NationStates Jolt Archive

Alright, just a semi-serious whacky question thread and poll.

Everybody will turn into orange juice.[/Eva]

Trekkies conquer the world and force the populace to memorize scripts from TOS.

Trekkies conquer the world and force the populace to memorize scripts from TOS.

You sir, are a truely sadistic and really quite fuck'd up in the head kind of person.
I like you :)

You sir, are a truely sadistic and really quite fuck'd up in the head kind of person.
I like you :)

Only giving out possibilities. Trekkies are some of the most fanatical people one will ever meet. I have no trouble seeing them as feared dictators who will require the nerdification of all. Only one of a multitude of frightening possibilities. :)

Only giving out possibilities. Trekkies are some of the most fanatical people one will ever meet. I have no trouble seeing them as feared dictators who will require the nerdification of all. Only one of a multitude of frightening possibilities. :)

Horror of horrors, they might make Shatner the official language of the world! I...dontthink...I could...standit!

Horror of horrors, they might make Shatner the official language of the world! I...dontthink...I could...standit!

They might require us to listen to his albums. :p

They might require us to listen to his albums. :p

OH GOD!
*seppuku*

Trekkies conquer the world and force the populace to memorize scripts from TOS.

And all the other series except Enterprise.

Bob Saget will be either very old, or deceased. :(

Bob Saget will be either very old, or deceased. :(

Thats OK, by 2037 we'll be able to preserve peoples heads in jars. Bob Saget will never leave us.
Of course, neither will William Shatner...but, hey, you win some, you lose some.

Thats OK, by 2037 we'll be able to preserve peoples heads in jars. Bob Saget will never leave us.
Whether he likes it or not. :) Most probably his head will be put in some kind of small glass dome, and if you insert a coin (or whatever replaces them) he'll come to life and say something (vaguely) amusing.

Whether he likes it or not. :) Most probably his head will be put in some kind of small glass dome, and if you insert a coin (or whatever replaces them) he'll come to life and say something (vaguely) amusing.

Really? I thought we'd be a perfect Star Trek TNG-esque communist society by then.

The war on terror will escalate as more anti-Americanism sweeps the world. Iraq is just a disaster zone. The world's hunger for oil continues and it causes a global crisis at one point or another. China becomes the new "Soviet Union", an oppositional binary to the United States, if you will. We'll be drowning in the sea and the hole in the ozone is much larger now. Cancer rates have gone up and more children have asthma. India has taken over the global computer industry. Canada will have elected its 2nd female prime minister, Quebec is on the brink of separation, again. The world's poor continues to grow. Polar bears are on the verge of extinction. Australia suffers a super massive drought. Elizabeth dies, Charles takes power as the King of Great Britain and the Commonwealth. Japan develops hologram television and simple robots become common in society. Our computers continue to shrink and they will eventually be manifested into every facet of our lives (us in the West) like a second layer of skin. Africa, for the most part, remains unchanged. New Orleans is under sea. Commodity items become cheaper as China becomes the number one manufacturer of everything.

Of course... this is all just speculation. :p :)

Really? I thought we'd be a perfect Star Trek TNG-esque communist society by then.
Inserting coins in a Bob Saget jar it is then. :)

Inserting coins in a Bob Saget jar it is then. :)

Zing indeed.

Zing indeed.*Releases the giant killer... rabbits.*

*Releases the giant killer... rabbits.*

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The first generation of People With Perfect Everything will be coming of age, and will already rule the world. The Chinese will be living everywhere (except Central and Eastern China of course, no-one will live there.) Necessities will be free and commodities ridiculously cheap, due to nanotech. Nanotech food will be completely tasteless, since everyone will be getting their sensory input by wire anyway.

I'll be 72, and still loving whatever I do. :)

According to Jon Stewart and the All knowing Daily Show:

Genetically Modified Children who lack the capacity to love and can kill everybody will be wide spread.

And Spam (the email kind) will become the last emotional interaction between humans.

