What will America be like in 50 years?

Question

based on how things are going right now.

Answer 1

Same as now....with these exceptions....
We will see significantly more crime and less lawfulness to go along with a massive influx of illegal immigrants. We'll probably have a monstrous Social Services dept. due to the leadership of the Liberal Party which of course will be in power due to those same immigrants. Along with that will come higher taxes and huge debts. Due to the higher taxes, many large companies will move overseas. This will in turn increase the unemployment rate, even as the liberal government raises the minimum wage for the umpteenth time, which will do no good because it will drive up inflation. The economy will be in a downswing because the minimum wage earners still won't be able to afford to invest in the stock market, and many of the companies will have left the country anyway as previously stated.
Terrorist attacks will soar, even here in the homeland, due to appeasement and unwanted border security. The cry 'open borders!' will be the rally behind which the terrorists will laugh.
Politicians will still pay lip service to their constituents, but will of course be on the payroll of whatever big-business is left here (just as they are today in BOTH main political parties.)

So, basically, it will be the same as now....only worse.

Answer 2

People in America no longer live a real life.
They spend too much time in front of a computer and as a result they are becoming further divorced from reality.
Life is for being LIVED.
Experience comes from REAL interaction.
Wisdom requires experience.
America is loosing all connection with reality and wisdom is being lost.
People are migrating toward a life in a fantasy world.
If America hasn't lost all its freedoms to tyrants that promise the "good life" within the next fifty years I will be amazed!

Answer 3

We will all wear silver jump-suits and drive hover-cars. But since auto manufacturers and big oil were successful at killing the electric car way back in 2001, we are all still dependant on oil so... but gas only costs 2 yen per gallon. Unfortunately it takes fifty American greenbacks to get 2 yen. unless your using the old "Federal Reserve, in god we trust" dollars in which case you can be arrested for having those, and forced to work in the genetically-enhanced dairy farms where your biggest concern is not the 40 foot cow, but what comes out of a forty foot cow. If you’re lucky enough to be in the top 2% in your school your term of mandatory military service will be waved and you can continue on a normal education track. Your choice of college may be Halliburton University of Mining and Environmental Resource Reclamation, or the ever popular ConAgra School of Scientific Agriculture. You can be assured that your term of service with your employer will be lengthy; the average time it takes to pay off a student loan is 38 years. Don’t worry however because retirement age is 95, it gives you plenty of time to save up and buy an Play station sub dermal chip 3, which is really the only way to play games in the future. Everyone smokes in the future, I don’t know why but they are cool. You wake up in the morning, fight all the hover traffic to get to work, try to avoid the homeless-mutants while your in the parking lot and work all day long at a menial repetitive job where you have no interaction with human beings. You leave work pick up a jar of parmalat on your way home and sit on Q&A on yahoo all night long. Unless you live in Texas.
Texas seceded from the union in 2014. Without being involved with the Federal Reserve bubble bust of 2017 which caused widespread depression across the US and nearly 2 million deaths from starvation and rioting and without overwhelming rules from the Federal Government Texas has been successful at developing a green program. Texas air is still relatively breathable and you can see the sunset. In Texas almost nobody drives a hover-car, but hover-pickup trucks are way cool. Causing Texas to create legislation limiting the number of hover pickup trucks a person can own to seven. Although Texas still prides itself on cattle, the animals are considered minuscule in comparison to New York's genetically enhanced steers. But in Texas they believe that meat from a cow that bleeds green is not something you should eat. Those crazy Texans.

Answer 4

America...50 years? Nah, I give us 30-35 tops.

Answer 5

The concept of doing things to help humanity (good faith) will be totally replaced with the question how can I make more money for doing this? Whether is good or bad for humanity.
Although, we are almost there we are not totally there yet.

Answer 6

Flying cars, Jetson type houses, briefcases that turn into cars, those scanners that scan your eyes to enter your home, trees on the roof of buildings... and colonies on the moon!

Answer 7

america will be fukcin awesome in 50 years

Answer 8

Most of it will look like Mexico.Of course you will still have some upscale neighborhoods.Pretty sad.

Answer 9

Whatever Europe tells us to be.

Answer 10

Same as it is now.