Describe how government in the future would work? Better or Worse?

[St Leo]

I see approval voting ballots -- ones where you check off all the candidates you like -- and cheaper universities in the close future. Expansion of universal healthcare and welfare would be nice, but is currently fiscally unfeasible.

What do you mean there's a world outside Canada? You lie.

[Ben Kenobi]

Sure, 99 percent will be athiest or athiest-like, but that 1% is what's troubling me. All you need is 1 person out of 100 to do some harm.

Gee. I never knew Christians, and other religious folk would be so dangerous to the world order of the future.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

I see a libertarian society, founded on the principles of liberty, self responsibility, and free market.

[Az]

sorry, I just don't see it happening. If you could describe a scenario, I would apperciate it very much.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

Whats kind a scenario? Do you mean policy?

[Az]

No, a scenario of that kind of society evolving. All of us tried to present future governments and the way they would evolve. It's meaningless without the way you predict we'd get to a certain society.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

Major terracts occur all over the country. The republicans , with the help of the democrats, pass 5 pieces of legislature called Pat II, Pat III, Pat IV, Pat V, and Pat VI. Combined, they eliminate all the rights of the people of America. The Dem-Reps also send US soldiers everywhere across the world to fight terrorism and to enact regime change.

Protests at home are illegal and everyone gets jailed as a traitor.

In the next election, the libertarian party takes all the votes and wins. They then repreal all the Pat acts, bring home the US troops, open up the market, cut military spending, sell land to private individuals to help protect the environment, cut pollution using the tried and true market (using credits)

[Az]

If that would happen, how fair do you think the elections would be?

sell land to private individuals to help protect the environment

Good stuff. Carry on.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

EVeryone would then own assult rifles, because everyone knows that an armed citizenry is the best way to protect the people from the government. The Dem-Reps stage a coup, but all the good citizens open fire with their machine guns, wiping out those who dare assult our civil liberties. It'll be just like the wild west.

[Az]

More! More!

[Az]

I am sorry. I just REALLY don't see it happening. My story has at least a logical developement thing going on.

[I Am Jeff]

The world will become like star trek. There is no money, you are completly taken care of. You have freedom. And you work to "Improve yourself".

OR

The world becomes like the book 1984. Very oppressive and controlling government.

OR

Status Quo

There are many paths to these locations but it will end up in one of the three.

[South killer]

My prediction:
If humanity continues going this way the world is and will be like this:

-1991-2050:
Some countries (USA comes to my mind) will turn into some kind of neo-fascist like propaganda governments. This governments will control practically all the media on the world and they will say that they are defending democracy and free-speech and the presidents of these countries will be ''democratically'' elected by making fraud sp??? (cheating). Social differences will increase as well as global pollution. Multi-national enterprises will be totally allied with the fraudulent presidents and with the free market economies they will be free to exploit people and continue pollution. Smaller countries will be totally controlled by the bigger ones because they have and will have puppet governments (implanting dictators, changing regimes). Globalization will try to impose uniformism and eliminate country's cultures to let only one culture in the world.
Against all this in some countries there will be socialist revolutions or socialist/nationalist governments will be democratically elected. this governments will try to recover their countrie's culture and will form regional economic trade agreements in opocision to globalysation (EU, Mercosur, etc.)
2050-2070:
The world will starting again to divide itself into pro-US and Globalyzation and Pro-nationalsm and pluralism. And finally the 3rd world war will erupt but i can't guess who'll be it's winner.

[Odin]

Our future lies in space. The US is a great example of my idea. Human societies can only flourish in a state of expansion, after the frontier closed, the US became stagnant, like Europe. Expansion creates a shortage of labor and a lot of pragmatism, Increasing wages and tearing away of old traditions. A populated Mars, for example, will give new ideas to Earth like the US gave Europe in the 1800's. Our place in the stars, however, can only be earned if we have a single world government.

[I Am Jeff]

So South killer, it is sort of like the world in the game Deus Ex?