Projections: 100 Years

[Bamspeedy]

How about this: I predict everyone reading this will die of old age by then.

The vast majority of us, yeah.

Some of our younger members though.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_people

100 years from now, I think the 'oldest' will be higher than 115-122 years old.

 

[Godwynn]

How about this: I predict everyone reading this will die of old age by then.

I'll force myself to live just to quote you and necro this thread!

 

[holy king]

We will then regret not buying a Christmas tree.

who buys that thing before the 23?

 

[Perfection]

As the future ruler of the world I proclaim that the first person to quote this post after the 100 year mark will be allowed to grant a year long stay of execution to the political prisoner of their choice.

 

[Godwynn]

As the future ruler of the world I proclaim that the first person to quote this post after the 100 year mark will be allowed to grant a year long stay of execution to the political prisoner of their choice.

I choose Jesus of Nazareth.

 

[Perfection]

I choose Jesus of Nazareth.

It hasn't been a hundred years yet.

 

[MobBoss]

I'll force myself to live just to quote you and necro this thread!

I guess that means I will have to be here to read it then. Game on!

 

[kulade]

The very enterprise of a hundred year internet is pretty astounding.

I mean, wait until someone running for public office gets caught up in some scandal for some garbage they wrote on the internet twenty years before.

 

[GenMarshall]

I'll force myself to live just to quote you and necro this thread!

Godwynn typing in his cybernetic body in 2109 .

 

[Narz]

The Astounding World of the Future

heh, that one is awesome, I posted it b4 in the Funny Vids thread.

 

[QuoVadisNation]

Well... you have Nostradamus. But his stuff is riddled with really ambiguous statements and sentences that only mean right now what you think it means.

Barring that, there were science fiction writers. I'm sure of any who predicted the break apart of the empire though.

 

[Ayatollah So]

I think we'll have flying cars, but not so much 'flying', more like hovering a few feet off the ground,

The future ain't what it used to be

 

[Zack]

In one hundred years, I predict that no one that is a member on this forum will still be alive.

 

[civverguy]

I predict that CFC will still exist after 100 years, and someone will find this thread and bump it.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I predict that CFC will still exist after 100 years, and someone will find this thread and bump it.

When they do, I hope they quote us all and simply say: "I agree."

 

[_random_]

When they do, I hope they quote us all and simply say: "I agree."

If I live to be 114 and I'm not senile, I'm definitely going to do that.

 

[bob bobato]

Who, 100 years ago, would have predicted...
...that a vast network of electronic machines known as computers would come to link nearly every corner of the earth, providing information instantaneously?

From 1911:

http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2008/2/29/well-all-be-happy-then-1911.html

 

[Cato the Elder]

I hope that in 100 years' time, humankind will finally be able to stop viewing nature as something to be exploited or something dangerous, and be able to combine itself and technology with the natural forces all around us. It's the only way to guarantee our prolonged existence, we cannot live from a planet but not give back to it, and we cannot survive in a system that we often deem ourselves to be above.

By the way, bob bobato, I love how, in the 1911 picture, 1910s fashion is still in use by 2010, despite all the new technologies and innovations.

 

[Chieftess]

Judging how resources are depleting - I've read anywhere from 5 months to 5 decades for peak levels - (much like the Middle East around 1500BC-1000BC), I'd say on the cusp of another Dark Ages, which seem to come around roughly every 1,000 years or so (give or take 500 years). The Space Elevator won't do a thing even if it's built, and I think it actually might make things worse (a very tempting strategic target). If oil dries up, so does trade, and electricity (at least it being reliable). There'll probably still be "green technology", but in small pockets. Countries (or fuedal-like kingdoms) will be razing others' cities just to get steel and other resources.

 

[Kennigit]

How about this: I predict everyone reading this will die of old age by then.

I can make it to 107! You're on. But I don't think the member's photo thread will appreciate a 106 year old, so you'll just have to take my word that it is legitimately me.