Life in the future

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Not an AIBU but this bas been on my mind a lot - Does anyone wonder what life will be like in the year 2100? If I have grandchildren they might be in their 40s then.

What will they think about the way we live now? What will they learn about us in their history books?

After all the effects from climate change:

Will people still fly around the world on holidays?

Will there still be big toy shops filled with plastic toys?

Will supermarkets have all the products wrapped in plastic?

Will cities be flooded by melting polar ice caps?

Will there be millions of people trying to migrate to europe and America because their own countries are being destroyed by drought and unbearable heat?

Will there be more wars because there will be much more people fighting over less resources?

Will people still be eating beef and dairy products?

Will there be hardly any wildlife and no coral reefs left?

And what about life in 2200 and beyond if the weather keeps heating up? Who will survive and will life be kind of normal or good for them?

As a child I watched Space 1999 on TV and the leading boy's comic was 2000AD.
These depicted what people thought life would be like at the turn of the millenium and we're hopelessly wrong.

Whatever you think the world will be like in 2100 won't just be wrong, it will be laughably horrendously wrong.

I think about this a lot when bored but obviously it may end up being totally wrong!

I wonder if the world would be so environmentally damaged that we would end up living in bunkers, and experience the outside world only through VR. But I told this to dh and apparently that’s already the plot of ready player one, so not very original!

I also thought about having a teleportation device for items in every home, so each house has to have a receiving station to summon things when they need them - but you don’t keep all the items in your home the rest of the time. So things could be much more communal as they could be stored centrally and used by whoever needs it, plus you’d not need as large of a home because you’d be living more minimalist so helps solve issues of housing and lack of space, plus less waste.

Watch The Hunger Games or The Handmaids Tale.
With the government the way it is and the US president I think dystopian novels will become the norm.
And sugar and chocolate and fizzy drinks will only exist in the black market. You will probably be flogged in public for eating a twix bar.
Abortion will be punishable by death.
Masses will starve or fight for food.
Curable disease will kill many as antibiotics will no longer work.
Cars will be phased out. Petrol will no longer be available.
Read plague 99. Society will self destruct and a new better one will emerge where people go back 2 nature and the old ways.

I hope that nobody will eat meat after it becomes more obvious that killing animals in their billions is unbelievably cruel, unhealthy and unsustainable.
We know that slavery and the holocaust were wrong yet we still lock these animals in cages and barns and send them into gas chambers.

I try not to think about the distant future too much.

We'll still be trying to sort out Brexit.

malwoddy

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Back in the 1970s I had a book which had pictures of how we would live now, we'd all have flying cars for starters. The only thing that was right was that we'd watch television on flat wall mounted screens.

What about a world where everyone becomes spiritually enlightened. No more War, no more starving, no more destruction of the environment. Imagine that.

I hope that nobody will eat meat after it becomes more obvious that killing animals in their billions is unbelievably cruel, unhealthy and unsustainable.

I don’t think people will ever stop eating meat but lab grown, cultured meat might be mainstream by then if proven safe.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured_meat

Back in the 1970s I had a book which had pictures of how we would live now, we'd all have flying cars for starters. The only thing that was right was that we'd watch television on flat wall mounted screens.

Back to the future featured the flying car too.

Tinkity I hope so!

I think the human race will eventually be almost completely decimated by a virus. A "killer bug" that will mutate too swiftly to be eliminated.