Welcome !...

Have you ever wondered what our future will be ?
In the short term ? In the long term ? In the very long term ? For you ? For the planet ? For mankind ? For democracy ? Do you feel concerned, or don’t you care ?

Your view of the future is interesting, we propose you to share your view with everyone !

Discover what other people, on their side, are imagining. You can’t imagine how different the points of view can be, and discovering them is a very proffitable experience, we trust this will broaden your perspective, we hope you will feel more involved !

view the full message

A Hopeful Future...

Most likely within the next 50 years; if population grows at today’s current rate and no major environmental technologies are developed, we could be looking at a very exploited Earth. Within the next 150 years, if modern conflicts are not resolved, we could be looking at a massacred Earth.

Thankfully, people will always act when a crisis appears (despite their inaction when the problems are veiled). The spoils system in politics of the U.S. was torn down when President Arthur came into power. Monopolies and massive corporate businesses were stopped before the 20th century could really even begin and now, there are only a couple of businesses that can be considered such. The United Nations was formed due to the failures of the League of Nations. All this, evidence that mankind will always push for a better world when the grevious mistakes are made and the regrets of many come to the forefront of their minds.

Environmentally, we are currently on track to be screwed over. Painfully. The rate of habitat degradation is increasing despite the spewing of information of this exploitation from numerous open sources. Countries that are becoming developed are industrializing and are seeking to enjoy the same luxuries that 1st world countries have and are therefore going to increase affluence. Developed countries are struggling to lower resource and energy consumption to sustainable levels. However, current organizations are slowly working to improve the Earth’s environment. Businesses are becoming more eco-friendly due to consumer demand. Eventually, one spark, one incredible wave of public disgust at what the world has become will force a massive reform in the policies of world governments and corporations. But then again… That’s just wishful thinking on my part.

Technologically, advancements are being made at record pace. But at what cost? I condone cloning and all stem-cell research as all these things are for the betterment of the whole human race. However, will there be a point when we lose all of our morality and individualism just for technology? The remote. One of the most incredible inventions in my mind is also the most enabling. We have become so lazy that we cannot simply stand and walk a few feet. Life and biology have now become property. Genes are being patented by companies and people that are refusing to use them are being forced to the wall until they settle. Treadmills… Ah yes, the treadmill that every man or woman in the U.S. seeking to lose weight has. GO OUTSIDE AND EXERCISE! You get fresh air and save a huge amount of money, especially in these hard times. Sigh… Technology is a double-edged sword. I feel that one day in the future, it will either lead to the fruiton of a new Golden Age or a massive deterioration of the whole human race as well as the mass extinction of all biodiversity on the plant. I wish for the former, but in all honesty… The latter is more practical.

What will happen with mankind, itself? Who knows… The mob is a fickle thing. The public is selfish, yet sympathetic. Everyone wishes to help, yet no one does the job. We are too chaotic to correctly predict. It is simpler to just look at trends and patterns in other topics.

Economically, there is nothing to worry about at all. Economic crisises are rampant in history. Around every 20 years, there is a big panic. Around every 100 years or give or take a decade, there is a major depression. But, we bounce back. Money is a creation of man. To have our lives dictated by money is to be a weak, simplistic moron. Consumers control the markets. Consumers will dictate where our economy is headed, whether they understand they have that power or not.

Religiously… Haha.

To sum of my view of what the future will be like, I think it will be one of three possible scenarios. A utopia where everyone is the same and the average is the standard; communism and socialism in their most pure and uncorrupted forms. A world like today, a world of everchanging status that progresses as much as it regresses. A world that no longer exists or has any living inhabitants left.

Personally, I hope for the the second one. It’s the most fun.

This post was submitted by Joseph.

Robots...

People always like to ask about the ultimate purpose of humanity. I propose a possible answer to those questions… in the form of a question.

What if the purpose of humankind is to create a superior “race” of robots with advanced artificial intelligence?

I mean if you think about where things are headed right now.. that is a definite possibility! At least I would like to think so.

This post was submitted by David.

There is NO future...

I’ll just say this… .. .

There will be no future!
The Humans are bound to be destroyed by unavoiable forces!

