How do you envision the future?

[Darth Caelum]

Hmm. I've only really realized this now, but everyone is so horribly pessimistic about the future in the Escapist. So horribly depressed you all are.

Nonetheless, technology will continue to advance at the steady state it's been going at, namely, miniaturization. Things getting smaller and smaller, people getting interconnected through the internet, and things basically being easier for everyone involved. Human nature will continue as it always has, being a mix of what society would say is good and evil. However, the form of this will change, as with every generation, finding a new outlook on how to express the inherent grayness of human nature. We won't become a utopia, but is is highly unlikely we destroy ourselves. At the very least, the people who are in the position to do so aren't stupid enough to do it. The masses are ultimately meaningless in this situation, besides the whole public opinion thing.

Yep. I hate how everyone is so depressing on this forum. It also seems like in every other thread someone has given up hope for humanity.

OT: About the same. They'll be new problems and old ones will go away. Things will change cosmetically and perhaps things will be sleeker. Also i'm 100% sure that there will still be people who keep claiming that the END is right around the corner.

Hmm. I honestly can't recall if it's always been like this, and I matured a bit more to see it, or if it's a recent thing. What do you think? You've been on this site longer than me.

Its always been like that. If you put a couple of thousand people from the internet in the same room and give them all keyboards they'll eventually just become pessimists.

Hmm. Fair point. I guess I've just gained some new perspective then. How nice, I've matured. [sarcasm/]

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

China will become even worse for pollution, possibly wiping out large quantities of it's population in varies cities.

England will be a socialist country. The US will be a far right democracy. They will clash.

There will be more human rights laws passed, finally achieving equality for all in the Western world.

The developing world will have developed a bit more and many countries will be on their way to achieving democracy as we know it now.

No country will achieve democracy in itself.

Robotic assistants will be developed and tested, they will still be fairly poor quality and expensive however.

War will persist.

That's how I expect it to go down. I don't see too many of these being bad, I like that England will become more socialist and that various countries in the developing world will be better off and have democracy, but I dislike that the US will be even more right wing and clashing with England (possibly the entire UK) because of persisting resentment for communism and leftist ideology.

And, of course, war will persist. War never changes.

 

[imnot]

Lauren Faust for president 2027!!

Thats when Deus Ex is set right, I want to agument my body with a unicorn horn!

 

[ShindoL Shill]

http://www.cracked.com/article_19343_6-mind-blowing-ways-genetic-engineering-might-save-your-life.html
also the stuff in Michio Kaku's Science of the Impossible.
because he said lightsabers in as little as 50 years with nanotech. and i want to have a lightsaber before i hit a midlife crisis (i read something about meds that may let us live to 150 by as early as 2025.)

 

[Icehearted]

Bleak. Overpopulation, a lack of resources, a lack of employment, "every man for himself" capitalism, war, fuel costs driving up the cost of everything else.

For every one person you see today two or more will rise within the first 20-24 years, which means that in approximately 36-45 years for every one person there will be six or more new people.

Future's going to be bleak, crowded, and brutal.

 

[Daniel Forman]

I think that Jack Black will remember the greatest song in the world.

 

[Voodoomancer]

I predict I will progressively get older; unless/until I die, in that case I will be dead.

I win, my answer is correct, close this thread.

In a hilarious twist of fate, you get bitten by a vampire and spend eternity in ageless undeath.

OT: Space. People will live there. And it will be Awesome. Also, we won't disappear when the sun burns out, because do you honestly believe we cannot achieve interstellar colonization in 5 BILLION freaking years?

 

[lobster1077]

Thats when Deus Ex is set right, I want to agument my body with a unicorn horn!

Everyone should do that, then complain about it like the protagonist constantly does. =D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXpuRIZzJog

 

[Lono Shrugged]

double post

 

[Lono Shrugged]

To quote Ridley Scott on the production of Blade Runner: "The future is old"

As in, there will be new stuff but most cities will be older like medieval cities in Europe. So like that new shopping centre built last week will be like a tourist attraction in a thousand years.

depressing

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Dr. Who.


I think Dr. Who will happen.

 

[Firstmark_Bannor]

My version of the future is the logical conclusion to human kind's actions so far. A giant smoking ball of wrecked buildings and dead people. With any luck the humans will knock themselves off and maybe some plants can take over as the dominate life-form. But I'd settle for intelligent mold...

 

[lettucethesallad]

Jet packs, silver body suits and hover bikes.

...please?

