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Posted: 3/30/2013 5:52:14 PM EDT
If you could go forward in time, or live long enough to get to 7/4/2076, what would America look like.

Unless something changes soon, my guess is something between Demolition Man (a happy joy joy place) and Idiocracy.

Give me your predictions.
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 5:57:12 PM EDT
[#1]
Well, I'll be dead, I know that much.
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 5:59:15 PM EDT
[#2]


Yes, Idiocracy will be as prophetic as 1984.



America will be a declining mediocrity of crushing socialism, omipresent gov't workers, watchers, and penalties, a cesspool of inferior third-world subcultures, a non-productive slog of urbanized crime with uncivilized tribes who have enslaved the rest of the country at the hands of autocratic communists.




Link Posted: 3/30/2013 5:59:48 PM EDT
[#3]
I'm hoping more for "Omega Man", and I'm the star.

Pass on the black chick with the big afro though. Not my type.
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:00:24 PM EDT
[#4]
First thought was Americathon

Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:00:51 PM EDT
[#5]
I would be 86 so I might see it. But that day would be telling the kids and grandkids that if the US was still around it would be its birthday
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:01:06 PM EDT
[#6]
I'll be 83 and for some reason I just think there won't be as many guns. People will probably be retarded as fuck relying on technology for everything.
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:02:11 PM EDT
[#7]



Quoted:


I'll be 83 and for some reason I just think there won't be as many guns. People will probably be retarded as fuck relying on technology for everything.


So true.
 
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:02:27 PM EDT
[#8]
Quoted:
First thought was Americathon



Never heard of that movie, but the plot sounds interesting.
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:03:51 PM EDT
[#9]
I'll be a spry 113, living in the New Confederacy.

Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:03:57 PM EDT
[#10]


The Running Man takes place is 2017.  So you will live to see it.
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:08:18 PM EDT
[#11]
we'll be living in the aftermath of the 2nd american civil war, it being awesome or awful depends on which side wins.
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:14:23 PM EDT
[#12]
Statism will have died a violent death.



The geography of the United States will be somewhat different.  But the ideals will survive, in many places.  America is not a place, set of documents, or set of systems.  It's an idea.  It will survive and flourish.  
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:17:37 PM EDT
[#13]
The whole earth will devolve into 24/365.  
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:17:57 PM EDT
[#14]
America will be balkanized by then.  Strong regions, weak nationally.  People will vote with their feet.  It's happening today and will only increase.
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:19:09 PM EDT
[#15]
I'll be long dead, but i reckon white's will be minority, and womenz will be in charge.
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:20:12 PM EDT
[#16]



Quoted:


I'll be long dead, but i reckon white's will be minority, and womenz will be in charge.


No wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.  



 
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:20:30 PM EDT
[#17]
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:21:13 PM EDT
[#18]
That show "Life After People" comes to mind.

If not extinct by then "Idiocracy II" will apply because the original "Idiocracy" movie already applies.
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:22:54 PM EDT
[#19]





Quoted:



America will be balkanized by then.  Strong regions, weak nationally.  People will vote with their feet.  It's happening today and will only increase.



What is a "state", a "government"?   Nothing, just "other people" who wish to be rulers.  It will fail.  The nightmare of the state will end.  It's complex absurdity is comical now.  

 










 
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:24:10 PM EDT
[#20]
Quoted:
Well, I'll be dead, I know that much.


I'd be 106. It's possible I'll still be around...
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:26:13 PM EDT
[#21]
I have a feeling it'll look more like Looper.
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:28:13 PM EDT
[#22]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Well, I'll be dead, I know that much.


I'd be 106. It's possible I'll still be around...


I think that within the next few decades medical technology will advance so that the average human lifespan in developed nations will well exceed 100.
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:30:07 PM EDT
[#23]
France
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:30:54 PM EDT
[#24]
A cross between Snow Crash and 14th Century Feudal Europoe.
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:33:10 PM EDT
[#25]
Quoted:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ceegnWSENQ

The Running Man takes place is 2017.  So you will live to see it.




Yup.
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:34:54 PM EDT
[#26]
Quoted:
A cross between Snow Crash and 14th Century Feudal Europoe.