A message to the survivors:

Try build a less destroyable World in the future.

This post was submitted by Gman.

Are you exited about the future? THINK AGAIN!...

In a few years from now……

THE ADVANCEMENTS IN Nanobot TECHNOLOGY WILL CONTINUE TO PROGRESS. SOON THE US GOVERNMENT WILL BE IMPLANTING NANOBOTS INTO OUR BRAVE SOLDIERS. THESE NANOBOTS HAVE THE ABILITY TO SUPPRESS FEELINGS OF PAIN, SADNESS, FEAR, GUILT.
BASICALLY IMPROVING SOLDIERS BEYOND 100%
every time a soldier would kill an enemy he would feel an intense sensation (basically a high). Once inside us, these nanobots will basically be able to control every movement we make and every thought we process.

but soon the government will try to implant these nanobots into the whole global population. Once everyone has been infected the government will be able to control everyone minds and thoughts. we will be powerless to their whim because we will be infected with nanobots. No man, woman, or child will be safe from the peering eyes of the government. Do you enjoy the freedom of speech? sure, everyone does. well in the future that freedom, along with any other form of freedom will be wiped out.

anyways im going to make sure to kill myself  before any of this shit happens to me.
*-)

ENJOY THE FUTURE

Are you looking forward to the future? THINK AGAIN !...

In a few years from now………

THE ADVANCEMENTS IN NANOTECHNOLOGY WILL CONTINUE TO PROGRESS. SOON THE US GOVERMENT WILL BE IMPANTING NANOBOTS INTO OUR BRAVE SOLDIERS. THESE NANOBOTS HAVE THE ABILITY TO SURPRESS FEELINGS OF PAIN, SADNESS, FEAR, GUILT.
BASICALLY IMROVING SOLDIERS BEYOND 100%
everytime a soldier would kill an enemy he would feel an intense sensation (basically a high).

but soon the goverment will try to implant these nanobots into the whole global population. Once everyone has been infected the goverment will be able to control everyones minds and thoughts. we will be powerless to their whim because we will be infected with nanobots.

anyways im going to make sure to kill myself now before any of this shit happends to me

AHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA ENJOY THE FUTURE

This post was submitted by Mayeur420.

An Italian hasn’t the right to talk about not-working things, but…...

Maybe it’s just because I’m Italian (and I’m sadly accostumed to the fact that things never work right) but I can’t stop thinking that our dear planet is not working right and that the whole world we have seen since our birth will change dramatically in the next future…

This System is going to fall, becouse of the tiredness of our society and the new strenght rising in the all world and some new system will take his place.

You all know, or you should, that in Asia strong forces (Iran, India, China and North Korea) are growing more and more powerful, while the old U.S.A./Western Europe alliance is gradually losing his leadership in finantial and polical buisness, but you know how advanced is this process? Maybe it would be better for you to know that asian powers are the most active in sub-saharian africa, to the point that a great part of Madagascar is of korean property for food production, and seeing an asian face in africa is a very common event

What really makes me sad it’s not the fact that these countries are enlarging their influence zone, but that, at least in my country, it seems like nobody cares about it. I have talked (and argued) with lots of people about these matters, but I got the feeling that over the immediate interest for the discussion, nobody ever had a real desire to get involved by the subject. It really scares me. I hope that in other countries things goes differently because in Italy I sense that people, or better, the mass (those group of faceless, tv-devoted cowards) can’t even think about these burning subjects and voluntarily turn their eyes away, as the ruling class taught them so we would not be able embarass them with our questions.

This loss of strenght of mind makes me really worried about our future

I have the feeling that in the future our society will change completely and will probably merge with the one of the rising cultures, creating a new economical and politic system, while money will have more and more importance and the science will be more and more darefull

Bleak picture. Humanity is now at the peak of advancement....

I tell you, what would be the future of humanity in my opinion. It would be neither freedom nor tolerance. Since these concepts affect ἦθος. That is, a system of moral values is uncertain. No more “עשרת הדברות” or something like that. But people continue to live under laws that were set by them. How long will it last? I think not for long.

