The World 2050

[justfollowingtheelections]

The United States will have a population of approximately 420 millions.  
50% of them will be white, 28% Hispanic and 8% Asian.  
The immigration policies will have become even stricter.  
Scientific advances will extend longevity.
The population of Western and Southern states will increase even more.  The population in these states will increase 2 to 3 times faster than it will in the Northeast and the Midwest.
America's midsection will empty out.
The House of Representatives will have more than 435 seats.
Montana, Idaho and Wyoming will be considered liberal states.
The average age of the population will be greater than it is now.
The percentage of single person households will increase to 26%
There will be a 50% increase in space devoted to the built environment by 2030, with most of the development taking place in the West and the South.  This will result to a loss of farmland.
There will be water shortages in the East, the West, the Great Plains and the Southwest with lakes and rivers disappearing.
Cities such as Denver, Las Vegas, LA and San Diego will be buying water supplies from elsewhere.
New energy sources will be used: Wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, renewable sources.  The '50s will be known as the "Solar Age".  
Cars will be using fuel cells.
Cities will become more compact and suburbs will be considered costly and inefficient.
There will be more interracial marriages and more tolerance towards different cultures, languages and religious beliefs.


Two cities whose population will increase significantly are Lagos and Mexico City.
China by 2021 will be considered a military superpower.  They will also join the WTO and modernize.
The same problems that exist now will exist in 2050 (India/Pakistan, China/Taiwan, the Koreas, Bosnia, Kossovo).  There will also be tension in Sierra Leone, East Timor, Chechnya maybe even Colombia.  The US will not interfere this time.
The Third World will urbanize.
Coastal cities worldwide will become vulnerable to storms and flooding.  Bangladesh will suffer the most.  Many amphibians will become extinct.


Extremophiles will be discovered on Mars (underground) and on moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Maybe on Venus too.
More oil reserves will be discovered.
Human cloning will be widespread and out of control.
Recreational space travel becomes more common.
Competitions between national teams in soccer will not exist anymore.
Tattoos become more popular (almost a necessity in fashion retail).
Artificial organs are used as transplants and the number of experiments on animals decreases.
An enormous number of fish species become extinct.
A shield is created by scientists that protects the Earth from higher temperatures.  
Sea level rises.
The internet replaces tv.

[justfollowingtheelections]

I think my predictions are far more likely to happen than Sith Lord Donut's.  There will be far more Spanish speaking people in this country, but we're not annexing Mexico and Costa Rica.  Your prediction about LA becoming a 100,000 town is also a little out there.  No offense of course.
Puerto Rico will become the 51st state, but that's where the annexation of Spanish speaking countries will end.  I'm actually predicting that the standards of living will have increased significantly in Mexico as well as in most of South America (not central America though).  I don't think they will have the growth rates the Asian Tigers had after WWII, but they will develop at a rapid pace.
I agree about the movie industry as well as all other entertainment industries (I already said that the internet will have replaced tv), but there's far more to LA than the entertainment industry.  The only way your scenario could be true is if there's a natural disaster that destroys LA, but people who have homes there will go back.  They're going back to New Orleans and that was a much smaller city than LA.

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Much of Eastern Europe collapses. Several countries grab up the land (Germany, Poland).

No.  I could see the European Union collapsing or the Eurozone becoming a political entity and the rest of the EU becoming a free-trade zone, but what you say will not happen.  Hopefully we will be around in 2050 to discuss this.  In Germany they actually say that in a few years there will be more Turkish speakers than German speakers and you think they will actually conquer countries they have nothing in common with?

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You mean like how East Germany would attack West Germany?  Impoverished North Korea will collapse at some point and be absorbed by South Korea.  And why the hell would China who is quickly becoming ultra-capitalist care?

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Why would India do that?

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The odds are that at least one of the following joins the US: Any of the central american states, any of the non-european caribbean islands, Guyana, Cape Verde, Phillippines. Most likely are guyana and cape verde with the Phillippines a bit behind and the rest behind those 3.

I'd rather we get our bases back as opposed to the entire country.  The stronger China gets (at least under the control of the CCP), the more likely that would happen.

The stronger China gets and the more economic influence they have in the region, the less likely it will become that the US will regain their power in East Asia.

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These predictions are pretty ridiculous. Seriously America annexing Mexico and there being an Anglo-Latin culture? There are so many reasons why that would never happen...

I think that was wishful thinking but I have to agree with you.  Some of these theories make little to no sense.

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I honestly don't think Japan with have a problem with food for a while, though births might go down. They're fairly rich for a country of their population.

And they import most of their food from abroad.

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There will be a major push to globalise everything even more.  It will fail in about 2030.  A political version of NAFTA is established in 2010.  The North American Union collapses in 2025.  The EU follows suit in 2031.

The United States will break apart; they will become Hawaii, Cascadia, California, Montaña, Great Plains, Texas, Chippewa, North Atlantic and South Atlantic.  British Columbia joins Cascadia; New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island join North Atlantic.  Alaska joins Canada.  All of these nations are confederations, where local councils and the individual are of more importance than the national governments.  Cascadia adopts the Swiss model, with referendums instead of national legislature creating binding national laws.  The people of Mexico finally overthrow the government; another confederation is established.

