What do you expect the future, to be like?

Question

I live in the USA and have an idea of what most American Conservatives imagine the future to be.
What about the rest of the world? Please state your country, and if you like, your religion.
I hope this to be worth asking.
Let me thank you a head of time for your participation.
Live Long and Live Well.......................

Answer 1

I'm an American of Irish descent; religiously I'm an ex-Catholic with some interest in East Asian mysticism.

I'm sorry but I expect the future to be quite grim at least between about 2020 and 2100. In these years we will face an entire set of "converging catastrophes" coming at us more or less simultaneously. Our ability to deal with them will be enormously
handicapped by the fact that these shocks will be interacting with each other in ways that are extremely difficult to predict. A few major cases-in-point:

Economically, the modern world is facing a profound structural crisis arising from the imminent depletion of a whole series of vital resources. The first of these depletion events, the so called "Peak Oil" event, is depending on who you ask, either imminent or already underway. Other depletion events ( Peak Gas, Peak Copper ) are following close behind. One study even claims that if the world tried to solve it's energy shortage by going nuclear, we would hit "Peak Uranium" in only twenty years.

Culturally, the world is now seeing the largest migration of peoples since the Fall of the Roman Empire. A vast immigration is underway; the Western nations are being colonized by hordes of migrants in numbers totally beyond their ability to either assimilate or police. What little planning there is to deal with these throngs is based on the assumptions that the newcomers have no dangerous prejudices of their own and that the economic pie will go on expanding forever. If either of these assumptions (let alone both) are wrong, then serious trouble is going to result....

Geopolitically, the world is presently going through a phase in which an aging superpower ( the US ) is being replaced by a rising hegemon (China ). Similar events in history have always been accompanied by major wars. Even in the days of swords and spears such wars were abnormally destructive. Reference accounts of Athens vs Sparta or Rome vs Carthage if you need confirmation. It has only gotten worse as the weapons have gotten better. Modern "strategic weapons" ( aka WMDs ) will render this an even more dangerous process than it has been in the past.

Competition for scarce oil supplies has already distinctly heightened US-China tensions. Possession of large oil and gas reserves has revitalized the economy of Russia and seems to have emboldened it's leaders to resume their own quest for hegemony. Their utter lack of energy reserves will probably force the European states into submission to Russian policy over the next few decades. The same lack of native energy reserves was probably responsible Europe's acceptance of Muslim colonization over the past few decades.

And the beat goes on; one thing is triggering another which triggers another, so forth and so on.....

Answer 2

I am an American.
My religion is non church going, non Bible believing and non Jesus story believing.
My opinion: Lots of technology, advances in medicine that allow people not to suffer terrible diseases. Far into the future we will probably not allow the elderly to live past the age of 30 or 50. Travel to other areas outside our atmosphere, possibly to find another planet because we will have used this one up. So many neat things that life will be full of wonder for all. Or we will probably just blow the whole damn lot up over some stupid issue like one person wanting to control the world.

Answer 3

If Conservatives don't stop sending jobs over seas, and importing ten times what we will go broke as a nation, just like Spain who became rich by taking gold from all over the world only to have to spend it all on manufactured goods.
Tammi Dee

Answer 4

As a true believer and an American, I conclude with substantial evidence that the future will be very bright for those who know the Lord Jesus Christ while it will be very dark for those who disobey or mock the good news of the Lord.

Answer 5

We would be disappointed if we expect that our society will become as we wish. It is affected by myriads of factors beyond any men's control.
To live long and to live well, I think we should realize the purpose of our own life and learn to develop proper knowledge to achieve it within any societies. The world is becoming one large nation, so the purpose you formulate in the US may be accomplished in Tuvalu too.

Answer 6

Montreal Canada

Agnostic/pagan

If run by the Repubs than it will be run into the ground by the year 2055

Answer 7

I believe the children are our are future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be
Everybody searching for a hero
People need someone to look up to
I never found anyone to fulfill my needs
A lonely place to be
So I learned to depend on me

Answer 8

USA, California
No Religion

The world will be run by woman and it will finally be ran right.

Answer 9

I think that a new era will begin.I think that people will live in a different way.

Answer 10

can you wait for second.. i need to ask Michele J Fox and Dr Brown.