^AGREED ABOUT THE CYBERPUNK...and i want an asian president...who speaks like Confucius...and is very old..and knows kung fu...idk i think id listen to him..even if he isnt really saying anythingpyrosaw said:World? What world? We would have eithr bombed each other to death, or the big corporations bought out the government. Okay maybe not the last option, but I want 2050 to be cyberpunk-ish.
well well well, aren't we little mister/miss sunshinewulfy42 said:Sadly there will be no life on this earth by that time almost certainly.
The reason is pretty simple, we have already passed the point of no return and the only possible solution at this point is to colonize other planets.
We have not made the progress needed to do so within the time needed though (next 20-30 years) as we have not even accomplished the first step, let alone the next two.
We would need to have a fully functioning space station in orbit already and a moon base as well by this point to really have any chance of survival.
As far as people on this planet. If 95% of all human life was wiped out today instantly with no adverse affects to the rest of the planet there is still a high chance the remaining humans would consider it an act of aggression and destroy the planet in retaliation. There might at least be some chance at that point of life continuing though.
It's quite likely if all human life simply went poof the planet would continue to heat up over the next couple hundred years until we had a constant cloud layer in effect (Which would continue to increase the temperature) and eventually no life would be able to survive on this planet. That would take more then 50 years to happen, but that is only because all human life was already gone.
I think we have about 10-15 years before things really start to go down hill big time. Until then we should still be able to stick our heads in the sand. By about 2025 or so the resources on this planet will be gone and the number of countries with biological, chemical weapons and nukes will be much larger (and thats saying no new weapons are invented). Even if we discovered a new massive power source tomorrow it would not help much. Anarchy is no longer a tool that can be used to alter governments as it is too dangers with the tools humans have at this point.
So basically the human race and for that matter the entire planet is doomed. In less then 40 years there will probably be no life on this planet or the planet will be almost completely barren and heating up rapidly. Humans have already destroys themselves and the planet that gave birth to them, we are just waiting for our effects of our actions to be seen.
It would be destroyed in 2012....Saucycardog said:I played the hyrdophobia trial demo today just to see if I liked the game. For those of who don't know, the game is set in 2051 and the planet is suffering from over population and low resources. It got me thinking, what will the world be like by 2050? Will it be that bad?
What do you think?
.....Thats what they said in 1950, nothing happened, in fact its been said alot throughout history and we're still here......wulfy42 said:Sadly there will be no life on this earth by that time almost certainly.
The plans to have a fully functional, large scale fusion power plant are already underway and its hoped to be finished in the next 30 years. After that it'll just get easier and easier.McNinja said:Seriously though, fusion power should be what we are focusing on in terms of a new energy source, not windmills until they come out yer bum. Once we get fusion power, anything that requires large amounts of energy would be feasible to create.
What a very depressing hypothetical future... I hope if this does come true, we'll have something to make up for it... like talking microwaves!wulfy42 said:*snippity-snip-snip*