Future of knives

The knife industry will keep moving forward with better, stronger, much more refined super steels and more exotic & advanced synthetic handle materials. But I think some really interesting advances will come in the multi-tool industry, with a lot of MT development being driven by other industries - like our manned Space Program going to the planets and beyond, and things like that.

I'd love to see what laws the UK tries to come up with regarding lightsabers. :rolleyes:

Of course, due to the life extension technology currently coming online, we'll probably all live to see the apocalyptic war between the 'righteous ones' (those who believe in un-mod'd knives) and the 'lumies' (those who wear aluminum foil headgear and wave everything they own, including their toothbrushes). This war will go from internet flamefights to nuclear Armageddon in less than two hours; in a hundred years the only ones left will be the cockroaches, and they don't care about Mars or knives anyway.

:D

~Chris
 
More and better knives in Ceramics and alloy's. Lighter and stronger with crazy edge retention. Heck, I bet area 51 has some of that stuff now!!!:eek::p:cool::thumbup: Carbon Fiber will "I hope" be easier and less expensive to produce and maybe even stonger and so goes the same for Titainium and Aluminium. I am sure there is a couple more amazing inovations coming in locking systems for folders also... Now that every country out there is getting into the production mix right out in the open the possibility for these things as well as others are enroute for sure!!!!;)







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orca8589 said:
Of course, due to the life extension technology currently coming online, we'll probably all live to see the apocalyptic war between the 'righteous ones' (those who believe in un-mod'd knives) and the 'lumies' (those who wear aluminum foil headgear and wave everything they own, including their toothbrushes). This war will go from internet flamefights to nuclear Armageddon in less than two hours; in a hundred years the only ones left will be the cockroaches, and they don't care about Mars or knives anyway.
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LOL ;)

When I get my new prosthetic body (see pic... dude on the right), I'll buy you a beer.

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I see somebody has been reading William Gibson!
 
I hope they just refine materials. I like steel, titanium, etc.

Not sure I would want a light saber honestly. It would probably rely on batteries. On the other hand, we can always find steel to make our own knives if we want to.
 
Deathstalker series. Simon Green. hehehe.

In reality, we'll probably be using the same proven knife designs as we have been in the past 3000+ years. It just starts looking more and more tackicool as life moves on.
 
The future of knives will not be better and newer super steels. It will be material that doesn't exist yet today. NASA and JPL are hard at work creating exotic new materials. Not for knives per se, but sharing certain qualities with good steels. Don't get me wrong, for the next few decades steels will continue to improve, albeit marginally.

But in 100+ years, people will look at steel blades the way we look at stone blades today; good for its time, but obsolete and inefficient.
 
Charlie Mike said:
One word... Lightsaber:D
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yarr!
Peruna1998 said:
More intrusion of the law on what is and is not allowed to be carried.
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:mad:no doubt.
blackboar said:
One word...Monofilament Blades...edges that are 1 molecule wide. hahaha!
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Variable Sword! but we'll also need a stasis field for that one....
Charlie Mike said:
I see somebody has been reading William Gibson!
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or Larry Niven or Frank Herbert or John Brunner......

i rekon carbon nano-tube blades, vibro-blades, blades grown out of diamond and possibly monofilament blades are possible inside 50 years.
 
In the future I want nano-technology enhanced blade.

Think of it, thousands, maybe millions of nano-machines constantly working to maintain the blade and hone the edge.

*cough*Deus Ex*cough*
 
I hope to see other high carbon steels become more manufacturer-friendly. 15N20, L6 and a few other HC steels can be inexpensive, extremely high performance and completely viable. I'd also like to see more high carbon folding blades. I think companies are going to spend a TON of money on patented proprietary lock systems like the Axis or Triad or button lock or any number of other wannabe fixed blade designs, and drastically inflate the market prices of high end folders. I think impractical 'supersteels' are going to be discovered and marketed and squabbled over and that will drive up prices as well.
 
I see extensions of memory-plastic concepts to knives, making the idea of a "folder" obsolete. Your knife will be a lump of plastic. You grab one end the other end morphs into a sharp edge.

Shorter term, I see rust becoming less and less of an issue as steels get better and eventually get replaced alltogether by other metals and non-metals.
 
The way nanotechnology is advancing we may have nanobots that can sharpen and maintain our blades.
 
100 years from now? No longer would anyone use knives, we will use pocketable laser that cut anything like butter, including diamond!
 
With the way things are going, printing on blades will be an even bigger trend in the future.

Expect to see blades with entire paragraphs of text.
 
brandonc said:
The way nanotechnology is advancing we may have nanobots that can sharpen and maintain our blades.
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Whats the point of that then, all you need is some sort of laser sight which will target what you need to cut, then you press the button and the nanobots go out where you aim and do precision cut, which is thin, and doesn't ruin the heat treat of what you are cutting.

Personally I think far more interesting materials would come about, but we will be enjoying the company of two sets of triplets in a form of hot sexbots. Also viagra will be greatly improved and hair loss will be eliminated. However because 99% of all scientists will be to busy dealing with those two problems the technology will stop evolving.
 
alas as tools are not used for there intended purposes we will be relegated to stainless art knives:thumbdn:
 
We are all gonna be headed to the stone age again , so brush-up on your flintknapping skills. All this high-tech is gonna crash ,and Bladeforum posts will be chiseled in stone ;)
 
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