How I See The World in 100 Years

The unknown that awaits us in the future can be unsettling, we’re living in an era where our conditions, capabilities, and understandings are progressing so fast and in so many different directions anything is possible and essentially a blink of the eye the entire world can change. With the way things are going right now it can be easy to lose hope and become scared for humanity’s future but what use is this if the future is uncertain. People have fear over hope, wonder, and excitement. The things that await us may be good or maybe bad but all we can do is hope and strive for the best and so with this in mind let’s consider and imagine for a moment what in fact that could be the following is a potential ideal rendering of the future based on current trends and predictions is arguably just as possible as it is not it is a future that could very well become real while you are still alive all it takes is one new little piece to tip the entire scale of reality.

Imagine yourself some time in the considerable far future and you are planning to go on a vacation with some friends and family to another planet that could possibly not be in our solar system that is thriving with new species and extensive beaches and warm calm waters and the sun is never too hot and never gets too cold, it’s like the perfect place on earth except it’s not. You wouldn’t be searching for airliners to take you there except you are doing the exact same thing with space liners to take you to space. Earth’s resources wouldn’t be depleted due to the fact we are mining and farming on separate planets. Also, these new planets would allow for the discovery of new sources of nutrients, elements, a fuel that are now integrated into our everyday lives. This means massive issues like global warming wouldn’t be an issue anymore, just a lesson taught in history classes. With these new greater resources allows for unlimited energy the sparks an era in technological advancements, and the growing concern of AI becoming an issue has been resolved before any damage can be done. The way of automation has become so efficient humans wouldn’t have to work to underpay 9-5 dead-end jobs. Work is now all about working with creativity and innovation and everyone will now know work as an exciting new way of life. Education has been restructured to attend to this shift school is no longer based on memorization of rigidly standardized curriculums instead it is open diverse and practical to human life it covers a greater range of topics and adopts emotional intelligence, mental health career selection, and financial literacy as some of the new primaries focuses in addition to traditional subjects moving forward. Every single child will be properly equipped to utilize their intelligence in the most effective and rewarding ways. This means more smart people, more smart people means more innovations and discoveries, which means more people have been working on solving major problems. While advancing the technology works in parallel to execute the solutions from a medical perspective. A newfound comprehensive understanding of the human genome now allows us to quickly eradicate diseases as well as ensure that newborn humans are born with optimal health. Evolution is compounding at a 10 X multiple, 10 years is like 100, 100 years is like a thousand and so on. All current 3rd world countries will be living comfortably and poverty will no longer exist. Everything I just said is if everything goes right but knowing people we are bound to everything wrong as well.

Earth could be an absolute wasteland with raging fires everywhere, radiation contamination, oceans dried out, life on earth is on the brink of existence or we could be at war with ourselves again except humans are fighting people from different planets that we have inhabited, and the education system is incomplete freefall or just does not exist at all. AI could have wiped out the earth because it has come to realize that there are too many people on this planet and decides to hack Nuclear weapons and make earth inhabitable for thousands of years due to the fact of nuclear fallout and winter that would kill everything on the ground.

In conclusion, the future is very uncertain. We cannot predict anything, it can go all of 2 ways. The 1st one being where life is thriving, no racism, poverty, the gap between the rich and the poor does not exist as much or none or we would be at war for 3rd, 4th, 5th who knows how many times we could be at war if everything goes wrong. But, we don’t know that it is still a blank piece of paper.    

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