See you say no apocalyptic event, but we've done almost nothing to slow climate change, and that will destroy humanity in less than a century much better than we can directly do ourselves. The event has already started, and we're ignoring it.
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Everyone will become gay and artificial baby's will produce. We will just work and no feelings. Ai and robot will be there also credit system
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Higher global temperature and more drastic weather. Better medicine and medical equipment but with higher costs. Decreasing global population, but more homeless people due to ai software and physical bots. The continually profitting billionaires will control more of the media to influence those below them, ie to have them fight among themselves rather than them. Probably more in "goverments" for more control. Continuing wars just different countries for profit.
This won't be that big of a difference within that timespan, but the trend will continue as more time passes.
I try to be an optimist, but unless the underclass revolts, it's hard to see otherwise.
There will be a lunar spacestation, according to NASA, which I'll be looking forward to seeing, at least.
I hope no human life
You can imagine different dystopian scenarios:
- Elon builds a colony on mars. Once one million people get there, it starves to death by technical accidents and is left to its fate.
- Chinese hyper empire emerges, from Tibetan Plateu and conquers a weakened Russia. Trump is okay with it, since he is focused on "domestic issues" like removing gay rights. Later China buys Trumps advisors.
- Trump conquest of Greenland, Canada and the arctic create a new American Hyper-Empire that expands into the weakened Russian heartland and Europe.
Or to keep the status quo:
- Europe conquers Russia, and shows Trump and Xi their place.
Take a guess at the predicted world population
!> The world population is projected to reach 8.5 billion in 2030, and to increase further to 9.7 billion in 2050 and 10.4 billion by 2100.!<
That doesn't take into account the mass famines we are likely to have, as arable surface disappears.
ITT: People who can't put aside doomerism for even a moment to try and engage with a basic hypothetical.
(Putting my response to the "prompt" in a separate comment)
You've said exactly what I was thinking. The idea behind the body text was to avoid every comment being about climate catastrophe, which would be a bit boring because we're all well aware of what's going on.