Watching "open range" the other day and considering it was set in the 1890s, a mere 30 years later it was the 1920s and totally different.

Same goes between the 1970s and now... so how do you envision 2034 will be?

flying cars definately, I've always imagined that.

hopefully not time travel, can you imagine how society would be screwed up?

I'll be 47, good grief!

I'll be wrinkly of 73 summers....

I'd like to see us wandering around on Mars and planning where to go next.

Reduction in our energy consumption, with more being produced by things such as fusion and more efficient solar power.

Basic artificial intelligences helping us in day to day stuff - no Hals or Terminators, though.

Life expectancy will stay the same - we'll all be dealing with too much crap from a polluted planet to live to be a hundred and twenty!

Chavs will still be with us. The Chav Wars of 2015 failed to get them all and a breeding pair was left behind in a housing estate in Essex. Soon they came back.....:)

Joe

Originally posted by JoePritchard
Chavs will still be with us. The Chav Wars of 2015 failed to get them all and a breeding pair was left behind in a housing estate in Essex. Soon they came back.....:)

Sadly I think they will always, bit like the Police Academy movies..

Future hit films in 30 years time..

Chav Academy - Chavs in Training
Chav Academy 2 - The Art of Twokking
Chav Academy 3 - War ov the Chavs
Chav Academy 4 - Megan Storm is Born
Chav Academy 5 - Who's the Father ?
Chav Academy 6 - Mission to Argos
Chav Academy 7 - The Burberry Nova Racer

The small pox victims recently discovered in Rome will be the first sign that it's back. As it's supposed to have been been eradicated for 40 years nobody over the age of 40 has had a vaccination so the population of the planet will be decimated. Very few child bearing women will be left alive so those few that are will be nurtured regardless of race or creed.

Lessons will have been learnt :rolleyes: so a new society will arise not based on a military/industrial stranglehold. The arts will flourish, the deserts will bloom and the ice caps will start to grow.

Originally posted by RPG
Watching "open range" the other day and considering it was set in the 1890s, a mere 30 years later it was the 1920s and totally different.

Same goes between the 1970s and now... so how do you envision 2034 will be?

i'll be dead

Originally posted by kirky
i'll be dead

Nice to see you have a positive look on the future mate :hihi: :P

As I watched The Terminator last night....

Perhaps in 2034 we'll have the Chavinator.....

"Listen. And understand. That chavinator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are wearing Burberry and wearing 6 inch hoop ear-rings....."

Apologies to Cameron and Hurd.

Joe

Cross between `Blade Runner` and `Back To The Future II`

More like The Omega Man where it's The Chavily who come out at night and try to destroy the few survivors who understand technology.

flying cars were predicted for 1990 in the 50's i think.

the start of remote terraforming of mars would be nice to see, although i doubt we'll have a permanent manned base there.

ubiquitous computers everywhere, star trek style. "Computer, add some margarine to next weeks grocery list and put the kettle on."

various visual entertainment mediums have blended together to the point where most people don't distinguish between 'the internet' and 'the television' anymore.

house prices have reached 50 times the average salary and now seem set to stay in each family that owns them from generation to generation.

or

ultra highrise and underground buildings have removed housing pressure and many flats sit empty waiting for a council tenant to fill them. Traditional houses command a premium and only the rich can afford them.

civil liberties eroded in the uk to the point where many skilled young people start emigrating. Nanny state take to the stage of using ubiquitous computing to monitor people everywhere and some sort of reward/punishment system for not being the ideal whatever (student, parent, proffesional, etc...).

Originally posted by Cyclone
house prices have reached 50 times the average salary and now seem set to stay in each family that owns them from generation to generation.


Thats not far off now.

Originally posted by JoePritchard
As I watched The Terminator last night....

Perhaps in 2034 we'll have the Chavinator.....

"Listen. And understand. That chavinator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are wearing Burberry and wearing 6 inch hoop ear-rings....."

Apologies to Cameron and Hurd.

Joe

I is back, init ?

