you might be off topic, but you’re definitely on something…
(just kidding, but that degree of sci-fi really set up that joke)
Who knows what will happen in 2045… we first have to get “the machines” past 2038… As for the land speed record, that thing is almost changing all the time… I think the Thrust SSC now holds that record and it’s actually above mach 1. O.o
There was once a time man thought traveling faster than mach 1 was impossible, Chuck Yeager proved them wrong. There was once a time man thought you could not break the sound barrier on the ground (where molecules are more dense and compact more, making it tougher to break that barrier), 50 years and 1 day after Yeager; Andy Green proved man wrong again…
What’s another 50 years hold for us? I doubt it’ll be machines enslaving mankind, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s FTL technology or space bending/worm holes… unless we all get retarded like the movie “Idiocracy”…