Life in the future

What is your opinion about life in about 100 years?
Automated highways? Hover trains? Endless energy? Or whatever you can think of, no matter it can come true or not.
I want to consult your ideas before showing mine, as I havent thought of a future world

Endless energy is impossible because Energy can neither be created nor destroyed.

Bloodraine:

Endless energy is impossible because Energy can neither be created nor destroyed.

Oh you nitpicker Meg. I see what 2000 Light Years is getting at...endlessly renewable energy, right? Of course that'll be where we get. Soon, too. I lived in a house powered by solar and wind power, mostly. We had propane fuel for some stuff, but heat mostly came from wood-burning. That counts as renewable, we just can't use as much wood and wood pulp as we do now. We had running water...I think in one location. Twas amazing.

We'll have efficient solar and wind power plants within a few decades. They're actually working on magnetic hover trains, too. That might take longer.

I'm scared about what the future will be like. I mean our generation will be ruling the world. And that scares me.

dirtyhippie:

They're actually working on magnetic hover trains, too. That might take longer.

just for the record, they already have working hover trians! they're developing them in germany (or it might be japan, not sure!) and they have working prototypes. those will almost definately be around in about 5-10 years or so.

i dont want to think about the future.

'i hope i die before i get old'

Diet Coke And Mentos:

I'm scared about what the future will be like. I mean our generation will be ruling the world. And that scares me.

Has anyone read the Uglies Trilogy by Scott Westerfeld? In the future, we're all dead because of an oil-eating bacteria that becomes toxic upon contact with air. Our structures are nothing but ruins and we're known as "Rusties" because of our obsession with metal stuff. And when one turns sixteen, you get an operation. To make you pretty. Normal is ugly. And pretties have lesions in their brains to make them stoooopid. So only a few people like doctors and firefighters get the lesions removed. Everyone is skinny and happy and does nothing but party. No one needs to be paid and everyone is equal. Any needs come from the "hole in the wall" present in every home and from Requisition Centers for things like hoverboards and hovercars. The city has a metal grid built into the streets for hoverboards and hovercars because they operate on magnets.

I think the metal grid thing is really really cool and what scares me is that Mr.Westerfeld may be right. What if we do end up like that? What if we die out and those who survive rebuild civilization and make everyone "perfect". Of course, in the books, there's lots and lots of renewable energy and no need to push out into the wild to construct homes because of strict population control. By the end of the book, the main character and the supporting character form run out to the wild and tell everyone that they'll be waiting until someone repeats the old mistakes or tries to do what the Rusties did.

Also, in the books, they learn about anorexia in school and they're like " yeah right" and when Tally (main character) sees a supermodel from a 300 year old Vogue, she's like "Ew..." because her face apparently looks digusting (some of the models really do have scary faces) and because she's so skinny with her ribs poking out and stuff.