Speculation about...the FUTURE!

Lucid Lounge
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Greeting my friends. You are all interested in the future, for it is where you and I will spend the rest of our lives. :wink: I thought it’d be interesting to hear speculations and prophecies from the broad-minded and imaginative crowd here.

I’ll start off with a little pic I made:

This shows a scenario in the years 2070-2100. Basically 100% of Earth’s population live in the megacities Europe, Arabia, India, Eastasia, Africoast, and not pictured South Africa City, San Fransisco, New York, Bogota, Brasil City and Auckland. Melting water from Antarctica has been transported to the Caspian Sea and an artificial lake in Texas in order to keep sea levels from rising.

All areas possible are used as farmland to feed the huge population. Deserts and wastelands uses melting water for irrigation.

I’d like to think that most environmental problems are solved here, so the Earth is green and healthy. Engineering is at a historial high and the megacities run smoothly.

What do you think will happen?

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And the entire planet’s governed by corporate giants who use democracy to compete with eachother and make more money. :colgate:

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Thats Very idealistic, but it sounds great to me. As long as you can still go out and live in a smaller town. Sometimes you need to get away to a lil place so you can have some peace and quiet, ya know? That world doesn’t sound half bas as long as no one is fighting and crap. I could see myself jorneying from one of the cities to the country and writing an epic age-shattering novel that will touch the hearts of millions. :hmmm: As long as the world doesn’t end up like in Children of Men ill be content.

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I think rather the oposite. I think the human population is going to continue to expand and eventually we are going to wipe ourselves out.

Then after we’re gone the earth will fix itself. Mhmm :slight_smile:

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Well thats just dandy!

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If that will be the future then Id most likely move to/be at often our cabin in the norther norway.

One giant question ;

“Why the hell do we need to get so many? We have condoms, why not stop over-filling the earth?”

I agree with Kit, at least a bit.

If the world would be one big extreme city, then something dies, not necessary humans die, but nature and the freedom of being alone.

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I have not good feelings about future… I guess there is gonna be a huge biological or natural disaster. There is now too much of troubles with eatrh now. Ozon hole, greenhouse effect… I can feel it ! It’s a January now, and there is still no snow, It’s 10 *c and it’s powerfuly windy… this stuff does not happens often. If it will not kick us out of earth trone, we will finish ourselves by wars ETC…

I AM TOO PESYMISTIC !

There should be free cookies in future. :yes:

@Petter
Overwhielming population is mostly in places where people are very poor, so this idea is not gonna work.

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One more reason to fight powerty.

I belive we humen are taking too hard on the resourches on the world.
Look at the big fishbanks, how much fish is it left in the meditarrean again ?

What was said in the first matrix movie, humen are like parasites, always needing more and more space and destroys what they find. Maybe isnt that stupid afterall

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It could, even though it’s not very likely as things are now. Here goes: Increased standards of living pushes that the average life expectancy above 100, average apartments are large and spacey, everyone get’s two or more kids(for whatever reason :happy: ), plus some nice advancements in agriculture and energy technology, and it just might happen. Whatever, it’s just speculations anyway. :wink:

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That would be best, but remember that human’s nauture is very changeful. We can create a highstandard society, but there is great chanse that something will go wrong, and we will end up being interrogated, murdered and ruled by one man (something like :peek: at Minority Report). We can also break apart for some reason and start another pointless war…

World always had it’s light and dark side, and it’s never gonna change. After sun is storm, and after storm is sun. Even if peace will be a long time, a suspences and lead minds will have to zap in some from.

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There will be a large split between those who are loving and those who are caught up in self-destructive behaviors, eventually resulting in the two being unable to live in the same reality as each other.

This may result in paralell dimensions being authored in part by every individual on the planet but also largely as a collaboration between like energies.

Many and most people on the fence will lean toward vibrations of love, peace, and Christ-like or otherwise higher spiritual realities, while some who are heavily vested in operating out of systems of control, parasitism dominance, power, suppression, greed, and anything that is more animal than human, will be subject to de-emphasis.

