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With the way things are going, there will probably be poverty on the same level with what Haiti has right now. 85% of the population will be destitute, 14% will be the middle class which who will make life comfortable for 1% of the population. Small areas on NYC, Washington DC, and the Bay area in CA will be nice, but most cities, especially places like Baltimore & St. Louis will be absolutely crime ridden and will probably resemble Caracas, Venezuela.
do you think it will resemble anything like the USA today ? I doubt it. will you still be alive ? possibly. what cultural changes will have happened ? Not sure. what will a white minority USA look like ? I don't know will white people still hold political powers ? Most likely yes what states will still have a white majority ? Vermont and New Hampshire since there isn't high immigration of minorities there. will the USA still be the most powerful nation in the world? No, I suspect India and China will be world powers
Before that, Pluto in Aquarius: networking, electronics, robotics; huge applied STEM advances between 2024 and 2044. Between that time rapid advancement, in relative baby steps, in quantum computing.
do you think it will resemble anything like the USA today ?
will you still be alive ?
what cultural changes will have happened ?
what will a white minority USA look like ?
will white people still hold political powers ?
what states will still have a white majority ?
will the USA still be the most powerful nation in the world ?
Unlikely.
Possibly.
Islam is projected to grow more than twice as fast as any other major religion over the next half century because of a higher fertility rate. I've read recently the world's two largest religions, Christianity and Islam, will be near parity by 2050.
If I was a betting person, I'd bet that conflicts between radical Muslim groups and Western nations with Christian majorities will become more inflamed in the decades ahead.
This major shift in the dominant religion combined with a rapid population growth in poor countries will result in economic hardship and political unrest giving rise to extremist violence. Since everyone will have the bomb by then,.....Kaboom.
don't know
sure, along with others. I doubt race will be a big deal in 2060.
don't know
no, see cultural changes.
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I couldn't care less about more race mixing in the future. My concern is what our culture will be like and will we have jobs for most able bodied Americans and enough social and resources to accommodate our growing population.
As for the development of robot soldiers, despite decades of intensive research and continuous breakthroughs in robotics, the progress in creating autonomous military robots has been surprisingly slow. Several projects funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have resulted in humanoid robot prototypes, but they lack the portable power source and intelligence that would allow them to act beyond very limited non-combat roles.
I read it somewhere, according to this infantry guy
my whole 2011 deployment was spent in muddy poppie fields of southern afghanistan and grape rows that will swollow you with their vines and spit you out with some HME. All our technology and still that one xxxx with an RPG can still do so much damage. The last 100 yards will always be the infantrys job.
So my vote still goes to ground troops, special forces / snipers / seals/ Recons / rangers ...
In all honesty...I think the environment will benefit from technology enough that it will become more livable.
The rest....possible. VR entertainment is quickly becoming better-my GearVR system is amazing, but still obviously a first step. I am actually more excited about AR.
Mind control weapons.....hmmm..by 2060 maybe. hard to say for sure. We're looking at extremely powerful laser weapons this decade.
You bring up an interesting point that I've thought about quite a bit.
Virtual Reality...it's definitely going to take over. We will look back and long for the days when we were "only" glued to our text messages. And honestly, I can see the draw. That Occulus Rift is pretty fricken awesome. You can go anywhere, you can do anything, but you never have to actually leave. You don't have to deal with other people. You don't have to spend a fortune to visit parts of the world you've always wanted to visit. You can go on a Safari, wrestle gators, go to countries that are too dangerous to visit in real life, and not actually fear for your own safety.
As for the OP, what do I think the US will look like in 2060? A lot different than it does now. Will I still be alive? Who knows, any one of us can drop dead in the next half an hour, we never know.
I think more robots will be doing the work, and I can't say that I would blame a company for setting it up that way. There's no sick days, (if a robot breaks down, you have replacements who don't make excuses as to why they can't show up, and their quality of work is identical), there's no vacation, there's no benefits to be paid out, there's no holiday pay, over time pay, arguments about what is a decent wage, no requests for raises, no negotiations about pay, no time spent interviewing, no time or resources spent on background checks, no issues with people showing up to work drunk or high, no tardiness, no clocking out early, sneaking out of work for a smoke, there will be no "high turnover", and the robots will do the job of 16 different departments like they try to make people do now for less pay, but the robots won't complain about it, rebel, or get an attitude that they are "better than this bs work". There will be no shortage of change in the till, there will be no employee theft...none of these things will happen.
But where does that leave us humans? How do we make a living? How do we support ourselves to eat, have a roof, electricity, etc? How do we earn that if the jobs are even more scarce?
How are we going to find the means to have a house to sit in to be able to partake in our VR world instead of the real world?
What kind of labor will humans be doing if they are not the actual owner/CEO of a business? Once the robots are built, you don't necessarily need people to work on the robots because other robots will work on the robots. So where does that leave humans, and how do they get by?
China will still be recovering from massive social upheaval and revolution that will take place later this century. So will the US if we don't correct the worsening imbalance of wealth.
How about 80 percent of the American population is mixed and we can just admit it. Most all blacks are mixed already. I identify as white and have have Mexican ancestry as does my extended family and a woman I'm dating. My neighbor is Japanese and Anglo. All the black men I work with have white or Hispanic wives and mixed kids, my best friend at work is Korean and German- his kids have blonde hair and blue eyes and look German-can they still claim their Korean side?
Anyway, the way that race is claimed and reinforced by the government in the country has created more division than not.
Bladerunner
you are living in a delusional world if you believe your ramblings
80% of the U.S population is not Mixed, don't be stupid
Mexicans can be white, Mexican is not a race , 15% of Mexico is white
your personal experiences with a few limited people do not represent a nation of over 300,000,000 people
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, 15% of Mexico is white 