 

[funguy2121]

society will have descended to the point where 'text speak' has become main language (this is say 100 years in the future). For example, 'u' has replaced 'you', 'gr8' replacing 'great' etc.

Already there, sadly. And people mock me for not LOL'ing.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

Hahahahaha, oh you guys.

Absolutely nothing.

The cars will be the exact same with better gas mileage, everybody is going to remember what a good president Barrack Obama was and how terrible their current president is, and touch screens are going to slowly weed themselves out.

This is the next fifty years by the way. In 1960, people thought our cars would look like bubbles. Literally nothing world changing will happen. China won't take over (their economy is shittier than the US, not to mention they have extremely limited resources), The US will most likely remain the big powerhouse of the world.

You have just touched upon what it would take for me to initiate a killing spree ending with "and then he turned the gun on himself."

Tell me why? Why should text speak warrant such hate like this? It's a faster, easier way of communicating. Useless words and ways of speaking have been killed out over the centuries for being needlessly complicated to use, this is no different.

 

[Rattler5150]

28 days later future:
mankind is reduced to a few, superviruses have killed most of the world population

Soylent Green Future:
The world is severely overpopulated, by law you have to have 3 families to a house

Terminator/matrix future:
Intelligent machines have enslaved mankind

Fallout Future
WW3 has destroyed earth , a few survivors make there way with whats left over

Jetsons Future
we are all happy. technology has improved everything

Titan AE future:
we have developed cheap interstellar transports and have left earth to spread around the galaxy

Waterworld future
earth is flooded because of the melted ice caps

 

[weirdsoup]

How do I envision the future?

As a boot stomping down on a human's face over and over again forever and ever.

That or something really dreadful will happen

 

[GraveeKing]

Well, my great great great great great great grandson 'Rimmer' will go on a ship by the name of 'Red Dwarf' sadly there will be a terrible accident, with the whole crew getting killed. Sadly, he's forced to suffer the 'life' of a hologram in all his stupidity and misery, with his overly talkative friend Lister and some kind of freakishly evolved cat creature.

That is what I see.... Every time I turn on youtube it's what I see..... it'll be a awesome.

 

[Da Orky Man]

Hahahahaha, oh you guys.

Absolutely nothing.

The cars will be the exact same with better gas mileage, everybody is going to remember what a good president Barrack Obama was and how terrible their current president is, and touch screens are going to slowly weed themselves out.

This is the next fifty years by the way. In 1960, people thought our cars would look like bubbles. Literally nothing world changing will happen. China won't take over (their economy is shittier than the US, not to mention they have extremely limited resources), The US will most likely remain the big powerhouse of the world.

Since the 60s, we have created the Internet, a world-changing technology. The US took over from Britain as the world's premier superpower. We have sent probes out of the solar system. Computers are almost infinitesimally faster than they were. Communism has risen and fallen. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has, so far, prevented nuclear war.
In fifty years, a lot can change. I'm guessing we'll see the initial commercialisation of space, a new superpower, as well as at least one major new technology.

 

[The Funslinger]

Hahahahaha, oh you guys.

Absolutely nothing.

The cars will be the exact same with better gas mileage, everybody is going to remember what a good president Barrack Obama was and how terrible their current president is, and touch screens are going to slowly weed themselves out.

This is the next fifty years by the way. In 1960, people thought our cars would look like bubbles. Literally nothing world changing will happen. China won't take over (their economy is shittier than the US, not to mention they have extremely limited resources), The US will most likely remain the big powerhouse of the world.

You have just touched upon what it would take for me to initiate a killing spree ending with "and then he turned the gun on himself."

Tell me why? Why should text speak warrant such hate like this? It's a faster, easier way of communicating. Useless words and ways of speaking have been killed out over the centuries for being needlessly complicated to use, this is no different.

Dialect changing isn't the same as reducing the english language to text speak. There's a reason why many forums have rules against it. Text speak originated from the need to save money while texting, and that's becoming less and less of an issue with things like monthly contracts becoming more and more used in things like iphones. Now that's not an issue, the majority of people with them are now texting with normal typing.

If it did happen, it'd be the harbinger of lazier, less educated people. If asked, many people will tell you unnecessary text speak is likely to frustrate them. We are not the Welsh![footnote]Any Welsh persons upon this forum whom may be offended by this are to be informed of my sincere apologies. And that as a Yorkshire-man, I will shoot you with a longbow.[/footnote] We like vowels and pronounceable syllables!