Within the next 50 years mankind will have a very bitter perspective on the legacy of petroleum on our planet and in our bodies.
Gasoline & Diesel Engines: Global climate change is an unfortunate reality, and a major contributing cause is the burning of fossil fuels. Most of us try to ignore this today because gas-powered engines are our only means of transportation, but as electric vehicles become more prevalent and the climate continues to change, I believe that public opinion will shift heavily against internal combustion engines.
Plastic Packaging: Petroleum-based plastics never completely b
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50 years from now marriage will be seen as an antique and maybe barbaric practice like slavery, child labor, and public executions.
This chart shows the number of marriages among unmarried adult women since 1940 in the US.
The chart extends current trends into the future. The line labeled crash is a simple extrapolation. If the present trend continues through 2040, nobody will be getting married anymore. The other two lines show what might happen if the drop tapers off or even rebounds.Similar trends appear if you look at people of various ages.
This trend isn’t limited to the US. It’s going
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- Gas fueled cars. A lot of automobile industries are starting to push for electric cars as a “greener” alternative of gas for fuel. It wouldn't be surprising if in 50 years, gas as a fuel would become obsolete. Hell, we could even have cars that are solar powered.
- DVD's for movies, games, and other types of media. We are actually starting to see this now through the advancements of streaming services. It wouldn't surprise me if all our media became accessible through a database that we can download.
- Paper from trees. I would be okay if we used hemp (part of the marijuana plant) to make paper, ins
I think that the future generations are going to judge this time period extremely harshly. We like to assume or act as if we are good and righteous people, but our actions don’t exactly back up that attitude. I think they will judge us for the following topics:
Abortion. This could go either way. Either we are fools for trying to deny women the right to abortions or we are savages for aborting unbo
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A random British person is sent 100 years into the future.
British person: Oh bloody bollocks! What have I gotten myself into?
Modern person: This is 2018.
British person: 2018! Does Great Britain win the Great War?
Modern Person: Yes.
British person: Ah yes, Britannia rules the waves!
Modern Person: Not really.
British person: WHAT!?!? Who has the greatest empire now! What happened to this:
Modern Person: No one. Empires are no longer a thing other than some small islands.
British person: Why? Aren’t empires the greatest source of revenue?
Modern Person: After World War Two, the world decided that empi
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You see this?
It’s just a coke right?
Well, in 1918, a coke was only 5 cents.
Now, imagine if someone from 1918 was suddenly teleported to today.
He walks into a store and sees that a coke now costs $1.
Chocolate bars that used to be 3 cents are now $1.50.
And a loaf of bread that was once 9 cents is now $2.50.
And this is just for food.
A decent home in 1918 could be purchased for around $2,000.
The average price for a home sold in the United States in 2017 was $398,900.
Suddenly, everything seems absurdly expensive. Especially since the average household in 1918 earned about $1,518 a year.
Granted, onc
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In a 100 years from now one humanity will look back and find one thing utterly ridiculous:
Education System of today:
There’s a real problem with our education system. Robots may have succeeded in this education system but intellectual and talented children are left behind because we treat children like they are robots being assembled in a factory.
We try without ever learning (truly ironic) to teach every single child the same thing in the absolute same manner!
In the modern era emphasis is placed on individuality but our education system absolutely attempts to kill it. Children have to wear the
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I was actually thinking about something similar to this last night.
Something that I think will be nonexistent in 150 years, actually in less than 50 years, is the idea that people will have to deal with a shortage of water.
There are 352,670,000,000,000,000,000 gallons (multiply that by 3.8 for liters) of water in the world’s oceans, but of course, we can’t use any of it to sustain human populations, because it’s all saltwater, and the cost to purify it is exorbitant, due to the amount of energy required to run desalination plants. The technology is pretty much limited to places like Dubai, whe
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Here are several things about the 90s that would be unthinkable now, from an American perspective:
- People could bring baseball bats, pocketknives, and water bottles to airports legally and board with them.
- People used encyclopedias and actually visited libraries as the main method of doing research.
- Gas prices hovered around a dollar a gallon.
- In 1997, 36% of applicants got into UCLA, 31.4% got into Cal, and 65% got into UCI. Harvard’s admission rate was 12.3%, and Stanford’s was 15.5%
- 1988 tuition for the UC schools was $840 with a $594 student services fee, for California residents. In 1998 it ro
Fossil fuels.
Non-scholastically:
The release of heat in a transportation process is a real Co-Efficient Of drag. I think I remember the figure of 30 - 60% efficiency of a gasoline engine for the available energy, most goes to heat and most of the cooling system is ambient air passing through the engine compartment, that is true dissipation.
Estimated; an internal combustion engine has over 100 movin
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What is something we do today that will be viewed as abnormal in the near future?
Rubbish.
The future generations will be astounded that the whole world’s population invested in producing rubbish. Previous modern generations were “green” and sustainable, long before “green” and “sustainable” were catch-words. Containers that are now plastic were glass or tin and glass containers were generally returned to be cleaned and re-used. They didn’t use the word “”re-cycling” then. It wasn’t the throw-away society then. If you needed a new razor blade you simply ins erted a new blade not throw the comple
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Could you imagine someone from 1918, sitting in a movie theater and seeing this:
Or this:
Or this:
Or this:
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I’d say the chance of them having a heart attack would be almost guaranteed.
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A hundred years ago, CGI didn’t exist. Special effects didn’t really even exist. Movies were mainly a bunch of black and white characters running around on a screen, with piano music.
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You go from that, to literal monsters running around and killing things, and destroying buildings. To dinosaurs running along next to motorcycles, and people being eaten by Tyrannosaurus Rexes. To cities being destroyed by nuclear bom
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Eating animals.
Think about it.
The only difference between animals and us is consciousness. And, quite frankly, the major idea of not killing humans is not based on “people have consciousness, shan’t kill!” but rather on empathy — the negative feeling we experience when someone (or something) who has feelings and emotions hurts.
The reason why some of us do not experience this feeling now is because our brains got used to animals being murdered. If people killed people in front of you for all your life, I am sure it wouldn’t be that strange for you as well.
If your counterargument to the above is
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NASA plans on bringing humans to mars by the 2030's.
Yes, it's true see: NASA's Journey to Mars.
In fact, the early stages of this mission have been ongoing for quite some time on board the international space station, a giant testing ground for studying long duration missions in space, effects of micro gravity on the human body.
The second phase calls on bringing humans back to the moon, as well as capturing an asteroid all in preparation of deep space landing missions. Lastly arrival on the red planet itself, just imagine the scientific possibilities and humanities accomplishments if we were ac
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