Where do the rest of you think this country is going. What do you think things will be like in the next 50 or 100 years?
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Where do the rest of you think this country is going. What do you think things will be like in the next 50 or 100 years?
I was listening to Art Bell on the way home tonight, and while he indeed has a lot of kooks on, there was a guy on there talking about a lot of different things who sounded like he had a brain to him.
One of the things he said was that America doesn't realize that it isn't going to be the biggest and only player in the game for much longer. A lot of countries looked to us as the major market for selling products, but soon both China and India will have a middle class equal and then soon larger than the entire population of our country. To go along with that, because of back and forth bickering, endless laws and lawsuits, laziness, and a number of other factors, we are continually getting passed up when it comes to created new and worthwhile technology. Countries like South Korea, China, India, etc. are hungry for technology, and don't have all of the roadblocks that we do - meaning that another piece of what made us the "biggest" country in the world will be diminished or totally gone.
I think, indeed, America has gotten fat and lazy, not only physically, but mentally and emotionally as well. We've become too complacent in life, and that is causing us to fall behind a lot of other countries on many fronts. About the only area we seem to have any will to push forward at all is in the "war or terror," and that is nothing but a gigantic mess, with us running around like chickens with our heads cut off, doing nothing of real value.
We keep acting towards other countries as the big mighty America we used to be, but I don't think our position in the world is as strong as it once was. Of course, militarily, we're still one of the top players, if not the top. But economically, I'm not sure how much longer America is going to be the top goal that all other countries try to get a piece of.
I think we need to stop being a fat, lazy country, and find something to strive for again. We've had it so easy for so long that we've lost sight of what made our country great, I think. Without and physical, mental, or emotional threat, we've come to find ourselves wasting our energy arguing over Janet's exposed breast on TV and if a plaque with the Ten Commandments should be in a park or not.
More than 1,000 people will live and work on the moon. Families will own helicopters instead of cars. Machines will be producing so much that everyone in the U.S. will, in effect, be independently wealthy.The housewife of 2050 will be able to do her daily cleaning with a garden hose. Why not? Thanks to plastics, everything will be waterproof. Strawberries as large as apples will be eaten by children during their christmas dinners 100 years hence. Large cities will be marvels of cheapness and convenience where municipal ownership of services will reduce the cost of city life, which now appalls the economical visitor, to a merely nominal sum.
The American will be taller by from one to two inches . . . he will live 50 years instead of 35 as at present - for he will reside in the suburbs. The trip from suburban home to office will require a few minutes only. A penny will pay the fare.Insect screens will be unnecessary. Mosquitoes, house flies and roaches will have been practically exterminated . . . Ready-cooked meals will be bought from establishments similar to the bakeries of today. Food will be served hot or cold to private houses in pneumatic tubes or automobile wagons.There will be no wild animals except in menageries. Rats and mice will have been exterminated. The horse will have become practically extinct.
In the year 2100, the locomotives will travel about 300 miles in an hour, but I think it is not necessary because, before you know it, you will be killed by a locomotive.
I to wonder how the organized world is going to deal with China. China probably has the biggest population and the fastest rising economy of any current nation. But the US currently uses most of the worlds resources. They could easily use double the combined resources of all first world countries if they go full out capitalist. Where is this going to come from? And what will the rest of us do if it causes a shortage?Quote:
Originally Posted by shidoshi
Lets say these things are settled peacefully. We still have the problem of China being top dog. Who wants that? Really? I don't want to learn Chinese, and watch stupid Chinese shows, and do Chinese things. Fuck that.
I think by the time Chinese media would dominate we'd be dead, or at an age where we don't give a shit any more.
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Originally Posted by rezo
Holy shit that would be AWESOME.
YOUSA GONNA DIE!
I'd imagine a really bad pandemic happening in the next...100-200 years. Something like SARS that will spread worldwide and will fuck us up in Black Plague numbers. It's a matter of time before some weird bacteria will mutate and make the world work together to keep it from wiping us all out.
I think the WHO kick way too much ass for that to happen, most useful section of the UN... EVER!!!
In 50 to 100 years, people will discover how worthless socialism really is.
America needs to get a job.Quote:
Originally Posted by shidoshi