What do you predict the future of mankind will be?

There will be a greater divide of the haves and have nots.
Mass starvation and homelessness. Many more cities will have slums where the destitute will reside.
Daytime TV will go on as if there is nothing wrong.
Civil wars and diseases will be rampant.
Further extinctions of our wonderful animals.
So grim I am not going to list any more.
 

One of the thimgs that I have wondered about is what human beings wiil look like hundreds of years from now. Over the ages the human body has evolved with beter hygene and with medicine. With genetically modified plants and animals that have happened I wonder how the human body could evolve and be genetically modified. For example what if everyone was the same size like five 5 feet tall and weighed 140 pounds have big brains and eyes and have 6 fingers?
 
Great Topic fuzzybuddy. Nature has a way of dealing with things and it will deal with us as it sees fit. The planet itself will still be here long after we have left. It will have plenty of time to recover from anything we can throw at it. We are just a speck of time to it. My prediction is nature will prevail no matter what we do. It is up to us what we do to survive or not. If we die out something else will take our place. This may have happened many times already?
 

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I believe that there will be a lot of hunger and starvation, many
could only feed themselves via TV Dinners and a Microwave, now
they don't need the microwave, just phone somebody and a meal
will be delivered, this how many young people have been taught.

We who older at least learned how grow crops and how to cook
and bake things if we can get the ingredients.

The World now belongs to the young, who I fear don't know how
to survive, I have watched their progress through the education
system and the authorities keep changing the subjects that should
be studied, vital subjects, removed and pointless ones added, till
today they are only coached on how to pass the exam, with no real
body applied to the subject.

Sad.

Mike.
 
Yes, there will always be horrible things that happen in this world to people and nature but with technology and many caring and good people there will be many good things too. I think mankind will need to pull together to change and help to get things done - there will be no choice as many things will disappear and we will need to adjust or die with it; i.e., pandemic, global warming, food and water shortages. With all the technology today we can help so many others and it will be in the hands of the younger generation who will (hopefully) rise up to the challenge that we are ALL on this planet together and helping others can only benefit and help themselves.
 
Wow.

I have great faith in our youth. They are inventive and think out-of-the-box. Today's 11 year-olds have seen and understand things that many of us still haven't and may never. They are without prejudice and are not religious and cultural fanatics. Among other things they are creating workable robots, solving complex problems, constructing languages, and building entire worlds containing successful societies.

I'm pretty hopeful.
 
Murrmurr said:
I have great faith in our youth. They are inventive and think out-of-the-box. Today's 11 year-olds have seen and understand things that many of us still haven't and may never. They are without prejudice and are not religious and cultural fanatics. Among other things they are creating workable robots, solving complex problems, constructing languages, and building entire worlds containing successful societies.
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You make some good points, and I also believe our youth are the best educated and possibly most creative generation so far. That will help them stave off some of the future problems, but not all and in the end... well it will go badly for us.

This pandemic is a good example as to the the things we can and cannot do. I think the rapid development and manufacture of the vaccines has been amazing, not something that would have been possible just a few years ago. However we had done a dismal job of a unified response in many ways. If this virus had been more lethal, we could be extinctic by now. And a more lethal virus is inevitable, what would have happened for example had the HIV virus been as contagious as Covid?

We also have to worry about manmade or man influenced disasters, war, economic collapse, etc.

And if those don't get us the earth is doomed, or its ability to support life is anyway, by geologic and stellar forces. This is an interesting read on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Earth To quote selected passages:

Shorter term:
The current Holocene extinction is being caused by technology and the effects may last for up to five million years. In turn, technology may result in the extinction of humanity, leaving the planet to gradually return to a slower evolutionary pace resulting solely from long-term natural processes.

