Originally Posted by
EvilNed
I predict two different scenarios:
Scenario 1
2040
Many new countries will have formed. It is not highly unlikely that the US will have split in two parts that while officially being one coutry, are really two different independent countries. One fiercly religious and conservative and the other democratic and modern. Israel will have conquered more lands from it's incapable neighbours and along with China will have the biggest army in the world.
Coorperations won't be plenty. There will be but a few, massive ones. There will be one food coorperation, one water coorperation, one energy coorperation, one soda coorperation etc. etc. etc. Currently, all major coorperations are buying up the minor companies so this is something that WILL happen. I don't believe coorperations will sport their own political agendas and territory, like in Rollerball, but that might come at a later date. Eventually, coorperations will become more powerful than countries.
China will be the superpower of the day, with most of the worlds coorperations having relocated their production to East Asia and sorrounding countries. In the western world, there will be tremendous unemployment, possibly ranging up to 30-40%.
Genetic engineered food will completly depend on what the Food Coorporation chooses to do, but I'd say that about 90% of our food will be genetically altered and there being select wares that are not (for those who don't want it).
Another space race has occured, and we have possibly colonized the Moon and put a man on Mars. The sole reason for this would be that the western world would want something to divert the publics attention from all growing problems in the society and the chinese, having the resources and not wanting to miss out, will have picked up on this and the two halves will compete with each other. Russia will offer technology to both, but stay out of it (or join on Chinas sida). Due to their lucrative trade agreements with China, Russia will possibly again emerge as a superpower, and China will have of course replaced the US' position.
In everyday life, it will remain much the same. There will not be awhole lot of new inventions in the coming century. A few here and there, but nothing to rock the world. People will be more healthy, because cars have become more expensive but will also run on ecological gases and fuel. So, people will bicycle more and so. Airplane travel has suffered a slight decline (or may even have ceased completly) because of the lack of fuel, but as a result boats and ships have become the preferred way to travel and alot of money has gone into making boating a pleasant and fast experience. Crossing the atlantic could take a day or two. But apart from some major changes, life remains much the same. Skyscrapers will look more polished, but cities will still be as dirty. Unemployment will be massive, however, as I mentioned.
The movie business will remain much the same, with the exception being that every single movie is produced by the same coorperation and it's daughter companies. It will be easier for actresses to break into the movie business, because now there are one only set of executives they have to blow.
2060-2070
China, the new center of the world, will not be without it's problems. It will be a country where men outnumber the women 5 to 1, due to the fact that modern chinese often abort or "dispose" of their girl childs (chinese parents are only allowed one child, and they want those to be boys). So by 2060 or 2070 China will recieve a complete and utter economic collapse sending much of the world into a huge deppression. India will then replace Chinas place as a superpower and unlike all other superpowers, India will be a benign superpower with little interest in military matters. The golden age of the modern era will begin by then. Wars will not be as frequent and the far east will still be economically viable and powerfull whereas the west will recieve a slight economic boost.
Scenario 2
2040
The earth is a wasteland. The US, East Asia, Europe are all laid to waste by nuclear weapons and chemical agents. Africa, Australia and South America will have experienced a tough nuclear winter. Those who survive the nuclear winter will suffer a lack of food, medicine and will dwindle in numbers very quickly. The earth's population has been reduced to 50 million, spread across over the southern part of the world at various locations.
The Feudal system will have returned, with powerful political figures having deployed themselves as the saviours of mankind. They will control small states, and these will be the equivalent of todays countries. Warfare will be constant, and the population will be kept at a low until the distant future when the earth once again can sustain life and technology may (or may not) save mankind from this grim vision.
Battles will be fought with a combination of swords, clubs, axes and simple musketlike rifles. Modern guns will have been done away with, because of the complexity of constructing ammo for them. That is why renaissance like warfare, with battlelines and routing will be present on the earth once again.
3000+
In the very distant future, way beyond 2040, the time prior to the Nuclear War will be known as the Time of the White Man, but since nearly all white men were wiped out in the nuclear war, the world will be dominated by someone else, possibly latinos or africans. All persons, events and happenings in The Time of the White Man will be considered to be a myth, legend. From Alexander the Great to Adolf Hitler, they will at first form a sort of mythic legend but eventually people will start to doubt that these persons ever even existed and that the Time of the White Man was simply one big story. Much in the same way we view the Bible and Quran today.
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