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Asked by undertaker to Hywel, Joseph, Poonam on 24 Jun 2010 in Categories: General. This question was also asked by richardtabeart.
Question: What will the future be like in 100 years?
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Dr Hywel Jones answered on 20 Jun 2010:
I wish I knew, I could probably make loads of money if I knew for certain.
I think we will reduce our dependency on oil and see more renewables and nuclear power. I think climate change will be showing its full effects and many poor people living on low lying land and many big cities will be changed by the rising sea levels. The effect climate change will have on global food production will be apparent and maybe new countries will be able to grow foods that were not possible before, changing the worlds political balance. I think the world will generally be short of water and we will need to get fresh water from the oceans.
I also think our ingenuity and technical abilities will help alleviate some of these problems but I think we need to start action on this now so that not too many suffer before we find solutions to the problems.
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Joseph Cook answered on 24 Jun 2010:
That’s a very difficult question! I hope that we will have moved away from using fossil fuels both for cars and power stations, and that our energy will be decentralised and renewable, but this could take a very long time. I also hope that areas of the world that are currently at war, like the middle east, will have found peaceful solutions to their problems. In fact there’s a long list of hopes.
It would be cool if we were all driving flying cars or wearing rocketpacks, but in reality I think it will prove too expensive to implement crazy inventions like these on a large scale, even if they are perfected. But technology is sure to continue improving at the alarming rate it is at the moment.
Some things never change though. I doubt people will ever stop complaining about the weather or the NHS – if it still exists.
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