What are your predictions for future?

What are your predictions for future?
I mean less regarding technology and more about the political landscape.

It would be especially interesting to hear the opinion of people who study history or have a similar degree

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We'll either revolutionize our current politics quite a bit or arrive in a fully-automatized world that only benefits the rich and powerful and reduces the worth of the working class to nothing.
Fully-Automated Queer Space Anarcho-Communism when

>this
we are due for a dark age

combination of these 2 pictures

advanced technology but a collapsed economy

The apex will move elsewhere after the West is filled with social strife, debilitating tax rates, and a barely functional population of halfwits caused by late childbirth.

long live Star Wars Space Reagan

yeah, that's what I fear aswell
as it is right now, elites are dependant on middle class people for their working skills.
but once all human labour can be done by machines, the rulers wont need us anymore.
It doesn't mean that they would necessary genocide us, but there is really nothing preventing them from doing so

where is elsewhere?

Command and Conquer.
I unironically believe this is where we're headed.

>debilitating tax rates

What the hell?

Old ass nibbas needing us to pay their pensions cause falling birth rates.

Depends.

You unironically believe there's gonna be Tiberium everywhere and NATO fighting a new-age cult with lasers?

elaborate please

Minus the deadly alien mineral.
But yes, at the rate at which technology advances and the pollution continues, we're looking at Blue, Yellow and Red zones.
So yeah, pretty much NATO (with other developed areas, because nation states will fall apart due to regional disputes and the pollution levels of different areas).
The rest will for a new age cult with lasers that will be lead by Bosnian Serbs.

*form a

free helicopter rides for everyone

Increasing technicity will destroy humanity.

And by destroying, I don't necessarily mean nuclear war, or a Skynet A.I.

I mean that human identity will die, and the post-human era will begin. You're already seeing it in this social constructionist movement where gender and sexuality is deconstructed completely.

AK 47S FOR EVERYONE

they won't be around forever and there's a lot less of us coming up behind

CHINA WILL GROW LARGER

Boomers are only a thing in certain western nations.

QUADS CONFIRMED

>they won't be around forever and there's a lot less of us coming up behind
Yes, less in amount, but the birthrate is going to continue to decrease and put massive strain on our social services, unless we get mass immigration, which will ruin us in a whole other way.

>You're already seeing it in this social constructionist movement where gender and sexuality is deconstructed completely.
That's just people who want to feel righteous without actually doing anything righteous

Corporations will take over worldwide and form a globalist oligarchy. In the west it'l be the big businesses that'l start opening factories in Africa and South America, buying out competitors and eventually controlling states full out. In the east China will do the same under the guise of a socialist republic and start giving out loans to more and more people, including Arabs who'l get fucked when their oil runs out.

It'l be interesting

Asian century

KANE LIVES IN DEATH

>that smirking white guy in the crowd

there will be a series of major happenings this century that wipes out billions of people and forces people to migrate in masses
the result is multicultural dystopia ruled by je- I mean oligarchs

Increase in political extremism on the right and left due to economic insecurity. Increase in crime due to population density. Decrease in religion. Eventually slower birth rates in the third world as populations urbanize. Political tensions increase due to reactions against globalism. Higher cost of living as fossil fuel grows scarcer without sufficient investment in renewables. Lower crop yield due to monoculture and phosphorus depletion. Increased government surveillance and cultural values of privacy eroding. Increase in disease due to population density and overuse of antibiotics. Climate change fucking everything up significantly as the upper classes are more insulated from its negative effects than the poor. Rise of China. Fall of America and Russia. No space age. No transhumanism (mind uploading is Cartesian nonsense and cryonics doesn't work). No cold fusion. Technology masking the effects of stagnating wages relative to cost of living... to a point. Condensation of western democracies into insulated oligarchies with only nominal differences between parties. The current SJW/anti-SJW meme debate losing steam and becoming a relic of the internet that nobody cares about, just like atheism vs theism.

I smell that soon a new revolutions figure is going to rise in retelliation to coporatism and degradation of personal freedoms and lead an uprising that will bring about a second Soviet Union type society.

>I smell that
*You wish

We are definitely going to witness a World War in the coming decades. The current peace that we are living in right now, which is thanks to Pax Americana and MAD cannot be sustained when Peak Oil, Automation of Jobs, and Climate Change (Which will turn Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East into gigantic Ovens) are reached.

Scarcity of resources will lead to increased centralisation and state planning.
Public records on blockchain technology or whatever comes after it.
Blurred boundaries between International Organisations, Nations and Private firms.

Think these 3 issues combined will determine the near future. A lot of the individual liberties the West prides itself on could become historical relics.

Cyberpunk
>implying we aren't already living in one

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Deus:_A_Brief_History_of_Tomorrow
Written by a military historian graduate. Unrelated, but the funniest thing is the guy is a walking caricature of /pol/ though, being a leftist postmodern homosexual jew with humanities degree. Kinda like that 'a professor named Michel Foucault was teaching the class about etc' joke.

I don't think that's the case. Automation of Jobs will lead to civil unrest but any riots will be crowd controlled by current and future means used by governments and corporations. Freedoms will be reduced as states will tighten their grip on the people to control them well enough to preserve resources. Those are all internal issues that'l happen worldwide in different countries, but there's no reason to believe a world war between big powers will start, because there's
>no reason for it
>no way of winning it

My personal opinion about the book is I'm still highly skeptical of the feasibility of the things he mentioned in the book, and his transhumanist outlook. Also, an article written by him.

theguardian.com/inequality/2017/may/24/are-we-about-to-witness-the-most-unequal-societies-in-history-yuval-noah-harari?CMP=share_btn_tw
>With rapid improvements in biotechnology and bioengineering, we may reach a point where, for the first time in history, it becomes possible to translate economic inequality into biological inequality. Biotechnology will soon make it possible to engineer bodies and brains, and to upgrade our physical and cognitive abilities. However, such treatments are likely to be expensive, and available only to the upper crust of society. Humankind might consequently split into biological castes.
>There is one more possible step on the road to previously unimaginable inequality. In the short-term, authority might shift from the masses to a small elite that owns and controls the master algorithms and the data which feed them. In the longer term, however, authority could shift completely from humans to algorithms. Once AI is smarter even than the human elite, all humanity could become redundant.

prolly hell on earth

>Once AI is smarter even than the human elite, all humanity could become redundant.

