Predict the state of the USA in 50 years.?

Question

Are we at peace or at war? Are we even still a united country?

Give your opinion on what the USA as we know it, will be like in 50 years.

Answer 1

You people are so pessimistic. If Obama becomes president I think things will start looking up for Americans. After all he is one of the few politicians that I think actually cares somewhat for the people of the USA.

Answer 2

Very pessimistic answers, I think. I believe with a certain degree of confidence that the US will definitely be here in 50 years, and still as a super power, probably a competing one at that (EU and China), and probably still a global leader in many fields.

Yes, on average, the US has had a major war every two decades, so it's not far fetched to think that we might be at war; but it's hard to say what sort of war it would be. Maybe it will be a *legal* war this time, something like WWI, WWII, or maybe it'll be us ending genocide in a third world country... hard to say, but I can at least hope. That's not to say that there's such a thing as a good war compared to a bad one, no such thing, but there is such a thing as a necessary war as opposed to an unnecessary one.

Answer 3

Well if you're with the environmentalists then we'll probably all be under water from the ice caps melting.

Answer 4

The seat of a global oligarchy unraveled in the annals of history.

Well at least this is what I fear will happen because of the current state of affairs.

Answer 5

third world country, if here at all

Answer 6

at wars

after 50 yrs usa would have bombed out all the countries in the world like iraq and would be gettting ready  to go to the moon to drop one

Answer 7

the same--more tech, less patience, more food, fatter,shorter people, maybe a couple wars thrown in. 'the yang' gives interesting speculations but only 2 & 5 stand out.

Answer 8

i dont know why everyone says war...werent we at war in the 1940's...and didnt that war end.

so okay we did go back to war in vietnam(it wasnt officially a war) and then the gulf war in the early 1990's but big deal, if we arent the ones fighting then others will.

the point is that we should stop worrying about war and start focusing on other important stuff. well i dont have any examples but im sure theres more important things to be thinking about...like our present and not our future.

the future hasnt even come and with these war attitudes, war is sure to come.

Answer 9

My projections on an impossible-to-knowingly-say question:

1.) Middle Eastern territories will apply for statehood/democratic status within a larger governmental infrastructure.  Israel will still receive no blame from democratic nations, of course, despite being comparably equal dickheads in their then past extremist defense of territory.

2.) Social Security will flounder, and the new generation will take not make a proactive effort to revive it.

3.) Most work outside of basic service industries will be completed via telecommunication.  Forty years prior, computers reached the processing capacity of a human brain, and so most menial tasks will become unnecessary.

4.) The notion of a forty-hour work week will disappear as technology reshapes employment demand, making all menial workforces obsolete.  Along with steady population growth, there will be no employment options without a higher education or extremely specialized skill set.

5.) Given the spread of online information, so long as there is authoritative reinforcement and debunking of claims made on the internet, most education that costs thousands in tuition at universities will be free for those who know where to look (Even in the present, I learned Chinese for, quite literally, the cost of my utility bill and a readjustment of my social schedule.)

6.) Religions will still exist because populations will still stifle intellectual development in favor of social control.

7.) Federal government will be an extension of a continental or world government, most likely a revision of the U.N. with an infrastructure that improves their ability to ratify and enforce civil rights law on a global scale.  It will still be terribly inefficient, however, as it will still confuse financial and human interest.

8.) Artificial intelligence will be feasible, but not within reach.  However, behaviorally sophisticated programs will regularly convince users of human consciousness in machines, making the conventional notion of humanity evermore complicated and ultimately anatomical.

9.) Information conveyance venues will schism, terminating the existence of television and radio and splitting into two vastly different domains.  The first will be online venues for daily news, high-production entertainment (or h**l, given how much people like  YouTube now, even low-production entertainment), and others.  The second venue will be in-person and concrete, including live entertainment, personal reading, social gatherings.

10.) American debt to the Chinese will be immense, but everyone will own the latest PlayStation console.  (I'm the only person I know who refused to accept a "stimulus check" on principle.)

11.) Bar lines will still work on floozies, but on no one else.

12.) America will face a pandemic lost in average height due to the extreme prevalence in slouching posture.  (As a massage therapist, it's easy to spot even children who didn't learn anything about ergonomics, but seem pretty keen on the 4chan scene.)

13.) Online forums will be free, and all people who charge for online forum use will be ostracized and publically humiliated, despite faint beckonings from duped cults for mercy.

14.) Malaria will be nearly obliterated from the planet as third-world countries make their final leaps into the industrial and technological epoch.

15.) Language will synthesize more, and while separate languages will still exist, many regular computer will still devolve into semantically confused and ungrammatical trends known today as "leet speak."  

16.) The most popular languages will be (by order of popularity) Chinese, Hindi, English, French, Arabic, Spanish, and German.  Anyone who graduates high school will speak at least one of them half-fluently.

17.) Political parties will liberalize to a "point of no return," and anything that does not mean immediate profit despite long-term catastrophe will be condemned as "old doctrine," a  colloquial term that historians will call "the neo-Con/Bush strategy."

18.) Taiwan will finally gain U.N. status after worldwide urgings for democracy over Chinese Communist fascism, resulting in some warfare, but not nearly as much as feared or anticipated in the present.  The end of the "Red Flag Dynasty" will largely be a result of internal coup as the government disperses its aims and loses the Mandate due to spreading consciousness of China's grown list of false promises.

19.) The age of consent will be fifteen, the voting age will be eighteen, and the drinking age will be eighteen.  The first will follow from worldwide pressures as many developed regions have lower ages of consent than America; the second will be a carryover from history; and the third will be a result of the logic employed to pass the Twenty-sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

20.) While gas will be seven dollars per gallon, the Japanese will have cornered the automotive market with hydroelectric vehicles and undone the need for fossil fuels.  Crude oil will still be needed for plastics, but its demand will not be sufficient to keep Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, the  U.A.E., and Venezuela out of economic collapse.

21.) Violent Islam will either be completely watered down to mirror more passive-aggressive religions, or will not exist in any significant numbers at all.  They will be the Neo-n***s of the Arab-speaking world.

22.) Coal will be used for barbecues only, and only because sticklers think steaks and burgers taste horrible unless they taste like ash.

23.) Firm creationist elected officials will be as scarce as segregationist elected officials.  Strom Thurmond clearly represented the last of the latter, and in retrospect, should have represented the last of them both.

24.) Major ingredients found in methamphetamine will be sold in major brand cigarettes, though the quantity of it will be much slighter, and it will be marketed as an "improved flavor," not as a seeded narcotic.  Marijuana will still be illegal in the U.S., but only as a territorial policy that does not extend to  neighboring provinces Canada and Mexico.

25.) General relativity and quantum physics will remain unreconciled, but even if Einstein is shown to be completely wrong come the next scientific paradigm, his name will still be  listed in the dictionary as an eponym for "someone of great intelligence," just as Hitler's will be eponymous for "someone of great evil."

Answer 10

at war

chaos