The first generation of People With Perfect Everything will be coming of age, and will already rule the world. The Chinese will be living everywhere (except Central and Eastern China of course, no-one will live there.) Necessities will be free and commodities ridiculously cheap, due to nanotech. Nanotech food will be completely tasteless, since everyone will be getting their sensory input by wire anyway.

I'll be 72, and still loving whatever I do. :)The Chinese will not be longer be in existence because of a massive genocide committed by my followers in order to elimante their huge population and their inability to accept long term foreign rule.

The Chinese will not be longer be in existence because of a massive genocide committed by my followers in order to elimante their huge population and their inability to accept long term foreign rule.

Hey, did I accidentally post to II here ?

I think there will still be a market for real food. A beef steak will probably cost ten times what a human steak would tho ... humans ranch themselves and don't need a fence to keep them in. :D

gas stations go broke because scarcity of petrolium makes wholesale prices to high to be profitable. what governments, if any, survive that, can no longer afford to maintain extensive paved highway systems, further diminishing the market for private passinger motor vehicules which almost no one can any long afford to drive.

smart politicos put their tax dreams on guideway based interurbans and nice place for people walking to stop and rest. people, after all, now have time to actualy see their surroundings as most of them have to walk most of the time anyway.

life has slowed down and become more of a rainbow gathering then a despirate rat race, due in part also to the eppidemics of 2016 and 2031, which resaulted in a dreasticly reduced human firtility ratio. the resaulting population implosion is only begining to be felt, but which will, in a few more decades, resault in a wonderful and gratifying rebounding of nature.

people have learned, of neccessity to live very light and 'small'. those who survivied the world wide famines and depressions of the 2010s and early 2020s.

tecnology, certain tecnologies, have however continued to flourish, even bennifit from this sequence of events. the reintroduction of very narrow gauge railways, relying on stored energy and renewable sources to recharge it. and of course wind, solar and hydro, which have become the mainstays of what electrical power remains available.

population centers have abondond low lying areas better suited to agriculture anyway, and snuggled in arround higher elevation sources of energy production.

large, still well populated lands have aboundond the idea of standing soverign hierarchies beyond the level of village elders, other then to coordinate the maintainence of what infrastructure they continue to, and many have abondond the concept of money as well.

building codes and border patrols have thus become pretty much things of the past. as have international wars, with few nations to fight them, and none of them the super powers of only a few decades ago.

there is a united nations, as or more powerful, then any of the remaining nations, save perhapse india and china, who have aggreed to return tibet to independence and leave nepal and bhutan alone.

hawaii is once again an indipendent nation and alaska and northern california and the states and provences between them have become a new, if somewhat loose nation, called the pacific states. the name "america" has pretty much been droped. islands like cyprus, png, hati/dr, are no longer devided by competing colonial histories but are indipendently united as whole nations in and of their own rights.

and no one owes anything to a now defunct imf. the nightmare of 'forign investment' now belongs to those bad times of the past as well. with every place getting along just fine with nature, a greater understanding of it, and relience on local skills for local comforts, and the infrastructure that enables them.

space is a consolodated endevour of the u.n., more or less on hold, pending the development of non-combustion dependent launch systems.

broadcast television is pretty much off the air, but indipendent local radio, can often be found, run by hobbiests on an entirely voluntary bassis.

there has been not so much a deregulaton of everything as a demise of means of enforcing very much. very few places is anyone even questioned, let alone restricted, as to what they may possess, though the mass production and sale of some kinds of items and substances is strongly discouraged, often on a neighbor to neighbor level rather then as any sort of formal enforcement.

this is no "stone age" world, or a return to one, but it isn't one of super power governments either, and it is one of living much closer to nature then anyone of even a few decades previously might even have immagined.

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High chance that i'll be dead.
Man will colonize the moon and have ben on Mars.

