Where do you see humanity in 200 years?

[Sir Suomi]

I see humanity starting to be on the urge on planetary travel, and possibly even starting to colonize planets that are near and suitable for sustaining life. I see a more united government, even possibly completely combined government. I can predict that the military will be armed more with Unmanned Drones, and that the common soldier will be outfitted with more technology than modern day computers. I can also predict that cancer will almost be eliminated, and most ailments that harm humans become non-existing. Also, a lot of species that are present today may go extinct, and we will have discovered new species of animals and plants.

[LouBerry]

Honestly, I have no idea. Probably not great though. I personally hope, if not believe, that the LORD will have come back by then. But, who knows?

[PinkFloyd]

I see Idiots Out Wandering Around. (people from Iowa)

No seriously i see the world at war.

[Cicero]

Some of the things you predicted is already out, the military already have computer screens latched on their arms and there are UAV's and stuff like that, even airplaines that have no people in them. A new technology of armor is expected to come out within like 20 years that keeps soldiers light weight with armor. What it is is like a gel suit, and when a bullet impacts it, electrodes in the suit start surging through the suit and make the suit take the damage of the bullet. It was on the future military tech shows. Seemed awesome.

But I see more people going out to space for vacations (you already can do that, but it will be more common. There is like a space station that you can stay at for like a week or so but costs a ton). I also see robots fighting war and I see robots in common everyday life (s. korea should have robots in every home by 2025). I also see I lot of lazier people lol

I also imagine huge advances in medicine and even droids that can go in the blood stream to detect illness. There was a show covering all this, it was hosted by the guy from mythbusters and he said within our life time, we might even be able to regrow limbs and have robot droids in the blood stream to detect illness. I really dont care what life will be like in that long though, cause i wont live long enough to enjoy it. I look forward to what life will look like in 25 years though :D

[Magical]

Come on guys. You are REALLY setting the bar too low. You're not talking about 200 years, you're talking about 20-40.

Look at the 1800s. Look at today. Now imagine that progress doubled.

That's 200 years.

I can't predict anything about such a time.

[AndyWarhol]

In ruins, close to non-existence. As a race, we are incredibly ignorant and selfish.

[Hypers]

People go to work on different planets. Living things won't die. No more diseases. Peace for everyone. Friendly relationship with aliens. Real-life undo tools. Teleporters.

[HalleyJ]

The tech will be unimaginable, almost all other life besides humans would be gone, humans would be conlinising mars, then we runout of resouses and all die.

[KillerKing]

I think in 200 years, we will be crippled as a race. We better find a way to colonise planets and be able to make long periods of space travel because we will need it!

And on a personal hopeful side note which is NOT MEANT TO BE AN ATTACK ON ANY INDIVIDUALS, I would hope that religion is no longer believed in. If it is, I would hope that people are accepting either way and just get along.

[Aajj333]

1. If we can end thing like racism and war we can get so much farther. We will solve energy problems, go on space exploration mission, end hunger, end disease end suffering.

2. If we don't end racism and war the world will end in a nuclear war. One country will tick of another sending nuclear weapons at each other and life will end.

[Gigablue]

I think we will have colonized mars and the moon, and will be on the verge of interstellar travel. We will have cured most, if not all diseases, and will live much longer. Computer technology will be incredibly advanced, further advanced than anything we can possibly think of today.

Either that or we'll be extinct.

[Breakeven]

I think we will have colonized mars and the moon, and will be on the verge of interstellar travel. We will have cured most, if not all diseases, and will live much longer. Computer technology will be incredibly advanced, further advanced than anything we can possibly think of today.

Either that or we'll be extinct.

^^ took the words right out of me! :yeah:

[BrainDamage]

Humans will evolve and become more intelligent but our muscles, bones and organs will become less and weaker (this is like in 2000 years) we will then communicate telepathically and will not have the need for weapons and such... The feeding proces will be very different, we will no longer eat with our mouths, we will actually drain blood out of outher animals and inject it into ourselves... But this is only my point of view... Thax for reading...

[Human]

Humans will evolve and become more intelligent but our muscles, bones and organs will become less and weaker (this is like in 2000 years) we will then communicate telepathically and will not have the need for weapons and such... The feeding proces will be very different, we will no longer eat with our mouths, we will actually drain blood out of outher animals and inject it into ourselves... But this is only my point of view... Thax for reading...
sure brah...

in 200 years if there isn't world peace then there won't be humans in 200 years

We'll have colonies on the Moon and Mars... we probably would of visited other inner planets. There won't be any diseases left really.

[BrainDamage]

If we no longer have diseases it could havve some downsides... I won't say anything further except... H.G. Wells the War of the Worlds...

