In the year 2030 what do you think will be happening?

[Swede]

Technology,pop culture,war etc.

[Deja Q]

1. I'll let you know in 2031. Until then?

More reality shows and corporate-generated images with no true talent or spirit to fight the reality they're being sold on their image alone. Empty shells of people; nothing more. False. Phony. Fake. Fictional.

[Swede]

3. Dystopia is the most common prediction.

I'm more hopeful.

[fricasseed_gourmet_rat]

2. Flying cars!

Actually, no. Because of all the accompanying infrastructure (aerial highways? airborne traffic signals?) I don't think the flying car will catch on.

I hope that by 2030 the world will think of George W. Bush as one of the worst war criminals of all time. I hope the history books are mean and nasty to him, and maybe even include the bike crash incident, you know, the way some history books nowadays talk about how William Howard Taft got stuck in the White House bathtub and it took eight men and a tub of grease to get him out. (Not sure about the eight men and the grease, but I know he got stuck in there.)

[Reverend_Smitty]

4. silly, don't you know the rapture is slated for 2025?

:silly:

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

5. I thought it was December 12 , 2012 .

[Floogeldy]

7. The Mayan Calendar

Very spooky.

[Whoa_Nelly]

6. Hippie dress/culture will again be popular

No one beats out us originals from the late 60s/early 70s, but they're tryin' these days, and will happen again in about another 30 years.

Meanwhile, my granddaughter will be 28 and working her way to being the youngest POTUS as a full-fledged Dem!

[WCGreen]

8. Zoot suits and zip ray guns

[ISUGRADIA]

9. The law will follow the idea of

* "two men enter, one man leaves" with the Thunderdome being the court of law

* Lord Humungus, the Warrior of the Wasteland, the Ayatollah of Rock and Roll-a will rule with an iron fist

* BUT Master-blaster will rule Bartertown

[Robeson]

10. Probably will still be paying bills, and trying to make ends meet....

...while our government will still be telling us that we're better and more free than anyone, because we have the "freedom" to not have universal health care in this country, unlike the rest of the world which provides for its citizens. And the Murkens will still be brainwashed by thinking that NOT having these essential services provided to them, makes them #1!

:banghead: :rant:

[In_The_Wind]

11. windmills ... lots of windmills everywhere

transportation that doesn't use fossil fuel ... I see the world being a better place by then

[Melodybe]

13. Me too, an end to poverty would be nice and Bushco being in jail for

the rest of their lives, real limits on capitalism, fair and free trade, equal rights for all, equal education for all, freedom of religion. Lots of good stuff if we never give up.

As Chaplin said "as long as men die, liberty will never perish."

[In_The_Wind]

15. ... and there will be an end to the great dictator

Chaplin (speaking as the Jewish barber) also said ~ Greed has poisoned men's souls ... and he said ... Do not despair. The misery that has come upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people.

~~~


I believe that we will learn put aside our own desires and we will act in the best interest of all concerned.

I also believe that there will come a time when auto manufactures will no longer build engines that run on fossil fuel ... when the pollutants that mankind pukes into the air will stop and our atmosphere will begin to clear.

[kevsand]

12. But what about in the year 2525?

If man is still alive, of course.

[Dogmudgeon]

14. We'll be on the roller-coaster ride down into Hell

Energy will be enormously expensive, there will be major re-organization of North America, Europe, and other affluent locations, huge die-offs in the Third World, famine established in the Third World and threatening the affluent, and a series of infectious diseases that will kill another large chunk of the survivors.

The Climate Flip-Flop will be starting, with a temporary Polar Heat zone where the tropical air sinks back to Earth, spawning a Zone of Storms between 45N and 60N, which will alternately become arctic during the winter and tropical in the summer.

Some four billion people will have died since 2005; instead of an expected population of 10 billion, we will be scarcely holding on to 6 billion. Between 2030 and 2070, the die-offs will accelerate, eventually bringing the world population down to 0.5-1.5 billion.

Many rich and powerful people will migrate to space. About half of them will die from unforseen problems with the early space habitations.

Interestingly, the Internet will survive. It will be just about the only way to keep social organization alive. Many people in the USA will be working from home in 2030.

By 2030, if we haven't committed ourselves to war with the Muslim world and with China, we will be "forced" to do it about then. ("We" = the USA and its allies.)

And to think, all of this could have been avoided if we had only taken heed of the advance warnings we had in the 1960s and 1970s.

--p!