Do you think the world will be much different in 70 years from now?

[Two Gun Bob]

No one has any idea what the world will be like in 2089.

In 1949 no one had any idea that we’d have the internet, google, amazon, tv on demand, space travel, the EU, mobile phones, 33 rpm LPs, CDs, streamed music, freed the world of smallpox, largely eradicated polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, Herat transplants, AIDS, Ebola, global warming, etc., etc..

And heart transplants.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Yeah that's what I was meaning mate interesting stuff

Jacque Fresco is the man. His visions for the future are brilliant. I wish there were more people like him in this world, especially at the top with the people who run the world.

 

[urban genie]

Southern europe on the mediteranian will be in desert like conditions akin to the sahara.
Polar bears will be extinct as will the coral reefs.
Oceans will be more acidic.
People will earn more but the cost of things will be 10 time what they are now.
AI will be a thing.

I will be dead

 

[bluethrunthru]

Southern europe on the mediteranian will be in desert like conditions akin to the sahara.
Polar bears will be extinct as will the coral reefs.
Oceans will be more acidic.
People will earn more but the cost of things will be 10 time what they are now.
AI will be a thing.

I will be dead

And them Kraft rubber cheese slices in your fridge still won't have gone off - what is that fucking shit made of?

 

[bumbleblue]

There will still be some fucker moaning about colours on the kit.

 

[worsleyweb]

I will be on my 18th divorce.

 

[City Hobgoblin]

Many demographic experts predict world population growth will have stabilised by then.

Africa will be a growing economic area, possibly getting richer and more stable socially with the help of the Chinese, Russians and maybe even the Americans clinging on with a bit of influence. Huge solar farms in the Sahara will supply Europe with lucrative but clean green energy.

Cities will include multi storey glasshouses to produce food for the inhabitants. Transport will be clean and green.

Those are some possible positives.

Major uncertainty of course is how far current climate change trends can be clawed back to safeguard important ecological systems, water supply and amelioration of warming. If the permafrost in Siberia melts then serious problems will impact mankind.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Many demographic experts predict world population growth will have stabilised by then.

Africa will be a growing economic area, possibly getting richer and more stable socially with the help of the Chinese, Russians and maybe even the Americans clinging on with a bit of influence. Huge solar farms in the Sahara will supply Europe with lucrative but clean green energy.

Cities will include multi storey glasshouses to produce food for the inhabitants. Transport will be clean and green.

Those are some possible positives.

Major uncertainty of course is how far current climate change trends can be clawed back to safeguard important ecological systems, water supply and amelioration of warming. If the permafrost in Siberia melts then serious problems will impact mankind.

Plastics will have a greater detrimental effect on the environment than climate change even will.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Also if they’ve got any sense refined sugars will be banned from being sold to children. Everyone will have a good diet and will be regular exercisers and they will look back at the end of rationing in the 1950s to 2030 as a period of idiots who knew nothing about diet and exercise and were ruining their bodies and lives through their diet and sedentary lifestyles.

 

[idahoblues]

Yes