Bittersweet Candy Bowl

This is a question of what will become on our civilization as years go by, as in ‘50 or so years we will have colonies on the moon’ or something like that, it can be long, i want opinions!

My thoughts-
1 year~ pretty much the same, but computers being slightly lower in price.

5 years~ Still not much change, however computers and other related technology is progressing at a fast rate and has almost increased by 260% in 5 years.

10 years~ The US is out of the depression (or recession, or whatever the hell people call this thing….) Technology has progressed well over 574% of what it is today. Manned moon trips start up again.

50 years~ Manned trips to mars start to get underway. Technology has started to increase by factors of 10.

100 years~ Man has set foot on all solid planets in the solar system.

500 years~ Population exceeds 1 trillion.

1000 years~ first probe reaches nearest star other than sol.

1000+ years~ anyones guess.

my first topic! if this has been created already, i didn’t know about it.

Other landmarks:
- post-scarcity economy
- post-human society

By the way the world’s going, I’d be surprised if we make it past 2020…

I don’t really know.

I guess my hopes are that we don’t drown in oil by the end of the year.

I think that by the time 1500 years have passed we should have at least found one suitable planet to colonize.

the return of magic within the next 15 years
other wonders springing forth within the next 20 including questing hero’s and living lengends

Oh, it’s all just going to go downhill from here until we make a discovery that revolutionizes the world. Things like the steam engine and the wheel and stuff, but more relevant. XD Like, lossless matter->energy conversion. (FUCK that would be awesome. A piece of paper could power, like, a city for a day. Or something.)

I’m going to convert my consciousness to the internet before the singularity hits and become a being made entirely of porn.

this thread is depressing on so many levels
and i am not just talking about the subject matter

Is this where you want to be when Elvis comes back? :o

what do you mean “comes back”
elvis never left!

Just because he never left doesn’t mean he can’t come back.

yeah it does
example: i have always been a shitty person so it is not as if i can return to being a shitty person

I do that when I wake up from a nap.

I figure i dont know till i know, so there aint no use figuring about it.

…Okay…moving on…
Anyway, my opinion is that some drastic reduction in the human population will occur in the next twenty years. This, in accordance with my Theory of Mana, will reignite a new age of magic and prosperity for the survivors.
At least, I hope… >_>

Brothers in arms, Triplesmex! BROTHERS IN ARMS!

I never played Theory of Mana.

Sorry to say this but my hopes aren’t really high
Count in criminals, wars, energy usage, water probs, pollution, etc.
Good things are the technology increses and I bet many things will happen in 1000 years and by the way I think in 100 years we might have flying cars since everytime the technology gives a big step it makes hard things half as hard therefore impossible things won’t be so hard well I this is what I think:
Good: Technology, MAYBE people will work together and save this planet
Bad: yea keep doing stupid things war will end us we die, become mindless zombies cause of chemicals, radiation, natural disasters, othr probs.
Medium Future: keep a step at a time getting better or we do until we can’t anymore and live with what we have
Really Really Unlikely Future: (Disgaea Hour of darkness idea XD) Humans get help from angels and go to take over the netherworld and are stopped by the overlord but helped evolve emotionally.

Long story short: technology improves, people get worse. That’s been the trend for some time now.

@Deadpool
Okay here’s the rundown. Mana refers to the life energy, “chi” if you will, present in all living things and ambiently throughout the biosphere. It is my belief that this energy is also the fuel for magic, and that humans are somewhat taxing on this resource. Our high population likely means that the ambient mana on our planet is depleted, meaning that spell-casting is difficult if not impossible. Theoretically, a holocaust like the one I predicted would lead to a large influx of mana, leading to the rebirth of magic.
Try not to take me too seriously, this is just how magic is going to work in my yet-unwritten works of fiction… |D

It is true, think about it…

I appreciate the irony in that everyone’s opinion of humanity’s future is miserable yet they’re sitting in unprecedented luxury using the greatest communication device in the history of mankind. Nevermind the fact that technology is advancing exponentially.

So is energy consumption, though.


Fortunately for us, solar energy is practically unlimited (although it is certainly possible for consumption to simply be to large and there be too little space in the distant future. Any colonies on mars would be doomed to fail, considering terraforming it would be temporary and last a few hundred years at best, and since Light speed is impossible to reach, never mind go over, we will be very much so earthbound.


Those are things i know. Anything else i might say is speculation, and i figure if i cant know for sure, then its a waste of time figuring about it.

This I don’t know when will happen, or if it’ll happen, but something I’d like to see is solar farms. Not like the solar panels in earth, more like huge collectors in orbit near the sun where they can gather uninimaginable amounts of energy and transport it in the form of highly concentrated beams that bounce through an array of satelites that is synchronized with the Earth’s orbit.

That is if we aren’t hit by a huge meteorite or something else that reduce our numbers and forces us to survive in small tribes, fighting other tribes for food.

If I have to make this fuckin world better so other people wont be as miserable as me than so be it! an age of fuckin wonders will be ushereed in before my life is over even if i have to get ff my depressed ass and be its maker

Anno Trismexicus.

I will take over the world sometime in the next decade. No question about it. My only question is whether to let you guys know that I control your lives when I’m done.




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Some scientist in a labratory (not giving the name; its classified) is going to rip a hole in the space time continum unleashing monsters and aliens, and later we will be taken over by an alien race known as the Combine, o nly for them to be taken down by an MIT graduate with a crowbar, and save tje world.

Other than that Im not sure about.

