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Global Warming, Nuclear War, Pandemics, Economic Collapse, WMD etc etc

Do you think life will be good in the future?

This is a poll to find out how optimistic people are about the next century. Will it go downhill, will it stay much the same, or will things get fabulously awesome in the future?

Any reason you think like that?

Global Warming will mean more mud.

And that is pretty good news. :)

I don't think we'll reach Utopia any time soon, but I think thing's'll get better once we stop using poison, or, erm, I mean oil.

Global Warming will mean more mud.

And that is pretty good news. :)
Sorry LG but it will be a Drought= Less mud.:(

Depends what you mean by 'any good.' I'm sure there will be things that contribute to making life easier and reduce the impact of many current health issues, but will we be any happier? I don't think so. I don't think technology makes us happier, just changes how we live. There's always something wrong in life. :p

Sorry LG but it will be a Drought= Less mud.:(

Ah, but as the oceans rise, and lakes dry up, it measn more mud. Also, Global Warming will lead to larger amounts of moisture evaporating and condensing in the atmosphere. Which means more rain. And rain makes mud. :)

I've given this a lot of though.

Sorry LG but it will be a Drought= Less mud.:(

Maybe but when we start running out of mud everyone will realise how much it means to them; and after much research a recipe for simulated mud will be created, opening the way for a new Space-Utopia of mud fuelled mayhem. Oh and all the buildings and spaceships and statues will be made out of mud too.

Only if I have the following things that where promised of the future-

A robot with a broom, a dustpan base, and a blinking red light that comes out of it's own closet to clean things up and menace the well meaning cat.

A sink with arms that wipes dishes and cleans the same well meaning cat when it gets accidently to close.

You get the idea...

Only if I have the following things that where promised of the future-

A robot with a broom, a dustpan base, and a blinking red light that comes out of it's own closet to clean things up and menace the well meaning cat.

A sink with arms that wipes dishes and cleans the same well meaning cat when it gets accidently to close.

You get the idea...
Yeah. You want robots to torture your cat. :)

Terrorism will continue, we'll live in fear of being bombed. No one will leave their houses, the economy will collapse, and goats will inherit the earth.

Yeah. You want robots to torture your cat. :)
I can't be expected to do everything myself...

Life will be good.
Whether we enjoy it or not is the question.
We'll probably have less people enjoying life when they really should be, which is in part due to how complex everything is and will become.

Global Warming, Nuclear War, Pandemics, Economic Collapse, WMD etc etc

Do you think life will be good in the future?

This is a poll to find out how optimistic people are about the next century. Will it go downhill, will it stay much the same, or will things get fabulously awesome in the future?

Any reason you think like that?

You forgot Peak Oil. :D

I can't be expected to do everything myself...

Heavens No. :)

i'm pretty pessimistic, myself. the main thing is climate change and global warming: no politician is ever going to be able to do anything about it until it's too late. stupid democracy. and then its a global problem which will require a global solution... and that's just not gonna happen (as long as you have maverick wankers like Bush in charge)

other than that, its business as usual for the world... bar unsustainable economies and a dependence on a fast running-out natural resource. once the oil is gone we'll either adapt and move on in a more eco-friendly manner, or just collapse and die. or something.


mostly, i'm not optimistic. i feel sorry for my generation's kids... i think they're gonna have it as good as its ever going to get, and will have to watch the world turn to hell for their own kids to grow up in.

We'll be fine:

- Global warming means more attractive suntans or, in other places, cooler, paler skin.

- Nuclear war will make flowers grow really quickly and make them nice and colorfuller.

- Economic Collapse just means that Wal Street fat cats will have to run around waving cards in the air and get some more cardio, lowering the obesity rate. Plus, we could market it as the next great reality TV show, and most Americans won't even notice anything's wrong. The rest of the world might, but we fuck them over anyway, so it won't be anything new.

- Pandemics will kill off enough of the population that the rest of us get to own more land.

Unfortunately, we may have to deal with robots, and illegal robot immigration, but we'll handle those buzzing beatniks when they come to us.

Global Warming will mean more mud.

