Can you sketch out the broad outlines of the next 75-100 years? What are those political, social, economic, religious, artistic, technology trends?

[DrPepper12]

Will it be change or continuity? Why?

Are there any events you forsee as being global in scale and impact?

Do you have an unpopular take on the future that is unconventional?

Break out the tea leaves and tarot cards! Its time to gaze into the crystal ball and see who's the most intriguing prognosticators here on GaG!

[Kaneki05]

You mean if we aren't all dead which is likely.
Can't speak for other countries really but I think in England right winged opinions will basically be gone, center left ideals will be seen as right winged views.
They already kinda are.

Religion even for Muslims will become more of a passive belief than practice.
Economy will just stay the same with ya know maybe £10 been the new £1 with you getting paid £120 per hour cause inflation just evens out.

Technology not sure tbh it's a wild card that can go anywhere as when it comes to science I do think Atoms can do anything they just need to be made to do so.
And you look at how vastly different tech was from even just WW1 to WW2 is very impressive though I don't feel like we've had a drastic change since then.
Which goes to a point that the most advances come from war.

I do think we will find a way to make humans live longer through medical advances however it won't change much as only the rich could afford it and it won't be that drastic of a extension.
They could also work AI into that concept of having a left over memory bank of you within it. But it's still not you living after death just your memories.

Almost everything will be green efficient, leaving minor pollution.
Tabaco will be very rare maybe even banned, with vapes been the new cigs as they already kinda are.
Weed will be legal but in only in vapes.

[DrPepper12]

I like your future! Progressive but guarded because humans suck.

I think there will be multiple dusruptive technologies that will FAR OUTPACE our ability to understand, contril and tegulate them. Definitely gonna be a big revolution somewhere too. you're right about living longer once they figure out the shortening of telomeres in our dna and stem cell transplants. Great teply!

[Kaneki05]

Won't outpace my understanding hehe, I know too much of science for anything to surprise me.

[Lynx122]

Honestly I have no clue. In Switzerland I don't think there will be much change because we have a political system that works and people are mostly happy with how things are going. But worldwide there can be so much chaos it's hard to predict for me. China is taking over in some ways but also having huge issues in other ways. India will become important. The U. S. is declining steadily but still has time before they get dethroned. People are getting tired of capitalism so something might change there people are getting tired of identity politics so something might change there as well but I don't know in what way and when and how things will look afterwards. These kind of uprisings can often be taken over by some opportunistic person and they can change the original purpose of the movement and use it for their own benefit or things like that. So it's very hard to know what will happen.

[DrPepper12]

Great specilative answers!!

[Caroline91]

Inspite of my natural inclination towards positivity, I see a bleak future for the world.

While it may appear there is a booming world economy, only the very top 1 or 2 percent of the population will benefit from it. Social programs like Medicare and social security will be gone and other social safety nets along with them. AI which is already showing negative influences will continue to evolve. The world democracies are in the process now of falling like dominoes will have given over to autocracies or other totalitarian states. I see a dystopian future for at least the next hundred years or so. Then, as always, the wheels of change will turn and the light will break through again.

[DrPepper12]

OMG thats BLEAK!! unfortunately i share you're opinion. Im not hopeful for humanity until about 200-300 years from now when this boomer / angry capitalist mindset runs its course. Eventually, extreme right will modify to centre right and progressive liberal policy will triumph as the stale, male, pale dies off

[dustybiker2]

I think the universe with vacuum collapse in on itself just to get rid of the human race.

[DrPepper12]

Shit. In the next 75 years? Sucks to be a kid i guess!! 🤷🏻‍♂️

[dustybiker2]

Save what is left while it still can. lol *cringes*

[normalice]

I think a far right new world order is inevitable.

[DrPepper12]

Why far right? Imposed or chisen by voters? Do you mean global government and destruction of nation-states? Orgs like the EU?

[normalice]

It just seems like the far right has gotten near total control of all media. That was the whole point of the Citizens United ruling, after all. And objectively, 15 years ago if we were faced with a former president who tried to start a civil war to keep power, against a basically competent but disappointingly centrist president, the former would have to be third party and wouldn't crack 1%. Instead, 15 years after that decision, he is not only a major party nominee but polling ahead of the centrist. That's not random. That's intentional. And not just intentional but they have to be extremely good at this to have pulled it off. I don't see them getting worse at it.