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Will life in 100 years be better than it is now or worse? What do you think?

I think it will be worse, if life even exists in 200 years. There are too many bad things going on the Earth, and as technology keeps advancing it seems easier and easier for life on Earth to be destroyed completely

The worst case scenario is that we eradicated each other in a violent nuclear war. But personally I believe humans(if we didn't screw up), will be colonizing other planets(Mars should be colonised before 2206.). I imagine that we will be focused on space much more than we rely on Earth's resources. By this time, I doubt war will be common, because if we do reach space why would we need weapons? But you never know...

I believe next to zero progress will be made in technology. Sounds familiar...

I think the style of life would be way different, factories would be creating more polution than ever, smog would be abundant, but I think sometime in the future we find different ways to do what we do now and have a cleaner earth. This is if the wars dont kill us first!

I think human kind will destroy itself within the next 100 years. The key word is greed.

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Colonising space won't prevent wars. Why should it?

Because, technicly to reach space you need a Anti-War environment. Do we really want our Deep Space expedtions firing on Voyager's remains?

I have a feeling it might have the chance to be like StarWars, floating ships and space wars with lasers traveling every which way, Robots that talk to us. I cant wait for the future, my favorite thing is the computer right next to my snowmobile, what will they come up with next!

Colonising space is just a step in the development of technology. It's quite the opposite from what you are telling: war is like stimpack for the scientists to develop new technology and use it to kill, and use that technology in civil life after.

Did we create the nuclear reactor in an anti-war enviroment? -No. (maybe there was no war on USA's territory, but USA was in a state of war) But we did it to create the nuclear bomb, that was needed for military purposes.

In 200 years, the sky is going to be dark and there will be no sunlight. Everyone is probably going to walk around with a oxygen mask. There would also be the same amount of land in the Earth but not in the same places.

In 200 years, the tectonic plate will move an estimated amount of 400 incehs, lol Thats wicked far. I thin that we will come up with some type of alternative that wont make as much pollution as there is being generated now!

Sooner or later America will go into a stagflation. Where there exsists both high unemployment and high interest rates. At this point many people will most likely want change. (much like the stagflation in the 70's.) There will then be either a complete destruction or reformation in the United States government. Complete destruction will probably be more likely due to the fact that our current system is running up a major debt, and will most likely be forced to pay its dues. When America pleads bankrupcy will be the day capitalism dies. Given that 2% of the worlds population are 25% of the worlds consumer population, it is not surprising that companies will experience major losses. Added to the fact that oil will in a short while be no longer economically rational, many of the corporations that exsist today will cut their losses and become very small. Although these companies will be able to become semi-efficient, there will be such a lack of monetary supply that they will be forced to close. Then will come the real movements.
There will probably be multiple different factions that rise out of the lack of funding. There will almost definately rise a socialist group, as well as a sleu of varying social programs. THings will suddenly become rather cheap in an attempt to jumpstart a basic economy, yet since several major factors in the driving force of our economy, (Oil being the biggest) this period of cheap goods will last for only a brief moment and then sink us further into a depression.
Now this is not a depression in the way we normally think of where people are living on the streets. As many will still be in touch with an electronic community. The lifestyles of many people will be simpler, but much will probably be the same. The ones who end up prospering from this will be the ones who can be self sufficient, and can survive without the aid of an external governing force. This would be nessisary, for much of the worlds shipping would be too costly to actually sustain.

This will bring us back into a sort of tribe-like social system, where people would concentrate primarily on the tasks they must perform to keep everyone in the group happy.

I agree with Rantent, a collapse and fragmentation into smaller tribal groups is probably likely... The world cannot just continue this practice of recklessly spending and squandering resources, and I doubt that we'll have the technology necessary to obtain resources from extraterrestrial sources, thus, collapse.

Rantent has a high point, unless we fix our world's problems NOW. Personally, I believe we can be colonizing space and such by then, but not if we fix what we have now. The world's debts need to go. We need to stop cutting money off from the needed programs(NASA, Schools, Health etc).

Why does everyone have such low expectations for earth? It's almost like you all want earth to burn and die.

We don't want it, but we expect it. I'll try not to look at this topic again or my depression will set in .

If you look at the history of powerful countries, all of them rech such a high point that they cant get any better, then a massive drop occurs, every powerful country has fallen. For one example Rome. Rome was huge and controled most of Europe a long time ago, now look at it. With this country worrying about our next generation students arent qualifying high enough, I feel this wil happen to us, I think we are looking towards another Great Depression or at least some type of one.

Its because things never grows better.
Sure, babies grow up and becomes stronger and learns to speak and walk. But as they go up, they go down hill. The Earth has been doing the same. It used to be all ice, most of it melted, and now it became too hot. The Earth is also losing his magnetic field, which also proves that things will become worse.

Life on Earth isn't a sinusoid, I think. It goes somewhat like this:

Nice Jammed, that is a very discriptive idea of looking towards the future, and a good one at that, so do you think the earth will become flat again, so be careful when your sailing on your floating ship, you may reach the end.

Mini Boobs. Keep a compass. When your compass stops working say "OMG! THE EARTH IS GONNA DIE OUT WE'RE DOOMED OMGZ0R!"
Good thing is. The US's land aint gonna be highly effected by the full melting of the Ice. Canada is and they don't need those lands anyhow because it's a glacier land. Global warming isn't entirely a big threat to us guys.
If we want to survive, we can start by uniting Earth into one government.

So if we say in 200 years, the Earth hasn't collided with other nations and didnt kill each other off, it would go like this - Space colonization is through and space traveling is a normal life. One sovereign government controls the entire sectors, but in each sector; the real power is within the influential warfaring/spacecraftmaking/consumermarketing corporation and they too would be battling each other for more money and power which is when the sovereign government comes in. The government annexes alot of small companies, and then enforces a somewhat but not too large companies to be with them. Then they enforce all other strong companies one by one.

That didn't make sense to me.

It means, you think too lowly of your own race and only lowly. So we're humans. Why do you come here at the point if we "humans" made this site. Why don't we destroy this site because we're humans.

Humans are the most dominant species, we are the only creature on the earth to ever achieve technolory, the closest thing to us is monkeys and those types of animals, they learned to walk upright.

I mean that we will be advancing until one point. And at that point something like a nuclear war (for example) will happen and we will drop down in one "moment".

So you are basically saying exactly what I said about how all of the old powerful countries have gotten to the highest point at which they can achieve then drop at a huge amount.