What will happen? I think there will be a new dominant community, which establish a new “עשרת הדברות”. Most likely, it will be Islam, perhaps something else. The only thing in this community will not be, it is freedom and tolerance…

In general, it would be extremely boring future.

Greetings from Denmark. A small country that rocks....

Hi. I have long thought about the future of this big world with it’s many many people. What is it 6 billion and counting….

That is a lot of people, and we will all in the future fight over the dwindling resources, this hungry world can produce on it’s farmland, it’s oceans, it’s cities and it’s nature.

In short, the future looks like a giant epic scene from a Hollywood disaster movie, and what can I, a small man sitting in a small Internet cafe in front of a small PC screen do about it?

I can put my 2 bits in and say my piece. It’s a free world so to speak.

The future in short term:

Terrorist will be more and more active world wide. They will be founded by drug money, oil money and covert government fonds from shady agencies, that don’t care about anybody ells.

The economic collapse will continue a while, before it hit rock bottom, and the governments of the world sets a standard rulebook, that will dictate the financial worlds conduct in future business dealings.

Barrak Obama will be forced to do bad things by the people, that oppose him and despises him. All his good intentions will be halted or diverted by his enemies and his “friends”.

The future in long term:

Global warming will continue with vengeance. We can’t put the genie back in its bottle. There has been burnt too much oil, too much coal, too much Forrest and too much nature has been reduced too artificial nature or farmland. We will have to learn how too live with global warming.

The worlds nations will have more and more problems with there natural resources and there populations growth. Decease, poverty and starvation will be more and more common, the death toll will rise, and the anger and social unrest will also rise. It will be like Paris in 1789 or Sankt Petersburg in 1917. In short it’s going to be revolution on a global scale.

All efforts too help by our governments will fail or fall short of their targets. They won’t have a “master plan”, and there attempts won’t be coordinated or they will be reactions in stead off preemptive actions.

The future in the very long term:

In short, the shit will hit the global fan, and everybody dies a miserably death in knee deep filthy water. And we the lucky few will have to survive god knows what ells will come our way by then.

The future of the world aka. the “master plan”:

Everybody on the small planet must come to the realisation, that we must make a “master plan” in order to survive whats cumming. We must work together to better mankind plight all over the World, so that we all can have a future and make it happen.

There must be a new set of “human rights” based on what can kill or hurt you, because we must set a baseline on witch we will build our future. It will be a political and practical list of human rights. Not a legal list. We got that already, and that is not enough.

Put a man in a big jar, with no fresh air supply, he will die soon, with no fresh water, he will die of thirst, with no healthy food, he will starve to death, with no warm clothes, he will die from exposure. In short make a list over what a man needs to survive and be happy and provide it for him.

On that list, there will be a need for a job with a good salary, which will be the way, that all humans on this planet will pay for their basic human rights. In short carry on as usual, but make it a law given right to have a job.

What we humans need our governments must provide. Air, water, food, clothes, heat, electricity, homes, health care, transport, education, jobs, ….

In ancient times the Pharaoh’s build pyramids and killed their enemies, the Romans build roads and killed their enemies, the Greeks build temples and killed their enemies. And now the Americans build armies and can kill everybody on a world wide scale, if they want to?

What to do about the future:

We have a capitalistic system in place in the world. It’s everywhere, it’s been around for thousinds of years and its what we got to make do with. It’s works if people in the top of the system don’t become to greedy. Just ask around in Wall street

The private business world is the driving force in the economic world, but their economic empires are nothing but giant houses of cards made by stocks, bonds, loans, deals and paper money, that crumples and falls if anything goes wrong.

That is what happened, nobody wants to take the fall or ease it down gently, everybody let it happen and therefor we have a economic crisis on our hands, in wich we must live and survive.

The fraze “a dollar saved is a dollar earned” is wrong, money saved is not money earned, the money is stalled, it are not doing anything good, it’s just laying there like a dead doornail. I say, that money spent is money earned, and that is a fact for the one earning the money.

You and governments can’t save themselves out of financial troubles, everything grinds to a holdt, and we have a depression to deal with. The whells of the financial world must be kept running. Governments must not borrow money to finance its efforts to keep their countries running, and the must increase the taxes to pay for it.

