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Sure, dream on. The place you describe has a far greater chance of happening in Europe, where people actually believe in science and not hocus pocus 5,000 year old texts.
The US is a failed state that cannot even provide clean drinking water to city residents and let's face it crumbling third world infrastructure. The population is so fractured and polarized the govt is unable to do anything but wage wars around the world. Americans, mostly conservative Western and Southern right wing Americans, don't believe in govt in the first place, except starting wars cause Merica is so exceptional. Ugh.
The US will be broken up, or on the verge of a total breakup by 2040. We deserve it.
I look forward to living in a smaller, more educated and high tech nation comprising New England and the Mid-Atlantic.
Hopefully we will be a less angry nation in 2040 then now. Wow, anger management please
- Florida will be essentially one massive sprawl mega monster starting at Jacksonville and going all the way down to Daytona then cutting across the state through Orlando and Lakeland and ending in Tampa. Daytona to Miami will also be more developed. Basically a huge mostly connected sprawl from Jax to Miami with a arm that juts out though central Florida to Tampa. This is already pretty evident when looking at the population density map of the state but it will be even more intense with another 25 years of growth, especially if it continues at the current rate.
- San Francisco will have been rocked by an earthquake bringing back down to reality
- The water crisis in SoCal will either have ended due to technology, or gotten so bad the area goes into a very slow but steady population decline
- We got sick of dealing with Flint and Detroit so we just gave Canada the whole state of Michigan as a gift (this is a joke)
- still no advancement in public transportation on a large scale but we will still be talking about it
how different is the USA from 1992? In terms of technology there has been a massive change
I can only guess at the regional changes, I think the texas triangle will become more of a national center if you look at demographics
in terms of technology and our day to day lives, the computer and phones and the internet have changed our lives enormously. how many people even used their home computer alot or even had one before windows 1995? the internet wasnt even really big until windows 95 or even later really, the percent of households with internet access only reached 50 percent in 2000
does anybody remember windows 3.1
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Sure, dream on. The place you describe has a far greater chance of happening in Europe, where people actually believe in science and not hocus pocus 5,000 year old texts.
Oh grow up. There are a bunch of scientists who believe in that hocus pocus text. You can believe in both.
And that Europe you're talking about is getting overrun by middle eastern refugees who believe in 5,000 year old texts.
I think it will come down to climate and geography. The areas with the best climate for agriculture and the best locations for trading, will be the most successful. It seems like Asia is becoming the new economic center of the world, so the U.S west coast port cities may become more powerful and populated. I think the Pacific Northwest will become a huge area for growth.
As more and more of our young people eschew the outer suburban/exurban strip mall sprawl car centric cookie cutter McMansion life style I see the back to the city movement becoming very enhanced. The inner ring street car suburbs will also be revitalized while many of the post war burbs ( and along with city neighborhoods with post war housing) will continue to decline in to free fall or even hit rock bottom. When these young people start having kids more and more of them will choose to stay in the city instead of having to move out because the dismal city public school system. Many of them will embrace the option of home schooling and also more magnet schools will become available. The non Hispanic white population will continue to decrease because many more will marry Hispanics, Asians , African Americans and those of African descent and their children will be of mixed blood. The old school insular white population against mixed marriages are now dying off and that will be the same way as the dinosaur. Also there will be more children being raised by same sex couples or single parents than children being raised by the traditional heterosexual married couple. Many churches and organized religions will continue to decline into free fall as more and more people embrace alternative beliefs and I see the Catholic Church (along with other Christian denominations ) would have completely lost it's influence in this country. As for the work force is concerned telecommuting from home will be more common than driving or taking mass transit to the office
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