Poll: Future of the World: Wasteland or Utopia?

[Hank Wants Pie]

Plain and simple, where do you think we're gonna end up on in about 500-1000 years?

Answer on the pole and explain what makes you think that way and have some facts to back you up on your post if you can.

Also, presuming no major war or natural disaster ocurrs.

 

[Grabbin Keelz]

If society a thousand years ago were to look at us today, I'm sure they would have thought this was a utopia. Whatever the world is like a thousand years from now we'll take it for granted just as we are now.

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

I forsee a corporate nightmare of a future.

A world governed by self-serving capitalists and where the free market is actually oppressing the majority of the people rather than being an institution supposed to insure that corporations are always in competition of lowering prices with eachother.

A future where corporate cartels have abolished regulations on monopoly-building, and where democratic governments are simply too poor, corrupt or in too much debt to have any power to oppose the corporate interests.

Basically we're heading for a future not too far in spirit and principle as the feodal societies of the middle ages. Where only a few influential people rule everybody else and their wealth and power is something inherited by blood, and where most people are reduced to an existence of serfdom and servitude.

So it's neither a wasteland or a utopia. It's just a depressing fucking hellhole, and all because we were naive enough to think that capitalism would be the only true road to happiness...

 

[RatRace123]

Basically what it is now but hopefully with better technology.[sub][sub][sub]and jetpacks[/sub][/sub][/sub]

Honestly, despite the pessimistic attitude most people have about this, I don't think the world will face a nuclear apocalypse. But we are still human, and a total utopia would never be possible, there'd always be a source of conflict, and someone would always vie for control.

So, I think it'll basically remain the same.

 

[Amgeo]

I think it'll basically remain the same.

I agree.

 

[ModReap]

I think your 500-1000 years comment is far to limiting because I cannot comprehend something in such a small time frame. If you were to ask what the future of the world is without a time limit I would say wasteland.

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

I doubt we will see technology get much more advanced than it is now. Improved in subtle ways but not like the difference between now and a thousand years ago.

 

[TheNaut131]

Well, we can never truly predict what the future will be like for the people after us. Sure, we can make a few guesses based off information we have now which may prove to be true, but there are plenty of variables and events we can just never see coming.

 

[Saltyk]

I doubt we will see technology get much more advanced than it is now. Improved in subtle ways but not like the difference between now and a thousand years ago.

And if you went back 500 years, they would probably have said the same thing. Hell, even 20 years ago, a smart phone would have seemed out of this world.

 

[bwaremypower]

Transmetropolitan future. The Future is an inherently good thing. Plus, I want laser weapons and attack diseases and all that cool shit. And if that doesn't happen, then Fallout would be an acceptable alternative.

 

[bwaremypower]

Transmetropolitan future. The Future is an inherently good thing. Plus, I want laser weapons and attack diseases and all that cool shit. And if that doesn't happen, then Fallout would be an acceptable alternative.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Sinkhole cities. Instead of trying to build upwards with lighter materials that can fall over, we dig downwards, anchoring massive buildings into the rock of the earth, and we shall use geothermal heating to remove the need for electrical heating appliances.

 

[I.N.producer]

I wouldn't say Utopia is even a thing. It's more of a goal. Within the next 500-1000 years we may approach what we would see as a utopia now, but we still won't be satisfied.

Sinkhole cities. Instead of trying to build upwards with lighter materials that can fall over, we dig downwards, anchoring massive buildings into the rock of the earth, and we shall use geothermal heating to remove the need for electrical heating appliances.

That would be awesome and fairly likely.

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

I doubt we will see technology get much more advanced than it is now. Improved in subtle ways but not like the difference between now and a thousand years ago.

And if you went back 500 years, they would probably have said the same thing. Hell, even 20 years ago, a smart phone would have seemed out of this world.

Compare the tech of a thousand years ago to two thousand years ago. We are in a stage of rapid change but technology has limits.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

I vote Other: Dr. Who.

The future will be Dr. Who.

 

[Saltyk]

I doubt we will see technology get much more advanced than it is now. Improved in subtle ways but not like the difference between now and a thousand years ago.

And if you went back 500 years, they would probably have said the same thing. Hell, even 20 years ago, a smart phone would have seemed out of this world.

Compare the tech of a thousand years ago to two thousand years ago. We are in a stage of rapid change but technology has limits.

Maybe it does, but who knows what those limits are? In 500 years, we may develop worm holes that allow us to travel great distances in an instant. Impossible? Not too long ago it was impossible to go faster than the speed of sound.

My point is, that you shouldn't underestimate human ingenuity.

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

Not wasteland, but dystopia perhaps. I have little faith in social politics and government policy.

 

[ajemas]

I think that we are destined for destruction. Why? Because we are human. No matter what we learn, what technology we master, and what new ways we come up with to blow ourselves up, we are still at a base level governed by basic evolutionary instincts. If you piss a 5 year old off he's not going to do to much trouble. Give that 5 year old a grenade and suddenly you're in trouble.
Even looking throughout our recent history there have been plenty of times where we almost died. Because of some errors on a radar screen during the Cold War, Russia thought that it was being attacked and almost bombed the USA to kingdom come. Diseases have grown resistant to antibiotics and could easily wipe out most of the population. Even if we do everything in a safe way from here-on-out, the environmental damage that we have caused might be to great to reverse.
We are almost 100% sure to kill ourselves off eventually. It's just a matter of time.

 

[triggrhappy94]

Its going to be the same shit as today, just more robots, people have gone on from hating on gays to hating on a new group of people, and people will continue to argue over stupid stuff.