in ten years time how do you think the world would have changed and why?

Personally I dont think the world will have changed all that much but I would like to hear all your opinions.

It'll change, believe me... it'll change...

Well. if there is a world as we know it, then, judging by the last 3 decades...
life will be more expensive
privacy will have been greatly eroded
big brother will be firmly entrenched
air, food and water will be more toxic
technological products will be amazing
we will see greater social divisions as the middle-classes are eroded by a chasm of rich and poor
'terrorism' will have peaked (both real and imaginary)
there will be more wars and rumours of war
pollution will be greater
taxes will be crippling
crime will run rampant
people will be more cynical, selfish and complacent with the general nastiness of things
illegal drug use will more widespread
some drugs will be legalised in certain places
some diseases will be beaten (for a price)
new diseases will emerge
porn will be socially acceptable and blase
some sexual fetishes will become accepted as 'normal' sexual behaviour
humility will be considered a weakness, brashness as strength
humiliation of others will become common, acceptable and entertaining
more homeless people and refugees
there will be clandestine culling of homeless people
Cliff Richard will have a number 1 Christmas single in the UK

We'll change, the world will stay the same

Originally posted by tablariddim
Well. if there is a world as we know it, then, judging by the last 3 decades...
life will be more expensive
privacy will have been greatly eroded
big brother will be firmly entrenched
air, food and water will be more toxic
technological products will be amazing
we will see greater social divisions as the middle-classes are eroded by a chasm of rich and poor
'terrorism' will have peaked (both real and imaginary)
there will be more wars and rumours of war
pollution will be greater
taxes will be crippling
crime will run rampant
people will be more cynical, selfish and complacent with the general nastiness of things
illegal drug use will more widespread
some drugs will be legalised in certain places
some diseases will be beaten (for a price)
new diseases will emerge
porn will be socially acceptable and blase
some sexual fetishes will become accepted as 'normal' sexual behaviour
humility will be considered a weakness, brashness as strength
humiliation of others will become common, acceptable and entertaining
more homeless people and refugees
there will be clandestine culling of homeless people
Cliff Richard will have a number 1 Christmas single in the UK

don't be so cynical.......Cliff will only reach number 2!!:D

Ten years. Pfah.

Ten years?

Diabeties will be cured
Americans will be at war (once again)
weed will be more accepted in society but tobbaco will be more disaproving
TV will suck as no new orignal ideas will be thought up, unless its a cartoon
1/10000 Canadians/Americans will own a flying car
the ozon layer will shrunken over america but will grown over new developing countrys
the top of the line computers of our day will be able to fit onto a cell phone
The Matrix 8 will come out :p
The simpsons will still be on the air with new shows :D
coke & pepsi will have made least 15 differnt kinds of COLA by then
Play Station 6, sega REM-cast, microsoft ZZZ-box...
Mc Donalds will no longer be the dominate food chain
Space stations on the moon?
VCRs will be as dead as BETA
Still no cure for cancer but their will be a cure for baldness
Canada and the USA will be desperatly looking for places for LAND FILLS/Junk Yards!
less rock bands, more DeeJays
and last but not least, ill be 10 years older :D

id had some more but i was watching TV at the same time while typing this, and i forgot them, ehehe

:bugeye:

Originally posted by A Canadian
Ten years?

Diabeties will be cured
Americans will be at war (once again)
weed will be more accepted in society but tobbaco will be more disaproving
TV will suck as no new orignal ideas will be thought up, unless its a cartoon
1/10000 Canadians/Americans will own a flying car
the ozon layer will shrunken over america but will grown over new developing countrys
the top of the line computers of our day will be able to fit onto a cell phone
The Matrix 8 will come out :p
The simpsons will still be on the air with new shows :D
coke & pepsi will have made least 15 differnt kinds of COLA by then
Play Station 6, sega REM-cast, microsoft ZZZ-box...
Mc Donalds will no longer be the dominate food chain
Space stations on the moon?
VCRs will be as dead as BETA
Still no cure for cancer but their will be a cure for baldness
Canada and the USA will be desperatly looking for places for LAND FILLS/Junk Yards!
less rock bands, more DeeJays
and last but not least, ill be 10 years older :D

id had some more but i was watching TV at the same time while typing this, and i forgot them, ehehe

:bugeye:

Now thats the type of thing I was looking for!

We wont be here in 10 years cause Bush is too trigger happy!

and if some of us ARE here then things will be like the primitive era on earth once again......only radioactive :D

Originally posted by A Canadian
Ten years?

