what will happen with us after 200 years in the future?

Answer 1

Space travel will be common and economical in the inner part of the Solar System via fusion engines. Outside of Saturn's orbit, only scientific outposts, explorers and some comet miners will exist.

Earth will be filled to capacity with human beings. 300 billion.

Mars will be partially terraformed and the farthest along. Atmospheric pressure and temperatures on Mars will be high enough to allow domed cities on the surface, with oxygen pumped in to keep the dome inflated. There will be several billion people living there already; Mars will be an independent (of Earth) confederacy of nations.

Terraforming will have started on Venus, with the construction of a sun shade; the shade being a ring similar to that of Saturn's formed from destroyed asteroids that we moved out of Venus grazing orbits. We will be also (gently as possible!) crashing comets onto Venus to create oceans of water and add other volatiles. There will be small scale floating research stations in the atmposhere, but no attempts to colonize the surface yet. Temperatures will be down to 200 degrees, F and most of the cloud cover will be gone.

We will be starting the process of terrforming Jupiter's moon Callisto by melting and vaporizing her water ice into an atmosphere. There will be a handful of colonists there living below ground.

Answer 2

The best anyone can do predicting the future is to look at the past. What were "we" like back in 1807? How did people live then? What kind of technology did they use? How did their rulers govern? We might also look back to 1607 and 1407 just to see if the rate of change has changed. If we see acceleration, we might want to compare ourselves with the life of 300 years ago, or 500.

We should also look at what has developed and how it has unexpectedly changed the world. Before the 1950's cross-country travel in the USA was only for the adventurous. The Interstate Highway System was a military project, designed to keep defensive forces from being pinned down in one region. Now it's all about commerce, tourism and inter-city commuting. The same thing happened in cyberspace: the military wanted to be able to work around local network disruptions, so they invented the ARPANet. Now people are text-chatting and downloading entertainment in the World Wide Web.

Forty years ago, the idea of getting dinner ready in less than an hour led to predictions of "pill" food. Cooking food with a radio transmitter was a nonsensical idea. Now we think there's something wrong if the microwave takes more than 3 minutes.

In the 1970s, no one could think of a reason why anyone would want a "computer" at home. (What could it do? Where would it get its information?) In the '80s, they found out, but they had no use for "networking" beyond sharing a printer. Even when we find out the unintended consequences of a new development, it didn't stop changing.

Portable phones in the 1960s were basically ham radios on wheels. You had to make contact with the phone company, which would conect you to their system, just like the old "Hello Central" days. People didn't own phones, they rented them, one to a house. Now there are people who don't even have a land-line, staying in touch with their camera - emailer - web browser - MP3 player - wireless phone. Care to predict the future now?

Thirty years ago, Alvin Toffler wrote a book and inspired a movie called "Future Shock", predicting that change would accelerate to a point where people wouldn't be able to cope. (He started with quaint examples like people wearing blue or green hair-- unheard of!-- in public. He also hinted at the consequences in the communications revolution, as we can see more, we become more visible and vulnerable.) There are signs of such stress today as we find that our ability to accomplish more produces the expectation that we WILL do more.

We're still dealing with people here. They can break. As technology continues to ramp up, we can expect (not predict) some burnout, some back-pedalling, some alternative lifestyle promotion. We will have to find some way to adapt, either by changing ourselves or our world.

The worst bad guys in the "Star Trek" universe were the Borg because they had all merged their individuality into a group mind, enabling them to accomplish more and learn faster while sacrificing their individual freedom and identities. Yet that is one potential path lying before us. It depends on how we define such things as "success", "fulfillment" and "meaning".

The purpose of conscious life is not obvious. We are each essentially colonies of diversified bacteria, all cooperating as a unique and independent "person". We can see the advantages and pitfalls of working together in groups. If I'm on my own, I control my own path and presentation in the world, bit I have to do everything myself. If I connect to "the grid", life become so much more automatic and comprehensible, but I have to cooperate, losing independence and privacy. The conflict has always existed, and we've always found our way to a compromise, so far.

Answer 3

use your imagination, could be anything...nuclear armageddon, global warming. Look how the industrial revolution changed things so fast, people 200 years previous to that would never have guessed the changes from that

Answer 4

well ill probably b dead, i dont know about you