Year 2100
 

Wife and I are expecting our second child. It occurred to me that if my child lives an expected 85 years then she will be alive in the year 2100. This is mind boggling to me as this seems so very far away. I can't fathom the changes the world will experience during the next 85 years. I don't expect my grandparents who were born during the 1900's would have predicted two world wars, moon landings, and advent of the computer that occurred during their lifetimes.

As far as what she will see during that time period is anyone's guess. I am fearful that the scenarios in Soylent Green and Rollerball will play out. I am not confident that the world will be a safer and "nicer" place than we have now. Perhaps our science advancements will benefit mankind to the ends that wars are ended, famine eradicated and cancer solved.

A man can hope, right.

Maybe the Astros will win the World Series.

Wow, yeah, mind boggling thought

Technology will change humans as much as we have changed the world by then.

Maybe she will finally get the Jetpack promised to us so many decades ago. Congratulations on the new addition!

I'm not sure 85 years is enough to turn the Astros around...

Gary

In the year 2525, if man is still alive
If woman can survive they may find...

In the year 3535, ain't gonna need to tell the truth
Tell no lies
Anything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today

In the year 4545, ain't gonna need teeth
Won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you

In the year 5555, your arms are hanging limp at your sides
Your legs got nothing to do
Some machine's doin' that for you

In the year 6565, ain't gonna need no husband
Won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube

In the year 7510, if God is coming, should have made it by then
Maybe he will look around himself and say
Guess it's time for judgement day

In the year 8510, God is gonna shake his mighty hand
He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been
Or tear it down and start again

In the year 9595, I'm kinda wondering if man is gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old Earth can give,
and he ain't put back nothing

Now it's been 10,000 years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew
Now man's reign is through

But through eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away,
Maybe it's only yesterday...


Sorry, just realized... you are probably too young to remember that song... no, really... IT WAS A SONG!

Thumbs up for the Rollerball mention. Well played, sir...

Not so sure about the Soylent Green or Rollerball scenarios but I feel pretty confident an Idiocracy future is in our cards.

Haha! My first thought too

Cold fusion? Perpetual motion? A GT3 with a manual tranny?

My grandfather was born in 1890, on the trail between Oklahoma and New Mexico, in a covered wagon. Grew up in North Panhandle of Texas.

My great grandfather bought one of the first powered tractors in that area, a Reeves 40.

http://www.oldengine.org/members/sba...Tractor/40.jpg

During his lifetime: 1890-1980

Switch from Horses to cars
2 World Wars
Gunpowder to Smokeless
Nitrogen Fertilizer
Lighter than Air Aircraft
Air Planes
Jet Air Planes
Rockets
Artificial Satellites
Landing on the moon
Radio
TV
Computers
Electronics

Countless other things

"If you had asked people what they wanted they would have said faster horses."
Henry Ford

You left out humankinds pinnacle achievement...

Angry Birds!

I'm thinking a Mad Max kind of future. I'm saving some football shoulder pads and buzzard feathers for my grandson.

Is that Lou Buice's 40? It looks like his shed, but I don't remember him having a 40. His place is near Waco.

And what a great song it was, too!

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If she can make it to 96...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZm1_jtY1SQ

Popular Science keeps promising us our flying cars. I want my flying car!

Y2.1K issues!!

I think we have no clue. I helped a lady friend (for over 30 years) of mine celebrate her 100th birthday last November. Very intelligent lady who led a super interesting life. Worked and lived in Mexico, South America, the Orient, & SE Asia. Got out of Saigon three days before the big collapse. When I talk to her about this kind of thing, she says nobody could have imagined the changes that have occurred. She says people talked about new things of the future, but nobody really got how development of technology would impact and be integrated into everyday life. Things like organ transplants were considered to be a couple of hundred years away. We have no clue.