The futurist magazine lists the ten predictions in the fields of the economy, the environment and technology, which will gain momentum in 2008
And the forecast for the coming years
- The world will have over a billion new millionaires by 2025, mainly thanks to globalization and technological developments.
- Technology will also affect the textile industry and fashion will be much more interesting thanks to the integration of electronics and computing in the design and production of clothing. Clothes will adapt to our mood, and running shoes will monitor our step.
- The fear of a new cold war with China, Russia or both will replace the war on terror as the number one concern of US citizens.
- The fear is that counterfeit money will increase due to the development of scanning and printing technology and therefore the residents will prefer to put aside their fear of harming privacy and move to a world without cash.
- The Earth is at the threshold of the largest mass extinction event in history. The variety of species is 100 times to a thousand times smaller than what was known until now. (Rao Ydan endangered animals)
- Water shortages will be the equivalent of oil shortages in the 20th century. The shortage of fresh water all over the world will be severe (Special for the science site - mapping the world's water problems).
- The world's population until the age of 2050 will be larger than the forecasts so far, due to the slowing down of the decrease in the number of children in the developed countries, and the extension of the life span of the residents of the developed countries. (They knew the demographics)
- Rapid urbanization of Africa combined with global warming and sea level rise means that the number of Africans threatened by flooding will increase 70 times by 2080
(See Global Warming Scholar) - An increase in the prices of natural resources could cause a race on a huge scale for the resources of the Arctic region, including oil, natural gas, copper, nickel, zinc, clean water, trees and fish. (By 2050 there will be no fish left in the sea)
- More and more economic, health and even political decisions will be made by non-human beings - robots with artificial intelligence. (The smart machines from their makers)
All these in the Outlook 2008 study book, Published by the World Futurism Association.
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When madness and reason meet, this is the most horrifying and dangerous event in the world...
There are quite a lot of contradictory things here, if water and all things are expensive, how will there be so many millionaires?
Maybe it means that the money will no longer be worth anything, so there really will be many millionaires.
They said a million and not a million what?
At the rate the dollar is falling, it makes a lot of sense
What about Messiah?
What about the Arabs in 2050?
And another thing that will happen until 2050
The simple universe will be an existing fact and La Sage will receive a Nobel Prize 300 years after his death.
The reactions of the pioneers of science will be studied at the university.
Until then, have a good week
with a smile
Sabdarmish Yehuda
I think the site just received a compliment.
You can always read them all, because they are arranged both by subject and by date (and further divided - by author), scroll down to the bottom of the page before the picture and you will see that you can navigate to all 2,971 articles on the site (as of this moment, and there are several thousand more articles that I have not transferred from the site the old), 25 each time.
Why didn't you mention that by 2025 the pace of writing articles in science will accelerate to such an extent that no one will be able to read them all.
Unless we know how to limit childbirth out of awareness
To the tangled fabric of life in which we take an active part
Ingerli for hundreds of thousands of years.
The earth will reach a state of resource exhaustion
There will be nothing to eat, there will be world hunger.
And then the big crash will come
Almost all species will become extinct within a few months.
Then will begin the period of cannibalism and plagues that will reduce the number of humans 100 times to a thousand times what they have known so far.
"Technology will also affect the textile industry and fashion will be much more interesting thanks to the integration of electronics and computing in the design and production of clothes. Clothes will adapt to our mood, and running shoes will monitor our step."
I hope these will be our problems..
Einstein's quotes that fit such moments:
* "As long as there are people - there will be wars."
* "It is impossible to prepare for war and at the same time prevent it."
* "I don't know with what weapon they will fight in the third world war, but in the fourth they will fight with sticks and stones."
* "If I knew where the invention of the atom would lead, I would become a carpenter"
Two of the predictions seem far-fetched or delusional to me. "Over a billion new millionaires by 2025". I'm not an economist, but even if we assume that a millionaire is someone who has 4 million NIS besides the apartment, do you think that one out of ten will be like that? For every millionaire, you need thousands who will buy the things (in the broadest sense) that he sells - and have money to pay. It seems to me that the forecast is wrong by at least one order of magnitude.
"The Earth is at the threshold of the largest mass extinction event in history. The diversity of species is 100 times to a thousand times smaller than what was known until now." What happened? Do they know about some asteroid that we don't? According to them, this is a much bigger extinction than the one 65 million years ago and also bigger than the one 250 million years ago - which was bigger than the extinction of the dinosaurs. When will it be and what will be the fate of humans?
Money is a question of relativity
So if there are over a billion millionaires none of them will be considered a millionaire.
This nation has a condition for such high inflation due to the ceilings in oil prices that a million dollars will be worth only about 10,000 dollars in the best case scenario.
And all this destruction of the earth and the extermination of most of the species on it.
because of who? Because of Lady Mary Montague - the pioneer of the smallpox vaccine
This satanic procedure forfeited the authority that does not originate in the laws of nature... and banished the supreme providence from the world and increased the degree of evil.