In 2100, what will be the world's #1 superpower?

[Gabu]

How the hell are we supposed to know what will transpire over the course of 95 years?

I would love to hear what people in 1910 thought the world would be like in 2005.

[Gabu]

Can't say for sure - a lot can happen in 95 years. Wars, technological advances, cataclysms, new nations forming on the ruins of old ones, ect.

^^^^

And Earl, I suspect Canada will join the U.S. eventually.

Correction: The US will join Canada

...must...refrain...from laughing...HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

It was a joke, you are supposed to laugh

Good call; we gotta make them think it's a joke so we can surprise them all.

[Gabu]

How the hell are we supposed to know what will transpire over the course of 95 years?

I would love to hear what people in 1910 thought the world would be like in 2005.

I don't know about political predictions from 1910, but you can revisit old issues of Popular Mechanics or Popular Science to see the technological predictions they've made at different times, mostly about the year 2000, which was seen as sort of a benchmark.

Some of the predictions were spot-on; some were WAY off.

Most of the bad predictions are made by people who suffere from what I call "Malthus Syndrom".  That is to say that they cannot possibly see the future in terms of anything different from what is immediatly know to them.

Yes, but the only problem is that, in general, you don't know what you don't know when it comes to predicting the future, so avoiding such a thing while still making a concrete prediction is a difficult task, to say the least.

[Gabu]

Mongolia

It will begin it's next conquest of the world around 2040.

Fortunately, Mongolia USA!

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