practicality of rail guns due to how impractical they are today, but the drawbacks are things that technological advancement generally fixes. Handheld versions would be mostly indistinguishable from today's guns, so that's safe to retcon into the comic.
Personal forcefields could exist, although I don't know how close we are to that. I'd say it's safe to assume they'll be available and used as much as bulletproof vests and vehicle/building armor are used today, simply due to how quickly technology catches up to sci-fi.
Replicators in Star Trek were invented over 100 years after this comic, but transporters were invented when Kenny was 10 years old(according to Star Trek) and OPERABLE in 2139. Around this time in Star Trek, they were starting to use "protein re-sequencers". Less versatile than replicators, and made passable food. I'm considering a plot where Guy's business is in competition with protein re-sequencers. I could be bold and put full-on replicators in the comic so soon into the future, although that would also make trading obsolete, and Guy is all about trading, so I think I'll pass on replicators for plot reasons. We'll definitely have very advanced 3D printing, so I think that's as close to replicators as I'll get. Basically, you can make anything you want, but you have to provide the raw material.
Hover vehicles definitely exist in the comic, but I haven't shown any except in the very first Kenny Chronicles comic(far-off silhouette shot). The boxes that fell in the last storyline of Kenny Chronicles used levitation devices to float them to the platform, but they didn't expect the wireless power to be offline, and thus the boxes fell once they got away from the ship. I hope to give the king & queen aircrafts, but designing them will take some work. Then again, maybe I should just go with a pill shape, heh. That might work.
Oh, and in Star Trek, the first transporters approved for biological transport were made when Kenny would be in his late 30's(he's 21 in the comic now). Of course I only use Star Trek as a template for the timeline, but it seems about right for most things. In the comic, I think transporters will be in their infancy and only transporting small items short distances. People will have fun transporting bugs, and some will even have sadistic pleasure in how much pain it seems to cause them.