100 years - any futurists out there?

[thaibeachlovers]

10 minutes ago, StreetCowboy said:

Struggle on; we all grew up the hard way.  Things may have been better in the past but we can still rise now...

 

 

I doubt that "things were better in the past" for the majority of homo sapiens, but certainly they were for me.

The difference between now and then, for myself, is that when things were bad for me I had faith that I could rise above my circumstances given time and effort, but age and medical problems have robbed me of the possibility of a better future ( short of winning large in Lotto ).

Not really complaining, as we all have to bow out sometime. That's life, and no one gets out alive.

Edited July 20, 2021 by thaibeachlovers

[thaibeachlovers]

14 minutes ago, StreetCowboy said:

The way I see it:
Global warming might be a hoax and all of that staying at home and buying more fuel-efficient cars was just a waste of time.
Or maybe not, and it might kill us all.
when there is so many scientists signing with one voice, my mind turns to the "kill us all", and I don't really mind cycling to work.  I can do that to keep the scientists happy, and maybe it will make my retirement safer, and maybe it will benefit my children, and their children.  

If that is too much of a price for you to pay, then God Save You.
I doubt my grandchildren will.

 

SC

In London I spent 3 hours on a tube train to get to work and the same to get back. Should I have used a bicycle?

 

I have nothing against electric cars, but it's a shame that ( IMO ) the usual vested interests convinced governments that big batteries were better than hydrogen to power them. Huge mistake that will cause massive problems in the future, IMO.

[StreetCowboy]

13 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I doubt that "things were better in the past" for the majority of homo sapiens, but certainly they were for me.

The difference between now and then, for myself, is that when things were bad for me I had faith that I could rise above my circumstances given time and effort, but age and medical problems have robbed me of the possibility of a better future ( short of winning large in Lotto ).

Not really complaining, as we all have to bow out sometime. That's life, and no one gets out alive.

No point in feeling sorry for yourself.  Onwards and upwards.  You're only young once and that was a long time ago

[rumak]

On 7/19/2021 at 2:20 AM, 1FinickyOne said:

On 7/18/2021 at 9:56 PM, WhiteBuffaloATM said:

Human Collective Insanity combined with Genius Inventions ; Fatal Combo.

War, Religion, WMD, Irrationalty, AI, Globalism, Over Population, Climate Change, Water & Food Shortages, Power Madness, Massive Corruption, 

Huge Wealth Disparities.

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sure that is today.. any prediction for the future?

https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-footage-balloon-popping-inflated-sting-push-pin-burst-sound-video51314511

[mrfill]

Hover boots.

We were promised them 50 years ago - surely everyone will have them in 100 years time.

 

Where are my hover boots???

[1FinickyOne]

46 minutes ago, StreetCowboy said:

 but we can still rise now...

sure, but it bends in the middle...

[StreetCowboy]

3 minutes ago, 1FinickyOne said:

sure, but it bends in the middle...

Nothing wrong with a bit of bending, nowadays.

[1FinickyOne]

Just now, StreetCowboy said:

Nothing wrong with a bit of bending, nowadays.

sure, flexibility, yoga and all... 

[StreetCowboy]

Just now, 1FinickyOne said:

sure, flexibility, yoga and all... 

Most pipe fitters are benders, no offence intended.

Let's face it, we all look both ways when we cross the road.

 

It's too easy nowadays to work yourself into a lather of intolerance, and in 100 years, I am not sure our blinkers will be any less restrictive.  

[thaibeachlovers]

On 7/19/2021 at 3:18 AM, RichardColeman said:

In all fairness, when your dead your dead. There's actually an argument for processing and eating the dead to solve world hunger ! Though I think I'd be more a sort of tough jerky than biscuit !

You're only really dead if you get cremated. I have no trouble believing that human cloning will be possible in the future.

Cloned slave armies are probably some rich guys wet dream right now, and dead people have no rights.

[StreetCowboy]

8 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

You're only really dead if you get cremated. I have no trouble believing that human cloning will be possible in the future.

Cloned slave armies are probably some rich guys wet dream right now, and dead people have no rights.

"... dead people have no rights".
That's fighting talk if ever I heard it.  I hope you weren't planning on sleeping in the future.

[rumak]

no matter how tough things get........... i try to see the humor in it.

I sure hope "they"  don't completely succeed in eliminating humor  

 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWj9zYsPkotQFSJNK4g4vnQ

Edited July 20, 2021 by rumak

[Bangkok Barry]

On 7/18/2021 at 8:33 PM, StreetCowboy said:

On 7/18/2021 at 8:29 PM, mfd101 said:

Hard to be optimistic about the future.

