What are your predictions for the world's future in each of the following: A month from now: 2009: 2012: 2020: 2050: 2100:
What are your predictions for the world's future in each of the following: A month from now: nothing changed. 2009: we nuke the fuck out of iran. 2012: no one will buy crackers or bottled water because everyone saved up for the end of the world. 2020: all people will be forced to wear mickey mouse ears. 2050: a mass holocaust will kill off all human beings on this planet. 2100: turns out the holocaust was just heartburn. we're good now.
A month: Sound. Spring will be here and I believe the flowers and blossoms will be more vibrant than ever. 2009: The new president will shape it's form. They will establish what they believe in and I believe the whole country will be keeping a stern eye on them. 2012: An age of awakening. People will realize we are the future and we need to change things before we become the past. 2020: My generation will be 'adults'. I believe this could bring something either good or bad. We have seen a lot in our youth eyes, and this could lead to a repeat in history or a complete change. If there is a change, hopefully it will be for the better. 2050: I believe the next generation might be either reckless or well behaved. We are a spoiled generation and hopefully we either put our kids in line or not have them turn out how we did. Anyways, they will be ruling the world at this point. Hopefully it turns out good. 2100: Idk. I'll be dead...:\
2008: clinton vs. mccain November: clinton wins 2009 - 2012: one huge shitstorm or, another possibility: 2008: clinton vs. mccain November: mccain wins 2009-2012: one huge shitstorm
A month from now: Ill be stoned. (Hopefully) 2009: Things will be "Peaceful" but in reality hard shit is going down with America and the European Countries. 2012:Americas people will be getting pissed off, rioting will ensue demanding major changes in out government. 2020: With a little Help from European nations America's people will overhtrow the government and will now become english or whatever citizens 2050:A More peaceful time will ensue. 2100: We'll have giant robot battles and International war videogames instead of actual fighting wars.
A month from now: 2009: Another government attack on friendly allied soil in order to precipitate heightened war actions on Arab countries. 2012: Dictatorship set up in the states, riots put down brutally, with similar actions across the world. 2020: technology has broken the dictatorship, however quality of life is still effected from earlier misfortunes 2050: prior wars and struggles which were defeated have begun to eliminate country barriers 2100: many countries have merged completely others are soon to follow. Weapons are no longer manufactured, and armies are no longer trained
A month from now: I seriously doubt anything significant will change. 2009: If McCain is elected president, the U.S. will continue to fight an endless war and the economy will sink further towards another Great Depression. If Obama or Clinton is elected, we'll see the war basically over by the end of 2009, and a substantial effort to turn the economy around. Despite personal preferences, I truly think Obama is going to be the next president. If he can get the Democratic nomination, he'll be unstoppable against McCain. Superior debating/speaking skills, a better handle on economic issues, plus all the enthusiasm he's brought on. If the terrorism issue in Pakistan (and really the Middle East in general) fails to be addressed sufficiently, I could definitely see it growing in the next few years. The region of Pakistan along the border of Afghanistan is basically a safe haven for terrorist leaders to organize, train people, and plan attacks. This is where al Qaeda currently operates and supposedly where bin Laden is hiding. The current Pakistani administration refuses to do anything about it , so the problem is just growing. If this doesn't change soon, there's going to be another major terrorist attack somewhere. I can also see a major conflict in Tibet coming soon. The issues there don't seem to be working themselves out, and it could all come to a head even before 2009. I really hope there isn't an incident at the Olympics. 2012: If McCain is the next president, I expect the U.S. to be in the middle of the next Great Depression by 2012. People will be out of jobs, the dollar will be practically valueless, and every market will suffer. Workers will be on strike and the government will be so in debt that we'll be relying on the rest of the world to keep us in power. McCain knows absolutely nothing about the economy and will do absolutely nothing to help it. Oil and gasoline won't even be seen as viable resources anymore cause they'll be so expensive. Hopefully if Obama is president the economy will be back to how it was in the late 90's. This election is obviously crucial in determining our future. No doubt China will be in a major conflict by this point. Their current communist government doesn't seem to be working on many levels. 2020: U.S. politics will be completely different. Third parties will emerge as major contenders, and the landscape will no longer simply be Republican vs. Democrat. I expect to have a 5 or 6 party system by this point. Overpopulation and the use of resources will be a major issue. Asian countries will be struggling hard and in a depression because of the consequences. Queen Elizabeth II will have died by this point, passing the throne on to Charles or maybe even one of the grandsons by then. The more I think about it, the more it seems like there's a possibility of a major World War breaking out by 2020. The Middle East is in a much worse state than it was a decade ago, and also more powerful. The country of China will be in turmoil, India and Pakistan will be fighting over Kashmir. Also I get a sense of the European superpowers wanting to distance themselves from the U.S. I expect we will lose a lot of allies between now and then, and we'll become desperately isolated. --- I'm not going to go any further than this because I think it's impossible to make anything even close to an accurate prediction. No one from 50 or 100 years ago would have the slightest clue what the world would be like now, and I don't think we know any better either. One thing I could see happening is human civilization moving away from its dependence on things like sophisticated technology, media-based couch potato entertainment, and consumerism. We'll use technology to improve our lives and for transportation, but not let it control and ruin us. Soon enough we'll realize that the hi-tech answer isn't always the best answer, and there is value in hard work and more traditional methods. Western culture has become all about who can get your attention, who can sell you something the fastest, what will impress you and make you drool. That's not how it was 100 years ago, and I don't think that's how it will be 100 years from now.
