How do you imagine the world by 2050?

[s0m3th1ng]

First there will be oil wars...and then there will be rare-earth metal wars, most likely between the U.S. (And allies) and China...

Mix that in with Population control, faltering capitalist governments, and agriculture issues and you have the makings of a very interesting half century.

Not too worried about the climate. The changes the scientists are discussing will take place over a period of a hundred years...giving humanity ample time to adapt.

I'll just cry like a baby when I can no longer take my Miata out for a spin in anger.

 

[rokkolpo]

not that fantastic.

overpopulation needs something to stop it.
war is usually an effective answer for that.

 

[MrShowerHead]

One word: Zombies

Lot of them

 

[C95J]

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.

Jesus Christ man get some happiness into yourself!

Spoiler: :D

 

[Captain Pancake]

Much the same but with Hydrogen fueled cars instead of gasoline fueled ones.

 

[cthulhumythos]

what? why would those be problems? everyone knows energy-efficient robots will take over the earth and presumably either kill the human population, or convert them into energy-efficient robots as well.

 

[rokkolpo]

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

Am I the only one finding it funny he said ''Xenorph'', with xeno meaning strange/alien in the name.

really i am? awwww

 

[BlumiereBleck]

I imagine people will be protesting everything left and right, one choice is immediately has someone against it even if they were for it. For example video games people hate them in .he future but once they are outlawed everyone loves them. The governments of the world will create fake social networkers to keep people in check and use their stats and "likes" against them in courts. People will think they are incredibility smart when the aren't. :\ I just have a feeling this will happen by 2020.

 

[The Cheezy One]

Play Metro 2033. I really hope so!

Don't hope that happens!
I don't want to be attacked by a Dark One!

Bring it! I'll rip their throats out with my bare hands!
Seriously though, a great story, just a shame the game fell a bit short in delivery. Like Logan Westbrook said, a more of a free roaming, exploratory factor would greatly improve the game, as the stations are really atmospheric, but zip by really fast.
And I will never have enough fun stabbing nosaliases through the throat!

 

[The Ambrosian]

Play Metro 2033. I really hope so!

Don't hope that happens!
I don't want to be attacked by a Dark One!

Bring it! I'll rip their throats out with my bare hands!
Seriously though, a great story, just a shame the game fell a bit short in delivery. Like Logan Westbrook said, a more of a free roaming, exploratory factor would greatly improve the game, as the stations are really atmospheric, but zip by really fast.
And I will never have enough fun stabbing nosaliases through the throat!

Even so, very under-rated. The shooting isn't too bad, the only bad thing is the occasional glitch, well too me anyway.

 

[zero_blahs]

Me as president presiding over a utopia of united continents as I lead us into war with the galoptews a barbaric people who blew up new york before getting blasted by our space defense system at the end of the war I shall behead their emperor taking his place. Once I take the place of the emperor I will order a mass suicide making the galoptews extinxt.

In 2100 earth Will be a mix of many different aliens and humans racism will be heavy and well history repeats itself.

 

[Joshroom]

2050 not gonna happen I'm afraid. In 2043 an inventor named George Albarn is going to perfect the very first, fully working, paradox solving time machine. Then, it will be highjacked by a secret organisation who will send a Hitman style assassin through, back to the garden of Eden where he will snipe out Adam and Eve; effectively solving all of humanities problems.

Roll on 2043!

 

[RUINER ACTUAL]

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.

This is the more optimistic route. Hopefully this will happen, but there are many things, like nukes that could go off, and if the opposite of what you said happens, well, just go watch Idiocracy.

(It's what plants want)

 

[The Cheezy One]

Even so, very under-rated. The shooting isn't too bad, the only bad thing is the occasional glitch, well too me anyway.

Next to modern day console shooters, it is definitely an experience to be had. Especially as in-depth console games such as this and bioshock are few and far between.

 

[Admiral Stukov]

If it's not like this, I'm going to be very disappointed.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Is that game any good? I've got some leftover Microsoft Points and I really don't have any idea what it's about.

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. I mean... take a look at 1984... George Orwell predicted that would be what 1984 would look like. And he certainly wasn't the first to try and say that the future would be terrible.

To be honest, I just want to see what video games are going to look like in 2050.

 

[The Funslinger]

I can tell you for one thing, even in the year 2050 there still won't be any flying cars or food in a pill etc. I really can't rememeber the official term of all of those future utopia vision by people from the past 1970's etc. That type of vision will still not happen in the year 2050.

Didn't they call it "the world of tomorrow"?

I think the future by that point will either be awesome (from new technology, sorting out the environmental stuff and possible colonization of other worlds) or something suicidally depressing. Yay.

Though even if we get the good future, the world(s) will always have problems, conflicts and disasters.

 

[RUINER ACTUAL]

2050 not gonna happen I'm afraid. In 2043 an inventor named George Albarn is going to perfect the very first, fully working, paradox solving time machine. Then, it will be highjacked by a secret organisation who will send a Hitman style assassin through, back to the garden of Eden where he will snipe out Adam and Eve; effectively solving all of humanities problems.

Roll on 2043!

How does the Assassin know when or where Adam and Eve are? And assuming you believe in creation theory, how would he then have been born X centuries later to go snipe aforementioned ancestors? You have created the ultimate grandfather parapdox! (Physicists theory about the Grandfather Paradox is that it would be impossible, because there would be nothing you could do in the past to prevent your birth. Nature will protect itself from being time-space-continuum fucked.

 

[daavisb]

I think its going tobe fked up. but hey, the video games will be great by that time!