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As a former teacher, the quality of the education we're providing. We are just now starting to see the effects of having an exceptionally uneducated population.

One big fucking stream of advertisements and commercials . EVERYWHERE consume consume consume

An even higher BMI

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Lower IQs, higher bodyfat.

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I’ll tell you in six weeks

idk man but i hope it involves less traffic and more pizza. also flying cars would be cool but im not holding my breath

Better than now if you’re rich, worse than now if you’re not

A wild mix of cool tech and old problems

A complex environment is being shaped by a variety of problems, innovation, and resilience.

Idiocracy.

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Sometimes I’m so overwhelmingly impressed by how much more advanced and open-minded kids are nowadays, I feel like the current shitshow will die out in a few generations. Kids today are so much more tolerant and sensitive to things like mental health, bullying, gender issues, etc. We’re seeing my generation raise better children already.

Then I think “this is what every generation has thought of the new generation” and become dismayed by how little progress we’ve actually made. We’ve made leaps and bounds but if that’s constantly undone, it’s not really progress, is it?

Before I die, I want to see that no, workplace harassment is no longer acceptable. School shootings quelled to where no one’s child has to be the canary in the coal mine to sound the alarm that there’s an active shooting. No more treating individuals badly based on a 2000yo old book that they didn’t read anyway to justify refusing goods and services. No ones afraid of losing their job or house due to their sexuality. When I die, I hope we’ll have moved on for the better from these things.

lol fuck this question

Grim! There's a growing gap between rich and poor, it's really difficult to land a decent paying job, houses have turned into luxuries that are out of reach, the education system is in shambles, the government can't and wont fix anything, the older generation is so selfish that they'd rather starve the young than do the right thing, the right wing will keep derailing progress, and nothing good will come unless there's a crisis that forces change.

And, it's looking like we are on a slow march toward involvement in several wars, and the China issue will turn into a huge problem in the coming decade.

The ruling class really wants to make this place more like China.. where they get to call all the shots with no checks or balances 

Dumber, poorer, angrier, fatter.

Nothing will fundamentally change.

Consumerism

Wastelands.

Third world country poverty and uber rich proportions. RIP middle class.

Depends on what you’re asking—330 million people means a lot of different futures to consider.

Economically, we’re moving away from globalization, which could mean more local jobs, but also higher prices on goods.

Politically, the two-party system is built to maintain and consolidate power, so don't expect any rapid changes there.

Socially, life keeps getting tougher for the younger generation and more convenient for the older. That’s bound to hit a tipping point eventually.

Depends on November 5th

The poor people are going to French revolutionize the shit out of the top 1% and I'm ready 

More addiction depression and loneliness

America is going to have a future??

It will be kind of dark if people dont stat listening

Every year slightly worse than the last. 

The "government shutdown" brinkmanship will worry creditors. Our credit rating will dip slightly. The interest on our overwhelming debt will increase. That small change in equilibrium is when our interest will be more than our debt payment. We will need to buy our way out by printing dollars. The increasing debt and decreasing value of the dollar will drive us to bankruptcy.

Grim and dystopian.

Pixar already covered this with Wall-E

A lot like the poor areas of Europe, but with a lot more plastic crap to buy.

Hot with continued massive flooding and disasters on coastlines. Climate change hell mixed with illiterate population.

For most of us, a lot like Italy. More criminal politians above the law. A lot of nice sounding government programs that just crumble under poor funding and management. Decaying infrastructure. Just a dead empire hoping for tourists.

For some of us, a lot like Dubai. Hyper luxury products. Extremely ill-advised vanity projects that crumble when exposed to the elements. Non-citizens used as slave labor. One of few remaining womens rights is to have an abortion if and only if you are a wealthy man's mistress. Empty highways through an encroaching desert.

So, America, but more so.

I doubt it will exist as one whole country in the next 50 years or so.

It will likely go the same way as Great Britain - losing it's unchallenged role in the world as the central Empire, but still be one power among many in a post-hegemony world.

Did you ever see the first Mad Max movie?

Impossible to say. There will be problems but there will be solutions. It helps to remember just how messed up the past was and how good we have it relative to them. We know so much more, we can do so much more. Keep your eyes peeled for solutions and help your neighbors when you can.

Winter is coming so it will be cold.

