Relatively speaking

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1332879]
Stolen from a poll here by james_nicoll - apart from the third question which was inspired by drplokta.

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[the-locster.livejournal.com]

By 'people' I assume you mean people in the UK? Basically in 30 years you'll have collasping ecosystems, drying up aquifiers in the US and the continuing drought in Oz (and new droughts) causing the food supply to implode. There will be wars over water, oil and other resources and wars over land disputes driven by demand of resources.

China will emerge as /the/ superpower, supplanting the US. The middle east and Africa will still be a mess. South America isn't looking too rosy either. Basically if you want to know what lies ahead then look to the past and multiply it by 100.

OTOH Kurzweil thinks capture of solar energy is on an exponential curve and that we will be living in a utopia in 30 years, and with the emergence of a technological singularity at around 2045ish making any guesses at what happens next nigh on impossible. According to his wiki page he thinks the entire mass of the solar system will have been converted into a giant computer for doing whatever it is tech singularities do. I'd like to take this opportunity to suggest multidimensional tetris :)

[andrewducker]

Well, exactly - as usual it's a race between resource usage and resource-creation - if we can produce more than we use then we can avoid fighting over the resources, otherwise it's WAAARGH!