Originally posted by Deejay
Nice to see you have a positive look on the future mate :hihi: :P

well i'll be 42 in jan and not many men in our family live above 60 (only 1 in my life time) both my grandads and dad have drop dead in the street.....best way to go.....i don't want to end up being a burden on my kids or having some gothic teenager wipping my arse in some nursing home.

Originally posted by max
The small pox victims recently discovered in Rome will be the first sign that it's back. As it's supposed to have been been eradicated for 40 years nobody over the age of 40 has had a vaccination so the population of the planet will be decimated. Very few child bearing women will be left alive so those few that are will be nurtured regardless of race or creed.

Lessons will have been learnt :rolleyes: so a new society will arise not based on a military/industrial stranglehold. The arts will flourish, the desserts will bloom and the ice caps will start to grow.

well thats cheered me up:|

A link between mobile phones and brain tumors will be proved when everyone who has a mobile phone drops dead and the mobile phoneless inherit a peacefull ringtone free earth.

Mwahahahahhh!

Originally posted by nick2
A link between mobile phones and brain tumors will be proved when everyone who has a mobile phone drops dead and the mobile phoneless inherit a peacefull ringtone free earth.

Mwahahahahhh!

it pretty much has been proved already lol

Originally posted by ianmitchell
it pretty much has been proved already lol

Oh dear.
I hope all the people who think smokers shouldn't be treated as "it's self inflicted" don't take the same view of mobile-induced brain tumors.

there is no rigorous scientific proof for this, most unbiased studies have so far been inconclusive.

Originally posted by nick2
A link between mobile phones and brain tumors will be proved when everyone who has a mobile phone drops dead and the mobile phoneless inherit a peacefull ringtone free earth.

Mwahahahahhh!

And the flat earth society become world leaders?

Iraq will be a stable and democratic country and people will wonder why there was so much resistance to getting rid of Saddam 30 years previous. He will be long hanged and partly forgotten by then.:clap:

Smoking in public will be unknown and totally socially unacceptable. There will still be a limited amount of it in private but it will be very much a consenting adult/behind closed doors type of activity. The minimum age for buying cigarettes will be 21 and there will be only a limited numer of licenced outlets where they can be bought from. Cigarette machines, and selling them in corner shops/supermarkets etc will be a thing of the past.

Buses still won't run on time and passengers will still complain endlessly about them:D

As a result of no-one smoking, taxes will increase to cover the billions missing from the treasury, everyone will moan.

Originally posted by nick2
As a result of no-one smoking, taxes will increase to cover the billions missing from the treasury, everyone will moan.

No. You just increase the tax on each packet to take account of lower sales.

Originally posted by kirky
or having some gothic teenager wipping my arse in some nursing home.

So you're not into S&M then Kirky ;)

Originally posted by slimsid2000
No. You just increase the tax on each packet to take account of lower sales.

Or move the tax to alcohol instead.

Originally posted by Killian
So you're not into S&M then Kirky ;)

our lass buysher under wear there........no nowt againts them

I'll be a pensioner with the possibility of no pension. There will be gangland killings and mob rule. Royalty will be a thing of the past. Drugs will be legal and death by alcohol abuse will be common.

It could turn out differently......

Come on, George W has got 4 more years to detroy the planet; like it's going to last another 30 years!

Originally posted by kirky
... or having some gothic teenager wipping my arse in some nursing home.

Kirky,

Whipping or wiping ? :D

Originally posted by kirky
having some gothic teenager wipping my arse in some nursing home.

I've seen that movie!!!


According to John Gray the human population will be reduced to its 'pre-plague' sustianable population of about one tenth of what it is now. This will be caused by natural or manmade disaster of some sort. Most likely a virus we are unprepared for, or just mass starvation because there are too many of us.
For the ones that survive it will be ace - you will have about five houses each and will be able to walk around deserted cities just going in to buildings that will be abandoned.

One day there will be documentries about digging up parts of our civilsation in a narrow time frame. A sort of evolved crab version of Time Team. For instance, they will dig up a pizza hut and the presenter will say, 'these people used to gather in great numbers to eat flat bread with tomato ketchup on it - what morons!'

It will be a big world again!:|