Yesterday, I tried to take a look into the future, and examined some of my personal possibilities. However, no man is an island and all that. The world 10 years from now will be a very different world than the present. Or will it?
Technology will continue to advance. Robots will be all over the fucking place. There will be robot receptionists, robot doctors, robot manual labors and migrant crop pickers. Sex robots will be very popular, with both sexes. Couples will go to brothels on dates. Sabotage and vandalism against robots will be serious crimes.
Global warming will continue to get worse. There will be numerous breakthroughs in clean energy production, but they will still be blocked by the big energy corporations. Desalinization has become cheap and portable. Artificial islands are springing up all over, sprouting like lilies. Although they are meant to be a green alternative, they bring some problems of their own. They are so prevalent, they disturb the migration of whales.
We have looked deep, deep, deep into space and found no signs of other intelligent life. Sci-fi nerds around the world are starting to get depressed. On the positive side, the space elevator has made travel within the solar system relatively easy. There are even mines on a couple of Jupiter’s moons.
Since robots took all of the jobs and something had to be done about the unemployment problem, many people now stay in University until they are 30 or 40, there are far more people who list their profession as “artist” and the government of the European Union (which now includes Russia, Canada and Japan – the United States had it’s 2nd Civil War, which was amicable, with the Northern States and the West Coast joining Canada, while the others formed the “United Christian States of America”) is shipping all of the indigents off to the Martian colonies just as fast as they can build ships.
The world’s primary language is still English, but it has changed almost beyond recognition.
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