Can you describe the world 50 years from now?

Question

When you try to imagine what it will be like, what do you see? What are the first images that pop into your head?

Any and all areas of life on planet earth: ecology, transportation, food production, distribution and diet, energy and shared resources, fashion, technology and science, religion and spirituality, media, politics and government, wild places and animals, hunger and world suffering, the moral heartbeat of humanity.....and the list goes on.......

what are the first images that pop into your head -- thinking about 50 years from now?

Answer 1

The Song,
"In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)" by Zager and Evans,
comes to mind: With a few modifications to the time line.

In the year 2010
If man is still alive.
If woman can survive, they may find.

In the year 2015 ...
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies.
Everything you think, do and say, is in the pill you took today.

In the year 2020
Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes.
You won't find a thing to chew.
Nobody's gonna look at you.

In the year 2025
Your arms hanging limp at your sides.
Your legs got nothing to do.
Some machine doing that for you.

In the year 2030
Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife.
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too.
From the bottom of a long glass tube. Whoa-oh

In the year 2035
If God's a-comin, he oughta make it by then.
Maybe he'll look around himself and say.
Guess it's time for the judgment day.

In the year 2040
God is gonna shake his mighty head.
He'll either say.I'm pleased where man has been.
Or tear it down and start again. Whoa-oh

In the year 2050
I'm kinda wonderin if man is gonna be alive.
He's taken everything this old Earth can give.
And he ain't put back nothing.Whoa-oh

Now it's been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears.
For what he never knew,
now man's reign is through.

But through eternal night.
The twinkling of starlight.
So very far away.
Maybe it's only yesterday.

In the year 2010
If man is still alive.
If woman can survive, they may find.

In the year 2015...

Answer 2

The year is 2056. The wars that preceded during the past one-hundred and fifty years, have claimed many lives. Plagues such as have never before been seen have swept the globe, eliminating more than one third of the population. While technology has vastly increased, due in large part to the weapons unvieled during the last great war, finally wrung from the hands of a government bent on keeping them secret, that same war has destroyed the means of production. Energy production is now based on crystals, which draw their power directly from the ether. More and more the secrets of consciousness have been discovered, and many believe that soon, all will be able to perform the feats that are now learned only after years of hard study by the neo-Aikido practitioners. It was they who ended the plagues, by teaching the people self-healing methods, and providing the energy required to pull most of them through the many epidemics. Against those who would expand the power of humanity is the Catholic Church, who has by now absorbed most Protestant churches back into her fold. They hold to a strongly materialistic view of the world, as apposed to the neo-Aikido (literally, New Way of the Life Force), who value consciousness development and one-ness with the forces of nature. While thier existence and meetings have not yet been outlawed, they are viewed as apostate by the Church, and are considered nearly a cult by the media. Now, mankind prepares for its greatest battle yet, as an influential young Muslim tries to unite the Muslim and Catholic faiths. He has no idea the pain and bloodshed that this move will bring, in this final chapter of human history...

Answer 3

In 50 years, I'm hoping to walk outside and not see smog in LA. I'm hoping that San Bernardino, CA is one of the safest places to be. Gas will probably not be the only source of fuel, other alternatives will be used. Electronics will be far Superior to today's studies and life as it is know will not be the same. My cat being 18 now in cat years, will go in the world records as the cure for getting older, because she will still be alive. Me I hope to be long done with life, and making a much better life for my kids and my grand-kids. I hope they still have the Chevy Corvette or the 56' are gonna be blahhh. I think that also our nation will have better relationships with our rivals. Who knows, I'm prolly wrong, but Its just the things that popped in my head.

Answer 4

Either:

Total economic collapse and everybody everywhere is on their own, and no more than regional governance (a few hundred kilometres), let alone "national" governments or world travel. By doing nothing, the environment will be poisoned and most people will live in poverty under strongarm governments.

Or we will have woken up to environmental reality and be in the process of switching from oil to electricity (nuclear, hydroelectic, solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, etc.) plus dealing with the human issue of overpopulation. By doing so, we can maintain our standard of living.

The choice is ours and needs to be made now.

Answer 5

In fifty years, the world called Earth will pretty much look the same as it does today, like a lovely blue marble suspended in the black void of space with an exquisite, delicate mist surrounding it. The oceans will be green and blue, the mountains will be snow capped, and the prairies will ripple with slender grasses. When one gazes upon the entire world from afar, one cannot see the teeny-tiny animals, or their teeny-tiny cities, or their teeny tiny troubles. In fifty years, the world will still be just as beautiful as it's ever been . . . when seen from afar.

Answer 6

The start of World War Three is occuring right now, yet George W. Bush supports it. In 50 years, everybody is going to know what an idiot George W. Bush actually is, because the world is going to succumb to the wars and problems that will carry on. George W. Bush is a F*CKING dumbass.

Answer 7

i would say that the clothing industry will be head quartered in India, and will be looser fitting with more movement in the fabric. i also see that Indonesia will become a thrill takers Paradise. in the travel industry the Pakistan's will control the Asian and middle eastern hotels and gambling will be legalized in all countries. the first mars colonies will be killed in a violent solar storm that will knock out power on earth for three weeks in august.

Answer 8

Can you describe the world 50 years from now?

No.

Answer 9

there might be a limited resource that could happenened and also it depends on the economic status in a particular place...the first thing that came into my mind is that might the population would be soon over...
there would be kilings and time will come that cannibalism will arise.....because of the limited food...

Answer 10

If rapture has not taken place, it will be the most miserable place to live on. I would be dead and gone. But I feel, the world wouldn't last that long.