And that is pretty good news. :)
I wholeheartedly agree. More mud = more awesome.

Pffff. A lot of pessimists in here.

What are you thinking?! As long as we have alcohol we will be fine! To put it with Homer's words: "Beer: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems."

I'd say we'll have WWIII that will screw the world big time but then countries will finally learn and our foreign policy will mellow out if not head towards planetary unity. Of course all of human nature would remain and all the crime and shitty things that people do will remain.

No Star Trek utopia for us where humans are all peace loving. That idea is such a joke.

Global Warming, Nuclear War, Pandemics, Economic Collapse, WMD etc etc

Do you think life will be good in the future?

This is a poll to find out how optimistic people are about the next century. Will it go downhill, will it stay much the same, or will things get fabulously awesome in the future?

Any reason you think like that?
It depends upon who you're talking about. Barring some major disaster ( which is always a distinct possibility ), technology will proceed apace, but people in many areas of the world will continue to eak out a hardscrabble existence. There have always been idiots bent on world conquest or "conversion by the sword."

Some predictions ( again, barring some massive disaster ):

* Permanaent space colonies.

* Continuing war between radical Muslims and everyone else.

* At least one nuclear exchange killing millions, with outright ban on nuclear weapons worldwide as a probable result.

* Increasing internatonalization, with China, America, and the European Union playing major roles.

* Discovery of a cheap, renewable power source, with resulting increase in the welfare of "third world" countries.

* ( and most frightening ) Development of genetic manipulation becomes a cottage industry.

Environmental devastation will spell the end of most ecosystems

Transhumanism will spell the end of humanity as we know it

Pop culture will get worse and anything remotely resembling high art or free thought will become taboo

Computers will probably run the governments of most nations

I think technology will have the potential to make our lives super-easy but we won't exploit it. Compare the modern day to say, the middle ages. We have technology and wealth that people in those days couldn't possibly concieve of, and yet most of still slave away 9 to 5 in boring, menial jobs just to stay alive and have a house and food. Some people in the world slave away and don't have a house and food. Humanity will have so much knowledge and power, but our everyday lives will still be miserable.

Well, look back at the last century:

Global flu ecidemic.
Great depression
World war one.
World war two.
Rise and fall of communism
Cold war.

This century doesn't have to try too hard to be better than that.

Well, look back at the last century:

Global flu ecidemic.
Great depression
World war one.
World war two.
Rise and fall of communism
Cold war.

This century doesn't have to try too hard to be better than that.

Yeah but the 21st century could have:

Jeb Bush

It's gonna be cold, it's gonna be grey, and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life.

I dunno.

mostly, i'm not optimistic. i feel sorry for my generation's kids... i think they're gonna have it as good as its ever going to get, and will have to watch the world turn to hell for their own kids to grow up in.
You are incorrect! Stop being such a frakking pessimist! [ slaps PM repeatedly up-side da hed! ]

WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!

That doesn't sound too paranoid and pessimistic does it? :confused:

WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!

That doesn't sound too paranoid and pessimistic does it? :confused:
It's simply a statement of fact. Neither the individual nor the species is going to ultimately survive, even if we all somehow learn to stop killing each other and focus on protecting ourselves from natural disasters. Enjoy your time here. It's going to be short.

The extinction of the human race is either not happening or a VERY long time away.

The extinction of the human race is either not happening or a VERY long time away.
I hope you're right, but I suspect you're wrong. I suppose it depends upon your definition of the phrase, "a very long time."

Well, I'd define that as "about 100,000 years or so".

You forgot Peak Oil. :D
That too, although I sorta covered it in "Economic Collapse".

Life will only be good as long as a Republican is in the white house. If that doesnt happen everything will go to hell.

Life will only be good as long as a Republican is in the white house. If that doesnt happen everything will go to hell.
mhm...

I'm actually pretty optimistic. I think all these problems will go away shortly after the impending nuclear apocalypse destroys all of humanity. :)

Vastly better than it is now, provided we continue to tear down economic and social barriers, increase individual freedoms and continue our rate of technological advancement. I think the future is brighter now than it has been at any time since the start of the 19th century.

