do you think the upcoming 100 years will be the most important 100 years in human history?

Answer 1

In 50 years, we'll be at 10 billion souls at our current rate of growth, far to many for this ol' earth to sustain. There'll be zero fossil fuels, zero coal and other natural resources. War will be over water and the immense populations will mostly be in third world countries.

Will technology save the day?....doubtful. Will we change our ways to avoid the impending train wreck?.....unlikely. Will there be some cataclysmic event that will brings us down to more sustainable levels, say 3 billion?.....probably.

So year, 100 years from now will be monumental for human existence....mostly likely war and pestilence if not some planet killing asteroid....anyway sleep tight.

Answer 2

I think that "the most important" may be a judgement call, one that I do not want to make, but your question does provoke serious thought... here's what I think:

As a race we alone have developed modern technology capable of incredible things - both for the good and the bad. 100 years ago we were barely getting people off the ground in a vehicle... now we have sent people to the moon, and soon quite possibly mars. We are capable of sending a person several times the speed of sound when just 100 years ago we could barely go the speed of a horse. We are also capable of sending a missile thousands of miles and hitting a target with pinpoint accuracy. (I leave it up to the reader to determine that is a good or a bad thing).

100 years ago we had dynamite capable of blowing up the side of a mountain. We now have single Nuclear Weapons capable of destroying entire large cities and making entire regions uninhabittable. These Nuclear Weapons could collectively wipe out life as we know it on the earth. We did not have the ability to send humanity in to a state of extinction that we do today 100 years ago.

100 years ago if you got sick with anything too horrible, you were dead. Cancer automatically meant death in most cases, which is not the case today. We have modern medicine to thank for that. We also have modern medicine to thank for some of the attrocities we saw in Auschwitz - Dr. Joseph Mengele who performed sickening experiments used modern medicine.

We can now communicate with someone across the planet instantly with a device smaller than the palm of my hand in some cases when before it would take weeks to send a letter.

I think that the next 100 years have the potential to be equally wonderful - or horrible. We could wipe out cancer, all disease in general. We could end up having colonies across the Solar System - maybe even the galaxy (Think about the rapid acceleration technology has made).

But people are people. There will still be fighting. Will Nuclear Weapons be used? Who knows. I'd like to think we're smart enough not to, but I'm sure in the remaining years of our existance Nuclear Weapons will be used by someone again. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not the end. It may even be sooner than we think. China is rapidly developing it's economy and industry and becoming a world power. We may be alright with China right now, but the U.S. will always protect it's interests. Hopefully protecting it's interests will not lead us to war, but again, who knows.

Jack Nicholson makes a comment at the opening of the film "The Departed." He says "I don't want to be a product of my world - I want the world to be a product of me." I think that more people need to think this way. People need to get up off lazy @$$'s and do what's right when neccesary. Should we allow Stem Cell research? Should we allow our Military to get more money than the Science community and education combined? Should the U.S. police the world? If we don't, will the world fall in to a state of chaos? Should anyone police the world? Is global warming a real threat to us? Should bipartison politics be allowed to hinder change?

These are not easy questions to answer, but I do think that they are questions that need to be answered - by both political parties. I tend to be a little more liberal myself, but should we even care about that?

The next 100 years will be interesting indeed.

Answer 3

According to those "metaphysically inclined" dramatic energy shifts are now taking effect on the planet which will begin to modify the consciousness level of the people on Earth. Upward of course, since downward would seem to be an impossibility , especially among our psychopathic "leadership".

One can only hope. Thus, presumably, over the next 100 years, the populace will become less troglodytish? :)))

Answer 4

Yes because technology and ideas are rapidly improving and growing.

I can imagine some 100 years from now that a classroom full of kids would laugh at the notion of dial-up Internet connections.

Answer 5

Possibly, that is if we survive for 100 years.

Answer 6

No, I don't.
I think we'll just keep on trucking. Humanity discovers things and grows all the time, and I don't think that our collective achievements are any more worthy than those of our forefathers, or of our descendents. Same goes for our collective **** ups

Answer 7

I'll tell you in retrospect :-).