Here is what I see happening:

Iran and Israel get fed up wit each other and start a nuclear war. India and Pakistan get fed up with each other and start a nuclear war. North Korea launches its on nuke at the U.S., it fails, North Korea dies, China and the U.S. start a nuclear war. Tired of being teased France gets fed up with everybody and starts a nuclear war. Terrorists build a nuke, attack Washington D.C., U.S. gets fed up with the Middle East…and starts a nuclear war. The Soviet Union is reborn, allies with China, the West gets fed up with this and starts a nuclear war. U.K. gets fed up with somebody, starts a nuclear war. Japan secretly builds nukes, and starts a nuclear war. 2012 ends the world in an impossibly dramatic high budget fashion, nuclear war averted.

My hopes could be higher…

I have a feeling that there’s gonna be some sort of large natural disaster (No, not 2012 ) that’s gonna do a good whipe-out of part of the human population. Unfortunately that’s kinda what needs to happen if there’s much chance for humanity to survive over-population. Oil supplies are fortold to run out in about 40 years. Oh noes!

I think that (nameless) right there is correct. It’ll probably some nuke going off. Probably in the U.S. since the States is what almost every radical hates. (Thank you, Cold War)

I think the ‘homg we’re all going to die’ and the ‘lost faith in humanity’ statements are a little overdone. Pretty much every generation has said that the next one is dumb and lazy. And the belief that we would be destroyed by a Malthusian catastrophe has been postulated and believed for hundreds of years, and those suspicions have been unfulfilled every single time they’ve been brought up in the mainstream.

It won’t happen once the prophesy becomes mainstream because the gods are hipsters.

@Bacon: True, and while I try and be hopeful about it, the actual chances of such an event have been so incredibly low and ignorable, right up until recent generations and the invention of the nuke. While the posibility was practically non-existant before, now humans actually have the power to create such a catastrophy. It’s kinda scary when you think about it.

WW III, yep.

I’m a pessimist who wishes things can get better, but thinks that there is no possible way they can.

Whoo-hooo.

You can pretty much tell how I view humanity.

Bah! you just wait you pessimists, I;ll get around to my drunken boast of ushering in a new age of wonder sooner or later

Make a cult. That always works.

A sex cult.

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Or the U.S. decides those Chinese SOBs are going down, and start a nuclear war

Where are? At the right of the 2012 Mayan Prediction…

I swear to God if we haven’t found freakin Cybertron before the end of my life I will be one pissed off Spanish Super heroine…

Technology will grow at an exponential rate, but it won’t mean a thing if we can’t expand our territory. I personally believe our medical field will expand too greatly and we’ll suffer from overpopulation. Then we’ll give in to our feelings and slowly die while refusing to do anything about the excess population, but rather trying to accomodate for everyone.

If we found life on other planets this wouldn’t be a problem…. *Cough*

@Pathetique: On an actual serious note I have to disagree about the whole technology=population thing. The most advanced post-industrial countries like U.S.,Canada, U.K., Sweden, ect. have their populations expanding at a very slow rate and some of these nations actually have declining populations. Most of the population growth comes from the second and third world nations with larger families as well as the newer industrialized nations such as China. As technology becomes more advanced, becomes cheaper, and becomes more widely avaliable I wouldn’t be too suprised if population growth eventually leveled out after a while…
Still it doesn’t matter now does it? Nuclear war will kill us all

Population growth will level out and eventually reverse. If the first world was SMART they wouldn’t do anything but educate and send condoms to the countries with unsustainable population growth, as they’re going to be screwed regardless and the fewer people are there the easier it will be for them to raise their standard of living.

In any event, the future is not going to dramatically change all that much, I think. Computers only will get so much faster, then stop. Biotechnology will improve by leaps and bounds, and it is going to be the biggest field of growth in the 21st century, as the “lower” sciences (physics, chemistry) have developed to the point where the more multidisciplinary field of biology can finally launch off as well.

The biggest way it will change will be something which we cannot easily predict, but whatever it is, it won’t be flying cars.

this thread has made me lose my faith in humanity just saying

Nukes…lots of them

I can’t wait to see where computers go, though. How the software can be developed and the endless possibilities those programs have intrigues me. I hope to someday be one of the people to develop some life-changing technology.

…in before the nukes.

I had hope, until Kinect’s kitten simulator was demonstrated at E3… Or baby lion simulator…

It’s all down hill from there…

In other news, we’ve developed a gel capable of regrowing small appendages after loppage… cuttage… Unfortunately, the newly regrown parts tend towards high probability of cancer… And the gel uses extract from pig intestines, or something; not sure. This piece of news is several years old, but the guy grew back a his finger! So I say it still stays on the new and cool list. Seriously though, perfect the gel, and we got something seriously awesome going on here, right? Also, mind controlled (through a small chip placed on the brain), fully operational arm prosthetics seem to be making new leaps about every two years, which is a big deal.

High hopes: USB 3.0.

Knowledge will continue to increase; biotechnology will keep expanding until it becomes very mainstream, at least in the medical field (gene therapy variants, regrowing limbs, etc.), and possibly biologically grown materials for general use. Quantum computers may come about, but that almost seems scary. Seriously, the power of qubits and their exponential potential is staggering.

People will still fight in wars. The Republicans and Democrats will keep bickering and bogging things down. Our descendants will mock most of our basic moral ideals and scientific theories as childish and backwards (and our sense of fashion, until it comes back into style)

As for farther down the line, I have to admit that I subscribe an end/rebirth of the world scenario as espoused by my religion, but I already know at least half of the forum doesn’t want to hear it, so I’ll spare everyone the annoyance.

But up until the end of time, we will probably have toasters.