I'm sure this must have come up before, but I can't find any relevant threads.

20 years or so ago people thought that by the year 2000 we'd all be wearing silver and eating pellets of condensed nutrition and that sort of thing.

As it is, we're wearing the clothes of 20 years ago and eating even less nutritious stuff.

What will the world be like in 2050?

What will we wear? How will we travel? What will we eat? What will the music be like? Will computers have taken over the world?

Whaddya reckon?

I'll be what . . . 66 then?? I don't think that it will be a very nice place then. Thats if crime and pollution keeps rising. I wonder if we'll even exist anymore . . .

Originally posted by purplepippa
I'm sure this must have come up before, but I can't find any relevant threads.

20 years or so ago people thought that by the year 2000 we'd all be wearing silver and eating pellets of condensed nutrition and that sort of thing.

As it is, we're wearing the clothes of 20 years ago and eating even less nutritious stuff.

You might be wearing big shoulder pad suits of 1983 but I'm certainly not!

Now please excuse me while I eat my five Big Macs and squeeze into my jumpsuit and leg warmers....

Originally posted by purplepippa

20 years or so ago people thought that by the year 2000 we'd all be wearing silver and eating pellets of condensed nutrition and that sort of thing.

As it is, we're wearing the clothes of 20 years ago and eating even less nutritious stuff.

well silver is making a comeback and loads of ppl are popping vitamin pills beacuse of our crap diets and hopes of getting into lycra catsuits like kylie. and we've got video mob phones, although there only popular in japan where everything is compact.

8) Nah Den Ace.......

In the year 2050, I reckon the youth of today will have grown up and had kids of their own; they will be bemoaning the plight of "kids today!", they will be saying that yob culture is out of control and that it wasn't like this back in the good old noughties; that they had discipline in their day and that it is all the fault of the loony PC, bleeding heart, do-good brigade.

I reckon local football fans will be vehemently opposed to the latest suggestion of a merger. Wednesday fans will be saying that they are the biggest/best/hardest/etc and United fans will be saying that they are the biggest/best/hardest/etc; they will be arguing over who originally called the other "pigs" and unfortunately the only top flight club in Yorkshire will be L**ds!

I reckon we'll still be arguing about roads, place names and pronounciations; we'll be discussing the ever increasing problem of space congestion, rocket fuel increases and Sheffield City Council persecuting space users.

I reckon Geoff will rule the seven hills of Sheffield and his crack team of Mods will stamp out any murmurs of heavy-handed censorship!

Finally, I reckon I'll still be coming on here talking complete and utter b*ll*cks!

........Sounds great, when does it start!!!!!

Regards,

Spacehopper.

One year closer ....

I'll be knocking on 72! Hope I can pass my driving test after 70 :hihi:

One year closer ....


I'd better get to work designing those spangly hoverpants that everyone's going to be wearing then :rolleyes:

The Northern Ice Cap will have stretched down as far as mid europe blanketing Britain in permafrost, snow & ice due to the cessation of the Gulf Stream.

There'll be a mosque on every ice-berg & Jade Goody will be Queen

imagine this: its 2050, you and your spouse have been invited to a dinner and dance, the dj puts on a song from the good ole days, you get up and make your way to the dance floor, move your zimmer frame to the side and start dancing big fish/little fish (with your hands) to m and m or whatever hes called :hihi:

Well I wont be far of 90, so dont really care to be honest, lol

I would imagine that the Sheffield Forum will still be going :)

We'll all be eating Soylent Green :help:

By 2050 I think we'll either be back to The Dark Ages or well on the way the to The Dark Ages. The reason I give for this is The Oil Age or The Age of Oil will be truely over. Global Warming will be the least of worries then as the dwindling Oil supplies may trigger a nuclear war as the governments squabble over the black gold. If WW3 does occur then maybe The Dark Ages would be a nice era to have lived in.:help:

I remember when I was about 8 years old (31 years ago) we had to write a story about how old we would be & what life would be like in the year 2000.
I recall writing that I would be 32/33 & that pavements would all be like wall tiles & low & behold we have Meadohall.