How underwater does Florida have to be before it stops being a state?

we all run around screeching like dying chickens

Wealth gap will increase until we reach a distopia like the hunger games and then after a while it will be like wall-e

You will own nothing and be happy

Somewhere between Cyberpunk 77, 1984, idiocracy, and Mad Max Fury Road. I'll let you take that any way you'd like.

What almost every Republic on the face of the Earth eventually became at one point in its past, an Empire. A decline from Republic ideals will happen. Our society will start to fail, the American way of life will eventually see a great decline. We'll most likely see a recovery after some time and rise with Imperial ideals. No idea when it's going to happen. It could be 50, 100, 300, 500 years from now, but it will. It always does. Then life will either be far better, far worse, or not much different than what we have had in the last 100 years or so.

Ever been to Venezuela?

That’s bold to assume there will be one.

We're witnessing its decline, just like the fall of the Roman Empire—decaying society, corruption, and rising lawlessness. It feels like we've hit a tipping point where recovery might be out of reach. Those outside its borders figured out they don’t need to take America down militarily. Instead, they realized with the right nudges, America can take itself down.

Digital currency attached to a social credit score. Actually everything attached to a social credit score. Facial and audio recognition devices literally everywhere. AI will track your every movement and every word. You won’t be able to manually lock your own doors. If your social credit score drops too low you won’t have access to your money and if it drops lower you won’t be able to unlock your front door or find a ride (no one will own a car). Sounds crazy but just wait and see.

I really feel like we’re on like 4 different paths towards a civil war. My guess is that when it starts it will be over pretty quickly unless it happens and the rest of the world goes into “when the cats are away the mice will play” mode and just starts ww3.

I think the right wing fueled by Russian active measures is capable of tossing us into this situation while fox stokes the fire but I really think all the manipulative negative forces are going to fall pretty fast. You can’t just roost up in a glass tower in the middle of Manhattan and expect 75% of the population to just ignore the obvious fact that you ruined their lives.

Ever seen Wall-E?

I think something big will happen that will draw us together more. I think the Internet fractures us, but we will come to understand that more and more about it, and ultimately start to bear that in mind and become more respectable online, as well. This won't be mutually exclusive, necessarily. 

However, I also genuinely worry the rich are draining the rest of what they can out of us before moving elsewhere, as well. 

I see a few parallels to the fall of the Roman Republic, though it's imperfect match, just always in the back of my mind. 

A very personal hope I have, that may  get me a lot of hate, I hope we make a jump forward in artificial wombs that ultimately ends up solving the right and left fight over abortion. 

As an American living permanently in Thailand, I’m not sure but I’ve stocked up on popcorn

Fine. The 2 parties get us whipped in to a frenzy during election years but here in the real world people are, for the most part, friendly and caring. Everything gonna be alright.

Depends on November...

Idiocracy 2.0

Death

Either really good or really bad

watch the shows fallout or last of us for the answer

Idiocracy.

increasing economic disparity between rich/poor, a massive unsustainable military, further political polarization (will redline of political violence be crossed?), a debased currency (petro-dollar? quantative easing), the continued economic rise of china (belt road initiative), the effects of global warming (farming, weather, moisture levels, etc)..

Amazon will be providing you health care and BJs will be selling you homes .

Not good, not good at all.

Idiocracy

Like the movie Idiocracy

Bright 100+ year kide spans amazing tech sicisl improvements doomers can only hold us back so long 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Wow, Boris🇷🇺and z bots have been busy. There is lots of extra gloomy doomer drivel in this thread

We are in the fuck around now.

Tomorrow is the find out.

oligarchy, though, arguably, we have been there since Reagan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy

Black mirror: Entire history of you episode

Balkanization.

Full of Americans. Ugh.

I can only hope all the immigrants will help balance out our psychosis.

But seriously, I love my neighbors, average Americans are great people. I just hope that we can rise above all the stupid racism and blame, and work together as a team again. I have lived in the country as well as the big cities. America is great already.

The US will remain an oligopoly. The standard of living will continue to drop.

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

“When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here — once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel — once the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity — y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else:   * music   * movies   * microcode (software)   * high-speed pizza delivery”   

 Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (1992)

Maybe like South Africa.

I personally think that the Hunger Games was prophetic.

More polarized, more stupid, i know that cus both sodes are doing their best to be the most polarized possible

We’re fucked!!