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ORIGINAL: ChainsandFreedom
in 2107, the world will look like...
overcrowdied population centers as climate change and resource scarcity make many area's increasingly unlivable. populations stuck in shanty towns without drinking water or electricity which travel less than today as cars become unaffordable and skyrocketing cost of living expenses make infastructure improvements unattainable. An impovershed and socialized peasant class of americans with PHD's as the consumer economy crumbles for lack of jobs while large loan-driven institutions florish.
increasing levels of obesity in the first world as affordable, nutrional food becomes unattainable. water and meat will be the new black market commodity instead of drugs.
temporary shanty towns, trailer-home permanant refugee camps and robust one-story buildings because of freakish storms and the flooding of low-lying areas such as the burbs around nyc/florida.
medicine will become more and more unattainable to the have-nots whose refugee-level lifestyles and tax-starved governments cannot afford health insurance or even condoms. diseases such as clamitia and typhoid will once again be the scourge of the modern world, while the have everythings attain cures for cancer and live to be 200ish.
Canada will hate the illeagles they deny needing for their recently thawed and resource rich super-power economy streaming across the border from the flooded and dust-bowl south.
Regional epicenters of prosperity replacing our current super power model cropping up in places like parts of india/china, venezula, brazil, canada, russia, the southern alaskan coast and maybe australia.
the rich will enjoy techish gadgets and big toys of unimaginable coolness while the economy slides ever backwards into a capital level rather than consumer-commodity market. There will be less rich, virtually no middle class, and the class wars/high crime between the haves and have nots will surpass even current day south africa. Information technology and stem cell cloning research will move to surgically implanted Blackberries and camer-eyes and smog-filtering lungs and such leaving the worlds sucessful as cyborgs who are functionally psychic with regaurds to instantly accesable information technology.
the middle east will become the new africa as oil revenues dry up yet armed conflicts persist.
if world markets crumble quick enough, there will be economic resurgences in places with low populaiton density like africa and south america as the grip of international investment finally gives and these markets are allowed to become self sustaining for the first time in centuries.
all nations will engage in more frequent wars over dimishing resources.
There will be no spaceship to take us to salvation as there is increasingly less resources to devote to such alteristic endeavors. there wont even be railroads to replace cars.
My better half, Madame G, thinks there will be a zombie outbreak-a war between the living and the dead.
christ. I depress myself. just chalk us up for another vote for big boobies.
fascinating post! you hereby are awarded pahunks informal post of the day award!
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