There may be natural cataclysms along the way that purge anything that is not harmonius to the survival of the PLANET and the people out, however in general the infrastructures we have will remain in tact enough that wer are capable of reshaping the world into a more sane version of what it currently is.

People will be more likely to live with their families in nature and occupations will be based around the joy of the occupation itself rather than the accruance of monetary gain, as finance will be heavily de-emphasised.

The planet will basically be cleaned, and anyone who wants to be in a clean planet can stay, the rest are leaving and those on the fence–the average Joe–definitely will get a pick up.

Purely idealistically all human beings would be forced into a state of love even if to achieve it they would be blundering floundering fish out of water as they realize that they cannot have their old identities anymore, ever, that their entire lives were wrong, and that they will have to start anew.

These will be extreme cases, such as the heartless CEO and the politicians who care not at all, and those who are so firmly vested in harm that in order to suddenly become no harm is almost to have complete amnesia.

This however I would prefer, a global pardon, as compared to those people’s being annihilated, because if this is the case then governments will still resume, but in a radically different way. And change will basically become so profound, yet, it will be utilized entirely the way change always had been except

now the tv spreads love instead of hate greed and lust
and the radio too

and the oil companies fund alternative energy research and eventually disappear

and everyone starts getting their act together.

to dream anything other than what you want… why would you create a nightmare?

the TV authored a large part of what Americans considered reality… but now we are given free reign to be authors and to influence the progress of the world with OUR ideas.

so. author appropriately.

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2160-2200 This period in human history was marked by a series of brutal conflicts between various governments and factions in our Solar System. Conflicts of particular historical importance included the Jovian Moons Campaign, The Rain Forest Wars, and a series of clashes on Mars.

As overpopulation and political unrest on Earth increased, a number of new political movements formed. The most noteworthy dissident movements of the period were the “Koslovics” and the “Frieden” movement. The Koslovics—supporters of neo-Communist hardliner Vladimir Koslov—sought a return to the glory days of Communism and the elimination of corporate and capitalist influence, particularly in orbital facilities and offworld colonies.

The Frieden movement was a resurgence of fascism, springing from anti-Koslovic sentiment that had taken root in the Jovian colonies (largely backed by Unified German Republic corporations, frequent targets of Koslovic “workers’ crusades”). “Frieden” literally means “peace.” In this case, they believed that peace could be achieved only once the “oppressors on Terra Firma” were eliminated.
2160 March-June: The Jovian Moons Campaign began. Jovian secessionist attacks on United Nations Colonial Advisors on the moon Io led to three months of fighting between the Earth military and Jovian “Frieden” forces. Though this was not the first armed conflict in our Solar System, it was easily one of the bloodiest, and is generally considered to be the spark of increased friction and militarization that followed.

The Jovian Moons Campaign escalated tensions, as Earth’s national governments-many of which sponsored colonies within the system-began fighting proxy wars off-planet. As these proxy wars continued, tensions on Earth mounted, leading to a number of armed conflicts on Earth itself.
2162 The Rain Forest Wars: Armed conflict ripped through South America, as Koslovic, Frieden, and UN forces all clashed over ideological differences, sparking additional conflicts off-planet.
2163 December: In a conflict that stemmed from the Rain Forest Wars, the three primary Earth factions clashed again, this time on Mars. A series of lightning strikes against Koslovic forces near the Argyre Planitia marked the first extra-terrestrial deployment of Marines. The campaign was an unqualified success. As a result, future military doctrine favored large contingents of Marines for ground assaults and ship-boarding actions.
2164 UN-sponsored military forces begin a pattern of massive buildups, culminating in the first real interplanetary war. After the successful Marine deployment on Mars, recruitment drives and propaganda tactics strongly bolster UNSC (UN Space Command) forces. UN forces defeat Koslovic (supporters of rabid Communist hard-liner Vladimir Koslov) and Frieden (a resurgence of fascism) forces on Earth, then begin a systematic and dedicated drive to crush their remnants on the various planets they hold throughout the system. At the conclusion, Frieden and Koslovic forces are defeated, in the face of a massive, unified and very powerful UN military.
2170 A unified Earth government was formed in the wake of the conflicts of 216. Now, the victors were forced to deal with a less obvious but equally serious threat: overpopulation and a massive military that had no enemy to fight.

