What do you think the Future will be like in 200 Years?

[Gatomon41]

Something I thought would be interestin to talk about.

What would be your people's opinions will the world be like in 200 Years and Why?

[Wanted]

America will be leagues behind the other nations when it comes to vehicles, because we've paved too much asphalt and bought too many cars. Other nations will be able to finally boast superiority to the United States. Their houses and buildings will be much better than ours, because people in the United States will be against restructuring.

On the technological side of things... what could possibly happen within 200 years? Certainly not the hovercar.

[Gatomon41]

Oh, please avoid any mention of politics as per board rules, as well as observe general rules.

Thank You, have a nice day.

[Red]

Not as good without me.

[TheMecca]

Phantom of the Opera will STILL be running.
200 years later.

[Artimus Gigan]

Everyone will be living in Texas

I say this because you can fit the enitre world population in the state of Texas and it would still have less population density than New York, Tokyo, and other large cities

Hence everything shall be minimized. Due to the Area of Texas we will only need one government. We will only need one army and hence no neighboring countries exist to start wars. America alone has enough marked landpsace currently to store the world's garbage for 1000's of years. All the crisis organizations(i.e. Red Cross and Red crecent) would be able to quickly arrive at any situation without any major loss in time and would be able to quickly distribute resources. Crime would be handled swifty due to the police not having to cover large areas.


Also everyone would wear really awsome cowboy hats

[zmanjz]

Also everyone would wear really awsome cowboy hats

Like Mine?

[Agent S7]

"Friends" will be renewed for a hundred and something-th season, using the trapped souls of the typecast actors. A sad, sad future I see...

~s7

Oh yeah. Nuclear Apocalypse.

[Delthayre]

It's a rather long distance to make prognostications across, but I'll venture a few broad ideas.

I think the international system will have signifigantly shifted. In two hundred years I could imagine that China and India could well have eclipsed the United States in power and by that distant point may be declining themselves and soon to be supplanted by rising South American and African powers (seriously, their luck can't completely suck for another two centuries... can it?). This alternation of powers could conceiveably also have some nasty wars or trade conflicts as a result, but not necessarily so. Trade tends to discourage major war and if globalization continues, the incentive not to disrupt trade may well preclude any military cataclysm.

The United States will probably still exist, but not in an immediately recognizeable form. Though it wounds my federalist heart to think so, I could imagine the United States having adopted a truly unitary system of government with every damned thing managed by Washington and state authority badly eroded. The other alternative is a more confederal system, quite possibly with regions (New England, Deep South, and etc.) having become the dominant element, but this is perhaps far fetched.

This all depends, of course, on the idea of the state enduring. It's a hoary old science fiction cliche, but the preposterous economic power possible with globalization could lead to corporations surpassing the majority, if not all, nations in wealth and influënce, making them far more important that what may be vestigial national governments.

Computer technology will probably have advanced so dramatically as to nearly escape comprehension. Things may slow down eventually, but there's still plenty of time left for the current rapid pace of advancement to continue.

Alternative and renewable fuels seem likely to replace oil by the two century mark. This is a matter of practicality, no matter how clever and creätive we are about squeezing every drop of the black beast from the Earth, by so far in the future I imagine that refinements and advancements in alternative technologies will have rendered oil comparatively uneconomical. Such could have unfortunate consequences for the middle east, which might see economic collapse and depression that drastically retarded social advancement.

I don't believe any horrifyingly drastic changes in social structure or morality will take place. Human sociëty is resilient and even if current religions and philosophies fall out of favor, sociëty will always subsconsciously recognize the need for some ubiquitous system of rules and courtesies as necessary to its continued existence.

Also, I predict that fedoras, bowlers, homburgs, and porkpies will come back in a big way. Sadly, so will bell bottoms and those stupid fabric extensions that make your pant legs look preposterously voluminous. I hate those damned things.

[Gatomon41]

Eh, maybe I should have explained the poll options a little more, since it might be confusing. I have provided explinations, with examples:

Same as it is now
-Self-explaintory. Used as a control to compare the Future.
Example: Look out the window.

More Advancement and Growth
-Both Culturally and Technologicaly, society is growing and changing, with more Technological advancement than today.
Example: Minority Report

More Stagnant and Decadant
-Both Culturally and Technologically, society is slowing down or collapsing, technology is at a standstill or going backwards. Technology may be advance but development has ceased.
Example: Battletech

Very Advanced, Cultural Decadance
-Technology VERY ADVANCED, but socailly decadant
Example: Ghost in the Shell, Blade Runner

Very Advanced, Cultrual Growth
-Technology VERY Advanced, and With a growing culture
Example: Enterprise Earth

Technologically Less Advanced
-Significantly Less advance than today.
Example: Anything pass 1990

Post-Nuclear Wasteland
-Major Conflict or Event that desteroys civilzation and puts us back to times even worse than the Middle Ages.
Example: Mad Max, Canticle for Lebowtiz

THERE IS ONLY WAR
-High Technology, but Contstant State of Warfare and destruction
Example: Warhammer 40,000, Gundam

Utopia
-Perfect World
Example: Star Trek TNG Earth

Other
-Anything else

[Roman Legion]

Total destruction, or completely beyond our current ability to comprehend, to the point that there's no use even trying to guess. That's that.

--Romey

[Artimus Gigan]

Total destruction, or completely beyond our current ability to comprehend, to the point that there's no use even trying to guess. That's that.

--Romey

Human Mind is the ultimate Catalyst

Just when you think it's over, it's really not, and when it's over it just began.

