I have a bit of a pessimistic view on the future. I see that with boom in technology, with it it will brings greed and desire for things that in my opinion are simply not natural and should not be. For example in January, BBC predicted that around 2050 wealthy people may be able to select elements of their child's genetic make-up prior to birth (all of their predictions may be found here:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/2013010 ... rows-world).
Also technology, I think, will result in disinterest and less appreciation/recognition to humanity's past cultures and accomplishments, which would be a shame considering that there is a lot of culture out there, which is currently being suppressed by modern society through globalisation, technology, mass influence and merging cultures (via the previous).
Technology, however, also has a lot of potential in health research, scientific research, creative industries etc. The way we advance will depend on the way we want to use technology. To me, people becoming self-absorbed into their devices is not a sign that technology will go the I'd prefer.
I realise I've rambling on on the technological aspect of the future, but I don't really have much to say on the other aspects. I may have also been slightly unclear.
on the other hand issues like global warming, pollution and overpopulation will doom us, if we don't act soon, which I fear we won't. I set my hope in technology and the growing collective knowledge of humanity.
I fear that we won't act soon, and when we finally do we would have already started experiencing their effects. My hope lies in technology and the knowledge that there are people out there who see that these problems have the potential to threaten humanity.
Not inflammatory enough!
Maybe.
Balance is imperative; without it, total collapse and destruction is imminent.