 

H. sapiens spreading like a plague of locusts across the landscape, destroying everything as it goes. And still with all the same characteristics it's always had, notably greed & aggression.

What have you done about it?

We elect politicians to deal with it. That's the problem.

[StreetCowboy]

Just now, Bangkok Barry said:

We elect politicians to deal with it. That's the problem.

If only someone else would stand.  
If we had someone like Hitler, then in 50 years we would appreciate once more the politicians.
I'm not recommending that as a route to restore your faith in democracy, but I am not sure whether it is the path upon which we have embarked.

If we want politicians who will deal with problems , we need to elect them on that basis, give them credit for trying to do so, and allow for honest mistakes and human weakness.

Or we can resort to anti-societal class struggle.

 

Either way, also can

[Bangkok Barry]

I used to think that the human race had about 200 years before it destroyed itself. Now I believe it will be sooner than that.

 

We are a race which spends far more money and effort on finding ways to kill others than on saving them (the jury is still out on Covid of course, and the Russians like to roam the planet poisoning anyone who doesn't agree with them), and the vast majority, after thousands of years of us being around, still lives in poverty. There has never been a day of peace on the planet, as we fight over imaginary borders that only we, not nature, recognises, and the same over imaginary gods which all have their own and conflicting rules (must have shaved heads, must have hair so long it has to be tied up in cloth, must have a beard etc.)

 

I am certain that if humankind does ever try to make it out of the solar system there will be a vastly more intelligent race out there sending us straight back to where we came from before we pollute their part of the universe too.

[Doctor Tom]

I  won't be there, neither will my kids, or anyone I know, or love, or have ever loved,  so I don't care and I'm not even curious.

[StreetCowboy]

Who else is with me that it is time to revoke decimalisation?

[bert bloggs]

On 7/18/2021 at 9:27 PM, StreetCowboy said:

The quote was that the weapons that would be used in WW3 were unknown, but WW4 would be sticks and stones.  At the moment, computer viruses are looking as dangerous as nuclear weapons in terms of destroying our frangible society

 

Einstein said" i know not what weapons world war three will be faught ,but world war four will be faught with sticks and stones" i just changed it a little and didnt say Einstein quoted it . Sorry about that ????

[bert bloggs]

On 7/18/2021 at 9:27 PM, StreetCowboy said:

The quote was that the weapons that would be used in WW3 were unknown, but WW4 would be sticks and stones.  At the moment, computer viruses are looking as dangerous as nuclear weapons in terms of destroying our frangible society

 

Einstein said" i know not what weapons world war three will be faught ,but world war four will be faught with sticks and stones" i just changed it a little and didnt say Einstein quoted it . Sorry about that ????

[bert bloggs]

On 7/18/2021 at 9:27 PM, StreetCowboy said:

The quote was that the weapons that would be used in WW3 were unknown, but WW4 would be sticks and stones.  At the moment, computer viruses are looking as dangerous as nuclear weapons in terms of destroying our frangible society

 

Einstein said" i know not what weapons world war three will be faught ,but world war four will be faught with sticks and stones" i just changed it a little and didnt say Einstein quoted it . Sorry about that ????

[bert bloggs]

Sorry about the 3 replies,i thought they got posted yesterday ,well one reply anyway.

Something else that will happen if we dont have a war is countrys like the UK will be overun by people from foreign lands ,just today i read that over 400 arrived on the beaches yesterday,and this happensa day by day,and anyone who thinks they will be an asset to the country needs to think again ,they eventually will become the dominent ones. As they tend to have far more children than the native westerners.

Edited July 20, 2021 by bert bloggs

[StreetCowboy]

7 minutes ago, bert bloggs said:

Sorry about the 3 replies,i thought they got posted yesterday ,well one reply anyway.

Something else that will happen if we dont have a war is countrys like the UK will be overun by people from foreign lands ,just today i read that over 400 arrived on the beaches yesterday,and this happensa day by day,and anyone who thinks they will be an asset to the country needs to think again ,they eventually will become the dominent ones. As they tend to have far more children than the native westerners.

The reply came up yesterday, and it was a good reply.  And I am sure that, as the Bellman said, "What I say three times is true!"

Except that I don't agree with you, and I do not believe that immigration is any justification for xenophobic wars, which we should have grown out of, had we not given away the wealth of the new world to the imperialists of the new colonies.

[allanos]

I believe we are already seeing the beginnings of the NWO (New World Order), although it is being disguised or cloaked in a virtuous blanket of far-left liberalism. Socialism good, Capitalism bad!

