2100 what will it be like

Time frame could be this century. Eighty per cent of the world will have gay marriage Paul. This seems inevitable to those of us in the West and is likely to mean different kinds of marriages being available to everyone.

Gay people might pick different options from heterosexual people, but everyone will be allowed any option. Some regions will be highly resistant though because of strong religious influences, so it isn't certain. California will lead the break-up of the US Dev 2. There are some indications already that California wants to split off and such pressures tend to build over time. It is hard to see this waiting until the end of the century.

Maybe an East Coast cluster will want to break off too. Pressures come from the enormous differences in wealth generation capability, and people not wanting to fund others if they can avoid it. Space elevators will make space travel cheap and easy Ahdok. First space elevators will certainly be around, and although "cheap" is a relative term, it will certainly be a lot cheaper than conventional space development.

It will create a strong acceleration in space development and tourism will be one important area, but I doubt the costs will be low enough for most people to try. Women will be routinely impregnated by artificial insemination rather than by a man krozier At the very least, more couples are choosing advanced fertility techniques over old-fashioned conception.

Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, in which an artificially inseminated embryo is carefully selected among other inseminated embryos for desirability, is becoming increasingly common in fertility clinics. Using this technique, it's now possible to screen an embryo for about half of all congenital illnesses.

Within the next decade, researchers will be able to screen for almost all congenital illnesses prior to embryo implantation. There will be museums for almost every aspect of nature, as so much of the world's natural habitat will have been destroyed LowMaintenanceLifestyles. I cannot comment on the museums but the Earth is on the verge of a significant species extinction event.

Protecting biodiversity in a time of increased resource consumption, overpopulation, and environmental degradation will require continued sacrifice on the part of local, often impoverished communities.

Experts contend that incorporating local communities' economic interests into conservation plans will be essential to species protection in the next century. Nor does it belong to a single generation such as us, our children or our grandchildren. Instead, it belongs to all living creatures both alive now and in the future. Yet the political and economic institutions of our civilisation are fixated on enjoying the present and unable to account for the consequences of our actions on tomorrow.

This may be all too easily observed in our financial behaviour, where individuals, corporations and governments are forever borrowing from the future in order to improve the present. In the same way, the fossil fuelled party of our capitalist global civilisation is in the midst of a financial and ecological borrowing frenzy from the future.

And not only are the spoils of our mastery over nature enjoyed by only a minority of the planet, but in geological terms, they are being consumed within an extremely short time-span. In a crisis of modernity that could also be re-interpreted as one of ethics and values , how should we reframe our choices and actions in the present, in light of tomorrow?

Surely it is just a matter of standing in the shoes of all future citizens and asking ourselves what sort of planet they would like to live on. Surely our descendants, hundreds and thousands of years into the future, would wish for, and have a right to, the same stable climate and ocean levels that have allowed the attainment of such an advanced and flourishing civilisation today.

It is none other than this consideration for future human beings and other life forms that should form the yardstick by which we set our mitigation targets — not merely what is politically and economically feasible for the industrialised world today. Scenarios and forecasts are more powerful tools than predictions. They are not exact predictions, and it is understood that they may not happen as explained, but they allow us to get a glimpse of what different futures we might get to live in.

For example, I thoroughly enjoyed writing three possible scenarios about the future in , which I called The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Will it happen in any of these ways? I am not writing it as a scenario this time, but a series of small forecasts about different areas and how they may evolve in the next 80 years.

Think about you in The further into the future we look, the more of a stranger our future self is for us. Also, most of us probably think we will not be alive anyway.

It is too far away. I will be years old. Who lives to that age? Not many people nowadays, but people like Ray Kurzweil, who aims to live long enough, to live forever , think otherwise. Kurzweil and other techno-utopians believe that advances in biotechnology, genetics, and medicine will allow us to live much longer lives in good health, or even achieve some kind of a-mortality and never again die due to health-related complications.

It is certainly possible. Another issue is if we, as a species, will still be around. This probability is too high if you ask me, but still, it seems it is more likely than not that we will be around as a species.

So, we will probably exist, and there is the possibility that many of us will still be around in good health. What will the world be like in ? The world in will be hotter, with more extreme weather and more natural disasters such as hurricanes and wildfires. How much hotter? It is impossible to know right now, as it will depend on our actions during the next 80 years. There are different scenarios , from the world being 1. There is a big difference between these two extremes, but note that even if we reduced all our carbon emissions to zero today, the world would still keep warming for decades due to all the extra carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere.

Our best-case scenario is a 1. Even with this best-case scenario, the sea levels will rise around 1 meter, displacing millions of people and forcing us to invest trillions of dollars to make our coastal cities and towns habitable.

In this best-case scenario, natural disasters such as droughts, floods, hurricanes, wildfires, and so on, will become more frequent and more intense.

It would turn our lives upside down. However, the further into the future you go, the more chances there are that some of those rates will vary considerably, wreaking havoc in those projections. Until recently, the consensus was that the world population would peak in around 11 billion people by the end of the century and then start shrinking as fertility rates go down.

However, a more recent study projects a more rapid decrease in the fertility rate due to advances in women education and contraceptive use, with the world population peaking at around 9 billion people by Whichever way you look at it, the world at the end of the century will be home to many more people , and it will be more densely populated, with higher pressure on resources and an already strained environment.

All projections agree that most of the growth would come from Africa, tripling its population to 4. Design Co. Design These stunning ice sculptures are helping save communities ravaged by climate change Co. Design The ultimate office amenity in ? Fresh air Co.

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