how will the world look in 50 years?
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alextheartist
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Well hopefully it will be a lot quiter with a few of the freaks being dead by then, either through age or thier mothers throtteling them in their sleep (i think we all know who i am talking about,..)
Alex
More seriously, i have no idea, which is scary..
Alex
More seriously, i have no idea, which is scary..
Necroghast
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George Bush won\'t be president. :bouncy::bouncy::bouncy::bouncy::bouncy::bouncy::bouncy::bouncy::bouncy::bouncy::bouncy:
Roger Bunting
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What\'s wrong with us freaks? 
BarstoolProphet
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In fifty years, Skynet will have come online, and made its bid to destroy the human race, and we\'ll have pocket clusters of resistance, each with independant leadership, but all answering to John Connor.
No, wait. That\'s The Terminator.
I imagine that in 50 years, the world will still be an oblong sphere, rotating on its axis as it revolves around the sun. The moon will have been shattered by a gargantuan passing meteor that wreaks havoc on our climate and causes natural disasters that will render most of our cities unrecognizable. Those humans that survive will re-form feudal society, and some very intelligent people will discover that radiation from the meteor has awakened latent mental powers that will be indistinguishable from magic. New life forms will evolve, humanoid in form, but with vastly different physical traits.
No, wait. That\'s Thundarr The Barbarian.
Over the next fifty years, the trend of reproduction will continue, with trailer trash people of lower intelligence breeding with the same frantic greed for government cheques, while the highly intelligent people of the world will restrict themselves to one, or more commonly, no children at all. The world\'s collective IQ will drop dramatically, leaving Earth populated by people of dangerously low intelligence. The buildings we have erected will decay and crumble, to be held together by rubber bands and duct tape . . .
No, that\'s Idiocracy.
Relatively seriously, now . . .
I think the population will continue to grow, which I think is unfortunate. People being what they are, continue to crowd into large cities, rather than spread out, and the infrastructures of the cities just can\'t handle such things without some drastic changes.
Crime rates are likely to continue to rise, and there just aren\'t going to be enough police or other emergency services to handle it all.
In fifty years, I also imagine that the automobile industry will be dominated by a single corporation, and cars will look pretty much the same (not that that\'s much different from now, really).
Artistic endeavours will be few and far between, because these programs are already being cut from schools at an alarming rate. In 50 years, there won\'t be very many people capable of passing on the skills needed. It\'ll all be CGI.
Manual labour, already highly frowned upon, will be severely lacking, and there will probably only be one plumber for every 100,000 people, with months-long waiting lists to get the toilet fixed.
However, with all the crowding, we\'ll all know our neighbours by name, again, which is rare, now.
Or is that, perhaps, too pessimistic a view?
No, wait. That\'s The Terminator.
I imagine that in 50 years, the world will still be an oblong sphere, rotating on its axis as it revolves around the sun. The moon will have been shattered by a gargantuan passing meteor that wreaks havoc on our climate and causes natural disasters that will render most of our cities unrecognizable. Those humans that survive will re-form feudal society, and some very intelligent people will discover that radiation from the meteor has awakened latent mental powers that will be indistinguishable from magic. New life forms will evolve, humanoid in form, but with vastly different physical traits.
No, wait. That\'s Thundarr The Barbarian.
Over the next fifty years, the trend of reproduction will continue, with trailer trash people of lower intelligence breeding with the same frantic greed for government cheques, while the highly intelligent people of the world will restrict themselves to one, or more commonly, no children at all. The world\'s collective IQ will drop dramatically, leaving Earth populated by people of dangerously low intelligence. The buildings we have erected will decay and crumble, to be held together by rubber bands and duct tape . . .
No, that\'s Idiocracy.
Relatively seriously, now . . .
I think the population will continue to grow, which I think is unfortunate. People being what they are, continue to crowd into large cities, rather than spread out, and the infrastructures of the cities just can\'t handle such things without some drastic changes.
Crime rates are likely to continue to rise, and there just aren\'t going to be enough police or other emergency services to handle it all.
In fifty years, I also imagine that the automobile industry will be dominated by a single corporation, and cars will look pretty much the same (not that that\'s much different from now, really).
