From "The Book of Questions" by Gregory Stock, PH.D.
Q #7
Do you think that the world will be a better or a worse place 100 years from now?
Explain, please ....
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Well, I think it will be DIFFERENT.... From my 'older' eyes, I have to say it will be much worse before it is better. Comparing today to 100 years ago, I would say we are better in many ways (modern medicine, technology) but we are worse in that we do not love or know our neighbors as we should. And 100 years from now, I don't see that that is going to improve. So I side with WORSE.
And yes, the glass is half empty today!
Mankind will continue to develop technology with the goal of improving lives, the technology will be perverted for personal gain, and thus blamed for the problems when in the end only people have the ability to change their destiny. Mankind has proven throughout history that he has the ability to really screw things up and then mend them so it will be the usual rollercoaster ride. Hang on! You just find yourself hanging upside in your seat like the folks at the Arkansas theme park.
For better or for worse...kinda sounds like a marriage. No matter if the world is better or worse...we (humanity) will still be truckin' along like we can do no wrong, and eventually have nothing left to show for it.
Much better - and like patr says, different.
Just look at how things have changed in the last hundred years.
This should be an easy answer, but I find myself vascillating, probably because I watched "Children of Men" last night and it was set in the year 2027 and it was very depressing. I think we will be much farther along in technology, but is that necessarily a good thing? That probably depends on how we use it. I also think of the movie "The Postman" and wonder if mankind will be living post-apocolyptic "tribes". I'm usually much more optimistic. (I must be having a bad day! LOL)
Oh I think it will be better!
Looking back 100 years look at all the advancements that have been accomplished. There still is much that will occur.
Most of all the human race has to find a common ground to live in peace---not that there won't be disagreements BUT a peaceful sane way to settle them!
Both - Some things will be better, most likely alot of things will be worse. Two things that would go along way towards making things better are 1. Reign-in the media whose unreasonable expectations of how we should live our daily lives - look, feel about everything will certainly lead us to doom
2. Our legal injustice system where hardworking americans are shafted on a daily basis simply becasue one wants say a divorce, or when the democratic process a-la Farmers Branch where a referendum overwhelmingly passes is overturned by a self-centered minority organization that uses lies and deceit to convinve 1 judge that they are being discriminated against and therefore ruled unconstitutional.
Illegals are just that. They aren't American Citizens to begin with for Gods sake. So in essence what the Jufge has said to the likes of us who were born here and defended our country in the military is "Hey you poor schmucks, you have to pay taxes and taxes and taxes and when that foreigner comes in that doesn't want to integrate, doesn't pay texas and wants social services, they'll get it. Also when they couldn't care one iota about your rights to a peaceful existence, well you just got screwed but the drop of my gavel".
Thats what the judge for all practical purposes did when he ruled against the Farmer Branch resolution which passed with overwhelming sucess. I can garantee you if the Judge had to live one month in the Barrios we have permitted to rise in America, he would have ruled the other way.
I found this quote from Steve Martin... I thought it fit the Question of the day:
"Communication has changed so rapidly in the last 20 years, it's almost impossible to predict what might occur even in the next decade. E‑mail, which now sends data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light, has replaced primitive forms of communication such as smoke signals, which sent data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light."
i honeltly think it will be worse it used do br pretty good in the 60s but who knows
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