How do you imagine the world by 2050?

[noble cookie]

Well, the world will just get worse and worse, Earth will become impossible to live on...cue doing to other planets what we've done to this one.

Okay, maybe not by 2050, but some time in the future.

 

[Spineyguy]

If Anime has taught me anything, it's that the world by 2050 will be full of eight-hundred foot tall robots in garish colours. Mankind will have discovered a new energy source/alternate reality/super-powers/magic/a new way of painting clothes onto women. And this will somehow cause a big war in which opposing states battle for resources. Naturally at that point I'll be fifty-eight years old and will no-doubt lead a motley crew of freedom fighters against the oppressive government of a fictitious country, sparking a winding and very, very, very long story of warfare and espionage, which will probably end with my noble and sacrificial death.

Or maybe not.

 

[Sn1P3r M98]

We will have met up with an alien race and figured out how to dispose o all our pollution periodically, and thus be able to live many more millennia.

 

[sanguinator]

we will be enslaved by laser cats.

 

[Tib088]

... dam you no faith do you, but thats not surprising considering what a mess we made of the planet.

 

[robotam]

All the resources will be used up and a giant GAME OVER will appear in the sky.

All we'll have to do is insert a coin and press continue.

 

[Tib088]

Hopefully nothing to get us all killed

 

[theevilsanta]

Much better than it is now, just like it always has been every 40 years in the future.

edit - Sadly, you're all very, very wrong. People have been predicting very real, very near future doom since the dawn of history. And lots of uneducated and quick-to-scare folks (like all of you) have been all too ready to believe it. Guess what. It never, ever happened. Things just kept getting better.

 

[Ekonk]

A lot like it is now in some ways, radically different in others.

For example, people never change. There will be war, there will be poverty, there will be fear, there will be xenophobia and homophobia.

But perhaps we'll also have electric cars who drive themselves. Who knows?

 

[Jark212]

From what I understand about mini Ice Age cycles, it should be very cold...

 

[oooooooooooooooooooooooooo]

It really depends. If nothing is done in the near future then by 2050 we will have seen massive environmental changes due to the fact that climate change is accelerating exponentially. This will certainly have catastrophic effects on the world economy and resource availability. So yeah, your description may not be too far off the truth.

 

[crepesack]

Don't know. But I will probably live long enough to see so I'll get back to you on that.

 

[Ham_authority95]

Besides more advanced technology and higher standards of living, it's impossible to tell.

Although I can safely say that we'll be safe from any over-population because of standards of living in both the Third World(which probably won't exist by that time) and the First World.

More education and prosperity=less babies being born.

 

[Ham_authority95]

Much better than it is now, just like it always has been every 40 years in the future.

edit - Sadly, you're all very, very wrong. People have been predicting very real, very near future doom since the dawn of history. And lots of uneducated and quick-to-scare folks (like all of you) have been all too ready to believe it. Guess what. It never, ever happened. Things just kept getting better.

Exactly. Would you honestly rather live in the early 20th century where racism was the norm and a shortage of food on the farm could kill you?

 

[Nazz3]

Well be moving objects with out minds.

 

[Ham_authority95]

EDIT: Why do I get the idea that we'll all be looking at this thread in 2050 and laughing at ourselves?

Because none of our pessimistic the-world-will-end predictions will have come true? Yeah. i get that idea, too...

 

[TerribleAssassin]

I think it will be led by evil communist mutants from the planet Xenorph!


All anti-communism and intergalactic racsim aside, it'll be no different than today but with faster computers and more crazy inventions...


[sub][sub]And spaceships filled with robots who are conspiring to bring back JFK from the dead to kill us all..[/sub][/sub]

 

[monkey_man]

1:we all starved to death.
2r killed ourselves Fallout style.
Or aliens invade
or we find cures for all diseases, causing overcrowdedness and 1 or 2 happens
or we all live happily togheter, in a peacefull society.... and then war breaks out..
i don't have much faith in humanity anymore