Before Blackops turned off their Looking Glass Technology, which is basicaly a man made pineal gland, they noticed that they couldn't see into 2012 or beyound. This could possibly indicate that at this time, the future will be whatever we make it out to be. Now stick that in your pipe and smoke it
Please don't tell me you honestly think we will run out of oil in 2100? We're slated to run low in 2010-2015, and expend all of our reserves by 2050
hahaha how the FUCK do you propose thats gonna happen. everyone is just wake up and be like "oh shit, we dont need technology in every fucking aspect of our lives"...? im afraid the average dunce is too ingrained, too accustomed to using technology for everything, i mean everything. now, if you are saying that you hope this is what will happen, i understand. but i dont see it happening unless somebody slaps some sense into america's brain-wasted couch potatoes.
Wow how many drugs brought you to that conclusion? Its actually going to be quite the opposite, with innovations in nanotechnology we are actually going to start wearing/eating/integrating with technology. If you honestly think we are going to stop relying on technology so much then chances are you haven't watched the news in quite a few years, or kept up with whats going on. If you haven't seen the complete automation of most assembly lines then you probably would think that hard work will become more prevalent, but you would have also reached a very false conclusion. In the future we will rely less and less on human work and more and more on technology/robots/optics/integration. To think otherwise would be a seriously misguided opinion. Ignorance is not bliss
Humans are completely capable of making this image you've outlined a reality; however we are also completely capable of the reverse. If the goal of all living organisms is to survive, then that part of us that wishes to live will probably find a natural home in some of those things in your post. There could be a synthesis of community awareness and our instinctive need to find a way to survive. Soon the people of this planet are going to have to seriously start asking themselves if the present course we're on is going to lead to our extinction. If the answer is "yes" we can't afford to wait another day because the course we're on doesn't lead to anywhere good and the longer we take to act the more complicated the solutions become. "The future is simply infinite possibility waiting to happen. What it waits on is human imagination to crystallize its possibility." ~Leland Kaiser~ Anyway... Stay green.
Nice quote, and to all those who say we're quickly approaching a "point of no return", all I can say is that we're not heading on any measurable pathway. It's the skeptics just as much as the ignorant who slow the progress toward universal humanity. Maybe it's not everyone else's deep-hearted goal, but mine is to see all of humanity unwilling to kill or harm.
have you guys noticed the increase in novelty?? Looks like Terrance Mckenna was definitely onto somethin. He used the Chinese I-Ching calender with the Mayan calender to make his "time wave zero equations". Watch the weirdness factor increase as time goes by
Well, maybe it is really more of a hope than an actuality.... but I love how everyone jumped all over me for speculating about something that none of us have the first clue about by the way. By definition, the future hasn't happened yet so who the hell knows what might be ahead. Everyone who's criticized my response hasn't offered as in-depth of an alternative, so excuse me for using my imagination. What I said may seem unlikely, but if you told someone a hundred years ago that we would be staring at a screen communicating with people all over the world with a practically infinite amount of knowledge at our fingertips, they probably would have laughed too. I just think most human developments like technology are things that reach a peak at some point. I'm not saying that we're at the peak, and actually we probably won't be for another hundred years or more. I just think that eventually in the distant future, our technological innovations will become overbearing on society, and we'll look back to simpler answers... if we haven't destroyed ourselves by then. And I'm not saying that technology will ever disappear completely... I realize it will continue to get more and more sophisticated. I simply don't trust the human species to use technology in a responsible-enough way for it to not become a major problem. That's my explanation and I still stand by it.