Just one question. You are a very prolific poster. Do you have a life beyond your keyboard?
Famous last words. There probably wouldn't be "poor countries" today, except for tribal, tyrannical and anti-capitalist rulers. But I guess all that will just disappear in the next 20 years, right?
I’ll be 99 years old.....and...not sure I believe all this, especially if the world is morally corrupt
“Researchers are confident that within 20 years they can design a vaccine to stop the spread of HIV, which currently kills anywhere from 1.5 million to 2 million people per year.”
We already know how to stop the spread of HIV. It would be gone in one generation, but...
We are experiencing the easiest existence ever enjoyed by the human animal...and listen to us bitch.
While I am pretty sure this is crackpot stuff (they said similar things in 1901), these kinds of people who talk about becoming immortal and curing all disease and having no poverty anywhere are utopianists. They’re insane, and they will go to any ends to convince themselves they are right. In a sense, they are the creepiest types of utopianists, transhumanists.
Killing people is more expensive? Really. Seems even easier and more cost-effective than it ever has been.
When they start talking about designing babies in test tubes and uploading computer brains... you have to wonder if Alex Jones has a point about how genuinely amoral the global elite are. I mean, this is pure evil, playing God, designing new ways to control and manipulate people.
I’d sooner join the stone age ranks of the Taliban than serve the kind of utopia envisioned here. Sounds like an Orwellian hell mixed with Christopher Lambert’s ‘Fortress’.
I just quickly scanned over portions of this “essay” but nowhere did I see any references to people’s political freedom. I can only conclude that that is not important to this author. It is to me.
Lunacy
They’ll be spandex jackets one for everyone.
All 100 million of them.
What a brave new world it will be.
I’ll be 84.
“Researchers are confident that within 20 years they can design a vaccine to stop the spread of HIV,”
Unfortunately I saw this same exact prediction in print twenty years ago.
Lost of pie-in-the-sky nonsense in there. The world will run on “renewable (green) energy”? Ridiculous. Solar and wind are sparse energy sources. And Hydro? Did this guy miss where some US bureaucrat proudly announced that we would “never see another Federal dam again”?
What a preposterous article. No mention of radical islam and the spreading global caliphate. Or emerging serious health threats like the ebola virus which is going to slip out of Africa and potentially lead to massive global deaths. Then we have again-ascendant radical marxism and communism on a global conquest to enslave the entire globe. And the author’s remarks about “renewable” energy are entirely in lala land. All we need is a million floating windmills! That, plus covering 100% of the southwest USA in solar panels.
“By 2035, there will be no more poor countries,” Bill Gates wrote earlier this year.”
There would have to be some sort of massive genomic alteration to actually change human nature for poor people not to exist. Unless he meant ‘no more poor governments of countries’ which probably exists now. I mean have any governmental leaders of a country in the modern era starved to death?
Freegards
What? No flying cars? That’s been a staple of “Whither the Future?” articles for decades. Somehow, automated driverless cars lack pizzazz.
In 2050, I’ll be 89.
I’m gonna have my head frozen like Ted Williams and when I’m put back together in 2080, I’m going to kick some serious @ss!
You have been warned, Whipper-Snappers!
What about the year 2525?