In 2050, I reckon I'll have been fitted out with a wooden overcoat, but seriously, I think there'll have been another world war by then.:mad:

We'll all be eating Soylent Green :help:

Ill be 90 and long dead so theres a chance that Ill be passing along your large intestine and saying a big hello to your appendix.

we will all live in some huge 4x4 while 90% of the population will loose the ability to use thair legs. meanwhile 20% of the population can still read/write will inforce the racist law and punishment will be tongue removal.

School kids will be drip fed by nokia while educated on ways to get free benifit money and how to bring up kids from the age of 9

the Government air tax will be increased so only the uppercrust can breath.

All couples will be gay or lesbians who have cross gender sex organ replacements to have kids.

And HDTV & 100mb broadband will still be 'in the pipeline' :hihi:
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In 1993 John Major said:

Fifty years now Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and - as George Orwell said - 'old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist'.

It was a nice thought on Major's part but I'm not sure how true it will be.

It shouldn't take that long, but my view is that we will reject pointless gadgets and, in particular, instant communictaion. Almost every sci-fi film or prediction has us instantly avaible with handheld video phones or holographic images of the person we are speaking to. We are already at the stage where a number of people think it is their right to call their bank at 3am or go shopping on Sunday afternoons. This will probably get worse before it gets better but eventually people will reject this nonsense and we will see your importance measured by how hard you are to contact. Peace and quiet will be the new luxury and it will become normal not to bother people except at specific times and it will be more polite to turn up in person.

I seem to remember at school most of the predictions of the "far future" went as follows

"Today, in 1975 people need to work for 35-40 hours per week. By the year 1995 computers and technology will mean that we have a leisure crisis - people will have so much free time that they find it difiicult to fill it with fun. Many people will be out of work all together as machines replace people"

I was thinking this very thought as I was doing the 70+ hours a week last year...

Honk

PS
I also thought we would all be wearing silver trousers by the year 2000

And HDTV & 100mb broadband will still be 'in the pipeline' :hihi:

And the UK launch of the PS3 "Imminent"

Silver trousers? Why does the future have to involve a massive deterioration of fashion sense?

By 2050, I'll be emperor.

This will probably get worse before it gets better but eventually people will reject this nonsense and we will see your importance measured by how hard you are to contact.
Yes, fashions do change. For example, in Victorian times it was very unfashionable amongst the upper/middle classes to have a tan (as this was a sign of being an outdoor labourer). Let's hope that tranquility becomes fashionable again. :)

Silver trousers? Why does the future have to involve a massive deterioration of fashion sense?

By 2050, I'll be emperor.

Crayfish 2050 (http://coasty.letarc.net/photolab/pictures/pensuit1.jpg)

:hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:

In 2050, I reckon I'll have been fitted out with a wooden overcoat, but seriously, I think there'll have been another world war by then.:mad:

Yeh, me too!

Crayfish 2050 (http://coasty.letarc.net/photolab/pictures/pensuit1.jpg)

:hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:

Now that's fashion :D

Maybe I should start setting that trend now..

Technology will have failed. There will only be 10% of the world's population left because of a nuclear war, that is WW3. Those who remain will live in small community's that will use solar and wind power - not only because technology will have failed but also because the oil age will be over.

Technology will have failed because of advanced warfare tactics in the field of technology. Enemy satellites will be targeted by ever evolving lasers, also extreme climate will cause allot of infrastructure to fail, and this will all contribute to the technology failure.

Monetary systems will have crashed by then to do with the breakdown in technology. At present, increasingly conventional banks are turning to the INTERNET as a means to deal with customers. Eventually everyone will have a credit card in the Nere future leaving a cashless society. When digital technology fails, then so will the monetary systems of the world.

In 2050 there will be no infrastructure regarding transport systems. People will travel like in the past, on horse drawn carts. People will wear cloths that they make themselves. There will be only farming community's.

In Europe there will be an monarchy. Men will have lost faith in modern ideals of political systems due to the catastrophic consequences of man's nature when he turns away from God. Therefor, people wont be placing their faith in man made systems but in culture and morals centered around a God-head and monarchy will be an aspect of that way of thinking.


