What Do You Think..?

What do you think will be happening after 10 years from now all around the world?

One of the good questions that can be asked
Work your imaginery and reality together and let's discuss

If history is anything to go by, and it usually is, the next ten years will be very much like the ten years we have just experienced.

Technology is the only thing that I see consistently advancing and improving.

Unless someone or something happens to shake up the now incredibly strong world order, like a huge war or some kind of large scale threat to humanity, I don't think all that much will change.

But time makes fools of us all, so who knows...

It's going to get a lot warmer, and coastal cities will relocate...people will shift to more effective bulbs, but it'll be too late. Atleast 20 more famous species will be extinct. Quite a few more incurable diseases will sprout. AIDS, transferred first when some human had sex with a monkey, will possibly find a cure. Some more horse-AIDS and cow AIDS will be imperative. Value systems will grow worse. New words in the dictionary, and poetry will be generated using software.

UK will probably be full of immigrants and more teens will have rampant sex. that's my theory.

oh, and China will invent a dog head that can fit onto a man's body and it'll do all the dishes for you. yet it'll REFUSE to use good washing up liquid. hmph.

who knows, it'll probably be like these 10 years, but lots more things will get worse and worse; such as children being influenced to become maniac rapists and killers, TV will bring out more and more crappy drama series, child abuse, animal abuse, murder and rape will all increase, and we'll invent more stuff. music will probably get less and less good because of all the crappy artists we have hanging around today, and we'll eventually just become a big joke. i'm surprised anybody takes issues seriously these days. we're lucky to even have people who care about helping the earth and making petitions.

Wow... suppose a poetry site isn't usually the place optimists flock to hey...

I dont think it will be that different from now. Its funny cause you watch movies made in the 80s and they're making "futuristic" movies about the year 2000 or something and its so far fetched from where we were in 2000. I think man kind has a way of over analysing or over expecting what is going to happen.

Personally, I believe the natural world's cycle is what is responsible for the climate change and things like that - not that Joe Floe from down the road left his sensor light on all night last night. Dont get me wrong - we can definitely be more caring towards our mother earth (recycling and more energy efficient lifestyles will make a difference and in the end it probably will be that human kind becomes it's own worst enemy with relation to the "end of the world") but I dont think that will be any time soon.

Dunno - maybe thats just me being ignorant and hopeful and optimistic. :)

PS - hi Laura - how you doing? Haven't seen you around in ages! xx

You can believe this or not, but ten years ago I was totally unaware that there was a world wide web. If you had told me ten years ago that within a decade your thoughts will be read in every corner of the globe I would have laughed at you. Here I am laughing my assumptions off. Of course the commercial media has more power than a highly diluted form of communication. A popular song, I hear often, states that we are just waiting on the world to change. "We Are the World" is a 1985 song written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie. My hope is that as the decades pass maybe we will understand ccllective awareness more. Does the man in the mirror have the power to change?

Personally, I'm hoping the advent of the internet will lead all of us to the realization that despite cultural differences, we are all just human and should bind together as one global race like humanity should. We should find those commonalities that bind us together as a people and learn about those that don't with respect.

But who knows what the next ten years will bring?

I definitely agree with you about the light thing Mo. The sun is naturally coming nearer and nearer to us until eventually it'll burn us to death if we don't somehow drag the earth down further. we do waste electricity by leaving lights on and such, but there's nothing we can do NOW that if we'd done years ago would've effected because we're too far along in the process. recycling and saving electricity is still necessary and good for the environment but it'll be no life saver. we're already extincting animals and really that should be the main priority. to leave what God had on this planet here when we go. it's more of an obligation but whatever we don't really take care of this Earth. 10 years from now i hope to have elastic legs and black spots, but we can all dream.

In ten years, we'll have more flat screen TVs. A few new freeways, more television ads and billboards...More towns will resemble cities, or begin the transformation into cities. We'll still be douchebags slowly murdering the planet...but we'll have nicer computers :) The population may continue to drastically increase, unless someone invents a disease to kill a few billion off. Speaking of diseases, we'll have found cures to some, but more diseases will have popped up. Everyone will be diagnosed with at least one personality disorder. China will invent some cool things. At least 40 more animals will be near extinction. The world will be on the brink of war over someone's pride (again).

Well. I'm hoping for improvement on the environment! Ha. Though, I cannot say that stands too much of a chance.