Longer term:
Over time intervals of hundreds of millions of years, random celestial events pose a global risk to the biosphere, which can result in mass extinctions. These include impacts by comets or asteroids, and the possibility of a massive stellar explosion, called a supernova, within a 100-light-year radius of the Sun. Other large-scale geological events are more predictable. Milankovitch theory predicts that the planet will continue to undergo glacial periods at least until the Quaternary glaciation comes to an end. These periods are caused by the variations in eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession of the Earth's orbit. As part of the ongoing supercontinent cycle, plate tectonics will probably result in a supercontinent in 250–350 million years. Some time in the next 1.5–4.5 billion years, the axial tilt of the Earth may begin to undergo chaotic variations, with changes in the axial tilt of up to 90°.

The luminosity of the Sun will steadily increase, resulting in a rise in the solar radiation reaching the Earth. This will result in a higher rate of weathering of silicate minerals, affecting the carbonate–silicate cycle which will cause a decrease in the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. In about 600 million years from now, the level of carbon dioxide will fall below the level needed to sustain C3 carbon fixation photosynthesis used by trees. Some plants use the C4 carbon fixation method, allowing them to persist at carbon dioxide concentrations as low as 10 parts per million. However, the long-term trend is for plant life to die off altogether. The extinction of plants will be the demise of almost all animal life since plants are the base of the food chain on Earth.

In about one billion years, the solar luminosity will be 10% higher than at present. This will cause the atmosphere to become a "moist greenhouse", resulting in a runaway evaporation of the oceans. As a likely consequence, plate tectonics will come to an end, and with them the entire carbon cycle. Following this event, in about 2–3 billion years, the planet's magnetic dynamo may cease, causing the magnetosphere to decay and leading to an accelerated loss of volatiles from the outer atmosphere. Four billion years from now, the increase in the Earth's surface temperature will cause a runaway greenhouse effect, creating conditions more extreme than present-day Venus and heating Earth's surface enough to melt it. By that point, all life on the Earth will be extinct. The most probable fate of the planet is absorption by the Sun in about 7.5 billion years, after the star has entered the red giant phase and expanded beyond the planet's current orbit.

It just ain't gonna last forever...
 
Every so often one of these "gloom and doom" threads pops up.

A couple of facts (not speculations):

1) Around the world, the percentage of those living in poverty has decreased from about 36% in 1990 to about 10% today. The World Bank has a goal of 3% by 2030, which may be too ambitious in the wake of Covid.

2) " Global emissions plunged by almost 2 billion tonnes in 2020, the largest absolute decline in history." Again, Covid-related, but still...

3) "The absolute number of war deaths has been declining since 1946. In some years in the early post-war era, around half a million people died through direct violence in wars; in contrast, in 2016 the number of all battle-related deaths in conflicts involving at least one state was 87,432."

Of course, if you are a gloom-and-doomer, then fewer war deaths = more people = more carbon emissions. But cheer up, the global population is expected to peak sometime around 2060 at about 9.5 billion and to start declining rapidly after that. When people leave grinding poverty, they are less likely to bear so many children as an insurance policy against an uncertain future.

With luck, I'll be checking out around 2050. It will be interesting to see what really happens. Most predictions about the future are wrong.
 
JimBob1952 said:
A couple of facts (not speculations):
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You make some good points, by many measures we live in the best time in human history to be alive, and its getting better. We, in the Western countries anyway, have the cleanest drinking water we have ever had and some of the cleanest air to breath. And on the war front I think the news is even better, according to Jered Diamond even during the height of WWII the risk of dying a violent death was much less than it had been for most of human existence, wars were smaller but people have been fighting and killing each other since there were first people. Less today than every.

I just don't see how it can last, but as I said don't know how or when it will end.
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Most predictions about the future are wrong.
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Absolutely!
 
At 80 my future is limited. So the future as in 30 years from now IMO won't be as full of the resources to waste. Considering oil & plastic all the uses that are either burned or wind up in landfills there is a dwindling supply. Dwindling supply as experienced at the beginning of the pandemic should be a good indicator of how humans world wide will react.

