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I was 10, 5 years ago! wow.

Nanci said:
I'll be dead in less than 50 years-
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I was thinking more or less along the same lines...it will be going on 2058, and I'll be 81 years old...now, my Oma is still kickin' it at almost 85 years old, so I imagine that I could make it, too, but -- eh, we'll see. :p With all of the meds I've taken, I imagine that I'm either rotted on the inside or as preserved as a pickle. :p

On the other hand, everyone in the world will have realized just how adorable corn snakes are & all will have at least 2. ;) Oh, and yes -- a brilliant all-green morph and an all-blue morph will have been bred. :cheers:

Although...short anecdote:

My boss -- the principal of my school -- was looking at a yearbook that another teacher, who had been a student at the same school, where my principal had also been a teacher, at the time...I happened to be standing there, and the principal said to the other teacher/former student, "Yeah, that's when you had hair! Then again, that was the style..." And I asked, "What year are we talking about?" My principal replied, "1982." Obviously, he was left speechless when I said, "Oh, I was in Kindergarten." (Usually, that man has some snippy & fast retort, but this time, he just looked at me!) :p I love moments like that...;)
 
I guess if I look back in time or close to 60 years:
Teaching birth control methods became legal
Computers filled rooms mostly places like the Pentagon (my Mom worked for the government at the Pentagon, doing data entry) There was no WWW. or google, pc's. Mail was something you put a stamp on and sent.

One had to go through an operator when they were still a real person, to make a long distance call. Phones were rotary and not portable, let alone cell.

Televisions came into many homes, with funny things called 'rabbit ears', no cable, tivo, VHS or DVD

Gas .25 a gallon, chicken was .25 a pound

Reel to Reel was the best thing for listening to music, quadrasonic came and went, 8 Track came and went, Cassettes are on the way out

When I think of modern technology the way it was then, compared to now, it's huge, not to mention the advances in medicine.
Just a few of the things that come to mind.
 
Roy Munson said:
"Imagine stalking elk past department store windows and stinking racks of beautiful rotting dresses and tuxedos on hangers; you'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life, and you'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. Jack and the beanstalk, you'll climb up through the dripping forest canopy and the air will be so clean you'll see tiny figures pounding corn and laying strips of venison to dry in the empty car pool lane of an abandoned superhighway stretching eight-lanes-wide and August-hot for a thousand miles."

"We'll paint the skyscrapers with huge totem faces and goblin tikis, and every evening what's left of mankind will retreat to empty zoos and lock itself in cages as protection against the bears and big cats and wolves that pace and watch us from outside the cage bars at night."

~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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I'm sorry, I'm voting for wearing the beautiful rotting dresses! (Yes, even whilst drying the venison!)
 
I believe theres something to the Mayan calander. But just what it is I dont know. But I do know that nothing is created or destroyed, things just change form. When you die you are no longer your physical body but you are your spirit, therefore you still exist , just in another form. But thats my belief, not everyone thinks the same. I almost welcome the year 2012 as it may be the end to all this madness. I was once told by someone or something inbetween wakefullnes and dreaming everything that would happen in the future. I awoke not remembering all the words but remembered that things will get crazy but then there will be more of a peace, so I believe that. I think all this madness is just a test to stay peaceful inside yourself. Things are going to get bad regardless, thats just the nature of energy, it moves in circles. The people who get lost will be lost in their own madness, the ones who stay centered will be ok I think.. I think nature based beings will survive our fall.
 
susang said:
Televisions came into many homes, with funny things called 'rabbit ears', no cable, tivo, VHS or DVD
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And to change channels or the volume, you had to <gasp!> get up (or tell your kid to).

No telling what will actually happen in 50 years. Except that most of what the 'experts' predict will be proven wrong.

Life will go on. Maybe not our particular species, but life on this planet will survive and thrive, despite all the doomsayers. Nature will reclaim so much that in a scant few hundred years after we're gone, there'll be little evidence we where ever here. New species will pop up to take our place, and the places of all the species we've destroyed.
 
Lol everyone's so pessimistic...who knows, people will wake up and make the next great step in man's rule on earth...or not, and we'll dwindle a bit faster than the other successes in the planets history...Right now the balance between the haves (be it having money, religious fervor, anything thats "too much") vs. the have notes is way out of balance, and it's a tumultuous time, and it makes people all "gloom and doom"...........and screw the Mayans; if they were so smart and could "predict the future" they should of looked closer at what the entrails said about a group of dirty, disease-ridden palefaces floating up to their shore ;*)
 
I think it's arrogant for humans to think that we can "destroy the planet". It was here billions of years before us and will be here billions of years after we are gone. Now...WE might not be around much longer, but c'est la vie...we made our bed, we will sleep in it.