Diabeties will be cured
Americans will be at war (once again)
weed will be more accepted in society but tobbaco will be more disaproving
TV will suck as no new orignal ideas will be thought up, unless its a cartoon
1/10000 Canadians/Americans will own a flying car
the ozon layer will shrunken over america but will grown over new developing countrys
the top of the line computers of our day will be able to fit onto a cell phone
The Matrix 8 will come out :p
The simpsons will still be on the air with new shows :D
coke & pepsi will have made least 15 differnt kinds of COLA by then
Play Station 6, sega REM-cast, microsoft ZZZ-box...
Mc Donalds will no longer be the dominate food chain

Space stations on the moon?
VCRs will be as dead as BETA
Still no cure for cancer but their will be a cure for baldness
Canada and the USA will be desperatly looking for places for LAND FILLS/Junk Yards!
less rock bands, more DeeJays
and last but not least, ill be 10 years older :D

id had some more but i was watching TV at the same time while typing this, and i forgot them, ehehe

:bugeye: :)

There will be a cure for cancer...

I seriously dont mind what happens in the next ten years because once it happens it cant be helped but I have a great interest in what people think will be in the future ofcourse 99.9% of predictions will be wrong or inaccurate but ofcourse I might be wrong.

Originally posted by morsey
I seriously dont mind what happens in the next ten years because once it happens it cant be helped but I have a great interest in what people think will be in the future ofcourse 99.9% of predictions will be wrong or inaccurate but ofcourse I might be wrong.

The world in ten years time will be into solar devastation.....:cool:

Ah, we will all be dead from mass rabies caused by a small mutated goldfish with 24 legs and a large amount of foam at the mouth!:D That is my prediction!

The one and only thing that the Communists did right was education. The former Soviet satellite countries are huge pools of highly educated but hungry people. Fortunately they emerged into the Information Age instead of the Industrial Era, so it doesn't require a lot of capital to build up an economy. A reliable cellular network and some microcomputers, which keep getting cheaper, and they can compete with the established countries. The only thing that keeps them from jumping into the world market right now is the accident of history that they all learned Russian in school instead of English. Within ten years they will have fixed that little problem. English teachers are everywhere.

So here's what you'll have in 2013:

A new powerhouse economy built up from the ruins of the Eastern Bloc. They have no huge infrastructure that they're heavily invested in and therefore must maintain and upgrade. Very much like post-WWII Japan, except instead of taking fifteen years to build factories they can pop up software houses and other virtual businesses in a year or two.

No sentimental or economic ties to GODDAMN WINDOWS! They will either: join Western Europe in the Linux Revolution; take a hint from the world's artists who can't stand to spend one second of their lives learning to be bloody software mechanics and become Macintosh World; or invent an entire new hardware-software platform from scratch that will blow the doors off of everything we have. As the PC/Windows architecture starts to collapse under the weight of its own unrepaired defects, Eastern Europe will become the hub of the Internet by virtue of the fact that they will have the only technology with a Mean Time Between Failure greater than a couple of hours.

Eastern Europe will become the next U.S.A. People will migrate from everywhere to get work. After several decades of life under socialism, the citizens are even lazier than Americans when it comes to doing run-of-the mill chores like filling chuckholes and slinging hamburgers, so there will be lots of grunt jobs for foreigners.

As a result it will become very cosmopolitan, the new Rome. With cultural influences mixing in from everywhere, it will be the source of all the new cultural trends. Perhaps rock and roll will finally join Dixieland, Swing, Bluegrass and R&B on the Jazz Compost Heap and some new genre of music will take over the world.

Political unity, however, seems like a long shot. The Czechs and the Slovaks already got divorced, as did the six different kinds of Jugoslavs. It will be a Common-Market kind of cooperation, not another attempt to build a World Government. That's a really good thing. Large governments always seem to suck.

Western Europe will adapt and learn to speak the Pan-Slavonic "Swahili" type of international language that arises from businessmen learning the common words in each other's languages. The Germans will once again try to gain a position of power, it just seems to be their karma, and once again probably will fail, perhaps after another shooting war.

Speaking of war, the U.S. will muddle through the next ten years. Bush will either be crowned King for Life by the puppeteers who direct his actions, or he will be stomped to pieces by an angry mob like Nicolae Ceausescu after the first 5,000 suicide bombers explain to America that we really don't get to do whatever the hell we want because We're So Damn Big and Mighty. Either way we'll have dissipated a lot of our energy and lost our momentum. Coupled with the fact that we still believe that we can create an "Information Infrastructure" out of the rickety crap that passes for software in Seattle and only our children get to use Macintoshes, the rest of the world will simply glide right on past us. We might be a comfortable Retired World Power like England, we might be an impoverished Economic Giant That Fell To Its Knees like Argentina, or we might be a bleeding Bully That Finally Got The Crap Kicked Out Of It like Germany, except without the Marshall Plan.

The former Soviet republics will see their old buddies in Eastern Europe climbing out of the ashes of the Command Economy, and they might figure out how to do it themselves. The ones that never lost faith like Estonia and Armenia are already making plans. The ones that got sucked into Mother Russia like Byelarus and Ukraine will take a little longer.