Spanish becomes equal with English in California and Montaña.  French becomes equal with English in North Atlantic.  Many Quebecers immigrate to what is now New York, Maine, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.

The standard of living will significantly decline until 2035; it then stagnates and slowly increases after that.


Korea is reunited under a representative democratic form of government, like the South.  Major food shortages cause the populations of China, India, Korea and Japan to decline by 40% by 2050.  The CCP is overthrown in China and the country breaks up.  The east is set up like the European Union, with different nations with one currency and border control zone.  The west goes to traditional way of life.

This is a reasonable prediction, but as dysfunctional as these international unions will be, I think they will survive a little longer.  Also, there might be a decrease in population in the countries you mentioned but not by 40%.

[justfollowingtheelections]

United States:

By the year 2020, the polar ice caps melted very fast causing sea levels to rise. All coastal cities and most of FL were wiped out. This caused banned on fossil fuel and anything that gives off gases that could harm the Ozone layer.

The ban cause the car companies to go out of business which causes MI population to fall very fast to the same levels as ND. Ford the one and only car company not to go out of business made a new car that runs off of solar power.

Wall street had to find a new location, that new local was Atlanta, GA. Atlanta by 2050 became the most populated city in the United States.  Phoenix, AZ came in a close 2nd followed by Dallas, TX; Charlotte, NC; Chicago, IL; Philadelphia, PA; Denver, CO; Boise, ID; Las Vegas, NV; Kansas City, MO. (2050 top 10 cities)

In the floods of 2020 Washington DC was flooded due to the Potomac River levels rising. Congress voted to move the Capital to Philadelphia, PA.

By 2050 the most Americans lived to 125 years old.

By 2050 the most top 10 populated States are: (in order); TX, GA, NC, AZ, NV, PA, IL, ID, CA, SC.  
CA lost alot of it population in the floods of 2020, most of the people on the coast moved to ID, NV and AZ.  Most of the people living in NYC moved to GA, NC and PA. Most of the people living in FL moved to GA, NC and SC.

The first city on the moon was made in 2025, but that only lasted for 20 years, they stop putting cities on the moon because in 2042 one of the bubbles around one of the cities broke and killed 2 million people.

World:

Russia went to war with China over natural Gas lines. Of course China and Russia nuked each other and both counties government fell and by 2050 they are no greater then a third world county. The UK and Australia took Russia and China place in the world power list behind the United States.

Mexico government fell in 2019, millions of Mexicans move to the United States. Today, 2050 Mexico is a county of the past. Now the place where Mexico was are 19 different small counties mostly owned by drug lords.

By 2035 the first cities were built on Antarctica coastal areas. (Owned by the US and UK)

Cities that have no populations are:

NYC, LA, Moscow, Hong Kong, Mexico City, St. Louis, New Orleans, All cities outside of the the FL pan handle, Seattle. All cities that were on the coast before 2020.

Some of your predictions I can see happening, some others not so much.  I think space exploration will focus on using the natural resources of other planets rather than inhabiting them.

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China and India are both paper tigers and jokes. Brazil is the potential big boy to watch since they've started getting their act together.

I don't disagree about Brazil, but I do about China and India.

[justfollowingtheelections]

Oh wow, lot's of hilariously crazy predictions in here. I hope mine doesn't sound that crazy.

-China will be considered a superpower
-India will be the most populous nation on Earth, and will likely, developmentally-wise, look something like China does right now.
-The U.S. will still be a major power, though it won't dominate like it does right now.
-The European Union will begin to look more and more like a single state (as opposed to a federation of numerous countries), similar to the U.S. in the 19th century.
-The Middle East will suck even more without the oil money to profit from
-Israel/Palestine will still be on the brink of destruction if they still exist
-Africa will still suck
-Religion will continue to diminish in the developed world
-The world will transition away from fossil fuels. Will be some bumps along the way, but certainly not the apocalypse some predict.
-Changes in sea level may devastate certain areas like the Maldives, Bangladesh, and the Netherlands
-We still won't have any permanent colonies on the Moon or Mars

Very reasonable predictions.
I do agree with the McCain guy that there is a possibility Mexico will collapse (even though I have a feeling the opposite will happen) but I doubt the United States will inherit them.

[justfollowingtheelections]

By the way, I think what would give us a better idea of what might possibly happen in 2050, is look at how the world was 41 years ago in 1968 and whether any of the developments that took place since, might have seemed reasonable at the time.

Lets assume that someone had said in 1968 that the following would happen in the next 41 years:
- Man will walk on the moon, but there will be very little space travel
- The Soviet Union will collapse
- European countries will form a Union and introduce a common currency
- America will elect a black president
- Communication and exchange of information will become much easier and faster through a world wide network called the internet
- The Eastern communist bloc will collapse with many of its members joining the European Union and others such as Yugoslavia being divided.
- The United States will be the lone superpower, but the European Union and Japan are also very strong.  China is emerging as a world superpower and becoming more consumerist.  The only remaining communist nations are Cuba and North Korea.  After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has many problems but they are still a strong player in world politics.
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