Current Events > Where do you guys see the world in 5 years?

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Like what major changes do think will occur by 2025?

I think we are going to see UBI implemented, robots begin to take jobs from people...medicinally i think we will see some amazing changes in modern medicine in the next 10 years.

What future tech or medicine are you most looking forward to?

Hopefully through my eyes.
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rains of fire, waves of plagues, more poverty and pollution

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About the robots taking over jobs thing

Automation isn't anywhere NEAR as widespread as people think

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As much as I'd love UBI, its a pipe dream in this political climate. UBI has no chance of passing in the next five years.


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Rotating around the sun
Or vice versa
I dont know im no scienceman

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PMarth2002 posted...

As much as I'd love UBI, its a pipe dream in this political climate. UBI has no chance of passing in the next five years.

Republican states are ending their unemployment supplementary programs, just because employers can't get their cheap labor. If UBI actually did happen in the US, Republicans will basically fight to make it as ineffective as possible.

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Earth keeps getting warmer, social media continues to corrode societal cohesion, economy continues stagnating/deteriorating for the average person.

Basically like today, except a little worse.

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Turmoil and chaos.

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Life is getting better thanks to Biden. Disease, and poverty is on it's way out.

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Dang such pessimistic outlooks. AI technology has the capacity to drastically transform our world. I think our basic AIs right now will pale in comparison to the AIs we will have 5 years from. There are so many crazy new technologies coming out that will revolutionize medicine. My dr said in 10 years we will have cures for a lot of common diseases and disorders. Eventually we will crack the code through quantum computing and AI in order to live these absurdly crazy lives and we will be able to help all other developing countries as well.

Do not be so gloomy guys. Besides the pandemic, the future seems awesome.

I expect an even worse pandemic, we will be living underground just like in the Metro games

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No better than it is now.

The Republicans are going to make a serious move to take over the US permanently. We have to be on guard. I expect something like that to happen in the next 5 years, especially if a Republican wins President in 2024

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jsb0714 posted...

No better than it is now.

UBI, advanced public transport systems, AI robots, autonomous cars and fleets of cars to get you to and from places and the eradication of many diseases and disorders doesn't excite you?

Second and possibly third COVID waves will force politicians to consider wider socialist reforms in most developed nations to curtail poverty caused by unemployment. Large retail brands collapse and many go online-only. Local produce and independent shops see a huge surge. Attitudes towards China further sour due to their perceived role in causing the pandemic; many nations impose sanctions. Trump doesn't run, but right wing rhetoric intensifies and the USA edges closer to civil war. China begins armament of space. Cryptocurrency surges. Drone delivery becomes more viable and drives an A.I. boom.

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• new covid variants from India and elsewhere will cause strain on our healthcare systems again. Vaccines are effective, but large amounts of people are still unvaccinated.
• nuclear proliferation in the Middle East. Some of their leaders are real psychopaths so maybe we'd even see the third or more use of nuclear weaponry.
• droughts and wildfires are going to make it a lot harder for farmers to do their jobs.
• internet is going to get a lot less free and a lot less safe as governments crack down on internet freedoms and hackers strike back at outdated and unprotected systems.
• the illusion that we ever actually had control is going to be pulled tighter and tighter until it snaps.
• real estate market, especially in Canada, but probably in the US too is just going to go nuclear. Housing is just going to the dogs and there isn't a solution in site.
• genocides and wars are going to get worse and worse and the western world will continue to ignore them.
• UBI will be talked about, but the rich don't give a shit about us poor boys and will not manifest in anything.

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Xavier_On_High posted...

Second and possibly third COVID waves will force politicians to consider wider socialist reforms in most developed nations to curtail poverty caused by unemployment. Large retail brands collapse and many go online-only. Local produce and independent shops see a huge surge. Attitudes towards China further sour due to their perceived role in causing the pandemic; many nations impose sanctions. Trump doesn't run, but right wing rhetoric intensifies and the USA edges closer to civil war. China begins armament of space. Cryptocurrency surges. Drone delivery becomes more viable and drives an A.I. boom.

Very interesting. I do not think we will have some kind of revolution although they did ask this to trump directly when debating biden and i believe his response was that he hoped it did not have to come to that.

looks scary tbh

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Goatsensation posted...

* new covid variants from India and elsewhere will cause strain on our healthcare systems again. Vaccines are effective, but large amounts of people are still unvaccinated.
* nuclear proliferation in the Middle East. Some of their leaders are real psychopaths so maybe we'd even see the third or more use of nuclear weaponry.
* droughts and wildfires are going to make it a lot harder for farmers to do their jobs.
* internet is going to get a lot less free and a lot less safe as governments crack down on internet freedoms and hackers strike back at outdated and unprotected systems.
* the illusion that we ever actually had control is going to be pulled tighter and tighter until it snaps.
* real estate market, especially in Canada, but probably in the US too is just going to go nuclear. Housing is just going to the dogs and there isn't a solution in site.
* genocides and wars are going to get worse and worse and the western world will continue to ignore them.
* UBI will be talked about, but the rich don't give a shit about us poor boys and will not manifest in anything.

Very pessimistic outlook. You would be surprised how much the rich depend on us poor boys to live their pathetic lives.

TrollTrace posted...

UBI, advanced public transport systems, AI robots, autonomous cars and fleets of cars to get you to and from places and the eradication of many diseases and disorders doesn't excite you?

Why would you think any of that is going to be commonplace in our lifetimes? I'm not excited about anything I won't be around to see.

We'll be on fire. The whole world. Even the seas. Fire.

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jsb0714 posted...

Why would you think any of that is going to be commonplace in our lifetimes? I'm not excited about anything I won't be around to see.

A lot of the things i listed are in a way already out. A lot of cities are testing out UBI right now as we speak, there already exist cars that drive themselves, etc. Musk even has plans to colonize mars...

TrollTrace posted...

A lot of the things i listed are in a way already out. A lot of cities are testing out UBI right now as we speak, there already exist cars that drive themselves, etc. Musk even has plans to colonize mars...

Do you know what commonplace means?

Most life will be gone, the few surviving humans will be living in caves gasping for fresh air having to crack open rocks for water and eat the now-rare insects for food

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Zombie apocalypse now

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Metroid Prime 4 will finally have a release date

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Somewhere between Venus and Mars.

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The economy is going to go down. WAY too much money at the top, unlivable wages, unpayable cost of living, overcrowding, overpopulation.

The nation keeps spending on the military and donating to Israel. More money is going out of the country than in and this is not working out.

The virus isnt going away because we are letting people choose to not get the vaccine. Everyone is so selfish and private businesses are basically just get-rich-quick schemes for the owners. Nobody puts the workers first and every month the cost of everything goes up.

Not to mention that Israel is actively trying to start (and pull us into) ANOTHER war that our people disagree with.

In five years, our work choices will either be food or the military.

Civil War

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Very grim opinions in this topic.