[TheBigUnit]

Simpily it will be a mix of Black Ops 2 and Halo with violence the common underlying factor

[WaffleSingSong]

Well, who knows? Think about all the information that is being passed, we are on a verge of a complete international revolution (if not already) on how the world is ran. I say it will definitely be radically different, changing more than we have in probably a thousand years, but the exact answer is truthfully unknown.

[xCrystalx]

I see humanity starting to be on the urge on planetary travel, and possibly even starting to colonize planets that are near and suitable for sustaining life. I see a more united government, even possibly completely combined government. I can predict that the military will be armed more with Unmanned Drones, and that the common soldier will be outfitted with more technology than modern day computers. I can also predict that cancer will almost be eliminated, and most ailments that harm humans become non-existing. Also, a lot of species that are present today may go extinct, and we will have discovered new species of animals and plants.

I see a future similar to what you say, but I think it will take longer than 200 years. We have been moving at a fairly quick pace in our recent achievements but I feel like we are being held back, I suppose by our government. I really think we should have more money being put into space exploration and such sciences, if that were to happen I think your idea of the future would be much more expected. I also expect some large war to go on within the next 200 years, I don't know enough about the subject to speculate on who the war would be between though.

[Ryhanna]

I think we'll be beginning to colonise other planets, particularly Mars. I'm not sure that we'd have full-on societies up and running over there by then, but we'd definitely be making a start on it.

With very limited knowledge on politics and the economy, I wonder if there'll be less countries. Perhaps some countries will merge with other countries to form a more stable economy.

Technology will obviously be considerably more advanced. I won't make any guesses as to just how advanced we will be, but I can assume that we'll have much better medical technology and military technology.

[Twilly F. Sniper]

I see us, in 200 years, in nuclear fallout or on a different planet, thats at least if people get more an more trigger-happy.

If humanity moved on, I see us in a world similar to was fallout's, (before their 2077) except swapped with the newer presentation of the future. Wars with aliens? 1 or 2 may happen, I do believe aliens exist. But by 4000, humanity wont be on earth. period. Doesnt matter if our species is obliterated, or moving to a different planet, like we have many times (It's just most are oblivious of that fact, religion told otherwise)

The earth of 2212 in a nutshell: like the prediction of 2005 in Back to the Future, except still less futuristic.
The earth of 4012 in a nutshell: gone, or unterraformed.

[VEight]

I see humanity eradicated.

[Boss...]

If the world has not been ended by war or that rapture has occurred. I would image that we would settlements on other planets, transpotation that can can get you anywhere on Earth in under an hour, if there is life out there we would have made contact, toxic free enviroment, and effecient ways to keep the world clean.

[ayelove100]

I would see the world with very bad pollution and it would be a disaster....

[TheSocialInspector]

I see severa portions of land corrupted by Dictatorship as it continues to spread.

China and Russia are the sole and primary stable points of where we will be standing. The system of living will expand through Mars and the Moon(40 years from now, 5 people will be planted on Mars to live there, so the possibility of living expanding to Mars is quite possible, eh?) but corruption will still arise in nations that have failed to develop.

Planet Earth is struggling with natural resources - by then, humanity may have even gone through World War 3 or 4 - over water, oil and other natural resources that the more powerful Country holds.

Science will have changed and made large impacts to our method of living. Humanity will then be more pampered than ever but yet, more aware of the environment as it changes into barred land.

New forms of governing will be coined - immortality might be then close to successful in small beings - much to the outcry of religious communities who believe this means cheating into the creations of God.

Earth will have a population so large, the governments will consider a purge.

Now that's terrifying.

[Castle of Glass]

Come on guys. You are REALLY setting the bar too low. You're not talking about 200 years, you're talking about 20-40.

Look at the 1800s. Look at today. Now imagine that progress doubled.

That's 200 years.

I can't predict anything about such a time.
well, here is the thing, 200 years ago, the earth was at the beginning of its exponential curve, but currently we are reaching earth's carring capacity. so in 200 years, humans will have to have colonized another plant like mars or die off.


In ruins, close to non-existence. As a race, we are incredibly ignorant and selfish.
this is one of the senarioes i have come up with.

another one is: in the next 50 to 100 years, the next World War, or WWIII will happen and it will happen over resources, like drinkable water, clean air and so on. the only way to prevent this would be to support science to create more advance ways to support humans, but we would have to colonize another plant. or human life and all life on earth would die off, or nearly complete extinction in a nuclear waste land filled with radiation, like Chernobyl after the Chernobyl disaster.

[Gaybaby94]

If I can sum everything up, I will sum it up in movie form: WALL-E.

[Emerald Dream]

I don't see anything in 200 years.

