The future...?

[jessem98]

nano technology (with this well have more then a terabyte hard drives the size of about a square cm prob less, make diamonds from coal etc..) , hydrogen cars almost as popular as gas ones, crazy new type of television, canada being more bomb then it already is, and toronto being named the capital of canada, cause lets face it, Toronto is the place in canada to be.

[crudemood]

kind of scary, but im looking foward to it.

[ChiefSmokesAlot]

nano technology (with this well have more then a terabyte hard drives the size of about a square cm prob less, make diamonds from coal etc..) , hydrogen cars almost as popular as gas ones, crazy new type of television, canada being more bomb then it already is, and toronto being named the capital of canada, cause lets face it, Toronto is the place in canada to be.

Amen, Brother. :rastasmoke:

[stinkyattic]

Class warfare, famine, and disease on an unprecedented scale as sea level rises, food supplies fail, and fuel becomes less and less accessible to all but the wealthiest. I only hope that I'm not around to see it.

[scagster]

:jointsmile:I'm fine with the sea level rising. I will be living in the Rockies by the time I'm 40 or so, so bring it on. Plus the global warming will make the winters a little more manageable.

But in all seriousness, I'm not that worried. I know a chap who lives in the Superstition Mountains near me, who is almost 100% independent of everyone in the outside world. Sure, he's not totally independent, but if he had to be, I think he could manage. He has a farm off in the wilderness where he has a whole bunch of windmills, and solarpanels, and a large shed full of batteries where it stores the power on. Basically, he has enough power to pump water, do laundry, run internet, lights, other basic necessities. He grows all his food himself organically, thanks to his massive composting bins. Fruit trees, vegetables, herb gardens (no, just legal medicine herbs), and raises chickens, ducks, turkeys, and geese. Basically, this guy is the man. I've stayed out at his place for a while to learn how he does this, and I'm definitely inspired. Last year a mountain lion got into his room while he was sleeping and he fought it off, and managed to get to his gun and shoot the thing to death.

Point of the story: being a hermit rules!

[stinkyattic]

You don't think that displaced, starving people from low-lying areas and cities, who don't have their own source of food, will be moving into the hills to forage as well?
It's going to be bloody.

Imagine the entire population of NYC unable to eat because no one can afford to ship food into the city. Imagine them first rioting, then moving upstate, foraging for field crops, killing dairy cattle for meat, fighting over access to clean drinking water, sleeping in barns... Imagine the farmers who thought they could at the very least feed their own families now having to defend their food and homes against a horde of starving ex-urbanites.

If the stuff that happened after Katrina didn't scare you... and that was nothing compared to things to come...

I think it's difficult for a person living in a 'developed' country, who has never had to go hungry, to imagine what people will endure out of desperation. You only have to look at Mexican immigrants walking for days across the desert to come look for work, or Chinese immigrants paying their life savings for the right to be packed like sardines into a steel shipping container for weeks with almost no food or water, and no sanitary facilities, to make the Pacific crossing and hope to land alive in a country where just maybe they can work illegally for a tiny wage... It's something to think about...

[scagster]

Yeah, I wasn't thinking about THAT far into the future, but if we are assuming that anarchy will become commonplace, I'm burying a bunch of ammunition and MREs in the wilderness And growing the biggest mustache possible.

[BUZz UK]

lmao, flying cars and robot pussy!!

[TheGreenBuddy]

the future...ugh... we have a shitload of shit to deal with in the future...me, you...all of us!....something big is going to happen...i feel it...

[GraziLovesMary]

I see many things in the future. There are many possible outcomes, and they all flash across my mindscape at various times. If I do nothing, I see many grim outcomes for humanity within the next few centuries.

If I stay on course, I foresee a close turnaround for the better. The stakes will be high, and the margins will be narrow, but I am working as hard as I can.