The World in the future

[sammd]

What do you think the World will be like in the future? (after our lifetime). Do you think it will be like in Back to the Future, with flying cars? Will it be like in Judge Dredd with walled cities? Will we use all our fields and countryside to build houses on so there's no grass and trees left? Or will we just be hit by an asteroid and all be wiped out?

[aka pixi]

You didnt say how far into the future so I will go with 100 years. I reckon it will either be like the Terminator films with robots and other machines taking over the world or the world will be over run with some weird cloned creature with a taste for human brains.

Those scientists just wont stop messing!!!

[B00]

Ooooo ooooo I'm all for pixi's version as long as if I can bag me a Reece (from Terminator) looky likey :-)

[sithlord]

The Jetson's!!

[Skids]

I'm going with a Futurama feel for the future. Much like the world is now but with space-ships, hover cars, robots and much more dumb-4ss people.

[Toureman]

How can you possibly have flying cars? most people cannot drive cars properly that stay on the ground !

[don1]

The simple truth to this question is that we cannot prevent another ice age and we cannot prevent an asteroid strike that will wipe out all life on earth.

Earth has no future.

[nucleardream]

Say goodbye to democracy. If we don't, gaps in the economic, social, income and educational attainment levels between people, states, countries, continents will grow larger and larger. Why do you think democratic scholars a thousand years ago only forecasted the longevity of a democratic government to be 200 and some odd years long?

[boobesque]

i believe indeed that terminators (previously known as rat traps) will go crazy and try to take over the wolrld. in the name of rentokill they will brutally murder and wipe out our species apart from the mutant humans with flame throwers for left arms who will melt the robots and turn them into cheap jewellery.

[jake-the-peg]

I have a wonderful book called "profiles of the future" Arthur C Clarke wrote in in the 70's and considerred what rthe world would be like in the future.

Needless to say he didn't see computers in anything like the way they developed and spent a long time going on about the wonderful futre for Ground Effect Machines (hovercraft to you and me)

I think if he managed to fail to see only 30-40 years into the future there's little hope for the rest of us!

[sammd]

Interesting answers - wish i could come back to see what it will be like...assuming it's not hit by an asteroid first.

[qapmoc]

My View of the Far Future (beyond 50 years) taken from www.wolfatthedoor.com

My view of the near future then is pessimistic, a view that the oil crisis will hit us hard with wars, famines and the environment drastically devastating the population. Assuming that we can avoid a nuclear war, I believe that the world would eventually settle down. It has been estimated that, without hydrocarbons to provide energy, fertilisers and pesticides, agriculture could not support a population greater than two billion. This reduction would take us back to pre-20th century levels but the disruption to society and its infrastructure would probably mean a reversion to pre-industrial revolution.

The industrial revolution though required an organised, peaceful society and plentiful supplies of wood and coal. After the crash, we will find that forests are limited and the easily accessible coal will already have been mined. With no coal to begin the revolution and no oil to continue it, there is certainly no way that humanity could ever reach the same levels of population and energy usage it now has. I think it is likely, a hundred years from now, that Homo Sapiens will be living in small communities, supplying most of their needs from the surrounding farmland, rather like medieval Europe.

[qapmoc]

Sorry that should be http://www.wolfatthedoor.org.uk

As the available Oil, Coal, Natural Gas, Uranium will be gone long before the end of this century, (peak oil will take place this decade) you should read the above and visit some sites on this subject for your own future good,
I suggest that you google ''peak oil'' ''oil depletion'' ''energy depletion'' and become aware of what is happening with the worlds energy supplies.