what will it be like in the future?

Question

For all our differences it's amazing how we all share a familar love for this little blue rock that spins silently through space, yet we seem destined to destroy the things we love. Perhaps it's in our nature to do just that.

For all the things that will happen in the future, the good things and the bad, the disasters, the wars, the triumphs, and the achievments, i can say that we will one day sieze to exist, every trace of mankind will one day be no than it was prior to our existance in this world. I wonder, will the last human being know he or she is the last? will the last indeed be human?

Its nice to imagine, that's what makes the dreams of our future the reality of today.

My one hope for the future is that we meet another race from another world.

Answer 1

There is no such thing.

Answer 2

Basic human patterns don't change so much, but the clothes it's dressed in do.
I hope to see a scaling back of noisy ,smelly, technology. the ending of the oil era may bring smaller scale communities where production and consumption are once again neighbours. Where we can walk from our doors down peaceful streets and paths, and have rounded jobs where mind and body are both exercised.
A time where once again limited resources mean that people must chose what is really valuable to them , and take care of those things.
A time when the product of someone's work is valued for itself, rather than the financial value ascribed to it.
If enough people come to share these values then this will be the future.
There will of course be many futures for many people, as there are now.
But if most people continue to act and think as they do now then I guess things will be rather bleak.

PS: For an entertaining look at a possible future evolutionary path for mankind read 'Galapagos', by Kurt Vonnegut.

Answer 3

There will be a complete breakdown of society as we know it, and a mass extinction of a significant number of keystone species (like it isn't happening already!) There will be major environmental catastrophes including even more significant global temperature rise and the resulting complete melting of the ice caps, which cause a large rise in sea level. The food supply chain will disappear, resulting in the deaths of more than two thirds of the population of the planet. I believe it will happen within the next 100 years. Humans may not survive, but the planet will get over it soon enough (in planetary terms) and another species will rise to be the dominant one on the planet. It'll probably be cockroaches, and hopefully they won't destroy it like humans have!

Answer 4

The way the world is conducting its business right now. I don't see much of a future for the existence of man to worry about it.

Answer 5

I think we must, and will shift back to the scientifically agreed upon paradigm of the late 60's/early seventies of overcoming societal problems with technology rather than creating new ones and exacerbating old ones.

Answer 6

how do you stop the future being big brother with guns? - you learn the lesson of history: you disallow concentration of wealth - money is power is corruption is evil is tyranny is sadism is terrorism

you limit fortunes to the maximum a person can contribute to the social pool of wealth by their own work - US$2 million - and you spread overfortunes [the other-created part of fortunes] equally among all humans

you understand that there are many many wideopen legal ways [besides the illegal ways] to rake money, you understand that money moves automatically, ceaselessly from true owners [earners, creators, workers] to false owners

ie, the rich get richer etc - ie, the rich do less and less work per dollar, money rakes money, ie, injustice ie theft, ie violence - you understand that this has been going on unchecked [except by revolutions] for centuries, millenia

the state built on injustice cannot stand - no state built on injustice has stood - no state built on justice has fallen - 'the purpose of govt is justice'

what do we have? - pay from $1, to $1 billion a fortnight - 1% getting 90% [they certainly dont do 90% of the work, probably less than 1%, because the super overpaid dont HAVE to work] - 90% getting a 10th to a 1000th of the av. hourly pay - 50 million [1% of humanity] starving to death p.a. amid plenty [a million dollars annual income per 100 humans, 20 families, per starving person - ie a million dollars a year per starving person - 100 people with a million dollars income a year and one starving to death - [6] billions with [75] trillions [p.a.] and [50] millions starving]

while this is going on, we have one person working one hour and being paid up to US$10 million, ie, putting in one hour of his work, and taking out the products of about a million hours work - although everyone knows that if you took bill gates and 100 other people and gave them same tools, equipment and knowledge to make various things, bill gates's production would be very similar to everyone else's - yet we give him $10 million worth of those various things in return for one of his hours work - pure madness!

and money is power, so power is very unequally spread, so we have supertyranny [having a million times the average income is like having a tank a million times bigger than the average person's tank - hence leaders killing millions of people with impunity]

we give 10s of 1000s of our earnings to make complete strangers superrich and superpowerful so they are free to hit and hurt everyone they like over the head with impunity - and history shows they do like

it was obvious to americans that tyranny depended on concentration of wealth, ie injustice, ie theft - so the founding fathers intended to limit fortunes - what did america do? - head straight and fast to concentration of wealth - and then take a 100 years to grasp they have a tyranny, a fascism, a nazism, a communism, a dictatorship

superdumb? - or something else? - could it be we have a divine mission to demonstrate the way to be wretched? - will we be getting medals for our good showing in the wretchedness stakes?

superdumb

Answer 7

Better. Let's believe that. The world today IS a better place than it used to be and that will just continue.

Answer 8

Awful. Like Big Brother with guns.

Answer 9

Small, lumpy and red, with a nasty after taste, similar to Sardine and frog. Will most likely respond to the name, "Gerald H Smithe."

Answer 10

It will be better - just think how things were 100 years ago - people had to work down the mines and everyone had syphillis.

Answer 11

well, no-one can truley no, but I heard an interesting theory saying that something big is going to happen that will cause to become primitive again...oh wait, that was a movie. lol sorry