what state do you think the world will be in, in 30 years?

Question

global warming? fossil fuels or fuel cell? flying cars(what the hell)? wars? New formed nations from wars in between? The children(it seems they are born more devious every year doesn't it?) new forms of communication? space travel? Time Travel? the united states on the global scene?
All these are just starters, tell me what you think, I'm very curious.

Answer 1

global warming?
Well, yes, some of that might be a natural occurence, but certainly we are contributing a bunch to it. Hopefully we will be able to curb this so it levels off in the next 30 years. Getting the U.S. to try and curb it's energy appetite will help.

fossil fuels or fuel cell?
There will still be a combination in 30 years, but I'd say it will be approaching a 50/50 split. Fuel Cell's are much better designed than they have been in the past and the major oil corporations and the major auto makers are all working on bringing it forward. General energy needs will be made by coal, nuclear fission, Fusion (look up ITER), solar, wind, and wave. With the latter 3 playing an increasingly more significant amount in the energy needs.

flying cars(what the hell)?
There are several different designs and methodologies on how to do this. My favorite is the Labiche FSC-1. www.labicheaerospace.com It's practical and I have seen the real models and the prototype. The next year shows big promise.

wars?
The middle east and Africa will continue to be in battle. It's likely that Bosnia and that general region will continue to flare up. China and India may find that they are battling for resources as well.

New formed nations from wars in between?
Iraq could likely be split apart back to what it was. Territorial battles from China and India's involvement in Africa are likely to create new countries.

The children(it seems they are born more devious every year doesn't it?)
Children cycle through changes. It's been that way and will always be that way. Society swings like a pendulum, sometimes being more strict on their children, sometimes less. I can say that my daughter has been raised so far with the same expectations my family had - to be courteous to people and animals. Respect for your environment, and to learn all you can while enjoying life. No - I'm not a member of any particular religion, and yes I eat animals. But I try not to kill animals or insult people indiscriminately.

new forms of communication?
Quantum communication is going to change the way we operate as a technological species as much as electricity has changed us in the last 100 years. Quantum entanglement provides us with the ability to create quantum computers that will operate MUCH faster than current technology, helping us advance in all areas of science (medical, physics, etc...) Also it will diminish the need for communication satellites since entanglement does not need line of site.

space travel?
Over the next 30 years we'll see some minor improvements to our ability to travel through space. The two projects in the near term that have the most attractive chance of altering our way of going to Mars is VASMIR (plasma rocket) and Promytheus (nuclear reactors in space). That combination will enable us to reach much higher velocities, enabling us to get to our local planets and moons and really start exploring. The Orion and Ares program at NASA will certainly help align the other international communities and make steps towards better technologies.

Time Travel?
Not so much for humans, but perhaps with data. Quantum entanglement and quantum erasers could have bizarre impacts on how and when things are calculated.

the united states on the global scene?
The U.S. (and Canada) will still be around, but is likely to get balanced between the European Union (plus Russia), China, and India. These will certainly cause ripples in the United Nations as territorial disputes in Africa and the Middle East continue to tempt China and India's increase for resources.

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Answer 2

I honestly don't think we will be here.

Apparently, Professor Stephen Hawkings doesn't have alot of faith that we will be either.

I just keep believin' one way or another things will work out for mankind, cause dispite that belief I'm a die-hard optimist.

I believe in a higher power. Don't mean to bring religion into a science question, no way. But I know I couldn't get by personally without some kind of beliefs, not in this world today. Uh, Uh.

Oh, about Time Travel. Yes, I think we are very close. I think there have already been experiments that have worked, on an extremely small scale.

No, I don't think children are born devious! No way.

We will replace fossil fuels, with clean, cheap efficient energy. We now know we have too. The blinders are finally off.

I think I will go try to research you're other ideas. Thank you. You have given me a reference point, of things to look for.

Answer 3

I think its all moot since we are overdue for a global pandemic that will kill 9/10th of the population. I expect it will start in some refugee camp where sanitary conditions are almost non-existant.

Answer 4

What all of them said... the answer is eugenics now, because the children are the future and so is the evolutionary proccess as a species.

Answer 5

Probably at that time the Lord will be coming back to fix the mess we have made of his world..

Answer 6

by then I am hoping to be the president of the USA and if I am I will have a lot to clean up assuming its not completely totaled

Answer 7

I'm pretty sure I personally will be in a state of confusion.

Answer 8

at the rate we're going, it'll be the trash of the world telling the intellectual and responsible people who's who and what's what.
read on----
IMMIGRATION IN THE 20TH AND 21ST CENTURY - THE CURSE OF CIVILIZED NATIONS AND DECENT PEOPLES.

Immigration to America in the 17th to 19th century was by decent, hardworking, well intentioned people, heading to America with honorable intentions to build and contribute to society. They created a workable social system with benefits to the deserving and a society of well-intentioned and decent people. But no such people come any more.

Now they come in droves, packing the major cities, causing an increase in crime, congestion, and taxes as real estate rents soar, parking is unavailable or exorbitantly high. Americans who took their entire lives to pay off their home mortgages, now find that the taxes on their homes are so high, they cant afford to live in them any more and the congestion so bad, they cant even find a place to park in front of their own homes. Many have to pack up and move out of the city, just to make ends meet, and then face the arduous daily hours of driving back and forth just to get to work and back home. That is, those that still have jobs, since as this goes on, jobs disappear, either right here where we get laid off, or the whole company moves out to a cheap labor country. And as the hordes make demands for energy needs, power needed to heat and light homes and buildings is insufficient, and cities black out, the demand for gas soars, heating prices skyrocket, and our own supply of gas becomes insufficient to meet our own needs, and we become victims of the arabs, who use the pumps to revenge our policies they don’t like.

They pile over the borders or by plane on visitor visas, preying on the good naturedness of Americans to provide a refuge for the oppressed, they connive the appearance of the downtrodden and persecuted, and then sit down comfortably and stay here, leeching off the health care system which faces bankruptcy in 20 years, the welfare system that us sucker u.s. taxpayers have to pick up the tab for, and which we spent decades to build.

Social parasites from latin america, flock here to live free on us sucker taxpayers, dragging their families and relatives in, once they get green cards and then swamping the health care system with their third world illnesses and birth defects. And the other breed of latinos – criminals of the most evil intensities terrorizing communities in which they rob and kill.

Thieves and common criminals from the countries of eastern Europe and the soviet union, hearing that there is still stuff on store shelves when stores close, that hasn’t been shoplifted or sold, come and steal, with impunity.

Mafia organizations that control Russia and the countries of the former soviet union, setting up foreign crime systems that specialize in grand larceny, weaponry, even nuclear arms materials for sale, stolen from the old soviet system, available for sale to our enemies, raking them million$.

Africans with strange ,deadly diseases walk in, causing epidemics and death to our gay citizens and to innocent people in general and swamping the health care system.

Asians with alien religious philosophies, contrary to Christian monotheism, poisoning the minds of our youth. And they come and take our jobs away here in America, while employers, enticed by cheap labor, move their companies there, leaving us unemployed,.

Terrorists walk in and go about their death tactics with ease and we shudder at what they will do to us next.

All, contributing to crime, violence, social unrest.

Finally, To add insult to this injury, our government picks up the tab for hundreds of
thousands of third world “students” to come, pack our universities tuition free at the expense of us US taxpayers ,while we Americans fall into debt to pay for our own children to get a college education.


AND WE ARE EXPECTED TO PICK UP THE TAB WORLDWIDE
FOR THEM, WHENEVER SH!T HAPPENS ANYWHERE.
What kind of fools are running this country?
What kind of fools are we to let this go on?