There wil be no Mole People attack!
*Shifty eyes*

There wil be no Mole People attack!
*Shifty eyes*

Indeed.
For it is true that the Mole People are NOT our masters, indeed, and I for one certainly do NOT welcome our wrinkly overlords.

Alright, just a semi-serious whacky question thread and poll.

Doesn't matter to me. If I'm still alive I'll be 94 and won't give a damn. :eek:

Doesn't matter to me. If I'm still alive I'll be 94 and won't give a damn. :eek:

We'll put your head in a jar so you can spend all day playing NS...WITH YOUR MIND.

You will all worship me.

Poland will be the world's main super-power.

I will be dead by 2025, so I don't know..

Heh, I just tried to capitalize the first "2" in "2025"..

You will all worship me.

The Trekkies aren't going to tolerate your heresy.

A bunch of mad scientists will hopefully have taken over the world, or be about to do so.

Planet Earth will have been duplicated 10 billion times, allowing each and every one of us to Take Over The World.

Twenty years after that, the interest-free period will end, and each and every one of us will be in hock to the Zyxxy's. They don't dupe planets for free, remember.

All the people who never had empires will have a shot.

Expect to be ruled by Congolese pygmies and Siberian trappers.

You will all worship me.

I won't, even if I'm the only one not worshiping you/

WW3 will happen, and it'l all happen because of Iran nuking israel (dw, their nukes will blow up on their own accord before they get to europe properly or the US.

Then what happens is Israel says "oh crap, take 'em all the american way!"

Nukes away, no tehran, china sits back and laughs untill russia nukes someone by mistake(silly people) and then china gets a lota poisonous nuclear fallout on top of them.

Oh, and global warming not a problem, when yellow stone park blows up it'l cool down the planet. That or Bin Laden will have taken them out, the mess they've managed in iraq!

Planet Earth will have been duplicated 10 billion times, allowing each and every one of us to Take Over The World.

Twenty years after that, the interest-free period will end, and each and every one of us will be in hock to the Zyxxy's. They don't dupe planets for free, remember.

I, for one, welcome our alien landlords ;)

I will have my 70th birthday.:D

I will be dead by 2025, so I don't know..

Heh, I just tried to capitalize the first "2" in "2025"..

Planning on drinking yourself into oblivion? :)

Planning on drinking yourself into oblivion? :)

Damn skippy.

I'll be 56 years old and nowhere near retirement. That's at least another 50 or 60 years down the line.

I'll be 56 years old and nowhere near retirement. That's at least another 50 or 60 years down the line.

"Thoroughly shitty," like I said on the other thread. ;)

Bob Saget becomes president, then America takes over the world, then the UN takes over America, and then of course the UN screws up and the NSG-ers tae over the world:D

I've been saying for a while that the Resource Wars start somewhere around 2020-2025. Whoever wins those (provided we don't go nuclear and finish off civilization entirely) gets to go to space - in fact, will have to in order to prevent another round of Resource Wars.

I figure North America and Europe have the best chances of coming out ahead, provided they don't take each other out.

I'll be 56 years old and nowhere near retirement. That's at least another 50 or 60 years down the line.

Considering how no one saves money for retirement and companies seem to be in the habit of losing their employees benefits, this seems like an unfortunate prediction for everybody.

Considering how no one saves money for retirement and companies seem to be in the habit of losing their employees benefits, this seems like an unfortunate prediction for everybody.

This is why I can't wait for another pandemic.

Hey, did I accidentally post to II here ?

I think there will still be a market for real food. A beef steak will probably cost ten times what a human steak would tho ... humans ranch themselves and don't need a fence to keep them in. :DChinese will literally be Chinese.:D

Considering how no one saves money for retirement and companies seem to be in the habit of losing their employees benefits, this seems like an unfortunate prediction for everybody.

Don't forget that people are going to be living a lot longer...which means the retirement age is going to soar in order to keep social security afloat.

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if it was moved to 100 or higher by then...

