Immortality will be cracked.
Millions of drones in the air at any one time.
There will be no discernible difference between night and day for virtually any human activity.
Seasons will be irrelevant.
We may have actual space elevators by then.
It will not be compatible with “unaltered” human beings - both physically and intellectually speaking.
Distance will be irrelevant.
There will be long term colonies on the bottom of the ocean as well as antarctica. There will probably be the same on the moon, mars and perhaps other moons within our solar system. And thanks to 3D printed Graphene they will be mostly simple inflatable “buildings”. Even when exposed to the vacuum of space. Space stations could be similarly constructed.
There will be lots of high speed underground tube transportation. Oil will be cheap, not only because it is abundant but because solar power will be cheaper and more efficient. There will be almost (if not literally) NO reason to go to a particular place to perform your job unless it requires physical interaction with other people.
The walls of every room in your living space will be ultra high definition floor to ceiling 3D video monitors giving you the ability to “think” you are anywhere in the world you want to be - or on a space station or on Mars. In fact, it could be a live “webcast” from anywhere in the world at the press of a button. Visit downtown Paris at night and then immediately switch to a beach in Hawaii. Ride with a man in his glider. Visit the great barrier reef. All in souround vision in 3D and in real time.
Most people will get their sexual pleasure without the involvement of another human being.
IOW, I expect the Lord to return in less than 50 years.
The dollar will be where the pound is, I.e., not the world reserve currency.
America will be two or even four countries, comparable to the Former Soviet Union.
To comply with the law, people will carry trackers which also function as wallets and permit operation of Authorized Vehicles.
Spanish will be REQUIRED for any form of employment.
I think about the next 5, 10, 20, 50 years ALL THE TIME. All I know is it’s going to be very interesting. Probably not in a good way.
I saw a documentary on the probable future of America a few years ago.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/mobile/m/idiocracy/
I think it is probably accurate.
I won’t be here to see it, but I have absolutely no doubt our grandchildren will be cussing us for the mess our generation has left behind.
Slave state of islsmonazi caliphate Supplying little boy toys and young girls for their jihadist “soldiers of allah” Also spare parts ( human organs) harvested from any dissenters. All churches and synagogues burned down or turned into mosques or brothels all private property confiscated. and obama still telling us how wonderful Islam is
It’ll be the same only more so. And I’ll be dead, so good luck.
It took a Jimmah Cahtah to give us the Gipper.
It will look like Dodger Stadium after a doubleheader with the Giants.
Or we could have that civil war with the military breaking up or at least not siding completely with the Sultanate and a breakup into several separate Nations. Only the second alternative would maintain the USA as a major mover int he World. The rest would invite the wannabe empires of Russia and China and Islam to try to swoop in on us.
2. Southern states will be part of Mexico.
3. Russia will own Alaska and will be exploiting its oil resources.
4. The remainder of the country will be controlled by various islamic clans or bands of pro-Democracy pioneers with skirmishes over resources being commonplace.
Vastly different from fifty years ago? Only someone who wasn’t around fifty years ago would say such a thing. There was television, computers, telephones, cars ....
If you want something vastly different, try the difference between 1910 and 1960.
Watch the TV series Mad Men to see how little has changed in the last fifty years. I don’t see the next fifty as being anywhere near as radically different as 1910-1960.
Gone.
America in fifty years, at this rate, will not exist.
Hawaii will be taken over by China.
California and other parts of the Southwest will either be an independent Hispanic state complete with Aztlan-sponsored ethnic cleansing or it will be part of Mexico.
Texas will be independent again.
The US military will be second rate. Maybe even third rate.
China will dominate the mining and manufacturing sectors and the remainder of the US will be subject to a mercantilism relationship with China.
Or we could elect a conservative next year and see this country prosper through the end of the century.
If continuing on this path … destruction, or at least becoming one of the weakest countries in the world.
2 possible paths- watch “X-Men Days of Future Past” for the alternatives
I think God is going to get fed up with the whole lot of us and will destroy the world.
Worse.