On the other hand...everything is constantly and continually evolving. People a mere 50 years from now probably won't be very much different than us on a physical level. Probably more intellectual and computer-oriented. There will probably be micro-processors in everything, and voice-command everything, and everything will get so tiny that it can fit in a pocket because there simply won't be room to have anything large. The population will explode so vehemently that our only options will be to build up or down...probably down, because we have already started to go up.

50 years isn't that far away. It has taken many more than 50 years for humans to evolve into what we are today, I imagine it will take many more to evolve away from what we are today. No matter how "bad" humans being might be...we are still pretty much a perfect evolutionary machine. Our great big useless brains have removed us completely from the food chain and put us squarely on top. It has removed most threats from disease. Our life expectancy has nearly doubled in the last 50 years, so imagine what it will do in the next! 50 years simply isn't a very long time...not physically, not geologically, and not universally.

And contrary to popular belief, humans aren't so bad that we are going to destroy ourselves in a mere 50 years. No matter how bleak things might seem at times, there is still an overpowering and underlying instinctual need to preserve the species and continue life. This instinct will prevail, even if our big, dumb brains get us in more trouble than we can handle.

So don't be surprised if you wake up 50 years from now, go out to feed your blue and purple snakes, defrost a couple mice in nuclear-water(only takes 3 seconds), and seal them back into their invisible-yet-escape-proof enclosures, and sit back on the porch remeniscing about this topic...'cause you owe Dean a pair of the best morphs money can buy!

P.S.--I certainly hope Mr. Vonnegut is looking down on me and enjoying my gratuitous use of his description of our brains...
 
I will be riding my cybernetic dinosaur to the lolcat olympics, and granville isl brewery will make their winter ale year round.

I'm *very* optimistic for the future.
 
Crap 2012 is less than 5yrs. away...:dunce:..lol
My hubby & I aren't done helpin' over-populate Earth just yet! lol

Get this our 7yr. old son says he wants to be the first Man to land on Mars. He also has told us there are dwarf Earth-like planets out there. YIKES!! lol
 
Considering people have been predicting that the end of the world is around the corner for thousands of years, I think some of you are being a little dramatic (Seriously, the ice caps? There isn't enough water to cover the earth in the ice caps. :p)

In fifty years, I predict a war of fanaticism will be fought. The borders will be redrawn like they have countless times, millions will die for reasons they don't understand like they have countless times and we'll tell ourselves we won't allow it to happen again, like we have countless times.

Alternatively, a technological crash completely ruins the economies of every first world nation and people like me die off because we can't survive without our computers, our big screen TVs and our lifestyle of convenience.

Woo! Genetic purge! Go Darwin!
 
Thank you all for your replies :)

I have read them all and been thinking a lot about this topic, I would love to believe we might make cure's for things like cancer, and atleast some wars would stop.. I would like to believe that we find ways to live on other planets or find ways to make more room, because eventually the countryside will probably be no-more..

I'm a good swimmer so I'm not worried about no ice caps melting, I also live 20mins from a huge ship yard.. So Id be safe for atleast a few week :p

I hope humans dont find a way to live longer... Longer lives = more population..

I would also like there to be a law that your only allowed 2 kids every 10 years lol, people are breeding far too much..
 
Pet Corn Snake said:
Yep, but most people in my town are drinking at about 12, nearly everyone in my year group at school drinks, yet ive never even tried the stuff, it's very easy to get and I do look 18, but why would I want to hide behind beer when I'm naturally happy
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Ditto :D,
Exept where I live (Washington[between Ncastle and Sunderland])
they drink AND smoke by the age of 12, luckly, I avoided it and got an A* GCSE in physics at the age of 13.

And as for global warming etc. I DON'T CARE, I know it sounds cruel/harsh, but It's my opinion.

Just for the record, I respect other peoples opinions.

Connor
 
Pet Corn Snake said:
Thank you all for your replies :)


I hope humans dont find a way to live longer... Longer lives = more population..

I would also like there to be a law that your only allowed 2 kids every 10 years lol, people are breeding far too much..
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Hey, I like breeding!

I never thought I would hear a 15 year old say time was slipping away from him. I was 10 ---------once
 
wade said:
Hey, I like breeding!

I never thought I would hear a 15 year old say time was slipping away from him. I was 10 ---------once
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haha, it's scary though! It just goes by sooo quickly! Your 57, that is a GREAT age, you can sit there by the fire with your cookies and tea and watch soaps! Thats the best age! I have to worry about work and college and blah blah blah and all i really want to do is, the things YOU can do!
 
Eh.. I don't worry about college, I don't really want to go. I'll be fine just self-educating myself. I'll be dead at 17 any way... sooooooooo. :)
 
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