"Thoroughly shitty," like I said on the other thread. ;)

Hopefully, by the time I'm that old I'll be doing something I like rather than something I have to do for the money.

Don't forget that people are going to be living a lot longer...which means the retirement age is going to soar in order to keep social security afloat.

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if it was moved to 100 or higher by then...

True and it is not as if we are able to work hard those extra years. We may be living longer but we aren't gaining extra quality years. Simply getting to be an elderly person for a longer period of time. :(

True and it is not as if we are able to work hard those extra years. We may be living longer but we aren't gaining extra quality years. Simply getting to be an elderly person for a longer period of time. :(

There's going to be age reversal as well; it'll be great to have that longevity and improved health, but only if you're doing something you like rather than being stuck in the same job that you were for the past few decades.

rather than something I have to do for the money.

I doubt it... we are addicted to wealth, and if we weren't, our society would collapse around us.

I doubt it... we are addicted to wealth, and if we weren't, our society would collapse around us.

It's possible to do things you like and make money at the same time; of course, it's also possible to do that if you save wisely so that you have plenty of money after retirement to do the things you like.

It's not necessarily easy, but it is possible.

It's possible to do things you like and make money at the same time

Yes, it is... sort of.

But the relation remains inconsistent with freedom... and without that, you are still denied valuable goods. Your life is built around subordination.

of course, it's also possible to do that if you save wisely so that you have plenty of money after retirement to do the things you like.

If you can even tell what you want anymore after you have driven out every resisting desire for the six (seven? eight? nine?) decades preceding.

Yes, it is... sort of.

But the relation remains inconsistent with freedom... and without that, you are still denied valuable goods. Your life is built around subordination.

True, but you can still find ways to circumvent that subordination. It may not be perfect, but it is possible to overcome those problems and achieve a higher degree of personal freedom.

If you can even tell what you want anymore after you have driven out every resisting desire for the six (seven? eight? nine?) decades preceding.

Some people can, provided they don't forget what it was in the first place.

Chinese will literally be Chinese.:D

:eek: And eskimo pie will be served warm.
Repeat for apricot Danish, Brazil nuts etc ...

You know we're in really bad taste here, don't you?
We'll be the first up against the BBQ when the revolution comes :p

True, but you can still find ways to circumvent that subordination.

Yes, you can "find ways"... but that is the whole point!

You must build your activities, live your lifestyle, with it, around it... you must take it into account as you try to circumvent it.

It may not be perfect, but it is possible to overcome those problems and achieve a higher degree of personal freedom.

For everyone? Even for the majority?

Let's say you can. So what? What kind of society makes even a minority live a life of toil and unfreedom?

Some people can, provided they don't forget what it was in the first place.

But we must... for if we do not suppress our desire for it, how are we supposed to go without it?

How long can we defer our desires before we are hopelessly alienated from them... to the point where we waste our leisure time indulging in things we don't need, never satisfied, merely sedated?

What solution has more technology to these problems? It cannot give us freedom, whole freedom, life-long freedom; it can, at best, give us an increased quantity of regulated, limited, restricted leisure.

It got worse and worse in America. Manufacturing is just about completely gone, replaced with McJobs, and all the jobs from the information economy have moved to everywhere else in the world considered cheap. Double-digit inflation and unemployment are today’s long-term results of over speculation and lack of capital investment only to enjoy greater profits in the short term.

Almost all of the major broadcasting corporations have been taken over by multi-national corporate monopolists. All news is 'infotainment', morsels of information pitched to the lowest common populist denomination. Instead of real news, people get crashes, fires, high-profile police pursuits, embarrassments, and celebrity gossip.

Crime is rampant, and hooded drug-dealing gangs rule local neighbourhoods, operating brazilian-style 'protection rackets', and terrorising anybody who threatens to report them. Gangbangers, Neo Nazis, extremists from far left to far right fight and kill each other in the streets. The police can't do sh_t, except put out some stray embers from the huge fire that's raging.

