"They really believed that?" What people 100 years from now will say about us...

[JohnT]

100 years from now people will be amazed that we...


... were so dependent on the petroleum-based internal combustion engine.

... believed that many mental disorders could be cured by merely talking about them.

... worried about Microsoft.

Please continue...

[St Leo]

...believed in gods, ghosts, and flying saucers.

[Dinner]

... didn't recognize Oerdin's obvious superiority.


... they actually believed in that commie nonsense.


... weren't allowed to clone super models to keep as personal sex toys.

[loinburger]

... didn't recycle our body waste.

... had only two thumbs each.

... ate tofu (which will be proven to cause lead poisoning sometime between 2042 and 2045).

[Dinner]

... those idiots didn't embrace bio-engineered crops.


... Bush II set back the cure for so many illnesses by banning theropudic cloning.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Oerdin
... those idiots didn't embrace bio-engineered crops.

Ooooh, that one will be a biggie, you bet!

[St Leo]

...were afraid of nuclear power, cloning, and genetic engineering.
...didn't invest in a decent space program.
...let 32 million Bangladeshi drown (oops, that hasn't happenned yet).

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Ooooh, that one will be a biggie, you bet!

It will be Boris. 100 years from now it will be as common and as accepted as Mendel's hybreeds are today. The benifits will be so great and the population grow will put us in such need that it is a question of when and not if.

[loinburger]

... used the same primitive device as both a vomitorium and a poopatorium.

... thought that it was not desirable to have a steel plate in your head (though they'll be using tungsten by then).

[Dinner]

... They actually believed in that global warming scare mongering.

... they didn't see the obvious signs of growing communist Chinese expansionism.

... that Muslims could have allowed fundamentalists to so demean the whole religion.

[Edan]

... were so obsessed in that internet fad.
... thought Civ 2 was the best Civ ever, when it was clearly Civ 16.
... thought the millenium ended at the end of '99 and not '00.
.. thought sliced bread was one of the worlds best inventions.
...thought survivor would be a short term fad (next season, Survivor Mars!)
... thought fast food was, well, fast.
... thought our feline overlords were cute pets.

[ranskaldan]

... distinguished between "religion" and "cult".

... spent ridiculous amounts of time and energy in dividing people into arbitrary categories.

... believed in "patriotism" as a part of morality.

... obsessed with finding enemies to point fingers at / make movies about.

Okay. Make that 1000 years.

[Lord Merciless]

Originally posted by ranskaldan

... obsessed with finding enemies to point fingers at / make movies about.

Okay. Make that 1000 years.

It doesn't matter whether it's 100, 1000, or 10,000 years. We'll always be like that.

[Urban Ranger]

... believed that economy is the end-all
... believed that technology in itself could solve all our problems
... believed in the existence of unknowable, infinite beings
... believed in beating a people long enough will make them see your ways

[Sava]

nice ranskaldan

Looking back at the last 100 years, I can't say that there will be many great "revolutions" that will force future generations to look down on us. Judging from some posts, I think you guys don't have a good grasp on history.

If anything, I think the posts about cloning and genetics are the most valid. I suspect if there is any major social/technological revolution, it will come from the Bio-Tech field.

Religion, politics, patriotism, etc... won't change much. They haven't historically. Fundamentalism is as old as religion itself. And as long as people still embrace faith and don't realize that humans created religion, well, it will be around.

I can't say there would even be any great advances in space technology. There might, but I doubt it. Unless somebody gets a huge break-through and finds out how to travel faster than light, I don't see humans doing anything other than scientific research in space. It isn't economically feasable to build colonies on the moon or Mars. Any civilian or private space program will probably be tourism related.