What will the World look like in 2040?

[wigglee]

Let's just say I'm glad I never had any children

 

[Ponderling]

Cosmetic or genetic enhancement to grow a third limb to hold your communication device, and leave your two hands free to use them. Could not be an implant communication device because that would slow down adoption when they introduce a new better model every 2.9 days on average.

 

[jetchase]

I don't see the point of electic vehicles if electricity is still coming from Hydrocarbons...? Except the car is much more expensive than a normal car due to battery

 

[poker]

Just curious what do you think the world will look like in 2040?

The Western Republic of Canada will be threatening to invade Quebec…. But Free Canada will not grant passage or air space usage. Trudeau will still be PM

President Ivanka will be backing the Albertans.

Still finding residential school unmarked graves, and getting cheap smokes from the reserve.

The ghost of Elon Musk is still pushing Doge coin.

No need for bar codes to be tattoo’d on all humans (except in the Western Republic of Canada) as eye scanning technology has been mass produced.

 

[Solaria]

 

[escortsxxx]

fuckdolls are probanly close to real...

Where in the world are you? Robotic sex dolls brothels are already been made illegal in Canada.
The first robot sex doll in Europe opened up in 2017 before that in Japan (rumoured but the same company opened there version in Nagoya later)

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Next you saying teleportation and invisablity will be invented, both old technologies now.

 

[Mr.Know-It-All]

Much like it does today

 

[NotADcotor]

Cosmetic or genetic enhancement to grow a third limb to hold your communication device, and leave your two hands free to use them.

If I can grow a third limb*, it would not to be to hold a communication device, and my two hands would be busy with it a lot more.

Wink wink, nudge nudge say no more.

* I assume to grow also allows to embiggin a current third limb.

 

[escortsxxx]

2040 is not too far away.

* Battery powered technology will be much more advanced and the majority of vehicles will be electric. The support system (chargers) will be much larger. Current energy companies will become major players in this industry.
* Other forms of renewables will be more advanced, but not on a large scale.
* These new forms of energy will aid in the production of food and synthetic foods will become more popular.
* The world will have experienced another pandemic that will kill off a larger chunk of the global population.
* Internet connectivity will be available around the planet.
* Cell phones will be able to project holographic images. Phones will be as small as devices that can be worn hands free or embedded in the body.
* Medical advances will include additional types of cancers will be curable and bionic/robotic organs and limbs will be stronger and more human like
* Religion will become less of a thing as younger generations pull further away from it. Extremists will still survive.
* Education will be a split of in class and on-line learning. Technology will play a much larger role and teachers duties will be more focused on physical learning situations and career development.
* Drugs and alcohol will still be a source of recreational pleasure and also a negative consequence with addiction and crime.
* Technology and prevention will make it more difficult to get away with crimes.
* Sexuality will continue to develop in terms of acceptance and becoming "normal". There will still be challenges in countries that have been more traditional and less tolerant, however younger people will initiate change in those areas.
* Someone on Terb will still be bitching about Trump

I doubt many if any will come true, thought regionally I could see some of these be true. The last one I will give you. People still bitch about long dead politicians

More or less a given we will run out of oil and gas or it will be so expensive something will replace it. Battery is just using OIL ang gas in battery form so other than air pollution benefits locally its currently a dead end.

Embedded tech is already a fact. While it continue to exist?

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[redshank]

Basketcase and Frankie will still be arguing about a bunch of dirt in the middle east.

I wish those 2 would just get it done with and fuck already

 

[JeanGary Diablo]

Highlights of the changes I think we'll see by 2040, many of these are based on trends we're already seeing.

- Far fewer gasoline-powered vehicles
- Computers continue to replace humans in the workforce, so fewer career options for young people
- Almost certainly a Universal Basic Income in most Western countries, including Canada, to help address the point above
- China and India become more powerful; the US becomes less powerful
- The cryptocurrency fad will have dissipated
- First-time home-owners will be either wealthy or inheriting their new property

 

[escortsxxx]

Highlights of the changes I think we'll see by 2040, many of these are based on trends we're already seeing.

- Far fewer gasoline-powered vehicles
- Computers continue to replace humans in the workforce, so fewer career options for young people
- Almost certainly a Universal Basic Income in most Western countries, including Canada, to help address the point above
- China and India become more powerful; the US becomes less powerful
- The cryptocurrency fad will have dissipated
- First-time home-owners will be either wealthy or inheriting their new property

Disagree on UBI
China will continue is collapse in the next few years economically. Geo politically it will rise in raw terror like a powerful North Korea.
Home ownership will be a think of the past. Ownership will be replaced by serfdom /rental as we have in cloud comuting now and phones a form of serfdom/rental of property., The super rich will still own property proper as will corps and be extension share holders.