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[Zakatak]

1 being the most depressing, 10 being perfection.

Being as realistic as possible, I choose option #6. Lack of political will is going to slow us down, and I doubt we will ever have FTL or a utopian society like Star Trek, but it will be better then what we have now. If not 6, then 4.

Edited by Zakatak, 22 April 2012 - 01:44 PM.

[Hayden]

It is the 24th century, and man kind is once again at war...

...you see where I'm going with this

[Zylo]

I chose 5.

I think the effects of choice 3 could slow progress a bit and political/economic issues would keep choices 7 - 10 out of reach for a while.

[Hawkeye 72]

[Gigaton]

In 300 years? Humanity will have reached out into space, the central governance has imploded and various noble houses styling themselves after feudal nobility of Terra have risen on the periphery of known space. They battle eachother with giant robotic warmachines, known as BattleDroids. BattleDroids look like giant R2D2s with man-like legs and with large bore autocannon on the right side.

Edited by Gigaton, 22 April 2012 - 01:14 PM.

[Zakatak]

Hayden, on 22 April 2012 - 12:54 PM, said:

It is the 24th century, and man kind is once again at war...

...you see where I'm going with this

The battlefields of the future are dominated by unexciting tracked war machines known as tanks...

Strange. I just noticed that practically all "future" shows/movies are either 2, 3, 4, or 9.

Edited by Zakatak, 22 April 2012 - 01:15 PM.

[Gigaton]

Zakatak, on 22 April 2012 - 01:13 PM, said:

tanks...

Worry not, they'll probably have railguns by then.

Zakatak, on 22 April 2012 - 01:13 PM, said:

Strange. I just noticed that practically all "future" shows/movies are either 2, 3, 4, or 9.

Only just now? There are some 6s around too though. And ditto for 7s, I guess. Even Babylon 5 would only be 7.5 by that scale. But yeah, usually humanity is pretty ridiculously advanced by 2300 AD in fiction.

Edited by Gigaton, 22 April 2012 - 01:22 PM.

[neodym]

I hope mankind dont make it that far,one ruined planet is enough

[FrostRaven]

I'm sorry but 3 is my ultimate nightmare, and sadly where I see it going.

It is a hard fact to ignore when you see large groups of 15 year old girls pushing prams full of screaming newborns around at the local shopping centre while talking on their phones saying things like "And I was like, OMG! And she was like NO WAY!" (for a visual referance see Vicky Pollard).

All the while, my dream of wars fought by Battlemechs slip further and further away...

[ChapeL]

I don't see us escaping the clutches of the almighty dollar bill. We will only leave earth's atmosphere if there is money to be made in doing so. As such, I expect an overcrowded, smog choked planet before it gets any better if at all.

[neodym]

Gigaton, on 22 April 2012 - 01:13 PM, said:

In 300 years? Humanity will have reached out into space, the central governance has imploded and various noble houses styling themselves after feudal nobility of Terra have risen on the periphery of known space. They battle eachother with giant robotic warmachines, known as BattleDroids. BattleDroids look like giant R2D2s with man-like legs and with large bore autocannon on the right side.

[Zakatak]

FrostRaven, on 22 April 2012 - 01:24 PM, said:

I'm sorry but 3 is my ultimate nightmare, and sadly where I see it going.

It is a hard fact to ignore when you see large groups of 15 year old girls pushing prams full of screaming newborns around at the local shopping centre while talking on their phones saying things like "And I was like, OMG! And she was like NO WAY!" (for a visual referance see Vicky Pollard).

All the while, my dream of wars fought by Battlemechs slip further and further away...

If 3 is your nightmare, here is your fuel. They tell me this is a movie, but I think of it more as a Public Service Announcement or documentary. I think I will reverse 2 and 3 in the polls.

[Althix]

dead most likely

[Kooroush Azartash]

Haha!!!! An Idiocracy reference... I hope not..

