Everybody- give your 2 cents worth... What will Earth/humanity be like in 100 years?

Question

Include- climate, population, economy, extraterrestrial life, human body type, and other details please.

10 points for the person who sounds the most descriptive, accurate and smart in the shortest amount of words.

Answer 1

Climate--not universally hotter per se, but more intense all over. The few cold places on earth will be really *really* cold and there will be many more deserts. However, we might also experience a brief ice age *if* both warfare (nukes that is) and a stopping of the North Atlantic Oceanic conveyor cause a sudden *summertime* drop in atmospheric temps....Likewise, if El Nino/La Nina types of ocean-driven winter wetness prevail, we may well end up with a surge of *increase* in size of our global rainforests.

Population--bigger, way bigger. When people lose hope for the future, as is the case in the starving nations of Africa, they tend to have sex and spawn indiscriminately. This is also true of your teenage mothers in the Trailer Parks of America by the way....

Economy--Mostly crazy, as in schizophrenic. As in, fewer and fewer people will be able to find meaningful work, as the Mass Media *blares louder and louder* the Big Corporate Triumphs of Wealth (tm). We will enter an age wherein only 3-5% of the population works *full time for a salary* courtesy of Corporatist Governance in the Developed world driving wages and standards of living down into the gutter....and the Mass Media will likewise hail the *divide* between the richest 20 percent and the poorest 80 percent as "progress" and intensify their "Greed is Good" campaign by further sabotage of local (national-scale) social service and security systems and treat the ordinary citizen like so much *roadkill*. We will be split into a world of Have ALLS and Have NONES the likes of which we haven't seen since Dickens wrote fiction.

You can expect Food riots, and even Overcrowding riots in your larger cities in the summertime as utility systems fail and the temps rise. There will be soylent green, and it *will* be people--it will just be *gasoline* and not food.

Extraterrestrial Life--It will find us. By and large, it will find us disgusting, but a few people from Outside will stick around, either by choice or otherwise. We will find it *highly* in our best interests to *not* screw with these people, as they will mainly come from a high-gravity terrestrial world orbiting an M-class Red Dwarf star--think Krypton folks--and they will have superior technology *and* physical attributes. There will be some communication, a little trade courtesy of automated quantum-tunnel ships, and the *very rare* visitor. Because we will be too different, and they will be too *constrained* by their own morality (think Prime Directive) to either help or hinder us much.

Human body types--there will be multiples, and it will go above and beyond what we have here now. We are long overdue for new species of that genus Homo (human) to evolve. They are evolving among the poorest people of rich nations, and among the richest people of the poor ones. Some educated guesses:

--People in general will be smaller and more physically fit. The corn and corn syrup will be used up for fuel (M85) so healthy food, when available, will be the norm, and poor folks will live off of soy-based fakes and what they can grow on their own in public-leased gardens. The failure of the Petroleum Economy and of the climate will force folks to get tough quick.

--Many people, the children of today's generations of people infected with toxoplasmosis, will begin to sport flagrant feline characteristics courtesy of cat DNA being transposed into the Human Genome, just because that parasite, the toxo, has only been around since ancient Egypt, and has had thousands of years and *billions of chances* to re-arrange the DNA. The mood shifts and nocturnalism are already present and accounted for, we are at best one or two generations away from the more *flagrant* and physical side.

--Other species of human kind will come up, with varying attributes above and beyond those of normal men. Neither the cyborg/geeky transhumans nor the aliens will want for "fellow freaks" to be around. You might also look into what Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone is really *doing* to us anatomically to get another hint.

Generally speaking....people will be more diverse, more impoverished in terms of money, have more potential to develop Cool Super-Powers than before, and we will be more miserable than ever. The weather will suck, everyone will be broke, on some sort of welfare and scrambling to survive, crime and public disorder will be rampant (think Somalian warlord rampant), terrorism will be mundane on all of earth as it is in Israel, and....

damn near everyone will be *coerced* by the Media and dwindling resources into a vegan lifestyle that has them hungry and miserable 24/7/365.

That in a nutshell, barring any sudden positive miracles, or any nuclear/dirty bomb catastrophes, is the future of humanity. God help us. And sorry to be so verbose....it's a bad habit, I know.

Answer 2

Climate: Alittle more polution than what we got now. Popultion producing factories will still exist but more laws will be in place to prevent new ones from popping up plus new technology will exist to help clean up the polution that already exists.

Population: What are we at now? 7 billion? I would say that in 100 years we should be leveling off around 10 billion. But due to advancements in agriculture, fields produce a higher yeild of food. This means that on average the number of hungry people in the world will be the same.

Economy: All the markets will still be around in much the same way they are now. Some countries like India will be more advanced than they are now but some countries like North Korea will be struggling to keep up.

Extraterrestrial life: We will know for sure that intelligant life exists on another planet. We will have found other Earth-like planets orbiting other stars but aliens will not come to Earth and we will not go to them. Due to the great distances between the planets 2 way communication will be impossible.

Human body type: Exactly the same as it is now. People will be smarter on average than someone living today but not because of genetic engineering or implants. People in the year 2100 will make people in the year 2000 look like people in the year 1900.