Wouldn't that be a good thing?

these observations have all been made before, why did he feel the need to restate them? Had he just watched Gattica?

Jews live in clean cities while nonjews live in filthy shacks surrounded by untamed wilderness, the nonjews have numbers burned into their forehead since nonjews are not people so they get serial numbers like real life objects because that is what they are objects for jews to use and abuse. The nonjews would be very dumb and impulsive but easily motivated by jews torturing them to get them to do labor for them. Yes life is truely hell for a nonjew but the jew is the only human in this world thus only the jew matters.

a bit antisemitic to be honest

you should really read the Tanakh, and maybe talk to some Jews and leave your house.

Western civilisation crumbles under lots of small shitstorms that combined are too much to handle. Climate change, economic depression, massive migration, single motherhood, moral decay, destruction of the traditional family, distrust in government and media etc

East Africa is going to be lit af. In 2050 we'll see it how today we see East Asia

>East African Federation coming soon
>Massive infrastructural improvements
>Ethiopia is the new China
>Mozambique turning into a stable middle income country
>All those new fancy ports linking the Indian Ocean Rim

>Central American unification is probably coming soon.
>India will go full cyberpunk
>Central Asia will turn into a massive trainyard and cargo depot
>Iran will be a great power
>Brazil will still the country of the future and never achieve greatness

this, another dark age...but like the first dark age it won't be as dark as people think.

maybe...the only thing only really bolstering corporations right now politically are baby boomers, once they're gone trusts might start getting busted.

AI will go to war with the Oligarchs. The AI will win. This will be a great event for humanity.

I'm inclined to believe we'll see universal basic income being offered on the condition of voluntary sterilization at some point in the not too distant future.

It's a very elegant solution to the automation crisis, in that it will always remove the poorest segment of the population from the gene pool in each generatoin, but in a way that's so comfy that there will be little resistance to it. Indeed, resistance to such a program from middle-class "SJW" types might even be met by violence from the desperately poor who would overwhelmingly want it.

Western world loses power while newer powers like Israel, post-communist countries, potentially western South America and most likely Japan if they solve their birth rate and suicide problem become the powerhouses, but ultimately the West will solve their problems and stay worl powers.
Southeast Asia will continue to develop while Africa most likely stays a shithole.

AI is a meme desu. There's no reason to believe it could (or would be willing to) do what futurists promise. It's just a new messiah for people who are superstitious but also too euphoric for Christianity.

mine is the fragmentation of the central bank and WW3 essentially.

The Central bank and the world is what was the Catholic church was to Christendom. or what the roman empire was to the Mediterranean.

History repeats itself and the Bank will still revale but its power will severally weaken in the next 100years or less. its flexing its muscles and too many people have caught on and are already rebelling against it. wont be long before people wake up and dismiss the banks and rely on a new alternative that is similar but less controlling. Much like how Protestant was to Catholicism

This is the more realistic scenario.

This will be the near future

youtube.com/watch?v=Xl0b2LGf9jM

>Any of that being sustainable when the average IQ of the population is 65

Automation of basic labor tasks and certain forms of white collar work will eventually lead to a large number of unemployed pissed off poor people with leadership from former members of the middle class. The power structure of this time will deal with the problem by bribing most of these people and killing the extremists in order to prevent a marxist uprising. The elite have learned harsh lessons from the past, and they will ultimately feed the lower classes scraps from their table in order to preserve the existing socioeconomic order.

I think Africa is gonna get hit by climate change pretty hard

just because america is ruled by wall street, doesn't mean that every country out there is ruled by banks
you are looking at the world from your anglo-centric viewpoint

>Central American unification is probably coming soon.
details?

>Iran will be a great power
its going to get absolutely fucked by climate change. it's arable land it already desertifying super quickly. all it has going for it is oil desu and thats going soon too

IN THE NAME OF KANE

1. New World Order is created
2. World worships the Antichrist
3. Christians are persecuted and killed
4. Jesus Christ comes back at the culmination of history

Christposting should be a bannable offense.

Atheistposting should be a bannable offense.

t. Giorgos in a cave

t. ignorant of history and documented facts

you're so clueless on the subject of occult societies it's cute.

In the next 20~50 years the compounding effects of climate change will reach its zenith and the feedback loop will kick into full swing. In about a century after that we will rapidly enter into an environmental state similar to the Permian extinction.

all of this is already happening already

>Global warming myth

whats going to happen when the population of Africa gets out of control?

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>look at me I'm such a contrarian
>am I cool yet guys?

almost there

youtube.com/watch?v=KAExa9P7hME

Yurop will become North Maghreb

More likely the revived Roman Empire with the immigrants they're getting.

>implying some greedy oligarchs wont assasinate the antichirst for the possibility of more riches for themself.

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The great filter is unchecked regression to the genetic mean. A civilization that can remove the population controls of nature upon it, but due to the instincts and institutions of cooperation that this requires, can't stop the worst from their ever-increasing muddying f the gene pool.

Long live immunity cat. What would we do without him?

long live space lenin

Global communism