20 Years Time?

[Zero Beat]

20 Years Later...

What do you believe will be the future. 20 years into the future.

~Will we have flying cars?
~Will robots have taken over?
~Will there be illness, or cancer?
~Will we still be here?

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This are just a few questions i ask myself some times. What do you think will happen in the future? Give a list, on what you want and think we will have in the future.

I put this in here, because the future has more to do with tech then anything else

[Zazu]

I can't really see us changing that much in 20 years.

Might have hybrid cars. Better audio / visual technology. Faster internet, faster computers.

As far as culture goes; I think it will be pretty much the same as it is now.

[Requin]

It'll be pretty much the same as now. Look at the 80s and compare the changes to now. That is the type of thing that will happen. But the future is always interesting, worrying but interesting.

The more important thing to consider is if we will actually be here in 20 years. :(
Moving to ROTW. I know you said the future is to do with tech, but tech junkys paradise is about tech problems etc. This screams ROTW more. :)

[Sage]

Every generation's vision of the future is just a copy of their own where everything is exagerated. If you look at sci-fi movies from the 80s for instance, everyone is still wearing ridiculous clothing and sporting massive punk-rock hairdos.

[scuba steve]

governments will have to band together to cope with the lack of land and fuels. for example one of USAs closest allies britain and still it wont be long before they're at each others throats.

Europa, some kind of annexed Canada or unionised North America. USA will lose interest in Japan with risk of chinease violence a possible alliance with ocenia.

Africa will have to unite or crumble. you know just my little theories that will most likely happen eventually maybe not 20 years but hey at least we can look forward to the PS6

[ErykaInspire.]

I don't see our world changing too much. Everyone is still power-hungry, even in this economic disaster.
So, I think everything is going to get worse unless our government gets their heads outa their asses. (Sorry for lango). But it's true.
Hybrid cars arn't going to do much if nobody can afford them. Solar-power is only fueling about 1-3% of our electricity, wind is even less.
For all of the gigantic wind-mill farms in NY (literally, that's all the horizon is is windmills.), our energy bills arn't declining because the power is all going to the cities.. who just waste it away into 24/7 lights to broadcast their 24/7 shops. It's a complete waste. Whereas.. people like us, living in the country side, Need a little leverage. We're the ones with the Wind-farms taking over our properties, yet we're getting nothing in return.

Sorry, I rammbled. Back to the topic...

I don't see anything changing for the better, simple as that.
Unless Obama can create the worlds greatest economical miracle in history.
Best of luck to him.

[Perseus]

governments will have to band together to cope with the lack of land and fuels. for example one of USAs closest allies britain and still it wont be long before they're at each others throats.

Europa, some kind of annexed Canada or unionised North America. USA will lose interest in Japan with risk of chinease violence a possible alliance with ocenia.

Africa will have to unite or crumble. you know just my little theories that will most likely happen eventually maybe not 20 years but hey at least we can look forward to the PS6

Umm... life is not as George Orwell predicted it would be. Lol, I'm sorry, but 1984 will not come true...

But anyway, I don't see much different besides improvements in technology and a base on the moon and a mission to establish a base on Mars.

[quartermaster]

In twenty years, technology will have advanced in the function of doing many of the things our current technology can, but faster and much smaller in regards to tech size. The focus will probably be in microfibers and fiber optics, which will (and are beginning to already) revolutionize our tech industries. The near future looks bright for the improvement of many of our current technologies, but not so much the creation of "groundbreaking" technologies.

Modern militaries around the world will have also begun to change the way in which they conduct warfare. Western armies will probably have begun to switch from preparing for "WWIII," and gear their militaries more towards low intensity, open ended combat, where all soldiers will be linked to a central (or several) network(s). The modern world forces will have improved and would have most likely implemented the Future Combat Systems (FCS), as they move away from heavy tanks and strategic bombers, and more so towards light vehicles and Close Air Support (CAS). Of course, in twenty years, modern forces will still be more than able to fight conventional warfare, but they will probably begin to gear their armies for less conventional forms that require every soldier to be on a grid and move quickly to perform missions as they come to them, not after a briefing.

In twenty years, I also believe that the world will have shifted slightly geopolitically. I believe we will see India emerging as a solid regional power in South/South East Asia, challenging the Chinese grip over the region. China will in turn, be forced to build their fleet even larger, as the Indian fleet begins to threaten Chinese oil supplies and export shipping lines. I do not know if a war will play out, but I certainly know that both China and India will have advanced substantially. China and India will be trying to wield regional control, while also attempting to exert themselves internationally, as these young powers thrust themselves against the possibly decaying (or flourishing, it is hard to tell) stalwarts of old world power.

The United States and EU will be attempting to maintain their positions as major powers in a changing world, while Russia will still be declining, as its population declines in turn.

