Do you think there will actually be a United States of America in 50 years?
414768
Yes, eventually (maybe not 50 years, but sometime not so far off), the US will have claimed that no country will be able to be trusted with nuclear weapons, and the US will bomb and take over every country. 50 years after that, people will realize that the true irony was that, in all of history, the US was the only country to use nuclear weapons.
898894
I agree with it and I think it will happen. It already has in more enlightened countries and the US will follow eventually.
976005
Probably not in the next 10 years, but there is definitely a conspiracy of dunces  the right and the left in the US working hard to make it happen.\n\nNot with a bang but a whimper.
958959
Mmm it’s hard to accept this fact, but it's true. The worst of this situation is that is too late to stop this process, and there's nothing we can do. The key for the success in the US was the relation of respect that we had with God and humanity, but at this time the US only cares about wars. Sadly, we'll have to accept the idea that US will collapse sooner or later, and that's when we will realize that we are not alone in this world, because there's others countries and we have to learn how to live together. If Empires like Roman fell down, why the US Empire had to be this exception? This is the hard reality. I just can’t assure you how long will this process take, but it’s for sure that it’ll happen, someday, somehow.
586254
Better technology and medicine is a given. Gas prices will probably be higher. People will continue to complain about the economy but no one will do anything about it. We'll have a different president (the way things are going now, probably a Democrat), but we'll still have troops over in Iraq. TV shows like "The Simpsons" and "Friends" will continue to be on reruns every other hour. Americans will continue their dieting craze, but won't stop eating fast food. More doomsayers will emerge, just as people did right before Y2K. And as for resolving the immigration issue, I really have no idea...
940785
I think the world will be a very different place in 50 years from now - as it was 50 years AGO.  Technology is here to stay and we will become so dependent on it that we will be unable to function without it.  Many skills will be lost - as they already have been. (e.g. microwaving frozen food and serving as dinner has replaced home cooking - a dying art in many parts of the world)\n\nI can actually visualize a time when all newborn humans will be genetically programmed and then implanted with microchips for all kinds of things including identification, communicating with others, for diagnosing disease and illness as a preventative measure and for learning purposes.  Technology is racing ahead without much thought for ethical or moral reasoning - as it always has.  Nuclear weapons are an excellent example of this.  We have the technology to blow ourselves to smithereens but does that make it right? The scientists responsible for creating our brave new world - should be looking at all the social and ethical implications before applying them.  I believe that it will not be anything technological that ends up destroying life as we know it - it will be something biological - e.g. some fungus or infection that will wipe out whole cities and small countries and that technology will prove useless to our defence.  It would be nice to think that we will all end up in some kind of Star Trek kind of Utopia with all humans using technology for the good of all the universe - but I do not think this will be the reality.
905789
Well, yes and no.  \n\nNo, because nothing special is going to happen in 2050, but....\n\nYes, because the US economy is going to meltdown long before then (currency collapse followed by hyperflation) and one of the major side effects of this is going to be large-scale ethnic violence.  I know this because multicultural societies always, repeat ALWAYS, disintegrate into ethnic violence when they come under stress.  Multiculturalism only ever works in times of peace and prosperity when there's plenty for everyone.  As soon as any of these conditions change, people revert to their tribal identities and the ancient struggles of the tribes begin again....\n\nAmerica today is a giant Bosnia waiting to happen....\n\nNimadan
1055123
in 50 years \nthey are actually moving towards it.
1172377
Did you hear Bush say "60 years ago the United States and America" weren't close...."
383996
Yes and No. Yes, because of the stance America is taking on world issues. Also because the Govt. is confusing the world over with its stances which is so different from what it used to be. \n\nNo, because the American dream and the ideals would always remain. It is getting corroded by today's American society, especially the youth (who do not even know who the first President of the United States was!) \n\nSo in 50 years, America would be the UK of today, saying 'yes' to India and/or China for everything. And if it listens to China, that is the day the American dream would crumble.
782231
Within this decade, not likely. Yet, within a generation, based on immigration patterns allowed by European nations, and the prolific breeding patterns of Muslims (especially when compared to Europeans), then yes. It will be interesting to watch the 'social democracies' of Europe deal with it, as they are bred and voted out of existence. As all of their hard work and investments go into the wealth redistribution programs they now champion, and then are filtered away by the very political state they created, it will be laughable. They denounce the US, and its current actions, but they are a scant few years away.
262773
We can only speculate on that. Look into the counter world of this. Each choice you make causes something different to happen. History has the same effect. I believe somewhere that happned. All the worlds are balanced. Okay i got off topic.\nI believe there would be no more u.s.a\n~Blessed be~
1140892
No, you will not see a state secede.  I also believe you'll never see the US go beyond 50 states.  We've actually now been under the same flag in terms of stars longer than in any other time in our history (47 years).
541531
50 last time I knew LOL but if we counted the states on minds in the US boy we would be counting forever
885009
Gosh I hope so!  Maybe the end of the world is not so close, but many years off!\n\nLMAO\n\nNancy Pelosi is silly
506763
Hypothetically speaking, I'm not entirely sure the world will exist in 10 years the way current world affiars are going what with the nuclear tension in Iran and North Korea...But I predect the economy will be better if we're still around.
770460
If this nation still exists in its present form, and if this nation is not flat broke, current trends will continue.  Voters will elect whoever promises the most goodies.  No one will care how, or when, we will pay for them.  That's part of the "....lack to commit to anything...." that you mentioned. \n\nWe have an opportunity to become like a Third World Country in 30 years.  That will go nicely with the American Presidency, which is really a constitutionally weak office.