On May 04 2010 01:01 Cloud wrote:
I think it's interesting how most popular conceptions of the future, as in movies and science fiction novels, always depict it as some kind of scientific utopia gone very wrong, maybe they are right.

Poll: The future will look like

Another NSFW kind of planet that rhymes with the first option (9)

82%

Planet of the Apes (2)

18%

11 total votes

Your vote: The future will look like

(Vote): Planet of the Apes
(Vote): Another NSFW kind of planet that rhymes with the first option

Saturnize

United States2473 Posts

May 03 2010 16:23 GMT

#62

On May 04 2010 00:46 Cloud wrote:
I'll get optimistic once we stop trying to build spaceships to propel us out of this planet and doing other trivial shit which doesn't go past being interesting (science), and start fixing our moral issues which haven't improved but merely displaced since we started existing.

Ok then stop playing starcraft. Just sayin' -.-

Cloud

Sexico5880 Posts

May 03 2010 16:24 GMT

#63

I don't play starcraft and I'm not against joy.

StayFrosty

Canada743 Posts

May 03 2010 17:36 GMT

#64

I can't help but be pessimistic about the future. I just don't see how the human race will survive when major environmental crisis' are on the horizon with little to no regard on solving them. For example, global warming has been proven to exist but efforts to curve it are substantially low by the 2 largest oil consumers in the world (US and China). The drive for corporate profit result in neglect for environmental well being. I honestly don't see the earth surviving the next 200 years without a significant structural and economic overhaul.

This mentality has brought me to the point that I refuse to have children. There is no way I'll bring a child into this fucked up world to deal with all the shit we refuse to fix in the present.

/end rant

exeexe

Denmark937 Posts

May 03 2010 21:07 GMT

#65

On May 04 2010 02:36 StayFrosty wrote:
This mentality has brought me to the point that I refuse to have children....
/end rant

i came to the same conclusion but also it helps on slowing down the growth of the population.

Romantic

United States1844 Posts

May 03 2010 21:25 GMT

#66

AFAIK nothing negative incoming. Violence is at historic lows, science on the rise etc etc. Optimistic. Never been a better time to live on Earth as an ape.

LaNague

Germany9118 Posts

May 03 2010 21:35 GMT

#67

I have far above average education MY future should be alright, mankinds future however is not looking so hot.

Distracted by the daytoday problems we dont care much about how we are changing the enviroment around us and there is no way we will be able to leave this planet for quite a while.
People should look more to Venus and see what can happen to an earthlike planet faster than you think.

Jayme

United States5866 Posts

May 03 2010 21:37 GMT

#68

On May 04 2010 06:35 LaNague wrote:
I have far above average education MY future should be alright, mankinds future however is not looking so hot.

Distracted by the daytoday problems we dont care much about how we are changing the enviroment around us and there is no way we will be able to leave this planet for quite a while.
People should look more to Venus and see what can happen to an earthlike planet faster than you think.

Eh it would take a whole hell of a lot of CO2 for us to become 1/4th as volatile as Venus is. We will know long before that happens.

Sfydjklm

United States9218 Posts

May 03 2010 21:44 GMT

#69

On May 03 2010 21:05 sc4k wrote:

Plus if you want to look at history you should look at the Cold War and how not one nuclear missile was released.

umm.. for you to be able to write this that was the only possible outcome so that hardly tells anything^^

Sfydjklm

United States9218 Posts

May 03 2010 21:46 GMT

#70

and personally i think the future that we have coming is the worst of all- nothing's gonna change, mediocrity will still be the prevalent trend of humanity.

rwan

Canada68 Posts

May 03 2010 21:49 GMT

#71

The shit is going to hit the fan. If you know what I mean.

Ronald_McD

Canada807 Posts

May 03 2010 22:07 GMT

#72

I think we've got too many lunatics with nuclear weapons in their hands to be headed towards anything bright. We've got people slaving away for $8.00 an hour (go capitalism) doing dirty jobs, while some fat ass in a suite sits on his ass all day flipping through files and makes millions.A lot of rich people horde money to themselves, and aren't happy with all their "success" anyways. We've got corruption in our governments, police, and other figures of authority, and gangs that grow more and more powerful. On the other side of the world we have religious fanatics blowing themselves up in the name of some God, and hacking other people up with machetes. Life is about collecting as many little green pieces of paper as you can. We all depend on limited resources that are being depleted, and nobody cares enough to find a new way. We're potentially destroying our only planet with harmful gas emissions - though this is debatable, but still the idea is out there that it's possible and people aren't willing to change anything even if it is. We're all living longer, pushing our burdens on the younger generations to look after us when we're too old and deccaying to wipe our asses.

I dunno. Just doesn't look nice to me.

Lao Xuin

United States24 Posts

May 03 2010 22:07 GMT

#73

With difficult times still ahead, I still think we shall persevere. Humankind has always been in some sort of crisis and of course there will be some damage caused, but we can always rebuild.

Rkie

United States1278 Posts

May 03 2010 22:13 GMT

#74

I am a person who enjoys living on the fly. so, in the end we all die. that is about it. whatever comes in between then and now i'll just have to accept and deal with.

RisingTide

Australia769 Posts

May 03 2010 22:21 GMT

#75

On May 04 2010 06:49 rwan wrote:
The shit is going to hit the fan. If you know what I mean.

Zombies!?!

{CC}StealthBlue

United States41117 Posts

May 03 2010 22:40 GMT

#76

The U.S. will still be a major power but a hollow one, as we are broke and the corporations will have all the power and not want to invest in this country, and with Oil someday drying up the U.S. will be fucked. As we should have ended our dependence on foreign energy 40 years ago. The China economic bubble may burst.

If we fail to check global warming then we are all fucked. I'm sure religion will go through it's end of days scenario at some point in the future so hopefully one of them does not have the launch codes.

Hopefully space exploration will have further backing with colonization and limited outposts already established.

wanderer

United States641 Posts

May 03 2010 22:43 GMT

#77

nTooMuch

United States127 Posts

May 03 2010 22:43 GMT

#78

what do you think happens when this world overpopulates? if anything, we need to devote more time and money investing in that compared to the absurd amounts we spend on other crap.

HazMat

United States17077 Posts

May 03 2010 22:52 GMT

#79

I can't see humans getting a job in the future. Robots will do everything, including making more robots. It'll be pretty hard to live without work.