All lies....machines will rule us...mark my words...we allready started to worship the great machine god..its only a small step to complete slavery
The Future: The Next 100 years
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The future was determined by Zager and Evans in their 1969 song "2525".
YouTube - In the year 2525 by Zager & Evans
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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's 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 nothin', 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
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive, they may find
In the year 3535 {fade}
100 years from now the world will still be largely the same. It's not like you'll see drastic changes like flying cars, laser guns, a massive apocalypse etc... The biggest changes will happen in science and technology.
We'll see about that!
I reckon there will be some sort of massive catastrophe that will kill 100,000+ people sometime within the next 25 years.
How can a prediction be lamer (or more morbid)? We had one this year (Haiti, don't know the exact numbers though) and in 2004 (tsunami). So it is more than likely "something" like this will happen.
In the 2140's, we will discover alien ruins on Mars and advance our technology 200 years, and we will also discover that the moon of Pluto known as Charon is in fact an interstellar portal that will eventually cause a war between humanity and an alien race. Damn, I've been playing too much Mass Effect 
Well, I think this century will be a little peaceful compared to the last one. Probably no world wars (hope so). Ahmadinejad will not attack Israel and will suffer a coup, Korea will be reunified on a democratic regime, Vladimir Putin will continue his "tsarism" until his death and Bin Laden will die by old age. We are in the second "belle epoque", minus the neoimperialism this time. I bet China will be the new US in 2100 economically and militarly, and if any of these countries elect a sh*t for brains president, we'll probably have a new Cold War.
Well, I think this century will be a little peaceful compared to the last one. Probably no world wars (hope so). Ahmadinejad will not attack Israel and will suffer a coup, Korea will be reunified on a democratic regime, Vladimir Putin will continue his "tsarism" until his death and Bin Laden will die by old age. We are in the second "belle epoque", minus the neoimperialism this time. I bet China will be the new US in 2100 economically and militarly, and if any of these countries elect a sh*t for brains president, we'll probably have a new Cold War.
I'm glad you asked
The reasons why Poland will do that, according to George Stratmore, revolve around Russia and Turkey. He predicts that Russia, in order to defend it's new wealth of natural rescources, will attempt to flood the former Soviet countries of Ukraine, Kazakshtan, Georgia, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania with influence to draw them in. Belarus, which never really wanted to leave the USSR, will join voluntarily. Georgia will resist, as will the Baltics, and the USSR will begin to try and destabilize them. They are all US allies, however, as is the paranoid Poland; and America gets pissed.
A coalition of Eastern Europe forms, and Turkey and Japan pitch in, and Russia cannot withstand the pressures and fails, ending with Poland pushing torwards Moscow.
As for Germany, you'll need to read the book, as by that point the entire geopolitical structure will have changed, but lets say that it involves Poland being attacked by Germany (who blitz them after joining the Coalition), but Germany will be overwhelmed by a combination of a winter war, British intervention, and overwhelming North American support.
That's just summaries though; I can't really explain it without Copying the entire book and pasting it here. And it's all variable anyways.
I hope that answered your questions (and it's obviously either aliens or zombies that will cause the apocolypse, duh
)As for Germany, thats a long story
lol Floyd, have you seen Futurama's version?
YouTube - Futurama time machine song
Sorry I couldn't find any with the actual video, maybe copyright stuff.
YouTube - Futurama time machine song
Sorry I couldn't find any with the actual video, maybe copyright stuff.
It already has about 5 times; it goes through that every 50 years or so when the internal dynamics change. It's odd that we often ignore that change to!
Sorry, I wasn't talking about a recession. In fact, what your saying was predicted all those times. Of course, you may be talking about the current recession, which is actually not as bad as the one in the 1980's (where unemployment reached 1% higher even). And if you mean the massive Republic takings, that's just an example of the heightened political see-saw movement during a down time. And if you mean the unrest, well that happens a lot without real meaning.
And the entire economy will shift into a completely different form as soon as the cycle reaches it's climax, so it's hard to predict.
I could use some clarification on exactly what your talking about though. It's hard to understand your points when I'm just guessing, and using the ones I hear the most.
Nimsky said:
This is what I'm most pissed about. When I was young we were promised focking flying cars by this point in time. Where are my focking flying cars!?
Since the general vibe of this thread has a negative tilt I'll add my bright and uplifting obiter dictum..
I think the planet has far too many humans living on it for the amount of available resources. The number of people continues to rise and the amount of raw resources continues to plummet. Therefore, it is a simple conclusion that at some point, a hundred years sounds plausible at the current rate of expansion, somewhere someplace the pressures of such a situation will bring out the worst in mankind and/or the unseen biological heebie-geebies which will be primed for mutation. Yes, it's a very general sort of sentiment but there is a very real truth at its core. I think man's biggest and most difficult hurdle is greed (which can be very easily linked to ego, but I think greed specifically is the most damaging culprit).
Malthus is wrong. The problem about it is the distribution of resources, that is concentrated in the hands of few, and not the lack of resources, that are plenty and can sustain up to 11 billion people according to some studies. Petroleum will probably be replaced in a couple decades for more viable, durable, cheaper and more ecological fuels as soon as the big oil companies end their reign over global economy.This is what I'm most pissed about. When I was young we were promised focking flying cars by this point in time. Where are my focking flying cars!?
Since the general vibe of this thread has a negative tilt I'll add my bright and uplifting obiter dictum..
I think the planet has far too many humans living on it for the amount of available resources. The number of people continues to rise and the amount of raw resources continues to plummet. Therefore, it is a simple conclusion that at some point, a hundred years sounds plausible at the current rate of expansion, somewhere someplace the pressures of such a situation will bring out the worst in mankind and/or the unseen biological heebie-geebies which will be primed for mutation. Yes, it's a very general sort of sentiment but there is a very real truth at its core. I think man's biggest and most difficult hurdle is greed (which can be very easily linked to ego, but I think greed specifically is the most damaging culprit).
BTW, I'm also pissed about the lack of flying cars