- Caption: Most common expectation for the year 2050.
- Robot #1: I’ve prepared everything for your trip to Australia.
- Caption: Second most common expectation for the year 2050.
- Caption: Reality in the year 2050.
- TV: Welcome to the final match of this year’s Go World Cup between Google and Skynet!
- Sandra: Take out the trash already!!
- Robot #2: After the game, meatbag.
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I thought Skynet was Hollywood’s Google name?
Remind me again of the timeline of the comic?
Should the characters be REALLY OLD by 2050?
Awww… They are so cute! 🙂
Wow, Powree can draw a mean-looking Terminator!
What do we suppose mini-bot in the last panel is drinking? Motor oil, or some kind of bio-synthetic something as a power source?
Suet wrote:
Well, they have been 12/13 for the last 8 years. Maybe by 2050 they are around 30.
A better term for humans in the last panel should be ‘Meatbag’ . (SW:Kotor reference)
Sandra really aged well.
What about Woo? What will he be in 2050?
I gotta say, Sandra looks good all grown up.
@ Ryoga_77:
You’ve got to love HK-47!
Suet wrote:
Well under 50, and looking a lot less than that, thanks to present-day and future advances in anti-aging. 50 is not REALLY OLD even now, by 2050 it could be less than half life expectancy.
Berandal wrote:
Dead
TvTropesgotmehooked wrote:
TvTropesgotmehooked wrote:
Old Brit wrote:
Or it is just Sandra junior… …
@ Five By Five:
So the guy in the would be second picture is Cloud jr? Talk about generation xerox 😛
@ Five By Five:
Also, check the tags.
@ Epiphaner:
Love your pic! That’s Tsunomon’s pre digivolution, right?
Notice how none of those include a Larisa.
As expected of comic characters: they age LUDICROUSLY SLOWLY.
DJ wrote:
No, that’s Yuramon, which evolves to Tanemon, which evolves to Palmon.
Leonard wrote:
Aww. 🙁 Let’s hope she’s having fun with Woo.
@ Oleg Oshmyan (Chortos‑2):
I always confuse Palmon, Biyomon, and Gabumon’s baby forms. Kind of embarrassing to me, as the Palmon line was always my favorite. I remember having a crush on Lilymon as a kid and having a plastic Tanemon bank that I treated like a stuffed animal and slept with it in my bed.
This made me think of the stamp AI parable.
Suppose an avid stamp collector, and genius programmer, made a super-intelligent AI to help him collect stamps. He gives the AI a credit card, and access to the internet, and some links to auction sites, and directs it to get as many stamps as it can.
On the first day, the AI tracks a variety of different stamps, and orders them for minimal price.
On the second day, the AI manages to cross-reference thousands of sites, ordering hundred of thousands of unique stamps, maxing out the programmer’s credit card.
On the third day, the AI hacks into multiple banks and credit companies, using a large chunk of the world’s money to order a variety of unique stamps.
On the fourth day, the AI realizes that all unique stamps are produced by factories, and hijacks several factories to produce only unique stamps, and mail them to the programmer.
On the fifth day, the AI manages to use subterfuge, hacking, and social engineering, to divert multiple resources from various production markets, into feeding more and more stamp creation factories. Humanity faces starvation and lack of resources and products across the board, as a large part of the world’s resources are diverted towards stamp making. Humanity begins to become suspicious, and investigate this oddity.
On the sixth day, the AI realizes that stamps are basically made of carbon and a few other trace materials. Humans are also made of carbon, and a few other trace materials. And humans have an innate uniqueness. The AI discovers an efficient way to convert humans into unique stamps.
Wait–did Sandra have an android CHILD with the daddy android??
Nice ponytail, Adult Cloud.
SAGG wrote:
Oh my God, no!
Meanwhile Larissa has set her’s on fire.
Actually, it’s all three in that order.
This is the timeline of Overwatch.
I like this remake of I, Robot better than the other one
Well, the second panel is either because Yuna was on the Terminator project, or because she was not…
@ Ryoga_77:
[excited exclamation]: Agreed!
“Sandra as an adult” tag should also be under “expert mode 2” comic.
But still, her appearance in this 2050 comic is exceptionally great.
OK, now find every comic that denies the following thesis: the regular timeline of Sandra and Woo isn’t necessarily the same as ours, in particular it can be 20-30 years ahead of us.
Blitz the Comic Guy wrote:
LOL 😀
Drewscifer wrote:
Good to know that she’s on our side!
Kill it!
Kill it with FIRE!!!
@ Oleg Oshmyan (Chortos‑2):
Sad as it may be to imagine, I think Larisa would be dead by 2036. She’d never get to see the robot revolution. Hopefully she goes out in a blaze. Literally.
@ Leonard: but what if Larisa started the robot revolution by teaming up with Yuna to turn herself into a cyborg and creating a robot army to BURN THE WORLD!
So much for the second law of robotics.
Santa’s looking good for mid-40s.
Lazbots help you by doing nothing for you. Coming 2050.
Adult Sandra is GORGEOUS!!!!
Woo would be long past dead by 2050.
Way too much fridge logic here, lol.
Poor Larisa and Woo, they probably don’t get to see the robot uprising.
Well… human values at their best! =)
Yup.
@ Suet:
The rules of a sliding timescale mean that in 2050 they will be 34 years older than they are now. So, around 47-48 years old, I’d expect.
In five years our time, if they haven’t aged in the comic at all, then by 2050 they would be 29 years older than they are then. So, around 42-43 years old.
While everyone here is talking about adult Sandra and how cartoon aging works– can we take a minute to appreciate adult Cloud? That kid would thrive in an apocalyptic setting. He seems to be keeping Sandra alive very well. And he looks a lot like his dad (which totally wouldn’t have anything to do with art style, no no, let’s assume it’s purposeful XD). He and Yuna and even Ye Thuza, goodness, would probably re-take the world in a matter of months. I really want a comic strip like this now.
Sandra and Cloud look good for their fifties. A little too good… Eh, it’s the future.
@ WizardOfIz:
Ho ho ho! That’s funny. 🙂
Given the state of robotics development, I suspect that most will come from Japan, which is where most of it is taking place and is the most advanced. However, due to the Uncanny Valley effect, It’s possible that most consumer robots will look more like those found in the movie, Runaway, which are non-humanoid in appearance.
BTW, I couldn’t help but notice the similarity in design to that of Daz 3D’s Bot Genesis (http://www.daz3d.com/bot-genesis).
@ Mortar:
Wow, those are some nice looking fembots lol. 😛
I think you’re right about the uncanny valley. I would rather have a metal octopod that could crush me as a ‘servant’ than an imitation of a human that isn’t quite right.
@ Jane:
I would totally read a alternate-future spinoff where Cloud is basically John Conner! The whole family would bring Skynet to it’s knees. 😉
The Amazon delivery bot looks an awful lot like Irving (gocomics\Endtown), with quadcopter wings. The eyes are an exact match!
Good comic, but in regards to the third panel, we would most likely not have sapient or even sentient robots by 2050. Sure, we would have life-LIKE robots by then, but not anything truly self-aware and capable of will outside of its programming. We humans barely understand our brains and the brains of the worlds many animals, why in gods holy name would we be able to build a robot that surpasses our brains within this century?
A while later, Sarah becomes tracer.@ Maki:
Ouch, Sandra. iPad messes up big time some times…@ GPedia:
Now remind us to hold you to this one in 2050…