If the private sector can’t employ everybody, then the government must pick up the slack and provide public jobs or initiate government projects like building Hoover dam or put a man on the moon. It will do wonders for the economic world of the man on the street.

Our governments must begin to build the future by providing our “human rights” to everyone on this planet. This mammoth task will cost a lot of money, but it will provide every body with something worthwhile.

The money we spend on this task will come back i form of taxes, new costumers spending money, and the financial circle of life will take all of us to a better tomorrow. Now go watch the Lion King on DVD

In short every government in the world must do, what we Danes have done the past 80-90 years since the depression of 1929. We have balanced the private and public financial sectors in such a way, that we have a great kingdom, where all is for one and one is for all.

Most of us Danes have jobs, homes, educations, cars, health care and high taxes though, but we have all been able to pay our bills so far.

There is so much I want to say, but the word count is now all most on 1200 words, so I am signing of.

Money is meant to be spent, so it can be earned by someone, that can spend it on something I get payed for making.

“Money makes the world go around”:

German cabaret song in a old  Hollywood movie.

Hope you like my “master plan” BUWHAWHA. (Scary Cracy laugh)

PS. I believe in equal women’s rights. Get them equal pay, so they can pay their fair share of taxes to

The Future will be like the Present, only shinier and more comfortable....

I envision the world as a better place in the future. People would live more comfortably and science would help us solve most questions but i think that
,like any specific era of civilization, we will still face the questions and problems that the past has given us. We will need to have war, we will need to maintain peace, we will need control, we will need order, etc.etc.etc.
The Scenario is the same but the results and the causes are not. It’s like a game. Humanity will have the same monstrosities but in every round it gains a new weapon to fight against it.
Humanity will never cease to become human until it gains something that humans aren’t suppose to gain. Humans can never get peace, can never realize order, can never become one, can never act as one and etc.etc.etc.
Because they are human. They are born to be the spirits of both chaos and order. Which in it’s entirety is the thing that defines humanity itself.

Walking the paths of the Future...

When we talk about what the future holds we should try and keep two things in mind, ours own personal bias and what we might hope for good and bad. We must remember something, the future is mutable, ever changing as events and influences change and shift. Like a path through a forest with every step introducing a new branch to chose from we walk down the path of the future. There can be no set ideal for our future only those goals we set and the vision they give u; to guide us into the future we want to see.

Generally there are two basic views people have of the future, everything will end up in a utopia state, or everything will end up as a dystopia. Opinions and ideas always tend towards the extremes of good and bad, either we will get our act together and solve all our problems and humanity will thrive; or we will blast ourselves, and all evidence of our existence into atomic ash and slag. The path a person chooses to extol is the one that matches their own view of the future, ofttimes  heavily colored by their own life choices.

The two extremes, while offering interesting ideas, are both signs of relatively simple, unenlightened thinking. Both the good and the bad views of the future are the type of ideas that a child might envision. The utopian idea of the future is reminiscent of the fantasy world(s) a child makes up, all happy and sunny. The Dystopian view is just the opposite, brought about either by a persons environment, or simply as a rebellion against the utopian ideals of others.

A good, dynamic view of the future is one that incorporates elements of an utopia and a dystopia, while allowing for the possibility of strong growth of humanity both as individual people and as a race, society, and culture. If we except that the future will hold both good, utopian times and bad, dystopian times, we will be able to plan for a future with far greater potential than any other path we could walk down.

A middle path, so to speak, allows for infinite possibilities and growth. We would not be wasting time trying to achieve a nebulous utopian ideal that can never truly be reached, nor would we be stuck worrying about all the awful things we imagine for the future; rather we would be focusing on the present and the future we could easily see, and be able to except whatever comes. The middle path would also provide great opportunities for growth for the people involved as well as the species as a whole, it would allow us to grow from our selfish childhood to our wiser, greater adulthood.

To be able to have an open ended future that would allow for growth and dynamic effect, we must not have a firm plan for the future but rather we need to have an outline that allows for easy, and if needed rapid, change as events unfold. We as a people and a species need to determine what we want as our future, and how we want to do it. Once we have these ideas in our hearts and minds we can strive to acheive them.