What do you think the Economic and political Systems evolution in the future ?
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The current world economic system is not sustainable. There must be a limit to the transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich, both between and within countries. Also we are using up irreplaceable natural resources (including oil but not only oil) and it has at last become obvious even to the most blinkered politicians that we are risking catastrophic climatic change by excessive use of resources.\n\nOur world leaders know all this, but do not know what to do about it. Also, short term greed prevents essential changes being made to address long-term problems. Computerized systems make things worse when they are used to intensify social control instead of listen to people's expressions of their needs.\n\nThere are two possibilities. Firstly, our leaders can evolve systems which are more responsive to economic imperatives and human desires. Secondly, there could be catastrophic breakdown, probably resulting in widespread war, competing localized political dictatorships and many people dying of starvation and other needs which cannot be met in the absence of effective government.\n\nThe human population is exploding in numbers. We are seeing many features, such as widespread psychological stress, defence of territory (elite nations and luxury houses) by dominant individuals within the species and changing birth rates, along the lines of experiments carried out years ago by biologists investigating overcrowding .\n\nBiologists provided rats in a cage with all their needs so that the only limitation on breeding was limited space. They biologists found that the population grew and grew until there was a sudden collapse to leave just a few survivors. A parrallel could happen in the human world with a pandemic such as "bird flu". I don't want to die in a pandemic, nor do I want the enormous human misery it would bring to those who did catch the disease. But the reduction in population a pandemic like the fourteenth century Black Death would bring (particularly if it killed off MORE than the quarter of the population culled by the Black Death) would make the economic and social systems more stable. Scarce labour would also reduce inequality. A major conventional world war could have similar "benefits" and, I emphasise, objections.
807368
I think we ought to build trade goods so that when we do meet another life form we can deal on equal footing no matter how technology advanced they may seem to be.  My plan is to use the next few thousand years of peaceful taxation  to build an energy net . \nAn energy net gathers and distributes energy to  the world (also weather influencing) a second energy net to be built with orbital and landing abilities. \n Intelligent trade goods make a peaceful future for all earthlings.
444386
Nope.  As humans are inherently imperfect, our governments and economic systems will be also!
30703
I don't think the people will think it's better or worse than now.  But if one of us were to pop up all of a sudden 100 years from now we'd be in shock.  The change in the world due to technology in the past 100 years is incredible, but the advances that the knowledge we now have are going to enable for the future are going to make the world an entirely different place.  Hopefully it will get better because the alternative is probably destruction.
766758
It is kinda hard to answer this because it is very opinionated but i think it will be rather soon because of the Oil Crisis. eventually the oil rich contries will be over run but oil hungry nations that haven't prepared for a huge shift such as the loss of oil. Eventually war will break out over it and the allience system will kick in much like WWII.
15522
neither will :)\n\nwait till 2010 - expect newer and more powerful entities compared to the current ones mentioned by you!
987928
It is difficult to predict what the future will hold for the planet being Earth and the human species.  Humans have the ability of free-will.  We have the ability to preserve what we are as a species and the planet or destroy the creation of one or both.  Currently we are at a cross-roads in spiritual advancement.  The Service to Self people (power, money, great assets, war) and the Service to Others (global community and planetary assistance).  We are moving in the direction of the Service to Others but time will tell if we meet our objective for our evolutionary advancement and preserve the human species and our planet Earth.  Both are beautiful, I hope we do.
755414
No it will not.\nCurrencies go up and down due to various economic indicators and not due to political changes.
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.
587783
What will happen in the future is anyone's guess. My guess is there will be a lot of panic, much like there was back in 1999.
791314
It's going to be a very clean and sterile world. Imagine a world without telephone poles. No electrical cords of any kind. No gas stations. No super markets. No stores. Why would you need these things when they'll have replicators. Very much like Star Trek. You just tell it what you want and poof there it is. Someday everything will be run off of satellites. I mean everything. From flashlights to your car. If they even have cars. Why would you need a car when you can just think about where you want to be and it happens. Energy will simply be beamed down from satellites. It's a creepy world. They'll look back on us and wonder how we could live a barbaric life as we do. The way things are going though. There's a distinct possibility mankind will kill itself off before then. No doubt there will be a one world order. Maybe even time travel. The future is a scary place.\n.
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Homo Sapiens appeared about 100,000 years ago. Without any scienctific inteference at gene level, I suspect there won't be much difference physically, but they will hopefully be fitter and better fed at the world level, with longer and better lives as diseases are eradicated or controlled.\nHowever, if we look at the advances made since the industrial revolution and the earlier age of enlightenment, we will be talking an amazing and unpredictable future, assuming we don't wipe ourselves out. Compared to the 100,000 years we've been here, we've developed the majority of our current technology over a miniscule 300years and the increase in advanced technology culminating in electronics and computers in reality over the last 50, although obviously based on earlier work. It's a really amzing time we're living in, but hopefully the rest of the world will ultimately benefit from the globalisation of technology in a positive environmental and social way and not as is currently the norm of wanton profligate usage of natural resources of western "developed" societies and the random conflicts of the world's societies as a whole.\nMaybe in the next 10,000 years we'll grow up?
20686
I think this question confuses political systems and economic systems.
627528
During the next 5 years, I hope to see a Democratic sweep in all state and Federal governments (at least we will get a different set of lies), I am afraid we will see rampant inflation, horrid interest rates, serious weather pattern changes including more and more serious hurricanes on the East Coast. I expect that during the next 10 years, our ocean levels to begin rising causing more and more flooding in the gulf and East Coast. We well could face a serious uprising of the population due to the Iraq ordeal...very much like we had with Viet Nam. I do not foresee good times ahead. I also think our problems with Mexico have just started. I hope I am wrong.
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I believe it will take a similar course as electronics and computer technology over the past century, with some of the same benefits as well as consequences.\n\nFirst, don't expect miracles.  Remember people were expecting robots to do and know virtually everything by 2000.  We have progressed a long way, but that was just unrealistic.  I predict nanotechnology within the next 20 years will be comparable to electronics before the discovery of the transistor.\n\nWithin 50 years, I predict something similar to the dot.com boom/bomb.  There will be some very amazing advancements which will spur investment into all kinds of faulty business models.  In the end, a lot of people will lose money but things will settle out at a higher economic level.\n\nAnd as nanotech gets into the hands of common folks, "hackers" will emerge.  I could only make wild guesses on what kind of hacking that would be, but it will be there.  I guarantee that.  Perhaps we will all need to install genetic firewalls to prevent hackers from hijacking our brains! :)
592360
I think China will do exactly as it's told by the West or their economy will not grow.\n\nThere's a Disney Land in China 4 heavens sake!
937075
I hope that in 5 billion years. We have somewhat evolved beyond this planet. Besides we won't have enough land or fossil fuels to last the next five hundred. I can hardly imagine five billion years from now.