Those who reamin will be deeply religious Christians. No one will doubt the existence of a supernatural God because everyone will have witnessed the catastrophes in climate and in in human warfare as result of turning away from God and toward consumerism and the self. They will remember how in the past nobody cared to rectify environmental concerns and work toward peacemaking - all as a result of vilified Christian ideology.

Those who reamin will be deeply religious Christians. No one will doubt the existence of a supernatural God because everyone will have witnessed the catastrophes in climate and in in human warfare as result of turning away from God and toward consumerism and the self. They will remember how in the past nobody cared to rectify environmental concerns and work toward peacemaking - all as a result of vilified Christian ideology.


Errrrr I don't think so. By 2050 the welcome trend of seeing what religions, especially chritianty, for what they really are will mean that people will stop believing in all fairy tales.

The world does not need the hate filled poison of religion any more. The 20th century and early 21st will hopefully be the last "blip" - the new fundamentalism is only the death throws of faith.

and the world wil be a better place for it

Mark Twain
"Every village has a light; the school, every village has somebody trying to put out that light; the parson"

So Mr Goose, are you denying the climate crisis, the increasing number of banks going digital, the US satellite that was recently crashed by a Chinese military laser, the impeding wars - especially between America and her enemy's, the Doomsday clock pushing closer to midnight, the economic imbalances etc?

Call me deluded all you want, but I think you must be deluded yourself if you think the world is a safe place and is going to evade a culmination.

I don't see the same fundamental insecurity in digital media that you base your arguments upon, especially as the internet for example survives through a distributed, non-centralised network almost impervious to (physical) destruction. As for impending wars between America and others, I'm afraid if there are any they're likely to be a little one-sided and like the majority of other American campaigns over the last few decades, would go almost unnoticed by the wider world except for increasing media coverage and sensitivity.

Ironically, the divisive force of religion will be both a reason for warfare and a manipulative tool used to sway popular opinion in favour of the wars, if they should happen.

The climate crisis is indeed a worry but although it will be an irritation to the human race if the Northern hemisphere hits a minor ice age, none but the most extreme and outside predictions show it to be anything more than a moderate irritation, certainly not universally cataclysmic.

Not sure what you're on about with Doomsday clock, if you're referring to the religious predictions (of which there are so many and so ambiguous that you could pitch an argument of almost equal strength that the world will end at any given second of your choosing) then we'll leave such paranoia to your medieval beliefs.

Where will we be in 2050?

Firstly, just want to push aside all the gloomy, paranoid projections of the future. In reference to the Doomsday Clock, we were indeed 2 minutes to midnight in the height of the cold war, we're 5 minutes from midnight now. Global Warming? That shows that in 50 years at the current rate of carbon emissions (which is unsustainable) then Britian's climate would have risen by an average 2.4 degree's centigrade (stats from Oxbridge studies recently carried out). World War Three isn't a possibility in my opinion due to Mass Media. We live in a society now where the citizens (or consumers if you are a capitilist criticiser) have the power shifting towards them, away from governments, so a World War is less likely than ever.

We do have a noticable problem with Nuclear Technologies, but it musn't be overlooked of Nuclear uses in Warfare. Aside from America 'testing' the bombs in Japan, in which they recieved world wide criticism, no bomb has been used in the last 60 years. One main problem with using weapons of mass destruction is that they are almost always untargetable, with neighbouring countries affected.

Now to where I think we'll be in 2050, I think we'll be in a similar position. Technology will have replaced a number of job positions, however the labour will move to another market, and the laying off of Jobs will almost certainly happen over a long period of time leaving the economy to recover. Recently British scientists have created a microchip that works on plastics rather than silicone, allowing for more felxible electronics. That could possibly be the key creation of the next 50 years, as it would allow for electronics to help us all in every aspect of our lives. However, if you're a technophobe, much like now, you're likely to stay away from it.

Clothing will be just like it is now, just with different fashions. Nothing major like silvery trousers :P. We'll see advances in aerospace but nothing big enough to allow us to live on other planets. The Music and Film industries would probably show the most dramatic of changes, with artists and producers likely to spend far less money on their productions due to a fall in revenue from illegal aquisitions of their property.