Don't expect super dramatic differences. The same things that seperate the year 1900 from the year 2000 is the same things that seperate the year 2000 from the year 2100. Yes, people will dress differently. Robots will be walking around and doing menial labor like mowing the yard. There will be alteast one large war that results in many deaths, but it won't be full-scale nuclear. (Maybe a couple nukes but not alot). Some people will have augmented limbs (robotic limbs for people who lost their own limbs).

All I really care about is getting those darn hover cars and jetpacks we were promise 50 years ago!

Answer 3

If the world hasn't ended by then.

The climate will be at its worst. We will be forced to live indoors, or in domes due to "Acid Rain" or Extreme heat due to global warming, or some other kind of weather wise thing that develops.

Population may decrease due to the weather climates becoming to intense, but then again, with technology who knows, we maybe living on the moon or even mars by then!

The economy will be in chaos. Poverty would be at its worst and jobs would be very hard to find. College degree would be absolutely necessary for a good job, and since the climate has become so intense, prices would rise, as well as the numbers of suicides.

Extraterrestrial life will have come and gone, they will realize that we are nothing but idiots destroying our planet by industry, so they just move on to find something maybe smarter than us.

Human body type, we will be able to look however we want. no one will be "Ugly" anymore unless choosing to be or cannot afford it. As well as being obese, or wanting to have any kind of cosmetic surgery.

The medical field will be at its best, AIDS will be cured, and all other types of incurable diseases. But, as usual, new sicknesses will pop up and kill hundreds and challenge the minds of the researchers one more.

Answer 4

Climate - like now - maybe hotter, but global trends are cooling. Scientists plead with nations to start generating more CO2. :-)

Population - still exponentially increasing, although smaller families are becoming more prevalent. Indian Tectonic plate sinks into the ocean under the weight of 3 billion people ;-)

Economy - strong as ever.

Extraterrestrial life - still alone in the universe. Near light-speed probe is close to AlphaCentari. Voyager probe intercepted by alien race and is now collecting technology, getting ready for return in 2625 (StarTrek IV) :-)

Human Body Type - healthy food is now the "cheap" food to buy - junk food becomes scarce after the price for corn (and corn syrup) skyrockets when e-85 becomes federally mandated. Hydrogen fuel cell cars are still "a few years way" ;-) A pedal and gasoline powered hybrid car enters the market at a fraction of the cost - gasoline engine maintains speed, pedal power accelerates. Nationwide BMI drops by 20 points ;-)

Answer 5

In A Hundred Years/ One Century/ or in terms of human reporoduction no more than a couple of generations the human race will be exactly the same only they'll be so deep in sh*t from screwing with the planet that it'll be coming out their ears - the human population will be enroaching on about 12 billion according to present day estimates - Because of global warming and the deterioration of the Ozone layer we will have to wear protective shades to protect our eyes from the suns harmful rays, there will be a phenomenal rise in the cases of skin cancer and the only thing keeping the population balanced will be the people dying from overpopulation, heat strokes, bad health care and poverty (Kind of like today only on a bigger scale) - most fossil fuels will have been exhausted and most likely we will know as much about extraterestrial life as we do now. The Human race cannot evolve or adapt in two generations so it is safe to say they will be exactly the same as they are now only that they will be complemented with another 100 years of scientific knowledge and innovative ways to destroy the environment.

Answer 6

there will be a more blended genetic pool, like more mixed races to the point where we all kinda look like we have a little black, a little white, asian, etc.
the climate will be the same, as i dont really believe its changing that fast, 100 yrs isnt long enough for that. We will be no closer to Aliens but we may be able to leave this galaxy, only to find its quite lonely out there. The wealth may be spread out a bit more evenly but there will be vast population of drastically poor people, but i think middle class will have an improvement on the quality of life.

Answer 7

In 100 years we will have had a massive thermonuclear war. Most forms of life will be gone and evolution will have to begin again.

Climate - 400-500 degrees.

Population - 0 human but billions of archaebacteria evolving into eubacteria.

Economy - none

Extraterrestrial life - unlikely

Human Body Type - extinct

Answer 8

Given the great technological changes which the last 100 years have brought about--and the parallel LACK of development from a personal/societal perspective--it is likely our technology will have advanced a great deal. However, our primitive brains still will not be able to figure out how to have successful relationships, or what to do with our lives.

Answer 9

After continued over breeding there will be a mass of writing violent humanity fighting for the water left in the rivers. The solution to the future is birth control.

Answer 10

Given the factors of everything we know about our changing weather patterns and overuse of natural resources as well as overpopulation and overzealous religious fundamentalists, I'd say that we won't even be around in 100 years. Sorry for the disappointment. I'd love to see my grandchildren, but I don't honestly think it's a good idea to bring children into this overburdened world.

Answer 11

I think that global warming will stabalize and cars will all run on clean fuel and all look weird. I think people will be more in shape and more aware of their health. Computers will be made up of microchips molded with some living cells, making the computers run faster.

Race will not be as much of a factor as so many people will have mixed by then due to the ease of communication.