Future Shock
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If you want to be afraid of something, let it be China, not Russia.Casual Shinji said:
So what, they steamrolled over Georgia? Big fuckin' deal. They have absolutely no power outside of the ex-Soviet block, and not even that, since 90% of all ex communist Eastern European countries have already taken significant steps towards the EU. As soon as we make the transition to non fossil fuel, they will lose the little power that they had.
Every thing stays the same shitty swine flu 'riddled', Ressesion fearing same.
Imagine the dissapointment.
Imagine the dissapointment.
I know China is a bigger threat. I just don't like the fact that Russia can pretty much do whatever it wants with in it's own borders. Killing of journalists who critisize the Kremlin and keeping Putin in power. And that whole thing in Georgia was a big sign that Russia is trying to reclaim the're lost terratory.The infamous SCAMola said:
Russia and China are in denial. Russia is in denial because it still thinks that it is a superpower (and also because it thinks it still is very important) and China is in denial because it is trying to meld a Communist government with an increasingly Capitalist economy...one or the other will eventually win out (ie Capitalism because unlike Communism, it actually works long term). Oh and China also seems to think it owns Taiwan and some of India's territory for some reason.
All and all, yeah I would say China will likely be the next superpower, once it reconciles its system of government with its economy and fixes some social problems. Now if Japan ever gets out of denial and realizes that they have no right being a pacifist country (anymore) then the game changes as Japan has always been more resourceful than China...historically at least. *Hides in bunker before the flame responses hit*
All and all, yeah I would say China will likely be the next superpower, once it reconciles its system of government with its economy and fixes some social problems. Now if Japan ever gets out of denial and realizes that they have no right being a pacifist country (anymore) then the game changes as Japan has always been more resourceful than China...historically at least. *Hides in bunker before the flame responses hit*
My future dystopia would be something like Ayn Rand's book, Anthem; a total collectivist state where the only official purpose of a human life is to serve the whole. The emphasis on conformity to established morals and beliefs is bad enough in America without the government making it the law.
Yeah, but a lot of other third world countries (I realize Russia isn't "Third World", but still...) do the same exact thing. Does that mean they'll become superpowers? Hell no, if anything it's a testament to their weakness as countries.Casual Shinji said:
Japan already was well on the road to becoming an economic superpower in the eighties and early nineties. Then in the mid-nineties they had an economic crisis that taught them a lesson in humility.Seekster said:
Same could happen to China.
Technology continues to advance at a steady rate exploiting fixed resources until what we are left with is a world population in the tens of billions, little food, little oil, over 90% of the wealth going to the less than 1% superrich population, and governments barely able, if at all able, to control the teeming masses crying for food and power. Martial Law is introduced in some places, births are limited based on social class and wealth. People die by the millions every day. What governing forces still maintain power take control, become dictatorships and monarchies. Many governments fall, resulting in lawless, wild-west/fallout like scenarios. Population may be again controlled, but the government still does little to nothing for the poor(aka, the masses). Some nations rise and destroy their governments. Others follow suit, and eventually we are left with a starving, overpopulated, anarchic world which is like Fallout without mutants, radiation, and energy weapons. Picture something more along the lines of "Children of Men," but people can still have babies. Too many babies.
Well, what is likely to happen in the next little while (5-10 years, maybe less) is that Russia and China put aside their old hostilities to form a new medium of international trade that doesnt involve American currency, begining a long and painful plung for the American dollar.
This will create a multipolar world once again, which will likely be a good thing for the standards of living of all human beings, except Americans (who will have to adopt a much less indulgant way of life) and the British (who based their whole economy around the financial sector, whihc collapsed). Unfortunately, America still has 10000 nukes at plenty of creationist madmen, so good ol' nuclear war remains a large threat (as Russia has another 10000, and Chana has several hundred).
Sometime in the next few decades (if it hasnt hit already) we will be reaching peak oil, so we will be facing resouce depletion with regards to oil, the resource around which our way of life is largely based, which is an uncomfortable thought. While demand rises, supply drops and most people will be priced out of the market.
So in short, expect the age of plenty to be coming to an end, and that depression like events brought about fascism in less than a decade in Europe, and simply because it was defeated once before, doesnt mean we are innoculated against it happening again.
This will create a multipolar world once again, which will likely be a good thing for the standards of living of all human beings, except Americans (who will have to adopt a much less indulgant way of life) and the British (who based their whole economy around the financial sector, whihc collapsed). Unfortunately, America still has 10000 nukes at plenty of creationist madmen, so good ol' nuclear war remains a large threat (as Russia has another 10000, and Chana has several hundred).
Sometime in the next few decades (if it hasnt hit already) we will be reaching peak oil, so we will be facing resouce depletion with regards to oil, the resource around which our way of life is largely based, which is an uncomfortable thought. While demand rises, supply drops and most people will be priced out of the market.
So in short, expect the age of plenty to be coming to an end, and that depression like events brought about fascism in less than a decade in Europe, and simply because it was defeated once before, doesnt mean we are innoculated against it happening again.
are you kidding? it would totally rock, mech warriors defending the last human bastion. Or just living in 1999 all the freaking time, ultima online just came out so it would be the best thing ever. All your have to do is be asleep and act like a battery lolcoxafloppin said:
I imagine that further into the future it will be something like firefly. Which would be kinda cool.
True fact, Japan has a Gameboy for every Japanese man, woman and child and a game cartridge for every man woman and child on Earth.TheMatt said:
America has a gun for every American man, woman and child and a bullet for every man, woman and child on Earth.
Hehe I just had to post this.DoW Lowen said:
But yeah I think a world where Americanism has completely taken over the world would be horrible, we'd all have to watch terrible TV shows, eat horrible food and get fat, oh wait.
i can't have joy joy feelings until i learn how to use the three seashells...they look painful and difficult...if so i must start figuring out which words i'm going to use to produce enough fines for the next 50 years, I could just record the audio from a yahtzee reveiw and stick it up to the device that might give me enough. lolnikki191 said:
(p.s. I love yahtzees reveiws that wasn't a negative remark btw)
earth's economy fails so we set up shop on mars.... with the help of ultor corp. i can see nothing going wrong there....