Then there's the Muslim part of the former USSR. They are NOT Arabic peoples. Except for the Persian Tajiks, their roots are Turkic. A huge swath of Eurasia suddenly looks like the Ottoman Empire reborn.

We're looking at a completely new balance of world power. A Slavic Europe without communism, a Muslim Mideast without the Arabic overlay, and a Western Hemisphere with about as much importance to the rest of the world as it had before Columbus. If you can foresee how that will work itself out, place your bets now.

(Once again I'm maligning our dear Canadian hosts. Actually you will be the Byzantium upon which two continents pin their hopes for survival of the World As They Know It. Just never forget that Constantinopolis was eventually renamed Istanbul.)

China will keep bumbling along, and maybe it will eventually become the first Former World Power to regain its stature. But it's not going to happen anytime real soon.

Latin America is making some progress in terms of more modern philosophies and a sense of hispanic unity, but they still have to deal with their class struggle. The cocaine barons will fade away once America loses the strength and money to keep fighting the War on Drugs and cocaine prices drop to a dollar a gram. Brazil needs to come to grips with its throwaway children. Like China, I see a lot of promise in Latin America, but not in my lifetime.

Japan's star is already setting.

Africa? Southeast Asia? Can you spell A-I-D-S? Medical science rarely finds a cure for viruses, they just develop vaccines. So an entire generation will be lost. Sorry folks, another thirty years before you can dig your way out of the 20th Century.

So by 2013, the center of the earth will once again be in Europe, but this time it will be in Prague or Budapest instead of Paris or Madrid. And the shadow over it will be cast by the minarets of Ankara. Shades of the 18th Century. The world's two most important languages will be Turkish and what we now call Church Slavonic.

FraggleRocker, I hink that may take more than ten years, but I agree that that will eventually happen.

One's thins for sure though, post-secondary education will be unaffordable, in Canada at least.

And Wal-Mart will take over the world ;)

wow, i'm one of the most cynical ppl here and prolly the youngest! thats horrible!

Originally posted by Nightpoet

And Wal-Mart will take over the world ;)


when i went for a interview at walmart we had to watch this stupid video on the life of walmart....


they are going take over the world!! its a scary thought...

Walmarts already starting to sell meats and cheese.... why stop there :eek:

:rolleyes:
You've said 'slavic" ...Why not russian?:p
I'd like admit that we--russian--are like cockrooaches:we are there ,where it's good ,warm and where u can eat sm-th-n.We will BE in the future--i'm sure :p

Ten years time?

Britney will bare all.

Iraq will still be there, but will be known for it's delicious chocolate factory's.

The President of the USA will be Britney because she bared all.

The middle east will be bombed because Britney says so.

Australia will be bombed because they dont drink enough Pepsi, all according to Britney.

I will be married and out of school.

Originally posted by CounslerCoffee
Ten years time?

Britney will bare all.

Iraq will still be there, but will be known for it's delicious chocolate factory's.

The President of the USA will be Britney because she bared all.

The middle east will be bombed because Britney says so.

Australia will be bombed because they dont drink enough Pepsi, all according to Britney.

I will be married and out of school.

Counsler are you going away for onother week..I think you are in need of onother rest!!:D :m:

Originally posted by Julie
You've said 'slavic" ...Why not russian? I'd like admit that we--russian--are like cockrooaches:we are there ,where it's good ,warm and where u can eat sm-th-n.We will BE in the future--i'm sureRussian is OK. But of all the Slavic languages it is arguably the most difficult for English speakers. The alphabet alone is daunting.

But I was thinking in terms of influence. The Czechs had the most advanced economy of all the Slavic and nearby non-Slavic nations, going into WWII. They have an old civilization, including the first university in Europe. And they are a peaceful people who (as far as I know) have never fired the first shot in a war. They are right on the boundary between Eastern and Western Europe, a very cosmopolitan people. They have been the most successful post-communist democracy. Other countries have elected former communist leaders or simply allowed themselves to be taken over by dictators who are not much better than the communists.

The primary cause of my doubts about the Russians' ability to modernize is that they lived under communism for one more generation than the satellite nations. There are still people in Hungary, Bulgaria, Estonia, Armenia, etc., who remember how to make a capitalist economy work. In Russia all those people are already dead. They also had a failing economy long before Perestroika. Their industrial infrastructure wasn't working, they could barely feed themselves, and they had hospitals with no running hot water. Conditions were not that bad in any of the satellite countries or the annexed ones like Lithuania.

In other words, they have a deeper hole to crawl out of than their neighbors. But they also have a lot of pride and a good attitude about adversity. Perhaps they will be the leaders after all. I wish all of the Slavic people the best. They deserve it after what they've endured.

i think my post was the bes so far...

for shame poeple!