While I get to enjoy the way things are now the distant future I doubt will be as good.
 
We're a lazy species. We tend to put things off for awhile. And we're kind of complacent. I think we are going to clog along, until there's a crisis, then work like hell to avoid the consequences, then clog along, again. Technology is just going to take off. And because, every moment of our lives will be recorded, crime will be reduced. We love to tell others about anything, so communication will be instantaneous. We are going to be wired at birth.
 
I know no one likes to read long posts!


I don't know if you are speaking of the upcoming century or far ahead in the future, for they are quite different.

Many will be lifted soon, as wars escalate and illness reigns. As the Mid-East wars, many will plan even more horrid events.
Once man's minds plan the demise of Nations, it gains momentum and is difficult to stop. Russia, China and Iran will move against America to begin the third World War. China will be the aggressor and will come out as the world leader. The war will be short but complete devastation all over the world.
In America, the Constitution will hang by a thread. The government will have no money to hold up to the people. The economic system will be broken. People will try to trade services for food and water at first. Later, this will be that they will thieve and kill each other for necessities.
Hatred will stay in the hearts for generations. Apathy will replace spirituality and some will try to hang on to religions but this will perish.


After much time, spirituality will begin to blossom. This will spur creativity and innovation. with high technological advances.
Science will lead this as the Sun is utilized in advancement in space travel as well as varied ways. It will be stored as molecules to be used as needed. Gravitational force and magnetic force will be harnessed for transportation and food growth for the world. The energy molecule will be used for light and heat, among multiple other uses.
This energy molecule will be stored in a waiting area of outer space. When needed, the light will be retracted for use in the directed area.
The most wonderful inventions will be used for the betterment of mankind.

Instead of spiraling into the de-evolution of the soul, men will come into a different direction. Science and physics will harness and utilize the layers of energy in all fields of life, and in all thought and action.
Imagine a world of no illness, no pain, no anger, no sadness; of only the expansion of happiness! Creativity will abound!
Children will be taught to create and send strong, deliberate thought to help others. Studies of the human mind and how it integrates with the Being in the eternal soul will be given great study! Man will then heal their own ills and send powerful positive thought into the atmosphere. When this occurs, wonders beyond our imagination will be experienced on the Earth! This will be the beginning of LOVE on the Earth!
A life of this wonder will emulate the Heavens!

Oops! Didn't mean to write a book here!
 
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MrPants said:
I just love these uplifting, happy threads :love:
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The life on this planet is not a TV sitcom. We are in serious trouble. Over population will result in wars over food. The standard of living will drop in the western world. The millennials hiding behind their phones will not be able to solve these problems. Governments are afraid to make the necessary changes that are needed. Oh yes, talk is cheap. Real action is needed. We have a population of over 8 billion people. It's a good thing I'm 75 and wouldn't be around when the proverbial "crap hits that fan."
 
Murrmurr said:
Wow.

I have great faith in our youth. They are inventive and think out-of-the-box. Today's 11 year-olds have seen and understand things that many of us still haven't and may never. They are without prejudice and are not religious and cultural fanatics. Among other things they are creating workable robots, solving complex problems, constructing languages, and building entire worlds containing successful societies.

I'm pretty hopeful.
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(y)(y)(y)(y) Me too!
 
I don't know. I'm not seeing a clear cut path upon which the world is heading. Astrologically, Uranus entered Taurus in May, 2018. Taurus is not a sign that welcomes change and Uranus forces change upon people. The last time Uranus transited Taurus, was in the early 1940's. World War II. Previous to that, it was the years just preceding the American civil war.

There is always a cataclysmic change after a Uranus transit of Taurus. I would look for the world to be very different after Uranus exits Taurus in 2026, but for better or for worse will depend upon who emerges as the victor in this mess.

I do fear technology will take over everything making life suffocating and unfulfilling for humans.
 

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