What will the future look like?

Question

I'm really interested in the future. like 100 years from now. I wonder if there'll be any aliens on our planet or if we can visit other planets instead of other countries.

Answer 1

Well, there is a good chance you will be disappointed, then.
Think of what was 100 years ago: there were crude airplane flying, there were crude radio around -- and TV was forecasted, cars started appearing; electricity was around, etc. Basically, most everything you have around now was already existing in a crude form, or was forecasted. If you took people from 100 years ago -- especially someone who was a reader of Jules Verne (who died in 1905) or H.G. Wells (he wrote War of the World in 1898) -- and bring them to the present, they would be amazed by the progress that occured in 100 years, but none of the things they would see would really surprize them as being unanticipated or "impossible" developments.

So, back to your question: aliens on Earth? Forget about it; highly unlikely. To be here in 100 years means that they need to have debvelopped the technology to reach here in time, and we cannot predict anything of that sort. If there was an alien spacefaring race out there, they most likely would have developped their technology way back when, and probabilistically could have been here already, or for hundred of years; basically aliens coming here is NOT dependent on what happens here.
As to us visiting other planets, it is even more risky to make a prediction: we do not know how to travel the long distance to go to other star system in a reasonnable amount of time. Predicting a super development like faster than light travel capability -- of this at all possible -- is impossible.
So, look at what society looked like 100 years ago, and chart the changes that occured in 100 years. Then use the same variation, and add that to what we have now. That could be pretty close to what it will look like. Unless we hit computing singularity first (singularity is the time when computers will get much smarter than humans, what they will invent then is outside of our control and prediction method, and then all bets are off)

Answer 2

Look at the past - 100 years ago to now - there has been significant technological change - aircraft, spacecraft, electronics, etc. There will be similar changes in the sense that changes will occur that affect the way we live. The world will be much more crowded if the current trends hold, and technology will be much more invasive and necessary for living well. Some of the current trends in internet connectivity will continue - you may be wired directly onto the net, with a whole different communications scheme, as an example. Societies will have to cope with much more population stress unless we turn the population growth down. It is unlikely that aliens (extraterrestrial types that is!) will be walking the streets, without some great leap in space propulsion, that doesn't exist yet. Hopefully the next giant leaps will be in understanding how people can live and work in harmony with one another and with the world at large.

Answer 3

Hang on, I'll just nip out and buy a crystal ball. No, sorry, I take you seriously. Aliens on Earth? I suppose you mean extra-terrestrial intelligent beings who have crossed the vast wastes of interstellar vacuum to visit us. No, I don't think so. Not if they have been watching our television. (Sorry!)

It is basically likely to be too far between habitable planets. More than 210 planets have been detected outside our solar system around "near-by" stars up to a few dozen light years away. So far they have all been giants like or bigger than Jupiter and close to their parent stars, entirely unlike our solar system. So the possibility of there being Earth-like planets in those systems seems small. On the other hand, it might be difficult to detect a solar system like ours because the slow orbit of a Jupiter-like planet a good way out might not give the parent star a detectable wobble.

The energy cost of getting off the Earth means ordinary people will not be able to get off the Earth, even to visit the Moon or spend a few hours in orbit. That is not to say that a lot more people will be in Earth orbit, on the Moon or better, on Mars. Of course, if fusion power can be made cheaply, energy costs might not really be a question. But it still would be expensive.

A lot of other things will change though.

Answer 4

Well 100 yrs ago we were farmers with horse and buggies..The future will either be really good or really bad..hard to say really.. Think about that one growing up using a horse to go to the store and by the time you were 60 we are walking on the moon!! hows that for a jump..If you use the same thinking we will be on other planets in 20yrs..

Answer 5

Rent the film Code forty six. Not simplest is it a well film, I believe additionally it is the fine indicator of close long term, submit GW society (as opposed to the "viral improvements", I believe that's nonetheless sci fi). I desire genetic manipulation will under no circumstances be accredited, however populace manage via genetic signs (Eugenics) could also be greatly accredited one day. If Hitler had received it could be now. I could alternatively see Sexual Responsibility taught in colleges alternatively than Sex Education, with a bit of luck a voluntary approach could change Eugenics. As for a sustainable long term, the one method is to nurture ecosystems, no longer wreck them. My imaginative and prescient of a SUSTAINABLE long term is very similar to Code forty six, however external the towns is a lush, traditional, numerous atmosphere, no longer unending wilderness, and men and women require passes to get out of town, no longer into it. Also, technology will comply with the standards of permaculture and biomimicry; incorporating nature into our residing house, however no longer as uncooked ingredients, as a residing aspect of our atmosphere, as meant. I.e. residing HVAC and water purification strategies. A well contemporary illustration is Biological LED TVs. They use practically an engineered fabric very similar to fireflies to create the sunshine, alternatively than a photograph tube or projector lamp. Sony and Hitachi (?) are each popping out with units. We can not give up the consequences of Global Warming, however we will be able to get ready for the more severe. Building Codes will difference; picket body creation shall be a factor of the beyond, residences is probably not authorised to be developed on flood plains or different prime chance places (so that it will most likely be made Law via stress from coverage businesses). There shall be a brand new career: Environmental Nutritionist. Their accountability shall be to keep a constructive lifestyles steadiness within the environment, in different phrases they are going to track all meals webs and nutrients cycles to make sure that we deliver again greater than we take out. That is only a few "prophecies" for the longer term I desire will occur. It is the only I will paintings towards.

Answer 6

no...I don't believe in alien...only the man made after God's resemblance ..is having intelligence...100 years from now..with God's mercy..we will have nephews..which don't like porn movies..and prefer to walk beaches..

Answer 7

scary. we will be greatly affected by all the sonic rays, and electrical current that we will be producing, Hopfull in 100 years the word Cancer will be remember like the black plauge ,, "ancient history"

Answer 8

It will be very wet here. The polar caps are melting and in100yrs earth will be a very different place...

Answer 9

there will be robots living with humans and really high technology. we will all own our own planes. so there will be planes moving around instead of automobiles.