Create a time period!

[Tonimata]

People usually tend to complain about different aspects of the time period they have been forced to live in. Be it because the culture doesn't suit them, the economics are raving crazy or the fear of sudden apocalyptic destruction, people just don't seem to enjoy their assigned time period.

So, what I propose is to design your own time period, and by this I mean, pick and mix whatever social, cultural, economic, political factors you wish in order to blend them into something hopefully beautiful.

PD: This is as part of my research in a project
PPD: Please, be co-operative and avoid quoting Gandalf on this one.

 

[Nickolai77]

Well this is a new idea.... all right, i'll play.

This is the most "ideal" time period for me personally.

Political:
Liberal-Democratic reforms in China and Russia
Liberal minded Democrat President of USA
Two-State solution between Palestine and Isreal.
EU reform: Farm subsidies reduced in favour of industrial subsidies, democratic reform gives the parliament more power. EU military integration.
Collapse of the Iranian, North Korean and Saudi Arabian regimes
Taliban are defeated.

Economic:
Western world begins exporting more high-tech material and reduces structural deficits.
Chinese and Indian manufactures outsource to Africa.
Euro, US Dollar, Chinese Yuan and Yen are worlds most valued currencies.
EU finally removes all internal trade barriers.

Socio/Cultural:
-Religious radicalism in all it's forms decline
-Muslim migrant birth rate in Europe falls to white European levels, immigration falls in volume
-Iron Maiden inspire a whole new sub-genre of heavy metal, causing the heavy metal genre in general to undergo a renaissance.

 

[SturmDolch]

2021:

With "artificial intelligence" at it's smartest and cheapest in years, businesses are slowly shifting manual labour from humans to specialized robots. With Honda, Sony, and other new upstarts, the robotics industry rapidly becomes the most profitable industry to work in. The price rapidly decreases while demand increases.

2025:

Robots have all but taken over manual labour jobs. They now plow the fields on farms, build all parts of your car and then the car itself, and produce most foods and other hard goods. However, the amount of workers displaced by this steadily grows. People grow angry and desperate across the world as their families begin to starve. In Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, and Central and South America, people begin to die and the threat of disease grows.

2026:

The United Nations declare that they will work more closely to help people that lost their jobs. They launch a program where businesses in the robotics industry can pay subscription to be "Certified Human Friendly". At the same time, the nations ban all businesses that are not certified. The money is used to build homes and send aid.

2027:

Development on robots able to drive themselves is completed. They replace garbage collectors, buses, taxis, and many people buy self-driving cars. Most developed nation cities buy robotic transit systems, due to their relative cheapness.

2030 and onwards:

The United Nations grows increasingly popular. In 2031, they hold votes across the world to give the United Nations governing power over all nations in it. The bill passes at 83% accepting it. Many nations immediately leave the UN, and the UN has no other choice but to declare war on them. It does not last long and the UN is victorious, especially since they had a vast arsenal of robotic warriors available.

Sadly, millions die to the famine that now plagues many undeveloped countries. Before the world stabilizes in the 2040s, an estimated 1.5 billion people die. Emergency UN forces move in to help the nations, and children all over the world are sent to schools to teach them to be academics.

Earth shifts from an individualistic worker's world to a harmonic thinker's world. Robots do the work while humanity programs them. Robots are built to maintain robots, and to build robots.

Resources begin to dwindle, and humanity looks up in the 2050s, ending the Robotic Age and beginning the Space Age.

 

[syndicated44]

Hmm a fun thought would perhaps be if America did not become bipartisan.