Is it me or is the world getting worse?
If I did have children I would worry what sort of shit they would have to deal with in the years to come and those beyond my death.
On a brighter note - what positive things do we have to look forward to?
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Is it me or is the world getting worse?
If I did have children I would worry what sort of shit they would have to deal with in the years to come and those beyond my death.
On a brighter note - what positive things do we have to look forward to?
They will get to live in domes on the moon and wear silvery clothing that looks all futuristic and stuff.
Ungrateful little buggers' probably leave me languishing in a 'Retirement Commune' on a diseased and dying Earth, being feed a 'Multi-food pill', taking 'Hydration capsules', and watching re-runs of some crappy soap on the 'Vid-Box' though. Fockers! :angryfire:
Not its father. :)
1 Cleaner air.
2 Greater use of desalnation plants to provide clean water worldwide.
3 Increasing dominance of English language(sadly the American version)
4 Greater expansion of Europe, ASEAN and integration of the Americas to form three world cultural, financial and trading blocs. three world currencies, the Dollar, the Euro and a new Asian currency.
5 Development of AI to the extent that we have thinking machines performing mundane tasks. Driving buses and trains, assembly work, etc.
6 Pilotless aircraft.
7. Some virus even worse than AIDS.
8. Extinction of most large mammals;
9. Discovery of some weird sea creatures we never imagined;
10. Emergence of Antarctica as a place to live.
Papa connected to the internet in his own home?:)
If they're lucky, Buck Rogers.
But I'll tell them to keep a careful eye-out, I blinked and never saw Space 1999 show up
China overtake America as the worlds largest economy, and the overall demise of the US as a superpower.
I still want to know though why we don't have those rocket back packs that the A-Team had about 20 years ago, i thought we'd have all been flying round with those by now.
So far 1984 is just creeping up on us and we seem to be a few years away from HAL despite it being 2001. Anyone any ideas on the year 2525?
In the year 2525
If man is still alive.
If woman can survive, they may find.
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies.
Everything you think, do and say, is in the pill you took today.
In the year 4545
Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes.
You won't find a thing to chew.
Nobody's gonna look at you.
In the year 5555
Your arms hanging limp at your sides.
Your legs got nothing to do.
Some machine doing that for you.
In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife.
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too.
From the bottom of a long glass tube. Whoa-oh
In the year 7510
If God's a-comin, he oughta make it by then.
Maybe he'll look around himself and say.
Guess it's time for the judgment day.
In the year 8510
God is gonna shake his mighty head.
He'll either say.I'm pleased where man has been.
Or tear it down and start again. Whoa-oh
In the year 9595
I'm kinda wonderin if man is gonna be alive.
He's taken everything this old Earth can give.
And he ain't put back nothing. Whoa-oh
Now it's been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears.
For what he never knew,
now man's reign is through.
But through eternal night.
The twinkling of starlight.
So very far away.
Maybe it's only yesterday.
^^shit, I thought I'd be driving around in one of those hover-craft things that Luke did in Star Wars. Instead I've got a jollopy that's worse than the Fiat 125 my old man was driving then! :(
Just give them to the Thais and sit back to watch the show. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by buriramboy
What will your offspring see in his/her lifetime?
Hopefully their fathers 100th birthday party.
^^^^ Zager & Evans. Very nice, Thormaturge. I think they were a bit optimistic about the time frame, though. I give the human race another 1,000 years at absolute most. :(
The future will bring more misery. There's just too many people in this world. I just don't understand why so many people seem to think that there isn't a problem with too many people in this world.
Traffic jams will get worse
Competition will get worse
The rich will get richer and the poor will have it bad as always.
If the poor people really get pissed off about the conditions they face we could see more crime or even something like genocide against the haves.
Prophets of Doom have been around since recorded history...but somehow we manage to plod along gaining knowledge and experience whilst remaining none the wiser.
A Roman in the 1st century AD would have said exactly the same thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rattanaburi
^ And he'd have been right! :rofl:
The Tomorrow's World team were very convincing weren't they? ..... they even showed us a new recording medium that was virtually indestructible, if memory serves, it was called a CD.Quote:
Originally Posted by buriramboy
Reality has an habitual habit of dragging you back to reality.
^
I remember when Tomorrow's world demonstrated the first fax machine in the early 70's.
Cure for the common cold and countless other serious ailments (pointlessly prolonging people's miserable lives).
A better mousetrap.
Blunt can pulltops (that don't slice through one's fingers).
Holographic television (as part of an overall entertainment system).
Increasingly oppressive copyright laws accomapanied by more sophisticated piracy prevention.
The end of physical sales of recorded entertainment media (all product downloaded).
A better commercial air propulsion system (realised through development of space systems).
Banning of tobacco sales everywhere (causing increased revenue raising in other areas).
The demise of oil as a common fuel/breakthroughs in solar energy capture and conversion. (And more wind/sea current farms)
Increasing irrelevance of Christian religion and greater domination of Islam.
Decline in relevance of regional markets and greater trend towards mutual exchange markets.
Obsolescence of physical units of currency.
An event, or close event, of a major nuclear incident arising in the Middle East, possibly culminating in the physical destruction of Israel.
China as the absolute world power and actual (rather than the current notional) annexation of Taiwan without any retaliation from the West.
That's enough for now...
All ofthe above (though I doubt it) or everything that will will make them morn the wiser and more the thoughtful.
People working their arses off for 50 years till they can afford a highly sophisticated Virtual Reality, better than life, system with in-built life support. Then it's bye bye world.
:)
The future ain't what it used to be!Quote:
Originally Posted by Thormaturge
Actually, most people who speak and even teach English in the world today aren't native speakers (for instance, more Indians speak English than Americans do) so we'll probably see the continued evolution of regional dialects of English like Singlish (Singapore), Tinglish (Thailand), Konglish (Korea), Jinglish (Japan), Indian English (Inglish?), etc.
Wireless messaging/pda technology will continue to simplify words and letters that will become more phonetically accurate and more simply spelled.
People will become better educated.
There will be more extreme weather, more droughts/floods, etc. Canada will finally warm up. Mars will be explored. Quantum computing.
^
I agree about the language. English will evolve, as it has done in my lifetime. Words will be altered, spellings will be altered, new words will be included, all to accommodate the wider global community. So will petrol become gas or benzine? Just as I barely recognise the language of Elisabethan times people speaking English in 50 years time will have not be entirely familiar with today's version... but the British version will still be used by intellectuals as it is today. :)
Programmable sex robots will prompt the planetary population plummet to four billion by 2075.
^
I think I've met one or two already.