Humanity in 300 years?

[MessiahDecoy123]

Could it be possible that our future will be soo inconceivable that any one of our ideas, from scientists, SciFi creators, are soo off base that when it happens we'll be completely unprepared?
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Well in the past sci-fi writers predicted some things accurately and on other things they were way off.

 

[Pink Ranger]

No I haven't but that is extremely interesting. The rich would just ship out the general public into the cosmos to fend for themselves? Man that's rough.

Yeah, it would be awful (Earth is no picnic either in that book, but is better than being drafted to live in a colony).

But human history has no shortage of real-life examples to draw from. The Vietnamese boat people and other displaced populations. The deportation of criminals to Australia. The practice of "shanghai-ing" sailors during the age of colonialization. Or the use of general poverty and oligarchialism to push your excess population to undertake dangerous ocean voyages to the Americas.

Well in the past sci-fi writers predicted some things accurately and on other things they were way off.

We'll get the sex android before interstellar travel. Dick > Asimov!

 

[NickNitro]

Well in the past sci-fi writers predicted some things accurately and on other things they were way off.

What do you think they'll be right about, and completely off the mark with?

Yeah, it would be awful (Earth is no picnic either in that book, but is better than being drafted to live in a colony).

But human history has no shortage of real-life examples to draw from. The Vietnamese boat people and other displaced populations. The deportation of criminals to Australia. The practice of "shanghai-ing" sailors during the age of colonialization. Or the use the general poverty and oligarchialism to push your excess population to undertake dangerous ocean voyages to the Americas.

Do the general population that gets shipped out work for the rich that are left on Earth? I have to assume they bring them some sort of revenue. Do they do like asteroid mining or something?

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

Renewable energy will change the world. The advancement of nanotechnology and genetic engineering will change humanity. With renewable energy comes clean and available drinking water for all nations. People will begin implanting themselves with tech, and genetically augment themselves.

We will begin to colonize planets, moons, and asteroids. Although I dont think it will be a smooth transition, people may polarize against technology...but I think it is inevitable.

 

[NickNitro]

Renewable energy will be kept a secret for absolutely as long as possible. As long as there are American officials getting Oil money from Saudi this won't happen.

I do believe the great cleansing of our society is to get rid of these greed driven industry monsters but I feel like it will take until the last drop of crude oil is used on this planet for anything to happen. Sadly.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Do the general population that gets shipped out work for the rich that are left on Earth? I have to assume they bring them some sort of revenue. Do they do like asteroid mining or something?

It's been a while since I read the book, but as I remember, drafting people for offworld colonization is mainly to get rid of excess bodies on earth, and also to provide some form of sustainable population for the colonies before they become self-sufficient.

The drafted colonizers are mostly held in place and consuming low resources via heavy drug use combined with an artificial reality environment, from my memory, though anybody with a better recollection of that book can correct me.

 

[NickNitro]

Woah thats nuts.

I'm reading a Jack Reacher book right now. Not to get off topic but just talking about novels. It's hits one. And I'm pretty hooked on it.

Now. I can see that being plausible. What if we have no funding/technology for colonizing other planets by the time it gets soo overwhelmed on Earth that there is literally no more food for the masses.

 

[Teelie]

I doubt we'll hit that point. It's possible we will. It's also possible we'll be wiped out by some interstellar trash that knocks us into a deep ice age and kills off most life before it begins a new cycle. It is all speculation.

 

[Dr. Evil]

I don't know about Humanity, but as a WWE watcher, I could see a certain Son in Law of the Owner continuing his 300 year reign as WWE Champion battling John Cena for Immortality.

 

[Pink Ranger]

I don't know about Humanity, but as a WWE watcher, I could see a certain Son in Law of the Owner continuing his 300 year reign as WWE Champion battling John Cena for Immortality.

Ric Flair will still be wrestling too, to pay the alimony of his 34 ex-wives.

Diamond Dallas Page's yoga program becomes so advanced and effective that it begins raising the dead. DDP, Abraham Lincoln and Jimi Hendrix go on a motivational speaking tour.

The Bellas will have multiplied into a small army of bearded, crew-cut women, with amazing bodies still. Paper bag sales go through the roof.

Daniel Bryan will still have never held the WWE World Title for longer than 3 days.

 

[SV Fan]

300 years ago there was slavery........they probably thought there would still be slavery.....

Don't forget witch hunting, 300 years from now the witches will become the hunters

 

[Dr. Evil]

Ric Flair will still be wrestling too, to pay the alimony of his 34 ex-wives.

Diamond Dallas Page's yoga program becomes so advanced and effective that it begins raising the dead. DDP, Abraham Lincoln and Jimi Hendrix go on a motivational speaking tour.

The Bellas will have multiplied into a small army of bearded, crew-cut women, with amazing bodies still. Paper bag sales go through the roof.

Daniel Bryan will still have never held the WWE World Title for longer than 3 days.

30 of whom will have by then also married Charlie Sheen. Also Vince will still be alive, but be the real life version of Arnim Zola.

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

I read somewhere that we've done more damage to the planet in the last hundred years than has been done in the entire history of the world. I doubt we'll be here in 300 years if that keeps up

 

[Thundercrack85]

Well, there was that asteroid...

Different kind of destruction.

I like to think we'll get past that though. But once we start having wars in space (either with each other, or aliens), Earth gets pretty fragile.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

There will be pleasant, and unpleasant events

 

[NickNitro]

There will be pleasant, and unpleasant events

You should be a politician.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

You should be a politician.

I would, if I wasn't too lazy

 

[KevanG]

Or a weatherman.

 

[zeroapoc]

300 years ago there was slavery........they probably thought there would still be slavery.....

There is...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwalliso

 

[NickNitro]

I would, if I wasn't too lazy

Even better!

There is...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwalliso

Well NK is just a pile of dog ****. They don't count anyway in human history. When we look back we'll laugh and say, remember that one country that thought it was big and bad, but was just run by a dictator with daddy issues?...what was its name again? Damn owell.

 

[Superwoman Prime]

I would, if I wasn't too lazy

"Mistakes will be made, 300 years from now."

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I think people might walk the street naked

 

[NickNitro]

Apparently this series is amazing

Black Mirror

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_(TV_series)

It depicts a dark life of the advancements of technology. From the BBC

 

[Teelie]

It looks interesting, I'm going to watch it first chance I get, though it is also very much a twisting of reality to justify an opinion of technology and society toward the negative (which is true, anything can be twisted into a negative but it is better not to dwell on only one, negative aspect of technology).

 

[Thundercrack85]

Slavery too me is rather dependent on definition. For example, the citizens of North Korea, and some other countries aren't considered slaves, but they have about as many rights as black slaves in the pre-Civil War South, if not fewer.

E.g. in the South, slaves were typically given food.