In the postwar period there were massive population surges and the overpopulation, coupled with the destruction and famine bred by the Rain Forest Wars, threatened to destabilize the economy.
2291 A team of researchers, physicists, and mathematicians working in secret developed the Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine, a practical means of propelling spacecraft across vast interstellar distances. This new engine allowed ships to tunnel into “the Slipstream” (also called “Slipspace”). Slipspace is a domain with alternate physical laws, allowing faster-than-light travel without relativistic side-effects. Faster-than-light travel is not instantaneous; “short” jumps routinely take up to two months, and “long” jumps can last six months or more.

The SFTE generated a resonance field, which when coupled with the unusual physics of the Slipstream, allowed for dramatically shorter transit times between stars; however, scientists noted an odd “flexibility” to temporal flow while inside the Slipstream. Though no human scientist is sure why travel time between stars is not constant, many theorize that there are “eddies” or “currents” within the Slipstream-there is generally a five to ten percent variance in travel times between stars. This temporal inconsistency has given military tacticians and strategists fits-hampering many coordinated attacks.
2310 The Earth government unveils the first in a line of colony ships; given conditions on Earth are deteriorating in the face of overpopulation, hitching a ride out to a colony becomes a highly attractive option. Additionally, the Earth government plans to attach military personnel to each colony, to help better utilize the massive (and expensive) standing fleets. Because FTL travel is still fairly new and expensive, colonists and military personnel face a stringent regimen of physical and mental testing. In theory, only the best-qualified citizens and soldiers are allowed to colonize “nearby” worlds. This is the birth of the Inner Colonies; typically Inner Colonials are—later in the timeline—considered the elite, the best and brightest.
2362
Jan 1 The Odyssey is launched. The lead ship in the colony vessels, the Odyssey—laden with troops and terra forming gear—spearheads the colonization of a new world. This sparked the first wave of human expansion beyond the confines of the Solar System.

And so on.

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To elaborate on the above timeline:

2363: Microsoft, after the booming success of Windows 2295, buy out the universe, and change it’s name to Uni-x. 10 years later, they realize their mistake.

2525: The entire human race laughs at how inaccurate the song “In The Year 2525” was.

2530: People finally stop saying “I’m Rick James, b****!” in a desperate attempt to get the same reaction that Dave Chapelle did.

2600: Atari jokes run rampant.

3000: Man finally creates a good movie remake.

3001: Man finally has a Space Odyssey, 1000 years too late. The descendants of Arthur C. Clarke feel sheepish.

3999: The Artist Formerly Known As The Guy Who Lived Across The Street From The Guy Who Was Distantly Related To The Butler Of The Grandson Of A Friend Of The Artist Formerly Known As Prince realizes his song “Party Like It’s 3999” will lose it’s appeal after New Years.

4298: Dick Clark starts to show signs of aging.

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My speculations are as follows:

A bunch of psychics are predicting that the world will end in 2012 because that is the end date of the Aztec calendar…hmm…why do I think we’ll still be alive by 2013???

What’s probably gonna happen is that some psycho is going to hoard up a bunch of nukes and go all Dr. Evil on us, and blow up the earth. :help: :cry:

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Hrrm, well I’ll reiterate my point with a little more depth then.

Iran is currently building thousands of new centrifuges for refining Uranium, which can then be used in nuclear warheads. Ahmadinejad also has been quoted several times, mentioning how Israel should be wiped off the map and how a future without the US is entirely possible. Therefore, it is likely that they, or Ahmadinejad at the very least, want to have nukes to use either in a terrorist form, or perhaps for a straight up attack from Iran. Therein lies the reality of the world at this moment.

I am basically expanding on Insomniac’s point, and stating how there is a very good possibility that a rogue state, such as Iran, can get and retain WMD’s to use against others, mainly Israel, in a 21st century holocaust of global proportions.