What do you anticipate to be the economic and political fate of the 3rd World by the end of the 21st century?
911961
Socialism is causing massive death, poverty, AIDS and slavery in the third world.  Because they have chosen to embrace marxist values, they are doomed.  This process is well underway, especially in africa and haiti.
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.
689295
Political, social and cultural change is inevitable. With the current state of affairs, I expect our country to gradually slide into a third world type existence and possibly loose parts of the southwest to Mexico or an independent Latino nation (as intended by some of the immigration protesters). \n\nAn electromagnetic pulse, a nuclear detonation in Washington DC, a major disruption of oil supplies or a radical Democrat and and completely democratically controlled legislative branch (just kidding!) would most likely spell the end for our society as we know it.\n\nNothing is forever.
367192
Of course. This is the 21st century.
1009031
I believe within the next hundred years, religion as a whole will finally become regarded as nonsense, except for a few fundamentalist holdouts.\n\nIt will stop influencing our politics and so forth, and be reduced to small communities who will shut themselves off from the rest of the world (to keep from hearing the truth).\n\nThese small communities will be nothing more than remnants of the old days, and will basically be reduced to the basics of what they truly are... cults.\n\nAnd these cults will either die off, have mass suicides, or try to kill the rest of us, before they are finally outlawed.\n\nSo yes, the end is near.  And so is the beginning.  :)
10994
20 years is not a long period of time.  I think that the United States will still definitely "think" it is the center of the world, just like it does now.  But the oil will still belong to the arabs, the chinese will still make everything and  drugs will still make you more money than anything else (think tobacco).\n\nSo corporations who control drugs, food, alcohol, oil and information will rule the world (kinda like they do now)\n\nAs for being slaves to machines, take a look at us now.  We are volunteering hours of time answering questions for free while an unmanned machine watches over us! Talk about the "Matrix".\n\nThe real source of ultimate power for most of the world is water.  There can be no life with out it.  Look forward to tremendous suffering, starvation and brutality as America continues to have one fifth of the worlds population but uses FOUR fifths of the worlds resources.
898472
Not yet.  We will be once our demands outstrip our resources.  Then it will be like the Dark Ages in Europe when many will die from pestilence and war.  After that, there will be more resources available per person than there has been in a long time.  There will be what can only be considered a new Renaissance.
830182
talk about our new world order\nand what is the changed that happened to our life the last 50 years till now
266203
in the next 5 years there will be a lot of people unable to pay their mortgages, so a lot of repos.  in 10 we will be recovering from the disaster of the "hidden inflation" technique of money management by the Fed.  in 25 years we will be asking China if we can have some input and a share of their base on the Moon.  in 40 years there will be no unions, and no consumer protection.  in 50 there will be a great depression, followed by the rise of a labor movement, and the restoration of consumer protections.  Rinse & repeat.
1107765
basically, its suggested that the world will only be able to support only a few million by teh end of the century due to global warming and what not...so, maybe i wont get to live a long life..
1018885
Outcome 1:\nNo, the world will end before then, especially if North Korea/Iran don't stop it with their nuclear programs.\n\nOutcome 2:\nNow that computers have become such a large part of our lives, I don't see us ever not using them.  They will become much more advanced and the way that we interact with them will change dramatically.\n\nOutcome 3:\nWe will develop computers that become too powerful and we will live in a world much like the Matrix (maybe we already do ;) ).  Come to think of it, what if in the Matrix, people built computers inside the Matrix and these computers made another Matrix, like a Matrix inside a Matrix.  You could call the second one Matrix Jr.
441559
I do not foresee Africa thriving in this century or the next.  It really saddens me though, since I am an African myself.
188863
I imagine within 1-3 years.
95861
It is a possibility but the consequence would probably be third world war. I hope that it never happens.
1115896
-More liberal, morals will become exceedingily less.\n-I would say, yes new inventions, medicines and diseases are much, much less.\n-Maybe an unexpected country, like...Indonesia!\nThe world will be generally worse, crimes will be higher, but technology will be great. English will be a little less popular and maybe Indonesian or...Arabic language will be global! A third World War has already happened, and the world is going to experience a fourth one. US won't be rich anymore, and is not from the developed countries.
182938
What is the world coming to.
769046
I think there is a new world coming, I call it the future. I don't know if it will be better or worse than the world we have now. Bush will be out of office soon; that's one bright spot. I'm inclined to think it will be worse simply because there will be more people around in the future, and that can only spell trouble. As for what I'm doing to make it better...not much. I am trying not curse around children as often, I guess that's something.