Future of knives

On my sci-fi dream, knives made from whatever element predators weapons are made of :D
 
Either banned, nothing because the world will not be here are some kind real post apocalyptic bs where as someone said before what we can find, make or flint nap. At the rate things are going to assume anything else would in my humble opinion be unrealistic.
 
Or maybe SHTF tomorrow, and the blade you have RIGHT NOW has to get you through the next stone age... Are you prepared?
 
2 things. 1) Metal will be in short supply so most knives will be made of super ceramic polymers. 2) We will create or download designs of our favorite knives and just print them at home on our 3-D printers: Makerbot
 
Technological advances only occur where they are needed. Technology is our way of compensating for our physical limitations. When a new problem presents itself, we develop a tool to deal with it.

Neatly separating an object into parts is second only to smashing things in terms of oldest uses of tools, and the demands on sharp objects haven't really changed much since our ancestors greeted one another by smelling each other's armpits. It is unlikely that we'll see any real change in knife technology; because cutting things isn't much different now than it has even been.

You'll see little things here and there, blown way out of proportion by marketing machines. The new "rust-free" blade steel. The new "unbreakable" synthetic scale material. Blah blah blah. But nothing that you can measurably call an "advance" in technology.

Knives are old news. Software and bio-tech engineering are where advances are made now.
 
Balislinger said:
2 things. 1) Metal will be in short supply so most knives will be made of super ceramic polymers. 2) We will create or download designs of our favorite knives and just print them at home on our 3-D printers: Makerbot
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Give the man a cigar! Nano-technology will facilitate such developments.

As for the SHTF scenario, the S, 'H'ing the F won't do much, as the electricity will already be turned off as a result of an ionospheric EMP detonation. Such will result in the necessity of manual forges and a re-discovery of the old art of knife and tool making. ;)
 
In 50 years time with communication direct into the brain, evoution of the internet and the boundary between human and machine will become so blurred that lightsabers will most surely exist albeit not in the 'real world'. Then again no one will care because nobody does anything in the real world anyway!
 
I am hoping to see new materials which allow for thinner and thinner edges at the same toughness-like ZDP only more and more extreme- and with better edge retention.

Folding knife lock improvements. Stronger, more secure, ambidextrous, etc.
 
I agree that in the short term future the steels will become more refined, designs will continue to evolve and become stronger and safer, and more exotic materials will find their way into the manufacturing process.

In the long term future, we will be looking at them in museum display cases and saying "Remember when you could carry a knife..."

The short term future is exciting.
 
there will be a national knife registry and a 30 day waiting period before you can buy a knife, and then of course you have to purchase a license to even own a knife.

Sounds outlandish doesnt it? Yeah, and so did the handgun license idea way back when too. :mad::mad:
 
space travel will become more popular, and sooner or later people will be importing metals from other planets to Earth en masse and knifemakers and users alike will be s**tting themselves. just imagine a griptilian in super space steel. :D

this is all depending on future knife laws too, of course.
 
I'm thinking a future knife might involve a self-healing blade made of extremely hard material, or combination of materials such as metal, ceramic, or crystal (e.g. heterodiamond, etc..)
Closing in on the light saber: Spyder III laser pointer.

Design-wise, you sort of want to keep it simple with a knife. Fewer parts, less likely to break. That being said, if someone designs some crazy bowie knife that collapses down to the size of a credit card or something, that would be awesome.
 
I'd love to see something that could be worn like a bracelet that is controlled by a CPU. Nanomachines would re-assemble the matter into a blade.
 
If the lightsaber ever does become an extant device, and judging by the progression of cost and technology that has recently been displayed by Wicked Lasers, I don't think it's that far off on the horizon, I would imagine the knife would become all but obsolete.

What I'm terrified of, is that the world will start pushing harder and harder on restrictions to where they're all but impossible to get. But then I remember how necessary the kitchen knife is in daily life, and my fears are put to rest.
 
Most "knife related" murders occur with screwdrivers and kitchen knives.
 
yea im thinkin wars ,economic collapse,overpopulation and world wide shortages. will bring the old ways back again--------like dude said ,truck springs
 
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