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In 50 years. - 4/30/2006 1:44:33 PM   
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RE: In 50 years. - 4/30/2006 1:48:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		It's going to be very different.  That's about all I can say for sure.  I'm not very optimistic, and the next ten years are going to be important in determining the pattern of the next century.

Oh, one other thing I know for sure: a lot of people are going to suffer.

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RE: In 50 years. - 4/30/2006 2:06:41 PM   
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What do you think the world will look like in 50 years?

Ouch, that's a tough prediction to make. Other than still being a sphere in the solar system, I don't know that anything is predictable. A lot depends on how well we discipline ourselves as humans, the wrong choices and the earth could be a barren wasteland, with life waiting to starting over gain. Assuming we don't wipe ourselves out, I think that technology will continue to be a major influence on the way the world "looks". I don't see global warming causing a huge change in the climate yet in 50 years (like an ice age), but I do think there will be some shifts in the storm patterns at that point. For the most part, many things run in patterns and we may just see something similar to the changes that occurred from the 1950s until now. Dress, slang, vehicles (transportation in general), appliances and music will be apparent changes, but dreams and aspirations of what the future holds may take a strange twist. I don't think you will see a real life version of the Jetson's yet at that point. Be interesting to see what really happens, if I can hang in there that long...lol.

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RE: In 50 years. - 4/30/2006 3:56:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		Like the cartoon  Jetsons- we all have our little flying cars, want some thing to eat push a button- hmmm no....maybe more like Star Trek stuff without all the aliens of course

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RE: In 50 years. - 4/30/2006 4:05:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well. . . maybe it will finally have those hover cars that they promised us 50 years ago.  I also think that some country will control the surface of the moon and they will emerge as the world super-power (would not need nukes then. . . just throw rocks from a catapault on the moon).  I would also hope that we are colonizing space in 50 years.  And have had first contact with aliens.

Okay. . . I read too much sci-fi.

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RE: In 50 years. - 4/30/2006 4:11:42 PM   
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What do you think the world will look like in 50 years?


I have to say that it is impossible to tell. The world has changed so much in the past 25 years that it looks nothing like I thought it would when I was 18. There are so many choices left before us that there is no way to tell what will happen... most of it is going to be determined by how many of us think things through, and how many of us choose to be lemmings.

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RE: In 50 years. - 4/30/2006 4:57:26 PM   
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Well. . . maybe it will finally have those hover cars that they promised us 50 years ago.  I also think that some country will control the surface of the moon and they will emerge as the world super-power (would not need nukes then. . . just throw rocks from a catapault on the moon).  I would also hope that we are colonizing space in 50 years.  And have had first contact with aliens.

Okay. . . I read too much sci-fi.

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edited because I did not proof-read to make sure I did not words out.




You need to read some more science fiction, the kind that tells you there is no gravity on the moon, so those rocks will go floating all willy-nilly, young lady.
 
Now.........the aliens. Will they be illegal?
 
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RE: In 50 years. - 4/30/2006 5:01:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		umm, I'm 50 now, so in 50 years I will probably be dead.  But, I'm sure the world will be in very bad shape.

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RE: In 50 years. - 4/30/2006 5:03:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		This thread is how to look stupid in 50 years time but since the chances are I won't be here to be embarassed, I'll give it a go.

India and China will have so many conflicting interests there will be major conflicts between the two. Europe will be united because not to be would leave it exposed to greater evils than not getting on with each other, especially with a resurgent Russia holding its major energy supplies. The US will be almost bilingual and no longer the out and out superpower it is today but will still be relatively strong and Brazil would have strengthened its hand and is by far the most dominating country in South America with its growth worrying the US. Despite global warming being accepted as fact, the world is still unable to put its differences in perspective and deal with the problem in a rational way.

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RE: In 50 years. - 5/1/2006 12:11:47 AM   
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Status: offline 		Depends how fast peak oil is realized...
I think as historically, any age which goes through the change in source of energy...a lot of pain, upheaval. Also problems with natural resources of other types...
The rapture watchers should be pleased though.

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RE: In 50 years. - 5/1/2006 1:22:35 AM   
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RE: In 50 years. - 5/1/2006 2:50:28 AM   
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Status: offline 		...from my perspective in 50 years time, i reckon the world will be like a wooden box, no room to move and surrounded by packed earth...........

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RE: In 50 years. - 5/1/2006 3:42:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		Kind of a Scary thought Level!  Between Urban Sprawl (at least here in the US) and the mind set of Individuals (at least those that I meet in DC traffic) I cant say it's gonna be a pretty sight.  Hell I already know I was born a century too late......

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RE: In 50 years. - 5/1/2006 3:46:06 AM   
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Kind of a Scary thought Level!  Between Urban Sprawl (at least here in the US) and the mind set of Individuals (at least those that I meet in DC traffic) I cant say it's gonna be a pretty sight.  Hell I already know I was born a century too late......


I honestly don't know what's going to happen, Quivver. I hope for the best, and I know we can make the world better, but I don't know that we will.
 
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RE: In 50 years. - 5/1/2006 4:33:33 AM   
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Medical breakthroughs in cancer research, pediatric diseases and perhaps even truly genetic ones, such as diabetes.

Socially?  Kind of a bland mediocrity imposed by a brain-dead society that refuses to allow for full and complete individuality beyond the teen-age angst years of self discovery.

Internationally?  Too much done behind closed door to really try and guess at this one...

Personally, hopefully long dead and gone... but hopefully my daughter will try to instill some of the things I want to give her that was given to me by the important people in my life...

Between now and then, the sadist in me is going to have fun watching everything slowly crumble... should make for a fun time... *stocking up on salt, lemon juice and bleach*

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RE: In 50 years. - 5/1/2006 5:07:44 AM   
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Depends how fast peak oil is realized...
I think as historically, any age which goes through the change in source of energy...a lot of pain, upheaval. Also problems with natural resources of other types...
The rapture watchers should be pleased though.

C


The "exhaustion of resources" has happened before.  The development of coal mining in England was driven by the fact that it had been almost completely denuded of trees that, up to then, had been burned for fuel. 

The expansion of Rome was delayed for a long time by a lack of  drinkable fresh water (The Tiber was a sewer).  It took the development of an extensive system of viaducts (and the engineering that made them possible) before it could really expand.

People adapt culturally and technologically.

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RE: In 50 years. - 5/1/2006 6:04:55 AM   
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RE: In 50 years. - 5/1/2006 6:18:37 AM   
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RE: In 50 years. - 5/1/2006 7:45:13 AM   
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The "exhaustion of resources" has happened before.  The development of coal mining in England was driven by the fact that it had been almost completely denuded of trees that, up to then, had been burned for fuel. 

The expansion of Rome was delayed for a long time by a lack of  drinkable fresh water (The Tiber was a sewer).  It took the development of an extensive system of viaducts (and the engineering that made them possible) before it could really expand.

People adapt culturally and technologically.

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RE: In 50 years. - 5/1/2006 9:55:52 AM   
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Status: offline 		Cities and Thrones and Powers,
Stand in Time's eye,
Almost as long as flowers,
Which daily die:

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Civilisations rise and fall and even disappear. I think it would be arrogant to think it is inconceivable for the modern world not to disappear. Civilisation is a very fragile thing.

The implication of LM's post poses a bigger question than it at first appears.

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