 

Add to this the "money-printing stimulus and reallocation of eye-watering sums leading to a combination of higher taxes and inflation, which some call MMT (Modern Monetary Theory), and it is plain to see. In consequence, we can all expect to be poorer in future.  But that ain't all . . .

 

Within the next few years, the central banks of advanced economies will be introducing CBDC's,

(Central Bank Digital Currencies), when Big Brother, to a degree George Orwell never contemplated, will have truly arrived. We shall be controlled like never before, and you will have nowhere to hide, (except if you hold crypto, perhaps). China is a few years ahead, already, and has introduced the Digital Yuan, which is undergoing Beta-testing currently.

 

Institutions like the World Bank and the IMF (International Monetary Fund) are already preparing us for the future, (brainwashing us), extolling the virtues of the importance of "being happy" (whilst you are dispossessed of such things as property, which will become unaffordable in the not-too-distant future).

 

Forget 100 years; we are looking at less than twenty.

 

Welcome to the new Nirvana. Good times never felt so good!

 

 

[rickudon]

Well, first, the population bomb has already been practically resolved. The total fertility rate globally is down to about 2.5. This is the number of children is expected to have at CURRENT fertility levels - but as the fertility rate is actually falling slowly,  the actual number of  births per mother during her lifetime will be lower. You need a Fertility rate of 2.2 or slightly less to get to replacement rate. This will be achieved by about 2050. Population will continue to grow for a while, as older year classes of humans were much smaller -it will take another 70 years to get to zero population growth. Of course, fertility will continue to fall - many countries including China are already under 2.0. So zero population growth in a century.

 

 

Climate - well half of Bangkok will be a swamp, the rest behind high walls to keep the water out. Annual deaths from heatwaves will be in the news every year, and forest fires will have devastated the worlds forests. Yes, some people will live underground most of the time.

 

Life will be ruled by government regulations - they will control your money, where you can live and what you can legally do. Flying will be a luxury. So will private car ownership. We will all live closer to where we work.

[swissie]

What to expect if a Species (humans/locust) take over a small Planet? Turning the limited resources into "money", as the only "measuring-stick"?

The good news: The full effect of our behaviour (climate-change etc etc etc) will only take full effect in abot 10 years from now. (mathematical projections point to this. We have some 10 years ahead of us in "relative comfort").

Have children? Sell your Pattaya Condo and buy some (cheap) land in the northern hemisphere. Will be fit for growing wheat, while southern Europe will have turned into a semi-desert (Arizona-like).

Have grandchildren? Register them for Elon Musks "relocation-program" for Mars. I have no idea how Elon will be relocating almost 8 Billion earthlings to Mars. = Register your grandchildren early, seating will be limited!

[allanos]

 

"You're only really dead if you get cremated. " According to the medical definition of death, that is.

 

Hindu's, according to scripture going back millennia before

Christianity arrived on the scene, would say you will be back; reincarnated.

 

The human body is decidedly a packet of energy. 

 

An immutable law of the Universe says

energy cannot be destroyed, only made into another form.

(Is this the transmogrification of the soul, as mentioned in the 

New Testament)?

 

So, is "death" as finite as we are given to believe, or are we being

manipulated, some might say brainwashed, about it in some way, for some reason?

 

Shouldn't science have been able to give us a definitive answer, by now?

It purports to answer everything else!

 

 

 

[Sparktrader]

6 hours ago, StreetCowboy said:

The way I see it:
Global warming might be a hoax and all of that staying at home and buying more fuel-efficient cars was just a waste of time.
Or maybe not, and it might kill us all.
when there is so many scientists signing with one voice, my mind turns to the "kill us all", and I don't really mind cycling to work.  I can do that to keep the scientists happy, and maybe it will make my retirement safer, and maybe it will benefit my children, and their children.  

If that is too much of a price for you to pay, then God Save You.
I doubt my grandchildren will.

 

SC

Most scientists arent worried. 99% or so. Mostly a con.

 

Fascism is the main concern. It's here again with lockdowns. Freedom lost.

 

 

[StreetCowboy]

6 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

Most scientists arent worried. 99% or so. Mostly a con.

 

Fascism is the main concern. It's here again with lockdowns. Freedom lost.

 

 

Most of the scientists I know are concerned about global warming.

[steven100]

5 minutes ago, StreetCowboy said:

Most of the scientists I know are concerned about global warming.

one's I've talked to want to know when soi cowboy will open again   ...

[ArcticFox]

“I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” – Albert Einstein.