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Comrade Tassadar
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I've been thinking about the future as have most of us...and I've been dying to know what Apolytoners think is going to happen in the future. Is India/Pakistan going to nuke Pakistan/India? Will China get involved? Whats going to happen to America? Will Europe merge to become a superpower?
Sure, everyone has said at one point or another what they think will happen, but I wanted to collect them into one thread.
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Seeker
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London Ontario
Jan 1970
time: 00:23
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-The older radical generation of the 60s and 70s in Muslim countries will die off, and the younger Westernized generation will usher in a new era of democracy.... (25-30 years)
-Same thing in China, except that the old regime tries to distract them by attacking Taiwan....the young, underpaid Army revolts and China ends up joining Taiwan. The resulting New China gives quasi-independence to Tibet.
(50-100 years)
-Ukraine, Byelorussia, and Kazakstan end up gradually being readsorbed by Russia in a peaceful process with mostly economic motivations...(50 years)
-Space Exploration will be largerly abandoned by the US. China will pick up the exploration of space where the USA left off. (20 years)
-The USA will gradually become more and more ossified and decadent in its political structures, coming to ressemble the ritualistic political theater of the later Manchu Empire. (process over 200 years)
-Ireland unites. (30-40 years)
-South Africa rejuvenates in a new spirit of national racial reconcialiation and individual responisiblity. It comes to ressemble a European social democracy. Quaddafi dies, and Libya joins SA as the moral leaders of the newly regenerated OAS. Together, they battle lawlessness and corrupt despotism in Zimbabwe, Sudan, Egypt, and Congo. This leads to a new African 'renaissance'. (100 years)
-A non-violent political movement of 'New Marxism' sweeps South America. It is met with brutal repression by the US backed juntas. The US is indirectly involved in the massive politcal suppression of subversives in the Americas for years. (Indefinite)
-The Canadian political structure continues to decentralize. There is no more Canadian Army. Canadians and Australians become the most international people, with huge immigration and most of the population working in 'international' jobs.
-This new cosmopolitanism leads to a rejuvenated UN. Faced with an intractable and hidebound US, the UN is radically reformed. The old 5 'Allies' no longer have veto powers, and there is a standing rapid reaction force under independent command. The USA withdraws from this new body.
-Gradually, the New UN enables and assists undeveloped economies with increasing living standards, raising wages, and environmental regulations. This 'New Globalization' increases world prosperity. (200 years)
-Eventually, under waves of immigration, social ferment, and generational change, the USA re-joins the world community as an enlightened liberal champion of freedom and human rights. Repudiating their past, the new US works closely with the world in international security issues. African chaos is finally reigned in. The world economy is liberalized everywhere, even the US no longer subsidizes its agricultural industry. This leads to a boom period in the third world.
-Finally, after many abortive 'flags and footprints' missions over the past centuries, the new US leads the world in establishing a real permanent human colony in space. (300 years)
-Then the AIs take over and confine us all to a Matrix like world. Humans live on only because their brains provide a source of cheap data processing and storage. In underground bunkers, the remnants of humanity loll in vats, having the pleasure centers of their brains continually stimulated artficially, we are the perfect slave population for the Godlike intelligences we created in out image. (1000 years. Maybe.)
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Odin
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Biology Nerd at Minnesota State University Moorhead
Sep 2000
time: 23:23
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10 years: "War on Terrorism" comes to a close. Saddam assasinated, Iraq becomes democracy. Consevatives get more control of US government. EU, China, and Japan becomes more powerful.
25 years: US government collapses, Liberals take control of govenment, stengthens seperation of church and state and socializes healthcare, insurance, and the utillities. Electoral College abandoned. Secular, democratic ME nations (Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq) force religious nations to give up power and create secular republics in Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Sudan. Moon colonization begins. Manned mission to Mars. Complex life found on Jupiter's moon Europa, microbes found on Mars. Hydrogen Fusion pefected.
50 years: average life span is 100 years. Cure for AIDS found. Terraforming of Mars begins. World population stablizes at 12 billion, starts to shrink. Afican nations become economic powerhouses. Ailen radio signals found.
100 years: Population drops to 8 billion. Enviroment starts to recover
500 years: World population steady at 1.5 billion. Terraforming of Mars completed.
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Stefu
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CLOWNS WIT DA DOWNS 4 LIFE YO!
Jan 1970
time: 07:23
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Whether 10, 50 or 100 years from now, the world will be a wealthier, less hungry, less thirsty, less diseased, more advanced, more enlightened and yes, even less polluted, place than now.
Russia and China will evolve into "kekkonocracies". A word you haven't heard before, most likely because I just made it up, it refers to Finland's former president Urho Kekkonen who stayed in power for 25 years (maximum limit is 12 years, but Urho wasn't beholden by petty regulations) and pretty much did what he wanted. The countries will be democratic, though not necessarily how we view democracy, as there are rules but the leaders don't feel too beholden to them. Economic systems will be rather capitalist, and hey, at least trains run on time. Ruling parties will be nationalist, populist, rightish parties, in Putinist vein - in China, the party will be pretty much the continuation of current Communist party with a new name and new stated goals. Vlad Putin might still rule Russia. In any case, both countries will still have their problems, but be rapidly gaining on First World when it comes to wealth of the people.
Arab world will experience some sort of an Islamic reformation at some point. There will be a focal person on this, a cleric or something. The reformed Islam will be rather more Westernized and West-tolerant than the fundamentalism - kinda like the current Islamic moderates, but more of a movement with clear views and goals. In any case, as soon as the reformation gains strenght, expect for fundies to be less concentrated on evils of Zionist conspiracy and more on evils of traitor "Moslems" as they view them.
Africa will still be rather a basketcase - but improvement will happen. Slowly but surely, some African countries will start to lift themselves from morass.
The "Third Left" will get going. As "First Left" was the liberal movement starting with Locke, Jefferson and boys in the 18th cent and the "Second Left" the socialism of 19th cent onwards, the "Third Left" will be bit like feminism for women, or socialism for the working class, but extended on all walks of life. Social engineering to make all the groups equal. Think about Snapcase, but less meandering, clearer and more concise. (I mean, has someone got the complete image of what the hell Snapcase's ideology is all about? I don't think even Snapcase gets it completely.) There's going to be a some kind of a book or a tract or something putting the "Third Left" ideology in words people can understand and, above all, proposing clear ways to build a new society. Third Leftist movement's backbone will be the immigrants to Europe and America and generally all sort of minorities. The social democratic parties of the first world will continue to become centrist and lose their influence, eventually becoming a centrist movement between the Right and the (new) Left, representing the middle class.
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Lord Merciless
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In 100 years, all of you will be dead.
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