I'm dead. :lol:

[Castle of Glass]

And on a personal hopeful side note which is NOT MEANT TO BE AN ATTACK ON ANY INDIVIDUALS, I would hope that religion is no longer believed in. If it is, I would hope that people are accepting either way and just get along.

just a comment, although science and technology will be advance to prove that a greater being does not exist, but there will always be religion. may be a religion from another cesspits or the existing ones, but only as cults.

[Gigablue]

just a comment, although science and technology will be advance to prove that a greater being does not exist, but there will always be religion. may be a religion from another cesspits or the existing ones, but only as cults.

I don't know if there will always be religion. Religiosity is decreasing, and, as science progresses, it will continue to decrease. It may never disappear, but it could.

[Castle of Glass]

I don't know if there will always be religion. Religiosity is decreasing, and, as science progresses, it will continue to decrease. It may never disappear, but it could. but that's why i said that religious groups will most likely become cults, so it never disappears

[Allanon]

I don't think it will be that great. Read The Veldt by Ray Bradbury, and you will see where i am coming from.

[Magical]

well, here is the thing, 200 years ago, the earth was at the beginning of its exponential curve, but currently we are reaching earth's carring capacity. so in 200 years, humans will have to have colonized another plant like mars or die off.

Whaa...?

What does the population of people have to do with technological advances?

[Castle of Glass]

Whaa...?

What does the population of people have to do with technological advances?
it relates because human's need the technology to sustain population, be it by creating more space on earth or colonizing another planet

[Wolf44]

ten bucks says America starts a nuclear war with china and or Russia leading to the end of the world(u people will owe me ten bucks)

[TheSocialInspector]

America starting a nuclear war with China or Russia? America wouldn't stand a chance.

If you consider something more negative and restrained, I think China or India would start a purge(that is a mass removal of people for the benefits of political means) against their own nation due to the population becoming too strong for them to govern.

A nuclear war is possible but I would be leaning more on the World-War-3-or-4 side due to our natural resources dying out already.

In fact, in 200 years, a lot of natural resources may have already died out.

[Magical]

it relates because human's need the technology to sustain population, be it by creating more space on earth or colonizing another planet

Whaaa.......?

....I don't think you understand the word sustain. It means 'to keep up' http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sustain?s=t. Not 'to increase'. We need technology to INCREASE population, not to SUSTAIN it. Admittedly we are running out of resources, but that can simply be countered by recycling and being less consumerist. It does not need any new technology.

[Castle of Glass]

Whaaa.......?

....I don't think you understand the word sustain. It means 'to keep up' http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sustain?s=t. Not 'to increase'. We need technology to INCREASE population, not to SUSTAIN it. Admittedly we are running out of resources, but that can simply be countered by recycling and being less consumerist. It does not need any new technology.

forgot to add something in between "sustain" and "population" meant to say "sustain the growth rate of the population". of course recycling and consuming less can help, but if we go ONLY by the current growth rate of the world, in 200 years, there will not be enough space on earth to have room for everyone. thats is what i meant with technology being important. but if the growth rate will level out, which it most likely will, then recycling and consuming less should be able to maintain the population.

[Magical]

forgot to add something in between "sustain" and "population" meant to say "sustain the growth rate of the population". of course recycling and consuming less can help, but if we go ONLY by the current growth rate of the world, in 200 years, there will not be enough space on earth to have room for everyone. thats is what i meant with technology being important. but if the growth rate will level out, which it most likely will, then recycling and consuming less should be able to maintain the population.

Yeah, population growth should slow down once all countries have had their 'growth spurt' and modernise.

[Jackerlus]

Well, not in a good position overall, but advances in technology will be amazing. There will probably be a war over the few natural resources left, and the population will be bigger. This means more overcrowding and poverty. Also, I don't think we'll have been made immune to almost all diseases, because diseases are always changing and adapting which is why vaccines go out of use. One good thing is that we won't be able to see the difference between video games and real life, so shit I am looking forward to Battlefield 10 xD

[Castle of Glass]

Yeah, population growth should slow down once all countries have had their 'growth spurt' and modernise.

but there has been a question lately with people who study population, what happen's after growth spurts and the elderly start dying?

[Magical]

but there has been a question lately with people who study population, what happen's after growth spurts and the elderly start dying?

My guess would be that the population would decline, then remain stable at ~10-12 billion people.

But that's an uninformed guess.

[project_icarus]

My guess would be that the population would decline, then remain stable at ~10-12 billion people.

But that's an uninformed guess.

Just my input: On the Australian Bureau of Statistics website, there is a population counter for Australia which uses estimations; (http://abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/[email protected]/Web+Pages/Population+Clock?opendocument) Just apply similar estimations to the current global approximate population... That might work out.