Artistic endeavours will be few and far between, because these programs are already being cut from schools at an alarming rate. In 50 years, there won\'t be very many people capable of passing on the skills needed. It\'ll all be CGI.
Manual labour, already highly frowned upon, will be severely lacking, and there will probably only be one plumber for every 100,000 people, with months-long waiting lists to get the toilet fixed.
However, with all the crowding, we\'ll all know our neighbours by name, again, which is rare, now.
Or is that, perhaps, too pessimistic a view?
PegaZus
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Lessee.... I\'ll be 85 in fifty years, so I\'ve got a good chance at being able to see what I\'ve written is true.
Still won\'t be any fully electric cars. But they won\'t be gasoline based. Probably methane.
Windows 2057 will suck so much more than Windows 2053. Everybody will hate it.
I might have a mini that has scored above 7.
I\'ll have finished painting everything I currently have to paint. Now there\'s a goal!
The Democrat party will not exist, and will have broken into two parts. The Republican party will have grown smaller. The middle party will dominate. And they will ALL still be horrible politicians.
The skylines of the major cities will not have changed much. A few new buildings, but you\'ll still be able to go see the Statue of Liberty, Sears Tower, Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, etc.
And the crystal ball grows dark...
EDIT: And yet one more appears: Hollywood is gone. Since the advent of synthetic voice and simple 3D modeling, people can put John Wayne, Brad Pitt, and Mae West in a movie together and have it indistinguishable from a truly filmed movie. Free movies dominate and the movie studios go under.
Still won\'t be any fully electric cars. But they won\'t be gasoline based. Probably methane.
Windows 2057 will suck so much more than Windows 2053. Everybody will hate it.
I might have a mini that has scored above 7.
I\'ll have finished painting everything I currently have to paint. Now there\'s a goal!
The Democrat party will not exist, and will have broken into two parts. The Republican party will have grown smaller. The middle party will dominate. And they will ALL still be horrible politicians.
The skylines of the major cities will not have changed much. A few new buildings, but you\'ll still be able to go see the Statue of Liberty, Sears Tower, Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, etc.
And the crystal ball grows dark...
EDIT: And yet one more appears: Hollywood is gone. Since the advent of synthetic voice and simple 3D modeling, people can put John Wayne, Brad Pitt, and Mae West in a movie together and have it indistinguishable from a truly filmed movie. Free movies dominate and the movie studios go under.
Theomar Pius
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Is the world so dramatically different now than it was in 1958?
You can do things faster now, cook, travel, stuff like that. But really, is it all that different? I would expect that in fifty years things will be kinda different, but not terribly different. If you want a good guage, look at Tokyo. Safe to say it is a good 30 years ahead of the rest of the world.
You can do things faster now, cook, travel, stuff like that. But really, is it all that different? I would expect that in fifty years things will be kinda different, but not terribly different. If you want a good guage, look at Tokyo. Safe to say it is a good 30 years ahead of the rest of the world.
demonherald
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50 years....
hmm .. well if technology was increasing at the rate it has in the first part of the last 50 years I\'d say not too much different.. However things are just happening so fast now that it could be a different story...
There is however one main driving force that the next five years will decide most likely.. The current state of the world banks is gonna see some companies gaining tremendous amounts of control over the worlds finances.. Already it is slowly creeping in and governments are giving over control of certain services etc to those with the money.. (privatisation of just about all the UK\'s national services.) This will lead to the skynet type syndrome large mega powerful corporations...
Resources are being used up now and their is gonna be some major clashes ahead in time the planet just cannot take the current population growth rate and some measure will have to be taken or some drastic change that either cleans up everybodies act in compliance with those wanting to save the planet or it will be given up to those wanting to just drain it.. Therefore I think the most important thing that will happen will be an alternative fuel source and this will change everything....This will be discovered by the large corporations mentioned and the first one with enough power to implement it and gain control over the worlds fuel source will have control of everything.
on a lighter note , mullets will be back in fashion.
The ninth incarnation of batman will never beat the classic 2008 version
surgical implants will be available for mobile phones and computer gaming.
science will prove definitively yes or no is their life elsewhere in the universe?
