In about 100 years, organized tours will be frequent to the space and moon. The tourism industry will be more vertical than horizontal.
The internet would have already taken every nook and corner of the earth in detail to the drawing rooms of peoples’ homes. Family structure will erode. Very few women will opt for permanent marriage or child bearing. Pregnancy and its complications will seek them for renting wombs and resort to artificial insemination. O, this is already in vogue, right? May be cloning will replace it. But the chances of the latter is less. Nobody wants exact replicas. Diversity will be more attractive.
The holy or divine purpose of marriage –reproduction of children in the ‘image of god’ –will give way for sexual pleasure. The population will dwindle in all the advanced countries-it has already taken effect in many a developed nation. Marriage of convenience will be more sought after. The strong ties of family is bound to erode and there will be professional homes to bring up children like we have ‘old age homes’ More and more women will be working and the gender gap will close up. Gene banks will be common and man will place a lot of emphasize on super-intelligent and disease free kids. Genetic engineering would remove all traits of a host of genetically transmitted afflictions. Biomedicine and biotechnology will advance fast. Man would have succeeded in conquering the ageing process and the average age of man will cross hundred and ten in all the advanced countries. He will be at the brink of conquering death? In another century, perhaps, man will decide when he will die. The gods can take rest and heaven and hell will be less thickly populated.
Will religions have the mad sway which they enjoy now? Most probably no. There will be a total transformation. At least half of humanity will deliver themselves from the clutches of organized religions. But as the religious roots can be traced to the very beginning of man’s evolution, as human brains are fully programmed into a belief in gods it will take a few more centuries for their total eclipse. But the moment man conquers death, the death of god is certain.
Credit cards will replace the medium of exchange. Currency notes will be on the wane.
Fitness and nutrition will be of paramount importance. The very meaning of life will be to enjoy the given time as a traveler in a jocund mood. A revolution can be expected in the food habits and food production. The elaborate cooking now seen commonly will be gone. Ready made foods that will tickle the taste buds of man will replace the traditionally cooked meals. Food making and consumption will undergo drastic changes. Ready pills- whatever be there disadvantages –will be more resorted to.
But the poor nations of the world will be still be a century or two behind. Many of the corrupt leaders there would have made them poorer. Africa which resurrected from the mammalian jungle ways of life with the advent of the whites, will rise up against their present corrupt tyrants and make a new attempt to make life easy and modern. But by and far they are bound to duffer more.
Solar energy would have replaced conventional fossil-fuel based sources. Wind energy would be tapped too. Attempts would be made too at the tidal resources. The roads would be less polluted with solar powered automobiles. Homes would be using solar power.
No appreciable climate change is expected as this large earth has the resilient power to absorb minor changes in the content of its atmospheric gases. There will no serious warming nor any flooding of low areas. The eco system will go on undisturbed. Some more species will go extinct and new ones would be discovered.
The Moslem population would considerably increase and many nations, where they are a minority now, will have to change there demographic statistics. Christianity will be on the decline- it has already had its persecution, ascent to power and ‘miraculous spread and now a decline is inevitable. Islam is still in the second stage of Christianity. Nascent sects may mushroom in the latter.
The aged population wouldl become the majority. It has already become a reality in the advanced societies. The grey population would become the majority in place the the young ones. Government policies will have to be tailored to meet their intersets. The world would grey
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Jobs will be much less physical work and more machine work. It will be more of guiding, monitoring and follow up. Home based jobs will be on the rise. IT and computer will take up most of what man does now. Even household cores will be executed by computers.
But man will be still be at the wheel. Pilot-less aircrafts, submarines and ships will ply in their respective areas. Major wars will be less common but communal and ethnic conflicts may not abate.
Nations will keep their identities and more regionalist groups will emerge. War and weapon budget allocation will come down and major thrust will be to augment the income through education and training, production and marketing.