The world in 25 years........

LordSplodge said:
Not unless Governments pull their fingers out of their collective asses and realise that Space is very important to the future of mankind and thus correctly fund the ESA/NASA.

After all we went to the Moon in the sixties and all we can do now is just about limp into low earth orbit.

As for the world 25 years from now? Well it will go one of two ways.

1. Climate Change will have brought advancement to its knees. Oil will be running out, people taxed to an inch of their lives and world war will be looming.

2. Climate Change drives science to find alternatives to oil well before it runs out. The United Space Program will be well funded and we will have a permanent base off world and the program will be producing new scientific discoveries. The world won§t be perfect or at peace but things will be better,
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I couldn't argee more.
 
I'd hope we've cracked nuclear fusion as a viable energy source by then as it'd solve the fossil fuel problem. Whether we succeed is another matter.

I don't think things will be vastly different for us in Europe, we all still live similarly to how we did in 1984, granted we have the internet, mobiles, household gadgets and a few extra things but it's not been a massive change. The problem is now we seem to be more interested in saving the planet than making technological advances, there needs to be a balance but now I just feel that climate change is the only focus.

I want a fusion powered car with a body shell made of superlight incredibly strong alloys, that I fill with a litre of water every million miles but I think I'll get a battery powered car that has body panels made of hemp, is plugged into a windmill every night and won't go faster than 30mph.
 
Realistically optimistic: Due to various environmental and other pressing issues, humans move to clean up their act with the help of new technologies, less resource requirements thanks to things like the internet and augmented reality, transport changes to hybrid electric powered systems, battery or hydrogen storage, energy efficient and long lasting technologies become common place, business has to try to stop making stuff that's single use, fails or is wasteful, while at the same time being as upgradable as possible, anything that doesn't need to be physical can exist in augmented reality.

Realistically pessimistic: World events and energy/resource shortage lead to the decline of first world countries causing wars to break out for whats left and setting civilisation back which we may not really recover from.

Wishful thinking: Our technology takes off at an exponential rate with the creation of a supremely intelligent AI which causes the singularity to happen, transhuman evolution causes us to all become advanced intelligent beings who can then reach for the stars.

Or alien disclosure happens and highly advanced tech is released/created and we have a soft take off but still keeping our lives relatively normal, abundance causes utopia on earth!

Or major changes in 2012 lead to a more spiritually enlightened world, we evolve and gain new psychic powers and stuff!

Come on, one of those has got to happen! :p
 
Holographic computers, Terrorism all time high (Jack Bauer finally met a gun that was chambered), everyday rubbish collections are banned, HUD lenses and Dukem Nukem Forever goes gold..
 
It will be just like it is now, but with illegal immigrants as legally-bound slaves and an ongoing war in some other ostrich-rich continent, funded by mind-bending pseudo-fantasy economics that it is illegal to understand. Oh and we'll all live in fear of getting electronic zebra flu (Z1N1) while we abandon voting yet again for two samey politicians online via our intel-manufactured, and overclockable brain implants, in favour of looking longingly at our unflyable-flying cars, as health & safety will surely have them banhammered for being an 'article of terrorist desire'.

meanwhile, yellowstone national park will have exploded and Woody Harrelson will become president of the united states. more as i have it ...
 
Well we had that thing in 2009 where you need to pay £60 CRB to chauffeur kids. Next up (still in 2009), was a call to ban pre-5 minors from petting zoos.

My prediction in 25 years time - It will be illegal for kids to ride roller coasters in case they get vertigo. Then our gov't will force government-approved meals onto kids in case they get food poisoning. Then the gov't will tax parents £10k for each kid they have. Then it will be illegal for anyone to have kids because the stoopid gov't thinks that every single person in Britain is a paedophile. Then humans will become extinct apart from the elitist government who have built themselves a space station.

Perhaps too much of a "James Bond" plot here, but still, the flavour of my post expresses my dismay towards the whole H & S paranoia and everyone-is-a-paedo type attitude.
 
Well all be in small pods in our own virtual worlds due to the overpopulation of earth. All work is done in virtual reality and we are fed by tubes linked directly to our stomachs. Everyone is beautiful, no one suffers and humanity eventually evolves into a jelly like creatures unable to handle the gravitation force the earth projects upon us therefore confining us to our prison pods for eternity. Long live america.
 
Similar to what it is to day. More technology and a proper start/middle of renewable and alternative energies. Automated homes like x10 network. Oh and we will of visited the moon again and may well be on are way to mars.
 
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We will all be in space suits, with nano-tech inside us disease free, blasting through space to another galaxy drinking hot chocolate (Great things never die) and watching Robot Wars from 1996 which is actually brand new because the TV waves have only just reached us on board.
Women will be firmly back in the kitchen and we will have obliterated all of this ''girl power'' nonsense.

/que insults.
 
Naamiko_O said:
We will all be in space suits, with nano-tech inside us disease free, blasting through space to another galaxy drinking hot chocolate (Great things never die) and watching Robot Wars from 1996 which is actually brand new because the TV waves have only just reached us on board.
Women will be firmly back in the kitchen and we will have obliterated all of this ''girl power'' nonsense.

/que insults.
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Do you reckon well have kitchens in the future then? Maybe they will be chained to the pole in the bedroom...
 
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