If you took a trip off planet this week and came back after 25 years, what changes would you expect to find?

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Ancient Hippy Profile
Ancient Hippy answered

Probably some great advances in technology but mostly the same old same old. People would still be starving to death while the powers that be are spending billions of $ on wars.

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
Maybe science would have worked out how to transform the moon from green cheese to pizza pepperoni and we could feed the starving masses. :-)
Ancient Hippy
Ancient Hippy commented
That would be cool, but then, what would control the tides?
Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
We'd need a reincarnation of King Canute to stand on the shore and tell them when to rise and fall.
Call me Z Profile
Call me Z answered

Based on some recent reading, here are a few I find likely:

-More people starving, migrating from higher sea levels and unsustainable lands. 

-Far fewer species left.

-Nano technology will increase exponentially, leading to astounding medical advances very few can afford.

-Expansion of virtual reality will transform, begin to replace, direct social interaction

-The financial collapse of notable democratic govts, with many more looming.

-Expansions in human knowledge, science and backlash against jihadism will have throttled up the demise of religion.

-Cash will have become nearly extinct. A wider gap extends between the Haves and Have-nots, with ever more of the latter; those who get work will hold expendable positions in jobs servicing the Haves...think feudal France. 

-Some countries will legislate against burial of the dead, for lack of available ground. 

-Huge wind and solar farms crop up in the Australian outback, the Southwest US and certain African nations, while the unceasing madness in Mideast countries and flagging dependence on OPEC will fuel their increasing irrelevance and poverty. 

-Despite an inevitable, public disinformation campaign, California will become the recognized black sheep among American states, if it hasn't already been voted out or flattened by The Big One.  People will leave in droves to flee the govt disaster there.   **This one has already begun. 

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Yin And Yang
Yin And Yang commented
WOW! That is crazy! Thank you for this bit of info! I did not know. ☺
Call me Z
Call me Z commented
Florida, sadly, is largely limestone, which dissolves slowly in water. At some point, if the seas rise as predicted, the water table will rise, Florida is flat, you get the idea.
Yin And Yang
Yin And Yang commented
THAT is scary!
Yin And Yang Profile
Yin And Yang answered

My mom keeps telling me this will be her last Thanksgiving.... 😞😢

Didge I am not much of a traveler. Can I bring a few of my luxuries with me if I gotta travel? Will there be a Walmart there? How about a flushing toilet with a locking door? Just sayin...... 😆

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
Yin, if you were a character in a story, rather than a real life cyber person, your name would be Eve Dallas. She's one of Nora Roberts's characters -- a NY cop living in 2060 who simply can't understand why anybody would want to live in the suburbs, let alone the country. Her preferred diet is takeaway pizza and soy dogs.

On the odd occasion she gets to visit the countryside she worries about the cows. "There are so many of them. What would happen if they all got together and decided to attack us? Why would anybody want to LIVE out here?"
Yin And Yang
Yin And Yang commented
Too funny! You nailed it! I have wondered very similar! (My husband use to haul milk and we lived near by the places he delivered to so some nights I would drive him over dinner and yah...... all the mooing in the wee hours of the night...... I was always glad they glared at me from behind the gate! Lol!)
Jann Nikka
Jann Nikka commented
LOL
Jaimie  JT Profile
Jaimie JT answered

I would expect to find self driving cars ...shuttles to hotels in space with floating maids ... And carb free baguettes.

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Ancient Hippy
Ancient Hippy commented
Nah. You've just got to find a rich man to marry.
Jaimie  JT
Jaimie JT commented
True ...then I can have a pony , 76 lamas and lots of naps.
Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
Ogden Nash once wrote this verse about lamas:
"A one-L lama, he's a priest;
a two-L llama, he's a beast;
And I would bet a striped pajama
You'll never find a three=L lllama."

A week later somebody wrote in and said, "A big fire can be a three alarmer."

And, it was only this week that somebody posted an answer that said they had a pet llama that they named Dalai.
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Gokula krishnan answered

Extinct of fossil fuels, and decrease in global warming ,possibly our beautiful mother earth would heal :) but I don't know whether it would take 25 years .

Next is the improvement in technology ,possibly AI would invade our world .

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
I hope so, Gokula. It would be lovely to see that healing. As yoiu said, it's gonna take longer than 25 years, though.
Otis Campbell Profile
Otis Campbell answered

Phones would be easier to use

Cars would be safer

And chelsey clinton would be president oh lord or a bush relative more disgust

Walt O'Reagun Profile
Walt O'Reagun answered

New world leaders.

New wars.

25 years of sports.

Nothing of consequence being done regarding any important issues.

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
Same old, same old?? Certainly to some extent. My only regret that I won't be around for the next 50 years is that I'll miss all the wonderful technological changes that are coming. But as for the rest, yeah, it could be as dull as ever.
Toxic Hairball Profile
Toxic Hairball answered

People could wire their brains directly to the internet.

My neighborhood will have gone to s---, and the taxes increased.

That I might get back in the spaceship for good.

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
We might not have to wait 25 years to link our brains to be linked to the Net, Toxic. That kind of technology is already on the way although it's a bit fanciful just yet. :)

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