Thread: The Future: What Will It Be Like?

Post your predictions for future events (on a global scale), and reasons why you think that they will come about.

What is your vision of how the future will progress? Will countries take over other countries? Who will go to war? Will nuclear war happen? How will global technology advance? Will humanity undergo a large-scale wipeout as a result of its actions? Will there be dystopia? Will governments be overthrown? Will new nations emerge?

Will we be enslaved by aliens for the rest of eternity?

What, in your opinion, do you think will happen in the future?

It can be near-future or long-term, just post (an) approximation(s) of when you think the event(s) will occur.


I'll post some of my views on here in a while, after other people have gotten a chance to post theirs.

I predict I will have pizza for dinner tonight.

Originally Posted by The Cusp

I predict I will have pizza for dinner tonight.

(on a global scale)

You better be sending me some too so!

I predict a bill to legalize cannabis will be introduced to congress, I won't speculate on the outcome but any discussion is good discussion when it comes to these things.

DMT and other psychedelics will become legal and catapult the world into an advanced consciousness

Islamoterrorists are going to do something far more outrageous than most people are expecting, possibly with nukes, and then pretty much the entire world is going to go after them instead of making excuses for them. That will lead to the overthrowing of all totalitarian governments that don't already have nukes, and wars between and among nations will finally be over... until new nations pop up in space and on other planets/satelites.

Then we are going to keep on settling space until Earth becomes uninhabitable, and eventually Earth will be something that is just an important place in history known as the planet where humans originated. There will always be videos and pictures of it.

Nobody has any idea what the future will be like. We can speculate all we want, but nobody really knows. For all we know space travel is impossible and humanity will live and die on this eventually God-forsaken rock.

Have you seen Astro Boy, The Jetsons or any of those old movies set in the early 2000s? They thought there would be flying robots and cars and spaceships everywhere.

there will be wars between major nations and as a result economies will die, nukes will be fired and the world will change as we know it.

I think it will be another 50 years before it runs low. By then we will have alternative fuels/machines in mass production. If not... the skyrocketing oil prices would make us.

It's not "quickly" running out.

What can I say? If you can't interpret basic graphs that's that.

There won't be any oil in 50 years, and the supply starts falling decades before it starts 'running out'.

Originally Posted by Xei

and the supply starts falling decades before it starts 'running out'.

exactly. That's how I know it's not running out yet. Thanks for proving my point.

Its hardly even "falling" yet... Still cheaper than fucking milk.

Well, we'll see pretty soon I reckon. But you really don't seem to understand the issue. It's not about their being no supply at all, it's about demand exceeding supply. That happened by 5% in 71 and War nearly broke out. Imagine what'll happen at 50%...

Nuclear, solar, ethanol, electric, and whatever manipulations of matter we can come up with in the future. Technology is hauling ass, and I don't forsee us in a Mad Max type of world. "Necessity is the mother of invention."

You can't power a petrol engine with a nuclear power plant.

We didn't invent oil, we found it. And it truly is an incredible substance. A biologist calculated that the amount of energy in oil we burn in a year exceeds the catabolisms of every organism on Earth by something like 100 times.

When we burn oil we are effectively burning millions of years' worth of organic activity, compressed into an extremely dense form.

Originally Posted by Xei

You can't power a petrol engine with a nuclear power plant.

I wasn't planning on keeping petrol engines, and I wasn't saying they should be run by nuclear power plants. We have nuclear engergy technology and a history of majorly advancing our technologies. Our advancement will keep continuing.

Originally Posted by Xei

We didn't invent oil, we found it. And it truly is an incredible substance. A biologist calculated that the amount of energy in oil we burn in a year exceeds the catabolisms of every organism on Earth by something like 100 times.

I was talking about things that are more like nuclear power. We will be finished with oil pretty soon. It will become a memory from a primitive era.

We are definitely going to be moving away from oil in the foreseeable future. However, I completely disagree that this will spell the end of modern civilization.

If history has shown us anything, it's that markets figure out how to adapt in the face of problems of supply and demand. For example, as supply of oil decreases and prices rise, demand will necessarily lower; the most fundamental rule of economics is that people respond to incentives. We will see people switching from SUVs to hybrids (we already see this happening), home solar panels becoming more attractive, home owners and businesses keeping their heaters a few degrees cooler, etc. Meanwhile as oil prices rise, alternative energy sources will start to become economically viable - especially if governments start subsidizing them, which is likely. And so on.

The long and short of it is that "peak oil" will likely cause an economic hiccup, but our collective ingenuity will enable us to adapt and ultimately move on. Frankly I expected more from you than to support what is essentially another case of doomsday fear-mongering.