how do you think the world will be in the next 500 years if we havent blown it up by then?

Question

do you think will be living like the jetsons, do you think the US wil have the war on mars by then, do you think there will be any significant changes, do you think we will be living all of the planets in our solar system

do you think people will be wondering how we f'ked up the planet

Answer 1

I actually have great faith in the bettering of the human mind.
Many will be slaves to commercialism, as they are now, but there is a real working and thinking world out there that will continue as well with new ideas, understandings, and discoveries, they will make the substance of our life change too mind bending proportions.

genetics, quantum mechanics, quantum computing, robotics,
http://www.hansonrobotics.com/
and should I say string theory and relativity.
(this dudes determined to make one of these changes already, he might be crazy though)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHC8z6ULs18

War is terrible, but on the other hand it keeps our population down. Over population will be an exponentially bigger problem in the future. I think most governments will keep others in check for the most part or at least keep one power from over taking the whole world against its will.

antibiotic resistance disease will be a much larger problem capable of crippling our population so that the ability for normal working, harvesting, manufacturing, and teaching will become lost to the majority of people.

genetic engineering could save us from that though.

pollution is currently probably our biggest threat. We already have cleaner burning fuel, like corn, nuclear and even water.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rb_rDkwGnU
If we keep moving in the right direction, implementing these new systems quickly could make a huge improvement.

yes. I think life will be "like the jetsons" within 75-120 years.
http://www.moller.com/

we might have a few bases on our moon,
http://www.galacticsuite.com/

but mars might be a little further away. I'd say 220 years.


no one will wonder how we f*cked up the planet. Almost everything we've done since the mid 1800s have been pretty well documented. early 1900s came video then late 1900s came personal computers.

If computers / paper survive our history is sure to live on.

Answer 2

The most significant changes will be those to our biology and most likely our minds. As humans strive for greater knowledge (at least the smarter ones do), it will become necessary to change and augment the human body to expand its mental capacity. Part of these changes will be biological, part genetic and part technological.

Pretty much all the problems we know today can be solved within the next two centuries, but to enlarge the human mind will go far beyond that.

As far as knowledge will be concerned, we will have mapped most, if not all habitable planets that are visible from the solar system in our galaxy and we will have a large number under permanent observation. We will have a few outposts on other planets but not as many as you might think. We will have been to all planets and all moons. We will have completely mapped the whole solar system with inch resolution. And we will have a final cosmological model that will tell us everything importnat about the past and the future of the universe.

But none of these things will matter compared to the changes we will be making to ourselves. And where we will go from there, I can't say. But it probably won't be "us" anymore, anyway.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

I think that the only way for humanity to go is upward. We are already looking at building bases on the moon and mars. In 500 years time will be in other solar systems in our galaxy (to reach other galaxies will take a lot more time). Scientists have found way of prolonging the human lifespan by 6 times of what it is now. And they have also found that it is possible and safe (in most cases) to extract a useful gene in another animals DNA like the cockroaches immunity to radiation and putting it into the DNA of an unborn child, making that child immune to radiation. It has not been tested on humans but they have tried it on lab-rats and it worked. Being immune to radiation is essential for humans that are going to leave earth, we are protected by our magnetic field from the suns harmful and strong radiation. This might not be the case on other planets. The human race is going to go very far in 500 years.

Answer 4

hmmm... we will be out of coal, oil an natural gas... so my guess is:

The oil companies will be licensed by the US govt to make synthetic fuels, which it will charge more for than it did fossil fuels.

The only realy tech advance allowed by Microsoft has been in video games, which will play us.

Though all diseases have been cured, the drug companies have introduced pills to simulate many of the illnesses we are all missing out on. Perscriptions will be widespread for scarlet fever, as the color red will be very popular.

Vancouver is the new Riviera.

New York City submarine tours are popular.

Coca Cola is re-introducing Coke Classic again, still no one likes it.

The Catholic Church announces that it will not waiver on its decision to never let Priest marry. There is a huge demonstration as thousands of women Priests march on Rome.

SETI is still looking for intelligent life in the Universe.

McDonalds has just opened a restaurant on Mars, where a Martian promptly burns himself/herself/itself on the coffee, which is too hot.

Answer 5

too far out of control

Answer 6

i don't think humanity will last that much longer