[KuwabaraTheMan]

I have to think we'll have advanced a lot more. Humans have continued to grow more and more, and while Dark Ages do come along, I don't think we'll be getting one.

Not sure if I can say what I'd WANT us to have, but that probably won't be happening anyways.

[Kaoru]

Either there will be no more religion, or no more life. Major advancements in technology and significantly larger lifespan of humans if no new WWs.

[Wanted]

Now that I think about it, maybe the United States will take a turn...

The other alternative is a more confederal system, quite possibly with regions (New England, Deep South, and etc.) having become the dominant element, but this is perhaps far fetched.

Yeah... the United Regions of America! No, really. States will still continue to exist, but the region would ultimately be responsible for the states' judicial duties, so that most confusion over that element can be dissipated. Everything else would be in the realm of the state, like paving roads. Of course, as with regions today, Florida would exist as its own region and state.

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And, perhaps, the United Regions will finally convert to the Metric system. I feel sad to live in a country full of people too incompetent to use it (note: I've been using it gradually since I was about seven or eight). The moderate change they've been making hasn't been going fast enough. By now, you'd think that all food products would be labeled by grams or milliliters only. 3.78 L = 1 gallon.

[solarflere]

And, perhaps, the United Regions will finally convert to the Metric system. I feel sad to live in a country full of people too incompetent to use it (note: I've been using it gradually since I was about seven or eight). The moderate change they've been making hasn't been going fast enough. By now, you'd think that all food products would be labeled by grams or milliliters only. 3.78 L = 1 gallon.

You mean Kilograms and meters, because if its grams and millimiters, that means that the United Regions will be a starving country. Well, technicaly, no amount of food can be measured in meters\centimeters. Its kilograms for solids and liters liquids. But I am more than positive that you know that already that that was a joke I didn't get.

[Sr.Infierno]

In the yeeeeeaaaaaaaaar two thousaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand(two hundred and six)..........

-Cher will still be doing live concerts
-Cartoon Network will be all live-action
-People will finally see the mediocrity in rap music
-Mexico will become the world's wealthiest nation through an ironic accident(!)

[Artimus Gigan]

Now that I think about it, maybe the United States will take a turn...
Yeah... the United Regions of America! No, really. States will still continue to exist, but the region would ultimately be responsible for the states' judicial duties, so that most confusion over that element can be dissipated. Everything else would be in the realm of the state, like paving roads. Of course, as with regions today, Florida would exist as its own region and state.

disclaimer
concept copyright 2006

And, perhaps, the United Regions will finally convert to the Metric system. I feel sad to live in a country full of people too incompetent to use it (note: I've been using it gradually since I was about seven or eight). The moderate change they've been making hasn't been going fast enough. By now, you'd think that all food products would be labeled by grams or milliliters only. 3.78 L = 1 gallon.

Meh, I don't think people fully buy the whole red state/blue state ideology. That seems to be something cooked up by the media to needlessly catagorize everything. In 200 years there will probably be a media reform, inwhcih journalistic integrity will be more applied and the Networks won't just be spewing needless sound and half-baked stories.

Also in 200 years the Metric system and such will all probably be replaced by an entirely new system. The lack of the Metric system really doesn't have anything to do with incompetence or any mental shortcomings, it's just that not big of a deal to bother changing(the conversion charts are very easy to memorize). I mean if we ever hope to sucessfully use space effectively, there may be a type of math that exists outside our current state of knowlege which will then cauise a mental revolution.

in 200 years there will probably be new universal units of measurement, and chances are America would have assimilated Canada and Greenland into the legal boarders. I'm not sure about Mexico, it seems to be like the distant reletive that no one really wants to talk about or bother to go see.

[Gatomon41]

I forsee an increase in solar statlites, Soalr System exploration of the universe, and beginings of Mars Coloization.

The UN will be displaced (but kept as a forum) by a Alliance of the Worlds Great Powers (America, China, India, Japan, Affirca, Brazil, England). They will develop into a de facto world governement, with the Higher Powers being able to control less powerful nations. (Sort of like how Augustus became Emperor without become emperor). War will still be fought, but heavily restricted, with the Alliance prevent major arocities.

As a revolt aginst growing secularist culture in the past, the 200 years will see an increase of religion faith. This would be an reaction to the past nhilism, decadance, and secualurism that prervade in the past.

Medical research would have improved with the discoveries made in space, and with asteroid and lunar mining, would help immprove the lifestyle of the 3rd world at last.

[AnimatedSnow47]

Here's what I think life will be like in 200 years on Earth:

• Poverty, War, Strife will all be a thing of the past.
• All of the villianous governments will have long been defeated and terrorism will be but a distant memory.
• Fusion power--clean and harmless--will be used in accordance with primitive matter/antimatter reactors.
• Led by the United States of America, the world will unite in a utopian, peaceful government.
• Space Exploration will be fully embraced, possibly with the discovery of Faster-than-light travel. Humanity will colonize the solar system and possibly other planets by this time.
• Thanks to advanced technology, life expectancy will soar to beyond 200 or possibly more.
• Each house will have an independent fusion reactor, automatic doors, and complete computer integration.
• Flying cars/hovercars will have long replaced gasoline-powered relics. (Although possibly the bodies of old gas cars could be modified with flight systems and be called 'On-The-Flyers')
• AIDS, Cancer, TB, Diabetes--all long cured.
• Obscenities will no longer be in use, and if so, only in use by a small isolated cult.
• Humanity will have either evolved beyond money or perfected captailism to its highest capability.
• Crime will be extremely rare and utopian cities will go weeks, possibly months without reporting a feliny.