Robots will do nearly all work. Only jobs that people actually want to do will continue to be done by people. Because of this however the corporations would be able to get even richer since they wouldn't have to pay anyone, while the (now unemployed) regular people will get even poorer. A robot might only cost a human workers annual salary, but would then be able to work 16 hour days, 365 days a year.
I'd say (hopefully) we'll start to see the end of capitalism. People'll realise that it's just not sustainable anymore. It may take an actual revolution, with civil disobedience and violence, since the rich will be the ones in control of the law. But the poor will vastly outnumber them so they could win if they united. If capitalism does end then there would be enough of everything for everyone and no one would go without. If not then most of the world be in poverty while the handful of trillionaires own nearly everything.
I think there's no question that we'll have moved on from fossil fuels, but the question will be whether we'll have moved on quick enough that there won't be collosal damage done. I'd say a lot of coastal cities will be gone due to flooding from the ice caps melting. The rich ones will still be around though cos they'll have the money to build floodgates (although that will be much more expensive than any preventative measures we could be taking right now).
As for more positive things I think we'll have true artificial intelligence that can serve our every need. We'll be able to be so lazy, we'll never have to cook or clean again. We'll also have completely realistic human-like robots that we can have sex with anytime we want.
Virtual reality will be so perfect that experiences in the virtual world and the real world will be indistinguishable. It won't be seen as pathetic or anything to spend all day in the virtual world, in fact people with that view will be looked at as luddites. You could go on holiday every day of the week, with a new location each day.
Devotion to religion and nations will be almost gone. Only backwards people will continue to be religious or patriotic, people'll see that as being idiotic and pointless and realise that they were being controlled by it before. The few remaining small relgious groups will probably resort to terrorism as a last desperate pathetic attempt to stay relevant, but then they'll soon disappear and be forgotten about.
And then if we haven't achieved the following then we'll certainly be on the cusp of them: genetic immortality, true artificial intelligence, mind uploading, magnetic hover cars, a permanent fully sustainable colony on Mars, creating life from scratch, etc.
Normal to wonder what world be like in 2100?
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Robots will do nearly all work. Only jobs that people actually want to do will continue to be done by people. Because of this however the corporations would be able to get even richer since they wouldn't have to pay anyone, while the (now unemployed) regular people will get even poorer. A robot might only cost a human workers annual salary, but would then be able to work 16 hour days, 365 days a year.
I'd say (hopefully) we'll start to see the end of capitalism. People'll realise that it's just not sustainable anymore. It may take an actual revolution, with civil disobedience and violence, since the rich will be the ones in control of the law. But the poor will vastly outnumber them so they could win if they united. If capitalism does end then there would be enough of everything for everyone and no one would go without. If not then most of the world be in poverty while the handful of trillionaires own nearly everything.
I think there's no question that we'll have moved on from fossil fuels, but the question will be whether we'll have moved on quick enough that there won't be collosal damage done. I'd say a lot of coastal cities will be gone due to flooding from the ice caps melting. The rich ones will still be around though cos they'll have the money to build floodgates (although that will be much more expensive than any preventative measures we could be taking right now).
As for more positive things I think we'll have true artificial intelligence that can serve our every need. We'll be able to be so lazy, we'll never have to cook or clean again. We'll also have completely realistic human-like robots that we can have sex with anytime we want.
Virtual reality will be so perfect that experiences in the virtual world and the real world will be indistinguishable. It won't be seen as pathetic or anything to spend all day in the virtual world, in fact people with that view will be looked at as luddites. You could go on holiday every day of the week, with a new location each day.
Devotion to religion and nations will be almost gone. Only backwards people will continue to be religious or patriotic, people'll see that as being idiotic and pointless and realise that they were being controlled by it before. The few remaining small relgious groups will probably resort to terrorism as a last desperate pathetic attempt to stay relevant, but then they'll soon disappear and be forgotten about.
And then if we haven't achieved the following then we'll certainly be on the cusp of them: genetic immortality, true artificial intelligence, mind uploading, magnetic hover cars, a permanent fully sustainable colony on Mars, creating life from scratch, etc.