China and India will represent the World Powers in the world, America will likely be jealous but forced to concede the position. The Middle East could possibly see peace as citizens in their countries open their eyes to the possibilities to living in a democracy.

Could go on forever. ...

I think of my granddaughter and her grandchildren; I see 2 scenarios:
1/. "Nanny, is it true when you were a girl, you had a box in a corner and saw movies on it -- they didn't come out of the walls in 3D like today?"
2/. "Nanny, tell us again about that electricity you had when you were a girl, and you didn't have to make candles and chop sticks for the fire"
Which will it be?

I think of my granddaughter and her grandchildren; I see 2 scenarios:
1/. "Nanny, is it true when you were a girl, you had a box in a corner and saw movies on it -- they didn't come out of the walls in 3D like today?"
2/. "Nanny, tell us again about that electricity you had when you were a girl, and you didn't have to make candles and chop sticks for the fire"
Which will it be?

How about "Nanny, when you were little did you have a TV and a radio like we do?". "Yes we did", said the Nanny, "but with hundreds of channels providing utter rubbish until we settled on 10 really good channels in 2040, and the box was bigger than the one you have now and took up the entire corner of the room".

In 2050 we'll still have Wednesday fans on here stating that "this could be the year we make the Premiership"....

in 2050 there will be only pound shops on the Moor. Debenhams will be the UK's largest branch of Pound Land

2050?? I remember dreaming about a machine when I was about 6 or 7 i'm 30 now, it had a red lazer coming out of it and a silver disk spinning on top it played music. Strange. I also predicted we wouldn't carry cash any more but use a card instead. My predictions for 2050 are.....I'll let you know tomorrow after a good nights dreaming.

I had a dream when I was about ten about lottery numbers written on the side of a lorry. I woke up, told my mum the first three numbers but couldn't remember the other three - all three came up and we won a tenner. Pity my memory wasn't a little better there.

Ouch, thats a bitch. Oh well, £10's better than nothing :)

in 2050 there will be only pound shops on the Moor. Debenhams will be the UK's largest branch of Pound Land

After 43 more years of inflation?
What about "Hundred Pound Shops"?
Remember, FW Woolworth started with "3d and 6d Stores"
(threepenny & sixpenny)
(OK dime & nickel in USA where he really started.)

[QUOTE=Lanora;1875595]So Mr Goose, are you denying the climate crisis, the increasing number of banks going digital, the US satellite that was recently crashed by a Chinese military laser, the impeding wars - especially between America and her enemy's, the Doomsday clock pushing closer to midnight, the economic imbalances etc?
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By no means, but I regard the single biggest threat to the world as being religion, especially the fundie nutters who believe word-for-word in scripture.

Remember - there is a big move in the christian right in the US that World War 3 and global warming is a "good thing" because it will herald the end of days (TM) :confused:

So Mr Goose, are you denying the climate crisis, the increasing number of banks going digital, the US satellite that was recently crashed by a Chinese military laser, the impeding wars - especially between America and her enemy's, the Doomsday clock pushing closer to midnight, the economic imbalances etc?


just to put matters straight - it was a 1990's CHINESE weather satallite they shot down

just to put matters straight - it was a 1990's CHINESE weather satallite they shot down

They didn't use a laser either, they crashed a missile into it.

We'll all be eating Soylent Green :help:

Soylent Green is Chavs!

Well i'll be 63 and cursing about having to work for another 7 years before i can retire, a pack of fags will cost about £300, a pint £15, a bag of heroin £1 and an ecstasy pill 1/2p . Islam will have spread through the western world but Jews will be making a comeback starting in the 40's.
The leader of the UK (head of the Benefits (pink) party) will be a 1/4 white black brown and yellow homosexual with AIDS and a raving drug addiction. China will be the world's superpower after Ben Yin and Lee Chen become the first men to walk on Mars.
The majority of society will be living in extreme poverty, automobiles will still be about but powered by electicity/hydrogen/magic fluid and only owned by the rich. Sheffield will have the best horse drawn tram system in the world. Houses will be heated and powered by the waste they produce, solar panels and prisoners in hamster like wheels.
Most people will be on mind bending prescription drugs. School's will teach basic addition and english only and the leaving age will be 21. The worldwide holocaust of the french will be celebrated and global freezing will be the main worry for the next generation.