The war on drugs and the war on terror continue to rage on despite the fact that the government now goes to the point of violating citizens' most fundamental constitutional civil liberties, yet allow the criminals to flourish and terrorists to go through the gaping holes in the "net", and take advantage of a poorly educated public's false sense of security.

Police have almost unlimited powers to stop and search a persons home and possessions without a warrant, and close-circuit surveillance systems watch citizens' every move. If you look the slightest bit strange when you shop, your photo is taken, and sent to the police before you even make it to the check out line. The police are ready to apprehend your ass when you walk out.

Almost all jury trials have been replaced by committees of 'volunteers', while only paying lip-service to their independence. Meanwhile, judges have almost unlimited power to request 'majority verdicts' in order to speed up convictions. Presumption of innocence is now only a buzzword. Those accused of any crime can now in practice be detained without bail for any period that the local police 'magistrate' can request extensions for.

Anybody expressing any doubt about the effectiveness or the legitimacy of these measures is quickly branded a 'liberal' or 'out of touch with the majority' by the corporate-owned newspapers. An increasingly ill-informed public is ready to accept populist measures to tackle crime and terror and to go with the cheap rhetoric that anybody opposing them is 'soft' on crime.

[QUOTE=New Populistania;12349564]It got worse and worse in America. Manufacturing is just about completely gone, replaced with McJobs...
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Kinda sinnical. The scary part is that there IS a possibility for some of those to happen. Some of the media is like that today.

But as my view of technology:
Finally the Skycar will be in production and be a major part of the commercial airline industry.
Sometime before 2037, the quantum computer will be available on the consumer market.
Rocketry becomes obsolete, as anitigravity is finally revealed.
Cyborgnotics and Prostetic limbs will be combined and soon, machines could be controlled by thought.
Experiments will be performed in which chips will be implanted into Brains to increase the Brain usage from the average 10% to as high as 50%. Possibility of creation of super-cyborg Einsteins.

And other stuff:
Plenty of more wars as usual, but there will probably a big move against the non-lethal weapons the police force are using, the question is, who will win?

A giant infux of international students will be attending American Universities while more Americans, get rejected applications because of the almost broken Lower school/high school systems.

If there's a WWIII, it will be the first war that space weaponry is used. And "WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones." -Einstein (paraphrase)

:eek: And eskimo pie will be served warm.
Repeat for apricot Danish, Brazil nuts etc ...

You know we're in really bad taste here, don't you?
We'll be the first up against the BBQ when the revolution comes :pRoses are red,
violets are blue,
Dutch Choclate shall be made of you.

World of Warcraft will require a prescription from a computer specialist due to the fact that it can be easily overdosed.

Trekkies conquer the world and force the populace to memorize scripts from TOS.

after the great Star Trek/Star Wars War

after the great Star Trek/Star Wars War

And the Third Animaic War (trekkies vs. anime fans)

And the Third Animaic War (trekkies vs. anime fans)

I was thinking more along the lines of the Trekkies vs. the Babylon 5 underdogs. :p

I was thinking more along the lines of the Trekkies vs. the Babylon 5 underdogs. :p

Nah. The B5ers will just go on running things, and letting the Trekkies think they know what's going on.

World of Warcraft will require a prescription from a computer specialist due to the fact that it can be easily overdosed.*Shakes head in agreement*

World of Warcraft will require a prescription from a computer specialist due to the fact that it can be easily overdosed.

I'll up you one: There will be people neurally linked to the internet, living in the WoW world.

Indeed.
For it is true that the Mole People are NOT our masters, indeed, and I for one certainly do NOT welcome our wrinkly overlords.
Oh there wont be and Superman wont help us er i mean them...
*Shiftyeyes*

Oh there wont be and Superman wont help us er i mean them...
*Shiftyeyes*

Well there will be nerds dressed as Klingons who will keep order among the population. I suppose batleths can be used to terrorize the people into pacification. ;)