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(03-25-2019, 10:16 AM)Banelord Wrote: I was just curious about what any users think is a likely scenario for where the world will be in the year 2100; the climate, society, nations, technology, the space industry, basically anything you want to chime in on. Was having a chat with Rynn on the discord about it and wanted to see where everyone else's head was at with this topic, since I seem to have been hopelessly optimistic about it, although not naively so, I just didn't seem to think the situation on Earth would become ridiculously terrible to the point where it would be unlivable, but if this is a prevailing train of thought I'll definitely look into it more. Mostly just want to compare how everyone else is thinking to my own thoughts and each other, hopefully to get a better understanding of what a sample size feels about this topic, and not just a string of articles online. 

After (if) we get through the really bad times, we'll eventually have an amazing future. I hope I'm still alive to see it. 

I think the troubles we're going through now are the last gasp of old, dying paradigms. Colonialism, Big Oil, old money, flag waving, robber barons, the war machine, old men making dirty deals in back rooms and lying on pulpits and pedestals. The Powers That Be sense that they are on their way to becoming The Powers That Were, they can't take it with them, and they want to give the world they're losing one last "screw you" before they go. That's my sense of it, anyway. 

None of the problems facing us are unfixable, except the possibility of human extinction. We face our own Technocalypse, via nukes or bio-warfare or ecological disasters, with no GAIA to swoop in and save us.  If we live, it will be because we've learned some hard lessons and are ready to grow up, or at least act a little more mature. Then the cleanup and rebuilding will begin. We can get on with Progress, the real kind where we make an actual effort to stop being total dicks.

But we have to make it until then.
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Your Thoughts on the Future - by Banelord - 03-25-2019, 10:16 AM
RE: Your Thoughts on the Future - by Drashner1 - 03-25-2019, 11:21 AM
RE: Your Thoughts on the Future - by rom65536 - 04-21-2019, 04:36 AM
RE: Your Thoughts on the Future - by Noclevername - 05-14-2019, 01:01 PM
RE: Your Thoughts on the Future - by rom65536 - 04-21-2019, 09:09 AM
RE: Your Thoughts on the Future - by Drashner1 - 04-21-2019, 12:31 PM
RE: Your Thoughts on the Future - by stevebowers - 04-21-2019, 10:16 PM
RE: Your Thoughts on the Future - by Noclevername - 05-15-2019, 04:41 AM
RE: Your Thoughts on the Future - by Noclevername - 05-16-2019, 08:51 PM
RE: Your Thoughts on the Future - by Drashner1 - 05-17-2019, 12:48 PM
RE: Your Thoughts on the Future - by Noclevername - 05-17-2019, 06:00 PM
RE: Your Thoughts on the Future - by radtech497 - 09-29-2019, 06:55 PM
RE: Your Thoughts on the Future - by stevebowers - 05-29-2019, 06:34 AM
RE: Your Thoughts on the Future - by Noclevername - 05-29-2019, 08:26 AM
RE: Your Thoughts on the Future - by Eshanas - 09-26-2019, 10:43 AM

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