What will become of us in the future?

The world will sink from the weight of the human race.

In 1906 a patent attorney resigned because he felt everything had already been invented.

In the future there will be both new technologies, and new areas of research. The gap between laborer and technician will widen, as the demand for skilled workers increases.

Industries that we now consider essential will be replaced or simply disappear.

In my opinion, these are the last days for;

The Post Office. It is fighting a losing battle already. If it survives, it will not be by delivering letters.

Gas Stations. The obscene price of fuel will make alternative fuel research viable. I predict we will soon pull into stations that replace our drained batteries.

The Corner Store. Welcome to the Wal-Mart nation.

CDs. Why buy a whole CD when you can download just the songs you want?

What will prosper?

Advertising. It will get increasingly intrusive.

Entertainment. We will always need to laugh.

Cigarettes. If people haven't figured out that they kill you by now...

Will technology crash?

No, it never will. It is ever evolving. It does not guide us but rather, is guided BY us. As our needs change, so do our inventions and developements.

What will become of us in the future?

We will live longer. work harder, over indulge and blame others for our problems.

By the way, the future is here, as it has always been.

Science has been lauded as the one true virtuous path for a man to take. Helping one's self normally seen as ignoble, helping one's neighbors is somewhat more honorable, but helping everyone in the world for all time is truly noble. There is just one way to help people for all time, and that's to contribute to our ever growing stock of knowledge by becoming a scientist.

I very much doubt that human creativity will find it's match in any problem, nor that the universe will fail to offer ever greater mysteries to solve. I have no proof of this, naturally, but given the number of times that bystanders have claimed that there was nothing left to research and been found dead wrong, I find it unlikely that this time we're right.

As to whether human society is able to continue the study of the universe, I have my doubts also. Technology is having very unpredictable effects of us. For example, television makes us more passive receptors of life's dramas rather than actors in it. The effects of technology needs to be more thoroughly understood before it should be researched and published. If that means we learn slower, so be it, but I'd much rather be the long-burning coal than the exploding gasoline can. Not only does the coal burn longer, but much hotter.

Everything that has a beginning, has an end. This world was created, therefore it had a beginning, and will have an end. We are heading toward the end of the earth. You want to know what will really happend? Read the book of Revelation. Pretty sweet (and scary) things are going to happen. Soon. I guarantee it.

that's the same question asked in the 80's for the year 2000

As long as we are on the planet, we will make new discoveries. 98% of everything that has lived on the planet has gone extinct. At some point we will too.

science says that we'll be here in one form or another

who knows?

US! There is no us! There is just me and you.

We are all gonna die.