Leeds will be a coastal resort .
footballers will still get paid more than life saving surgeons.
fish and chips wil be a rare delicacy
I will be wearing a nappy.
hmm .. well if technology was increasing at the rate it has in the first part of the last 50 years I\'d say not too much different.. However things are just happening so fast now that it could be a different story...
There is however one main driving force that the next five years will decide most likely.. The current state of the world banks is gonna see some companies gaining tremendous amounts of control over the worlds finances.. Already it is slowly creeping in and governments are giving over control of certain services etc to those with the money.. (privatisation of just about all the UK\'s national services.) This will lead to the skynet type syndrome large mega powerful corporations...
Resources are being used up now and their is gonna be some major clashes ahead in time the planet just cannot take the current population growth rate and some measure will have to be taken or some drastic change that either cleans up everybodies act in compliance with those wanting to save the planet or it will be given up to those wanting to just drain it.. Therefore I think the most important thing that will happen will be an alternative fuel source and this will change everything....This will be discovered by the large corporations mentioned and the first one with enough power to implement it and gain control over the worlds fuel source will have control of everything.
on a lighter note , mullets will be back in fashion.
The ninth incarnation of batman will never beat the classic 2008 version
surgical implants will be available for mobile phones and computer gaming.
science will prove definitively yes or no is their life elsewhere in the universe?
Leeds will be a coastal resort .
footballers will still get paid more than life saving surgeons.
fish and chips wil be a rare delicacy
I will be wearing a nappy.
james sequeira
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The same sorry state it is now.
In 50 years, I\'m going to resurrect this thread in a ritual of thread-o-mancy so great that the internet will be pulled inside out.
Honestly, I\'d say flying cars, but that\'s honestly one of the least practical ideas out there (You really want a vehicle where every fender bender is fatal?).
We\'ll have more fuel efficient cars, but they\'ll be three times as expensive. We\'ll have electric cars (because we have them now), and fully alternative fuel vehicles, but the cost will be prohibitively expensive, and fueling stations for alternative fuels will be scattered so widely that it\'s more efficient to have the fuel brought and stored at your house.
A Hydrogen and Lithium powered car will be bought for a graduating High-Schooler, who will get drunk, and end up setting off a nuclear detonation as they drive their car into the back of a diesel powered truck carrying construction grade explosives. Setting off an explosion around all sides of the hydrogen fuel cells at the same time, leading to a hiroshima-like explosion that will wipe Rhode Island off the map.
Half of the US\'s population will wonder where the hell Rhode Island is, and will mistake it for a small island in the south pacific, leading to a misguided care package program to Hawaii. Finally lowering the prices of products as the governor disperses the misplaced packages around the island and destroys the evidence in an active volcano.
Despite the freak nature of the crash, and that it was a miniscule chance of happening, there will be a new push for a safer fuels, an increase in fosil fuel usage, and Toyota will hold the world hostage with thousands of hydrogen powered cars.
Honestly, I\'d say flying cars, but that\'s honestly one of the least practical ideas out there (You really want a vehicle where every fender bender is fatal?).
We\'ll have more fuel efficient cars, but they\'ll be three times as expensive. We\'ll have electric cars (because we have them now), and fully alternative fuel vehicles, but the cost will be prohibitively expensive, and fueling stations for alternative fuels will be scattered so widely that it\'s more efficient to have the fuel brought and stored at your house.
A Hydrogen and Lithium powered car will be bought for a graduating High-Schooler, who will get drunk, and end up setting off a nuclear detonation as they drive their car into the back of a diesel powered truck carrying construction grade explosives. Setting off an explosion around all sides of the hydrogen fuel cells at the same time, leading to a hiroshima-like explosion that will wipe Rhode Island off the map.
Half of the US\'s population will wonder where the hell Rhode Island is, and will mistake it for a small island in the south pacific, leading to a misguided care package program to Hawaii. Finally lowering the prices of products as the governor disperses the misplaced packages around the island and destroys the evidence in an active volcano.
Despite the freak nature of the crash, and that it was a miniscule chance of happening, there will be a new push for a safer fuels, an increase in fosil fuel usage, and Toyota will hold the world hostage with thousands of hydrogen powered cars.