Concurrently, the EU will have grown to a more solidified federation of nation-states due to resolutions such as the Treaty of Lisbon. The EU will be wielding more power as a loose confederation, as opposed to several independent nation-states. They will be joined more in the economic realm, and begin to work more in the military realm as well, as EU defense industries begin to work together (there will be more widespread projects such as the ones seen with the Leopard II and Eurofighter Typhoon). I believe as European countries decline socially and militarily, a stronger EU will be very appealing to them, thus we will see an altogether stronger EU. This is of course conjecture, but given the trends, I believe this is a strong possibility.

Despite these changes that I believe will occur, I also believe much of the world twenty years from now will be business as usual, as twenty years is simply not that long of time. We will see countries such as Nigeria begin to reach a threshold between the modern world and “old Africa,” but other than that, Africa will have stayed the same for the most part. Dubai on the other hand can have one of two things happen, it will collapse upon itself as it created its own bubble (thus forcing them to be dependent on the larger and far richer Abu Dhabi), or their gamble will have paid off, and they will be something of an oasis for rich westerners and easterners.

Sorry this is so long, but I just enjoy these types of discussions!

[scuba steve]

well lets not forget that US backed Japan is also in that area and i don't really see India being that powerful in copparison to China or the western world. As if you look at the country it closely resembles a victorian england socially, with vast slums and corruption in security forces and politics.
with a government wasting large amounts of assests on things like space operations, rather than helping its people.

[quartermaster]

well lets not forget that US backed Japan is also in that area and i don't really see India being that powerful in copparison to China or the western world. As if you look at the country it closely resembles a victorian england socially, with vast slums and corruption in security forces and politics.
with a government wasting large amounts of assests on things like space operations, rather than helping its people.

Of course, but was Victorian England not powerful? If anything, it was the most powerful time in the British Imperial history. Further, I fail to see your point about Japan, I am talking about major geopolitical shifts between China and India along the growth of a powerful India, Japan does not play into that growth.

What you fail to understand is that India is already beginning to arm itself exponentially with many western and modern weapons, bypassing the Chinese in many fields. India is skipping a generation in its military spending, buying modern Western (fourth generation) aircraft, modern firearms, T-90 Russian tanks, UAVs, and above all, they are creating a fleet to rival the Chinese fleet. Recently, India’s navy released a memo where they plan to build one hundred more ships (including more aircraft carriers, along with the thirty or so ships built in the past few years) within the next decade. As far as I can see, given their capability, this is not a wish, but more likely a future geopolitical reality. Not to mention, India has just signed a defense pact with the United States, which means they will be receiving many little toys to play with in the very near future. China is not some unstoppable beast; their military is for the most part still far behind most Western countries, while India is skipping a generation in-order to catch up. The news, of course, covers very little of the growth of India’s military

Of course, India has a long way to go, and has to get its social structure together, and may never become a world power, but it most certainly will be a major regional power in the next twenty years. The writing is clearly on the wall, all you have to do is look at India's current military spending for you to understand how it can easily rival China in the next twenty years (I never said either country, China or India will be rivaling the west, I said they will be trying to exert themselves in the near future on a global stage). India has much to overcome in its government, as the current Congress Party is quite corrupt, but to hold that against a country twenty years down the line would be to ignore changes in history (not to mention China suffers from corruption and the woes of demographic transition, as it struggles to keep control of its varying populations).

[INFERNO]

~Will we have flying cars?

We'll probably have improved hybrid cars or electric cars.


~Will robots have taken over?

Only if we let them.


~Will there be illness, or cancer?

Coming from someone whose interested in infectious diseases, cancer may have better cures but there still will be diseases. There still will be genetic mutations, anything from common Down's Syndrome to Proteus Syndrome to phocomelia to pituitary gigantism, etc.... . There still will be other diseases, such as Creutzfelt-Jakob disease, GSS syndrome, mucormycosis, etc... . Point is, even if we manage to blow ourselves up in 20 years or 100 years down the road, illnesses will still be present in the universe.


~Will we still be here?

Well this is hard to say. Ideally yes.

As for how the rest of the world will be, technology is going to continue to improve and things will be more compact, faster, able to do more, etc... . Medical care will also enhance, although to what extents is hard to say. There is still so much about ourselves that we don't understand, especially in the brain and nervous systems. Surgical procedures may also enhance and there will be many more medications made. We'll have several issues of super-bugs, which is rather inevitable whenever we try to pump out some medication for every symptom and syndrome. With all this nice technological advances, there will be advances in warfare also. But there will also be improved technology for reusable energy resources.

In terms of political issues, I see those changing also. Human population probably will still be an issue in some areas. Certain areas of the world even now are modernizing and in 20 years, I see them being modernized more. I doubt that the cultural issues in that time will have been resolved though.

I also hope that in 20 years I'll have a nice job as a doctor. As for the family life, I think there will be some changes. Whether or not I'll have kids is a completely different story, although I may (note the big may) have a wife.

[scuba steve]

i wonder if america will ditch the gas guzzlers as well as switching to manual which saves much more petrol than automatic
lets face it we wont have mastered re-usable energy, although nuclear fission may be next to power our homes