I had a dream when I was about ten about lottery numbers written on the side of a lorry. I woke up, told my mum the first three numbers but couldn't remember the other three - all three came up and we won a tenner. Pity my memory wasn't a little better there.

Yes, I remember that - I always wished you had remembered the other 3

love
mum
xxx

I agree with Mr Goose about the threat from "religion" - I call it priestcraft!
The argument that somewhere in a sacred book is a paragraph that can be interpreted to mean (say, for the sake of ridicule) that you must wind your turban clockwise round the head (seen from above) and that anticlockwise turbans offend God so much that we must kill their wearers, seems to me to deny the "love of God" which all priests/sheiks/rabbis etc talk about.

For a foreboding view of the world in 2050 or earlier, read this:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007760

None of this scares me as much as the thought of our old people's homes being full of people called Kayleigh, Jermaine, Yasmeena, Chantelle and Brett.

For a foreboding view of the world in 2050 or earlier, read this:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007760

phew! :help: I'd like to say a load of coswallop but unfortunately I can see it coming and probably within the lifetime of the younger people amongst us. Not a lot to look forward to really, and there'll be nowhere to go to get away by the looks of it - fundamental Islam in Europe and everywhere else, fundamental Christianity in the USA ... maybe Oz will remain uncontaminated?

We at least have the comfort that the fifth column on this Forum will feel right at home ...

Not a lot of comfort for the rest of us though, although it won't matter to me, of course, I'll be long gone :D

None of this scares me as much as the thought of our old people's homes being full of people called Kayleigh, Jermaine, Yasmeena, Chantelle and Brett.

Idiot! :rolleyes:

I will be 92 by then. I rather suspect life will be much the same as now, although there will be a lot of 50 somethings who say things like plz cn i go 2 ..... and chant words to songs.

Who knows, I may have a rocket powered wheelchair by then!

phew! :help: I'd like to say a load of coswallop but unfortunately I can see it coming and probably within the lifetime of the younger people amongst us. Not a lot to look forward to really, and there'll be nowhere to go to get away by the looks of it - fundamental Islam in Europe and everywhere else, fundamental Christianity in the USA ... maybe Oz will remain uncontaminated?

We at least have the comfort that the fifth column on this Forum will feel right at home ...

Not a lot of comfort for the rest of us though, although it won't matter to me, of course, I'll be long gone :D
But then Fundamentalist Christianity is a lot less dangerous to life, limb and freedom than Fundamentalist Islam. After all, where would you rather live - Bush's USA or Afghanistan under the Taliban or Iran under Ahmadinejad and the mad mullahs?

In 2050 PC World will have taken over the world, small backstreet computer shops, unable to compete price or service wise will go bust...

In Sheffield, Sunwin House will have gone bust, replaced by newly reborn Redgates! The Manor will be a Whirlow/Ecclesall-esque area of posh folk and well-to-do types with sons called Tarquin and daughters called Jocasta :D

I however, will have taken over the running of Microsoft after a MASSIVE win on the Lottery enables me to buy controlling shares in the Company, and will pour massive funds into the research and development for Xbox 500! Which will wipe the floor with Sony's Playstation 20 console!

Yeah yeah I know that practically none of the above will ever happen, I'm just fantasising, like you do :D

But then Fundamentalist Christianity is a lot less dangerous to life, limb and freedom than Fundamentalist Islam. After all, where would you rather live - Bush's USA or Afghanistan under the Taliban or Iran under Ahmadinejad and the mad mullahs?

At present, Christianity is muzzled. Look at its past! "Christians" (so-called) have been recorded slaying each other in war, executing one another for heresy, and so on for centuries, interspersed with a bit of slaying Muslims, Pagans, witches and even burning a few Jews.
Most European governments have discouraged the priests from ensuring the safety of the true faith by killing their opponents - but if one particular creed became strongly supported by the government, and the separation of church and state broke down, I think those days would return.

BTW I believe in God as revealed to us by Jesus. I do not believe in Archbishop "XXXX" (fill in your choice here) or the Revend " YYY ZZZ"

Rotherham united will be in premier! lol