Poll of the Day > What do you think the world will be like in 50 years?

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I'm predicting massive wars everywhere that eventually force us onto Mars early.
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Older
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None existent to me as I'll probably be dead.
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More automation, more people, more pollution, more corruption, etc.

More fevers, more prescriptions, more cowbell, etc.
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Completely fucked upside is i will have dementia at 89 so wont really know wtf is going on.
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Wars over water maybe?
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Like 1984.
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Less land, more water covering said land.

Well, if the far-left has its way, society will break down following massive bankruptcies, etc, and within 50 years we'll have a full global reset. Otherwise it'll look pretty much like it does now.
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nuclear wasteland
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Considerably easier for me:)
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Taily_Po posted...

Well, if the far-left has its way, society will break down following massive bankruptcies

Both parties push for that, no party exists for reducing national debt.
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Roughly the same as now but a bit more advanced
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Honestly the technological singularity will likely occur in the next 50 years so its hard to predict what will happen after that

If it does happen the world will undergo changes that are probably hard to imagine. And possibly not for the better
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Same ****

Cars still with wheels, pharmaceutical companies over charging, SquareEnix releases the next part of FFVII remake, people in 2039 claiming the world will end in 30 years...
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Muscles posted...

Roughly the same as now but a bit more advanced

Pretty much like now, only different.

Nobody 50-60 years ago would guess:

No party-line telephones. Mostly replaced by Dick-Tracy-style hand phones.

No milkmen delivering to your door. Pretty much killed off by electric refrigerators that keep milk fresh for days.

Star-Trek-style giant all-knowing computers become passe', replaced by microprocessors used mostly for email, games, word processing, and porn.

Rise and fall of shopping malls: at first innovative and useful giant conglomerations of shops, eventually choked by their own hugeness, then became too dangerous to visit with parking lots taken over by teenage gangs.

Exploration of space pretty much dead, too expensive, not politically lucrative.

American high-performance cars killed off by government regulation, then resurrected by the Japanese.
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dancer62 posted...

American high-performance cars

high-performance
adjective

(of a product) designed to perform to a high standard.

I wouldn't describe a 5L V8 producing 170hp as high performance, that's awful use of 5 liters. American cars are historically low performance, high volume cars; I'd say that high-performance from America only showed up in this century.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

dancer62 posted...

American high-performance cars

high-performance
adjective

(of a product) designed to perform to a high standard.

I wouldn't describe a 5L V8 producing 170hp as high performance, that's awful use of 5 liters. American cars are historically low performance, high volume cars; I'd say that high-performance from America only showed up in this century.

Should I have said muscle cars or pony cars? In the 50s and 60s, Chrysler 300s, Mercury Marauders, Pontiac GTOs, Vettes, etc., were pretty hot stuff. 350-425 horsepower is still good for a showroom stock street car. I had a 327/350 Stingray. And a 250/215 Pontiac Sprint SOHC six. And an original 302 Trans-Am spec Z28. I even once had an Edsel station wagon with a 410cu 345hp engine. All strangled and killed off by pollution control, fuel crisis, and Ralph Nader safety crap in the 70s.
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dancer62 posted...

Should I have said muscle cars or pony cars?

Yes pls

dancer62 posted...

In the 50s and 60s, Chrysler 300s, Mercury Marauders, Pontiac GTOs, Vettes, etc., were pretty hot stuff. 350-425 horsepower is still good for a showroom stock street car. I had a 327/350 Stingray. And a 250/215 Pontiac Sprint SOHC six. And an original 302 Trans-Am spec Z28. I even once had an Edsel station wagon with a 410cu 345hp engine. All strangled and killed off by pollution control, fuel crisis, and Ralph Nader safety crap in the 70s.

I see a lot of cars making around 50hp/l, which is pretty atrocious. I'd say it forced Americans to learn basic engineering and put something in their 2 tonne boats to justify the size.

Personally I think 2000s onward regulations killed performance cars as a category by making it economically unviable to sell a cheap, fast car. We still have fast cars but they're distinctly luxury-oriented cars as they can't sell speed to the general public anymore.
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Almost every county is a 3rd world **** hole.

Corruption is rampant and a small elite live extremely well, and answer to nobody. While the rest suffer, there is no middleclass. Society has broken down, lots of thought crime laws, the social credit system is fully implemented, don't question authority, do not insult authority or you go to jail.

People are ranked by historical disadvantage. A person who is more historically disadvantaged cannot be punished for hate speech and gets much more lenient sentancing depending on the crime.

Lots of wars, famine, ethnic cleansing, overpopulation, religious persecution. natural disasters, epic pollution and terrible food and putrid squalid living circumstances, drought, water shortages, weeklong blackouts.

China is the new top dog, They roll over any country they like colonize and take what they want, everybody is too scared to upset them or they get stomped on. America and Europe have collapsed and fallen into decline.
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