Vastly better than it is now, provided we continue to tear down economic and social barriers, increase individual freedoms and continue our rate of technological advancement. I think the future is brighter now than it has been at any time since the start of the 19th century.
Well, people were sorta saying the same thing at the World Fair in 1900. That didn't turn out that great either.

Who knows, by 2014 we might all be sitting in some trench...

As long as there is Italian beer, Italian food, Doctors, and women I really don't care either way.

Although, I think it will be better. True there are 50 million problems, but it seems like everytime the world reaches a large wall, they climb it only to create things stronger and more efficient then before.

Well, people were sorta saying the same thing at the World Fair in 1900. That didn't turn out that great either. Who knows, by 2014 we might all be sitting in some trench...

But even so, technology and quality of life rose dramatically for a large number of people at the same time...the two World Wars were terrible but did bring about important social and technological changes that ultimately were for the better.

I think humanity will find a way through anything thrown at it...but the thought of being stuck in some trench in Alaska really sucks.

It could be a utopia; it could also be a nuclear wasteland. But oh, guess what...I will be dead by then. :D

...but the thought of being stuck in some trench in Alaska really sucks.
If we win, we get awesome monuments though. :p

I hope you're right, but I suspect you're wrong. I suppose it depends upon your definition of the phrase, "a very long time."
it also depends on what you refer to as "human"...at some point evolution will change us to a point where we are no longer homo sapien, but some other species.

Ah, but as the oceans rise, and lakes dry up, it measn more mud. Also, Global Warming will lead to larger amounts of moisture evaporating and condensing in the atmosphere. Which means more rain. And rain makes mud. :)

I've given this a lot of though.
Sorry i forgot that your thoughts are facts, it shall never happen again.

ALL Hail the Glorious Lunatic Goofballs!

Will life be any good in the future?


Pleasure-Bots!

We're all going to be washed away in a radioactive tidal wave of obesity triggered by global warming and the governments inability to tackle it due to the socio-economic disharmony reaped by international terrorism and the social security timebomb. In addition, the policies of globalisation will allow poverty, bird flu to spread universally (in part due to our weakened genetic strain resulting from eating too many GM foods) to the extent that our mobile-phone microwaved brains will wish for death long before it is granted to us.

Life will suck big time.

it may get worse for a while. then, after having gotten worse gets red of some of the problems, it will get a whole lot better.

there are several ways in which this could happen.

or it could already be as bad as it's gonna get

or we may have already pushed the environment past the point of no return and won't even know it for a couple of more decades.

running out of oil could save us. but that might not happen soon enough to do so. on the other hand we could just get tired enough of stabing ourselves in the back to stop doing so.

if life as we know it still exists after the oil is gone, and human population implodes from any of several possible reasons, at least some of which occur gradualy and are relatively painless, then i think it will get pretty darn good.

with clean but not free energy, an environment healthy again, and a lot fewer homans then presently. using tecnology to live closer to nature instead of totaly cacooning ourselves away from it.

utopia is just a word, but a time WILL come when conditions are much better then they are now for everybody. the sooner we start choosing the priorites we actualy live by on the basis of the kind of world we want to live in instead of the arbitrary assumptions of some belief or putting some idiology ahead of doing so, the sooner we will see this come about.

global warming is real, and the use of combustion to generate energy and propell transportation is the cause of it. and we can and will have both without doing so, either when we are forced to, or as soon as we choose to. that and lowering all human fertility accross the board without bias or exceptions and even my generation could in principal live to see it.

if we keep clinging to familiar assumptions, and relying on oil and coal as heavily as we've so far been, then it'll be the hard way if we even survive it at all, which then becomes a roll of the dice.

what we can look forward to if we don't chainge our ways is eventual mass starvation in the cities, even in the 'developed' world. either way, for those who survive out the other side, things'll get pretty nice.

there might not still be cars and credit cards, but computers and little trains and the rivers again running clean and the air breathable.

either way there will most likely eventualy be better times. whether or not there are worse times before there are is a choice we are all collectively making, most of us probably without realizing.

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