And you don't see that happening? I can easily picture a West vs Middle East war where exactly that happens.

I don't believe they'll be called laptops or smartphones, and the operating systems will not be anything like what there is now.

It would take more than 40 years for the middle east to militarise for any sort of campaign, (outside of the cities much of the Middle East is in almost medieval conditions) and longer still before they managed to get past their own disputes and mobilise on a country outside the Middle East.

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I must hold on to my dinosaur PC until its very last moments. And get a new, "spare" one during that time.

I'll probably be dead.

I see WWIV incomming!
With clubs being the primary weapon.

I was thinking the other way around where the West basically blast it into null existence. I've been to most countries in the middle east, and regardless of what the media says, I would hardly say its medieval. Politically unorganised, perhaps, but people are modern and educated even in the smaller towns and even some villages.

Overall, I think it's not right to rule out the possibility of war 40 years in advance. I highly doubt that in 1900 people in Germany were going "Hmm, that kid who was born in Austria? We should keep an eye on him, he might be up to something. With this war we might have in a decade or so, lord knows what effects it will have on him. Might ruin everything in about 40 years..."

If we could predict wars like that, they wouldn't happen at all. Knowing we can't, I think it's safe to say that to deny that a war will take place in 40 years or even 10 years, really, based on current affairs is a short sighted decision to make. Don't you agree?

I'll be in my 70's----I guess waiting for death to pay me a visit .

I'd say most people in Europe expected something to happen after Germany was essentially rendered bankrupt from the Treaty of Versailles.

I think it's safe to rule out a large scale conflict, but seeing as civil wars have been popping up all over the place it is probably safe to say that a lot of wars will happen over the next 40 years.

I doubt the West would waste resources on invading the Middle East, not to mention the fact that any government that greenlights a large scale invasion of the middle east basically signs their exit from office. Thankfully citizens have finally started to try and stop wars via peaceful protest in the past 60 years.

The world, I don't really give a crap where the world will be, it is slowly going down hill anyway.

Me, I will probably be dead, I will either die young, or find a way to stay young forever. Wait, what am I talking about we will all be dead, the world ends in a couple months silly me.

Pft, the Mayan calendar ending? I say the world and at 31.12.2099 because that's when the Windows calendar end.

After a string of lawsuits spanning three decades, Apple will have successfully proved that they own the rights to human anatomy and that we've been infringing on those rights for a couple hundred thousand years now. Consequently, mankind will become property of Apple Inc., which at this point is being run by a sentient iPad. As for me, I'll have long since been replaced by the Wingus 10GS or something.

I see the world the same as it is, only with more tension over resources and technologically advanced.

life happens, stuff happens, so I won't try to predict my own future.

I'll hopefully be alive, and hopefully I'll have done something meaningful to the world. I hope to be married, and to have kids.

Somewhere on its normal orbital track around the sun, and me probably giving some worm a meal.

I'll be an awesome old man. Like http://images.dpchallenge.com/images_challenge/0-999/570/800/Copyrighted_Image_Reuse_Prohibited_413076.jpg guy.

Hopefully chilling with my awesome wife and looking back on an awesome 55 years of life.

Most likely I'll be trying to make ends meet and watching the world slowly decline into despair.

A bald, buff hitman working for a private military company.

Or going a long-haired wild dude going back to his family roots in the Amazonian jungle of South America, married to a beautiful native woman I met in the city of Manaus!

Knock it off with the politics, people!


I think commercial and recreational space travel will be a reality, but I predict population growth will slow or even halt (it's predicted to stop growing at 11bn in 2050, although I think that's even been revised to 9bn since). I would think the bigger changes would be in terraforming our own planet - perhaps building underwater and/or underground.

I'll be ... old ... but possibly not retired. I'll probably be in much better health than someone of that age these days (although my in-laws are still in pretty good shape).

Looking back at the good-old-times of the youth, thinking how everything was better when I was a kid. (which I already do haha!)

Most likely the ground.

Leading a revolution against the machines.

In 40 years I'd be 55, so I guess I would be married with grown-up kids.

The world will either be a nuclear wasteland, or we'll all be gaming on computers worthy of NASA.

Pssh. We won't even be gaming on computers. We'll just have little terminals that connect wirelessly to the cloud and have your games streamed from some central supercomputer.

If certain countries hasn't run us into the ground by nuclear devastation or with world war, I can see myself 40 years from now being pretty much the same person. I don't have a career or anything at the moment, so I can't really say much about myself. I think I'm glad to have been raised the way I was and I guess I'm lucky to have been born before the rise of modern technology. The future world just doesn't interest me at all, so I guess I'm glad I won't have to stick around long. Although I still want to try to make it to 107, so I can say that I lived for three centuries.