A Bleak Future?
- Agree
- Economy: the gap between the rich and the poor widens
- Environment
- Natural resources removed
- Land degradation
- Pollution
- Artificial intelligence: detrimental towards human domination
- Overpopulation: faster depletion of resources
- Terrorism
- Discontent with governments
- May get worse; every country has something strategic to disrupt
- Food sources
- Disease for cattle
- Climatic changes
- The ethics of GM food
- Diseases: plagues, microbes, AIDS, SARS, etc.
- Warfare: nuclear holocaust, biochemical warfare, etc.
- More complicated lives with computers
- Privacy of people threatened
- Cloning and dehumanisation
- Disagree
- Colonisation of other planets
- Better living standards
- People live longer
- Medical science continues to progress (for example, fatal genes can be corrected)
- Nanotechnology: portability, efficiency
- A connected world (through the Internet, better forms of communication)
- The world may become more peaceful
- More people are heard
- A better world for women
- Equality of sexes
- Human strength loses importance with the introduction of mechanisation
- Saving the environment
- Since science has destroyed the environment, it may also have the ability to save it
- Use alternative forms of energy
- Save Mankind from eternal doom
- Information accessibility & precision / customisation of personal items
- Communicate, learn about things better
- Knowledge-based nation