Interesting, loved that book.



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Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:35:54 PM EDT
[#27]
Quoted:
That show "Life After People" comes to mind.

If not extinct by then "Idiocracy II" will apply because the original "Idiocracy" movie already applies.


Indeed.
The third world nut jobs will have over the counter biogenic weapons tech in the next thirty years.

If we are not off this planet in sustainable numbers by then, the human race will go extinct.

Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:37:04 PM EDT
[#28]
Everyone works "chores", ie their career(as chosen by the gov), and all your pay goes directly to the government.

You get a weekly allowance, but only if you do your chores............... or throw a tantrum.
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:37:51 PM EDT
[#29]
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:38:40 PM EDT
[#30]
I would be 120 years old, if I live that long.
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:39:58 PM EDT
[#31]
Quoted:
I would be 120 years old, if I live that long.


Provided Obama doesn't completely destroy the health care industry and either have the state declare you OBSOLETE! or send you to carousel... you could well live to that age and still be enjoying life.

Again, provided the govt. gets out of the way and medical tech goes back to advancing on its own.
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:41:41 PM EDT
[#32]
I'd be 91...

Don't think I'd give a fuck at that age
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:43:00 PM EDT
[#33]
Quoted:

Yes, Idiocracy will be as prophetic as 1984.

America will be a declining mediocrity of crushing socialism, omipresent gov't workers, watchers, and penalties, a cesspool of inferior third-world subcultures, a non-productive slog of urbanized crime with uncivilized tribes who have enslaved the rest of the country at the hands of autocratic communists.



You repeated yourself.
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:43:43 PM EDT
[#34]
idiocracy is prophecy

Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:44:05 PM EDT
[#35]
July 4th 2076 is when the moon declares independence.





Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:44:17 PM EDT
[#36]
I was pretty much disgusted at the way the country was going in the late 70's.



Fuck the"Left" and there silly BM bullshit.
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:46:11 PM EDT
[#37]
Quoted:
I'd be 91...

Don't think I'd give a fuck at that age


Obamacare will have killed you long before then.
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:48:06 PM EDT
[#38]


 
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:50:17 PM EDT
[#39]
Quoted:
If you could go forward in time, or live long enough to get to 7/4/2076, what would America look like.

Unless something changes soon, my guess is something between Demolition Man (a happy joy joy place) and Idiocracy.

Give me your predictions.


You just did.
Oblivion is another possible future as well.
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:50:47 PM EDT
[#40]
Quoted:
Well, I'll be dead, I know that much.


lucky.
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 6:59:58 PM EDT
[#41]
You're likely very right.


If the country doesn't kill itself, it's going to turn into "peace land."  The Liberals are murdering conservative values and I see no way to stop them.  I'm not admitting defeat but I don't see us coming back.....not anytime soon.  They will continue to wipe their asses with the Constitution and guns will become extinct amongst the law abiding public.

We'll also likely turn into Europe where cops are raiding houses over brass knuckles and Swiss Army knives.
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 7:01:40 PM EDT
[#42]
AR's have been banned.
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 7:02:38 PM EDT
[#43]
Fireworks will be illegal. And it'll be fucking sad.
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 7:02:49 PM EDT
[#44]
I'd be 103 so no chance I'll see it.
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 7:55:21 PM EDT
[#45]



Quoted:


I'd be 103 so no chance I'll see it.



Hey with Obamacare, and modern science....





 
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 7:59:38 PM EDT
[#46]



Quoted:


AR's have been banned.


Deadly child killing wheat bales are legal though.

 
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 8:17:45 PM EDT
[#47]
Will work for the"State", probably won't be speaking english.
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 8:30:05 PM EDT
[#48]
Quoted:
America will be balkanized by then.  Strong regions, weak nationally.  People will vote with their feet.  It's happening today and will only increase.


This, I think.
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 8:32:39 PM EDT
[#49]
I'll be 104

Probably gonna miss that party.
Link Posted: 3/30/2013 8:32:44 PM EDT
[#50]
If I live to 97 I'm going full auto for 24hrs, like an old crusty boss.
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