in 100 years,

i think it will be 1984 style, well, we are half-way there allready, a CCTV camera for ever 5th person or something in the country

little do we know, we ARE there allready, muhahaha...
either that, or we are in the matrix, and the machines just put out the movies to pull off the double fake out.

/me grabs the phone

In a 100 yrs --- well with mankind out of the picture it should be pretty peaceful ... nice place for a vacation

Interesting reading on the topic :

Will Spiritual Robots Replace Humanity by 2100? (Kevin Kelly)

Well.. I think that now we are about to move into an extended period of revolution. I think that people are beginning to see the old systems of power that rule their lives as not truly serving them. They see the power of the world being syphoned into the hands of the elite and away from the democracy that is little more than illusion at this point, so in 100 years I think humankind will be beginning to rebuild a new system, which I think is the only good part in the life of a society. All the hope for the future, not becoming corrupt yet and so on.

or we will all be dead, lol.

We will still be very same, yet very different especially tech-wise, also in 100years i reckon there will be people who will see Earth for the first time - through a telescope.

I don't know if anybody'll figure it out before it happens, but I think that there will be world wide wars leading to a second Dark Age. anti-Yip!

Different to the one where in at the moment, just as when the children of 100 years ago, looked into their picture book, and dreamed of the future.

No one has a crystal ball, and the future is not set, anything can change alter or affect history between one second and the next, we can speculate, and consider, but ultimately the only people who can answer that question with any certainty will be those living 100 years in the future looking back into their past and pondering what it was like to live 100 years ago...

I predict that there will be a steady at first and then momentous backlash against globalisation as people realise that they are in the first generation in several whose wages and living conditions are not improving.

I predict that the Middle East will become a single state and that although Islamic terrorism will subside, and a fear of terrible attack will become like a another Cold War.

I predict I will realise that its impossible to predict the future...

in 100 yrears time most forms of life will be DEAD thanks to the most intelligent forms of life on earth: US

Lol! Probably.

I have actually changed my mind on how we will be in a hundred years time. I think that instead of advancing we are regressing, ie destroying our environment, destroying eachother. I think we will go back to the stone age as some natural disaster or lack of natural resources will leave us without electricity or at least enough power to live as we do today.

PS: does anybody know where the URL is for those windup laptops ?

actually that is a theory of what might have already happened in the past explaining the perimids (naw the so called ancient egyptians could not have built them) and other astounding descoveries like something looking like a sparkplug but hundreds of thousands of years old

You could be right, maybe the world has been going through these cycles for thousands of years. The pyramids being built only 2-3000 years ago has been contested quite a lot, I remember a documentary by a researcher called J.J Benitez who used basic maths to calculate the size and weight of the pyramids and how long it would take to build them if you didn't have cranes and other lifting equipment, and it appears that if the dates are correct, the Egyptians would not have been able to complete the task in such a short period of time. Not unless they managed to place each block perfectly at the rate of 1 every half hour or so. (not exact by the way, I can't remember the exact figures).

But anyway, could make an interesting new thread. (as we've gone a bit off-topic)

sure what do we call the topic, they say slopes were used yea yea sure, so for every massive boulder used they made a ramp up to 1 Km or more long capaple of taking 10 tons or more ? cmon its a mystery as of yet for present day wisdom they were no built like that it is impossible and thats that

Here we go :-
http://socialdiscussion.com/science-...html#post78548

I don't know. I think we westerners have forgotten what human strength can accomplish. How would you lift a truck to work on it? With a jack, right? I took a trip to Ghana a few years ago, and they just gathered 20 guys around the truck and picked the damn thing up. It startled me. I didn't think a group of men could lift a truck, but it really didn't even look like they were struggling. I think you might be surprised at how much a determined group of people could accomplish.

I don't see the world moving in a strict circular pattern. More like a wave-like pattern with an overall advancement. Environmental destruction is on the verge of throwing our technological advances backwards a bit, but I think we'll deal with the problem and then move forward. There have been advanced societies before, but never like what we have now. If there was, there would be evidence left behind. Think about it. How many millions of years would it take for all traces of our society to disappear?

not many but for all that plastic we bury in landfills, so you reckon they built ramps a mile or more long and 150 metres high and did that for every block weight I forget weather 10 or 100 tons ? just not possible sure a group of people can lift a truck i did a similar thing once to shift a car we didn't have the keys for but to take a 10+ ton block up 150 metres and just say ooh they used ramps is pathetic, not to mention that they are placed with sub millimetre precision !

In order to not drag this thread off-topic, I responded here.

/agree

Why? Simply because we still are a world fighting the same things we did in 1900, WW2 simply extended into the Cold War and the Cold War method of "checker board control" turned into the "War on Terror" and Africa continues to be a place of dieing from AIDS, polio, and violence.