So is anyone interested in any aspect of the future that doesn't involve race?

Is the future racial make-up of the world really the only thing of any interest? Or is it just that people who are really freaked out by the idea that white people might be slightly less in a minority than they are now are the only ones who care that much about the future?


Cmon, doesn't anyone give a shit about those flying cars we might have before I die finally?

 

There’s a lot of fear and anxiety over the prospect of having the first black US president
– it’s so thick you can cut it with a knife




Hotwater

 

Im white and Im actually voting for Obama! If McCain gets elected the US is in huge trouble.

Anyways as for the future for interests me is to know if the human race will continue to live and thrive without any nuclear war or some kind of biological warfare. That is what interests me about the future.

 

I thought nuclear worries were overs on account of global warming. TBH I'm actually kinda peeved that widescale use of nuclear energy was more or less overruled by enviros in the 80s, on account of how we just ended up relying on fossil fuels. I know they wanted us to go renewable, but it was never going to happen.

 

Some of us aren't racist or in the USA.

The future belongs to some other species, but before that happens the future belongs to the meek - meaning whichever people go unnoticed during WW3.

I'm interested in the future history of space exploration, and in seeing nature reclaim the abandoned concrete jungles.

 

I'll be dicked off if we don't at least get to Mars during my lifetime. It sucks that we went for such a long time with no-one being interested in getting into space just for the hell of it, and it really sucks that the only reason we seem to be interested NOW is so we can invade it or use it to shoot people with.

 

Nobody's interested? You're wrong. Space travel costs so much that just that slows it down a lot. Besides the costs there are lots of other problems to overcome if you want to travel into space.

 

Well yeah, but we managed it before. We found the money to go to the Moon! Then we did fuck all for 30 years and then someone was like "so yeah, did you know you could put guns in space and shoot people with them?"

I know it's expensive, but that's not helped by the fact that investment in research disappeared for a few decades.

 

The moon is very easy to reach in comparison to Mars. Because it costs so much and it is already done we're not sending astronauts over there every to often. There has been more investments in research than only guns and shields over the last few decades and so there has been more problems discovered for space travels further then the moon. Don't you think people at NASA wouldn't wanna make bigger steps? It just doesn't work that easily unfortunately.

 

The last thing I'd want to do is accuse NASA of not trying. I guess it's unrealistic to imagine that they'd get the same funding they had during the "Space Race" indefinitely.

 

I would imagine that only white people would be worried..I am not sure why they would be worried though..afraid of being one of the minorities I presume.

 

I do not look forward to that. I want a world where every single race and culture is alive and well, being allowed to live the way they want.

 

That’s what we all want but invariably when we mix the races
we all become a lighter shade of brown




Hotwater

 

is it really all that interesting what color my great great great grandchildren are gonna be? hopefully they speak more than one language. where i grew up it just wasn't necessary, unless you wanted to know what the mexicans and vietnamese were calling you. honestly, i didn't need to know. i could get the general idea.

 

the future:
a ruined home planet, some colonies on the outer moons, some exploratory expeditions to distant systems, and a lot of forgetting

 

More likely just a ruined home planet.

 

where the heck did that come from? i certainly hope a lot of us are.

flying cars as generally conceived are impractical for cultural reasons as more then limitations of technology. that can and will perhaps shift as culture does. i don't like calling them cars though.

a lot of things we CAN do differently NOW, with technologies we HAVE NOW that would be better for the environment, society, and even individual happiness, aren't being done that way because of ego and emotional attachment to ways of doing things based on greed.

there is no "white race". there is no "black race". there are only varying amounts of melatonin, shading the skin.

so again i don't know where that came from, is coming from.

eventually the dollar will collapse, the oil will run out, and human population will implode from famine and disease resulting from global climate change resulting from the combination of the use of combustion to generate energy and propel transportation, with an ever increasing population do to fertility not having been reduced in proportion with the extension of longevity.

but none of those things are going to suddenly happen in one day a couple of years from now. they're all processes that take place over a period of time. the first two and the precursor to the third, have already been going on, but continue to have an indeterminate way to go to become critical.

i'm interested, very interested, in a world i know i personally, and perhaps no one yet born, will live to see. where AFTER the population implodes, and solar, wind, and small scale hydro are the dominant forms of energy because of fuels for combustion having become scarce, making in turn a transportation infrastructure propelled by combustion no longer practical, forcing the refinement of stored energy and other clean means of propulsion, and certainly favoring the energy and other advantages of small form factor steel wheel on steel rail and other guideway based transport infrastructure technologies.

a world, because of the implosion of human population, filled with fascinating ruins to explore, exploit and even occupy, and perhaps even people being allowed, or no one to prevent them from doing so, to build maze like constructions that people who otherwise have no other place, people who simply prefer to, and even the builders themselves, can take up residence in the dead end corners of.

were people have learned to be considerate of each other, those who survived the rough times, having learned from that their own and each other's survival depends on doing so.

i'm also very interested in character level roll play in such a world if and when anyone else becomes interested in doing so.

 

a flying car is a plane.. What planet you from??

 

i rather suspect that's not exactly what most people have in mind.
planes need runways longer then most people's driveways, unless they have vtol, which consumes mass quantities of energy and tend to make rather a disturbingly great amount of noise. most people who are forced to drive probably shouldn't. imagine giving them three dimensions instead of two.

just another way to force people to indenture themselves while pretending they are free.

 

is race a gender?