What will it be like 50 years later?

Answer 1

I will hopefully be dead so i don't find out.................

Answer 2

Later than now? Many more technological advances, including nanotechnology for medical purposes. A few more disease cures. A "greener" focus for energy use, and little to no dependence on fossil fuels - though they will still be about.

Birthrate is once again dropping, and most of the population of many parts of the world is well over the age of 50, meaning there will likely be a population drop as they people die off.

Housing will change, the workplace will change, even food production may change.

Otherwise, all we can do is guess based on the changes in the past 50 years.

Answer 3

Personally, I think that there's going to be a terrible war start in European streets. With all the terrorists and Islamic pressure on non-Muslims, they're eventually going to snap and fight back. When that happens, the world is going to be caught in it. Like it or not, the world still centers around Europe. This is what I expect to happen in the next ten years or so unless something drastically changes or Europeans remain content to simply roll over. If they fall, though, the prospects will be bleak for the rest of us. I expect after that that the anti-Islamic sentiment will be overwhelming, and the religion will probably face its darkest days.

Technology will proceed afoot, and we'll have alternative energies. Wind, water, and hydrogen will be commonplace. They'll have new forms of entertainment (like having pictures displayed on water with a high resolution). Nanotechnology will enhance our ability to analyze, learn, and produce materials. We'll be able to produce wonders.

We'll create all sorts of new foods (like plants that can grow meat, something currently being experimented on). People will have implants to access networks with thought. Again, we already have the foundations laid for that, and the technology is practically invented.

Life will move toward a more suburban or rural structure, because of the death from war and because technology will allow us to spread out more and maintain productivity. Who wants to be crammed into a city?

The center of power will move more northward. Russia and Canada will become more farmable due to global warming. India will be an economic powerhouse, but China will become a minor backwater nation due to its aging population.

Despite all those, though, it will be a cruel society. It's given up most of the basis for civility and morality already and have melded Nietzsche and Marx together. They don't mix well, but they are both pretty brutal, and when multiculturalism falls under the inevitable pressure of the backlash against Islam, we'll see a sort of neo-fascist movement with Western culture at the center. It will be a bad day to be unpopular.

Nations will be paranoid of immigrants and foreigners. Their last experience, after all, was very bad. Nonetheless, English's status as the lingua franca will probably expand. We'll see an increase in English speakers and dialects, and it will become a dominant language even in countries that don't have many Anglophones because of its prestige and because several nations are increasingly making it a main point of school curriculum.

Those are my prognostications. I'm not sure how close I am, and I'll probably be off in a variety of areas. I just don't expect it to be too rosey.

Answer 4

Fifty years ago ships were still the preferred means for mass transport and trade between continents. Planes were a hollywood luxury. No-one would have believed that every Joe Schmuck would routinely fly in a few decades. Now, there's never a moment when there aren't at least 100,000 humans airborne. And millions fly sometime in the year. And many millions are involved in the industry that gets planes flying.

Lasers in every shopping centre, machine-banks on every street, computers in people's homes etc etc As always, we upgrade our tools and that then changes our activities.

Humans are no longer terrestrial - we have had a continuous presence in space for 20 years, or so. Not that we're training our children for this, but it's likely that off-world careers will be routine by 2057.

Are you ready, granpa, for "Be home by midnight, young lady, and do NOT go out of the inner solar system"

Answer 5

Later than what?

Answer 6

Two words: Flying cars.

Answer 7

50 YEARS FROM NOW???
I am very sure I for one,
won't be here.

Answer 8

Much better. I will be reincarnated by then.

Answer 9

Well, I'll be pretty well ROTTED, TYVM.

Answer 10

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