[LackofCertainty]

Gigaton, on 22 April 2012 - 01:13 PM, said:

In 300 years? Humanity will have reached out into space, the central governance has imploded and various noble houses styling themselves after feudal nobility of Terra have risen on the periphery of known space. They battle eachother with giant robotic warmachines, known as BattleDroids. BattleDroids look like giant R2D2s with man-like legs and with large bore autocannon on the right side.

This is the sort of world I want to live in. *wipes tears of joy from his eyes*


I want a slightly more depressing version of #5, but not as extreme as #4's "breathing air outdoors is hazardous." Basically I think it'll be #5, but with a even more instability/political unrest/environmental issues. I don't think humans would let breathing air outdoors get to hazardous levels because the point at which people start to care about the environment is the point at which it affects them directly. (also if breathing air outdoors is hazardous, then animals/plants start dieing and that quickly turns into #1)

In my most optimistic of dreams, I'd say #6.

Edited by LackofCertainty, 22 April 2012 - 01:57 PM.

[The Smith]

I don't think we will continue to see advancement on the same scale as in the 19th and 20th centuries due to energy concerns, but I don't think we will be seeing any nuclear wars either. As for the ever increasing number of amazingly stupid people, they've all way been there. They're not going anywhere, but the world and, human race will not suffer as a whole. Just give them their bread, circuses... Or Taco Bell and Jersey Shore. They wont get in the way of progress, only an excess of religion can do that, and all recent studies show that religion is dying. So sit back and enjoy the ride. The future is right around the corner

[Hayashi]

Gigaton, on 22 April 2012 - 01:13 PM, said:

In 300 years? Humanity will have reached out into space, the central governance has imploded and various noble houses styling themselves after feudal nobility of Terra have risen on the periphery of known space. They battle eachother with giant robotic warmachines, known as BattleDroids. BattleDroids look like giant R2D2s with man-like legs and with large bore autocannon on the right side.

Did someone say UrbanMech?



I didn't vote because your poll says "human civilisation will be nonexistent", when I don't quite think there's such a thing to begin with.
And because IQ is a ratio of mental age to average mental age, the average itself will always be 100. I see what you mean by people getting more stupid, but it doesn't actually change the numbers.

But my vote would've been a combination of elements of the two.

[Thomas de Ville]

I chose 6 ......technical realistic.
1-4 possible but depressing. and 3 must be a joke
5 possible
7-10 without people like Einstein, Hawkins ect. unrealistic.

[Zakatak]

The Smith, on 22 April 2012 - 02:00 PM, said:

I don't think we will continue to see advancement on the same scale as in the 19th and 20th centuries due to energy concerns, but I don't think we will be seeing any nuclear wars either. As for the ever increasing number of amazingly stupid people, they've all way been there. They're not going anywhere, but the world and, human race will not suffer as a whole. Just give them their bread, circuses... Or Taco Bell and Jersey Shore. They wont get in the way of progress, only an excess of religion can do that, and all recent studies show that religion is dying. So sit back and enjoy the ride. The future is right around the corner

I don't think religion has to disappear entirely, it just has to be made more compatible with science. I'm an agnostic, but I don't see why on the hell God would want to restrict humanity from becoming more advanced and healthier. And way too many take the Bible literally, assuming it was written by God himself when it was infact written by petty and ignorant Isrealites. Then you get zealots like the Westboro church using the Bible to justify their hate for homosexuals. If religion disappeared, we would advance quicker for sure, but I don't think human spirituality is a bad thing and I would love if we could have both. I know plenty of Christians with a positive view on theories of evolution and the big bang. In my opinion, the bigger threat is our lack of political will, and the dollar bill. There is no 100%, tangible, guaranteed investment in going to space and expanding, so why bother at all?

I'm not going to pick #1 because the global nuclear arsenal is only 5 gigatons and not increasing, which is enough to put a dent in a single state/province at the most. Not enough atomic power to choke the world in radiation.

Edited by Zakatak, 22 April 2012 - 02:21 PM.

[Xyph3r]