If I imagine what we have accomplished in a quarter of this time, and I think what could be done in 4TIMES the amount of time with our exponential development of technology it makes me wish I were born in the year 2100.

I cant even realistically think of what kinds of things we could have in 100 years, but lets try to pick 5.

1) Enough advancement in battery technology that all cars are hybrid. we have not stopped burning typical gasoline, but maybe its refined more (110+ octane) and the hybrid engines have great (usable) battery life and the engines are high output super efficient single cylinder motors (or something)
2) itll be like in sim city where you click the ordinance of "clean air act". yeah we're going to have to improve our air quality. I mean cmon, theres cities where its just SMOG. f*ck that.
3) think of how computer processing has gone from the 486 in march 1993 to our quad core processors that came out early 2007 (officially) in 100 years computers are going to be something absolutely ridiculous. solid state holographic storage device, well be talking exabytes (mega, giga, terra, peta, exa) of ram, thousand core processors and 14400p resolutions and itll make our current "folding (folding@home)" attempts looks absolutely useless. And that leads me to #4
4) We'll find a cure for cancer, like an actual one
5) medicine will be sooo advanced that people will laugh at how early we died like we now laugh at how early romans died.

or honestly, i think the world will be ravaged by disease and war. the economy will be so messed up everywhere that countries will start taking over smaller ones. over population will lead to diseaseas that can't be cured, and even if they could, they wouldnt, because people need to die to free up space on earth.

 

I think we might be coming up on a plateau. I believe that we can only advance so far before we start to hit a wall. Technology will become cheaper and more prevalent but I don't think in 100 years we will see anything super amazing. I'd imagine a lot of personal, iphone-like devices, maybe a lot of microsoft surface-type things. i just see more high tech stuff being in everyone's hands but not much in advancement at the top of the chart.

lol i like the sim city reference, i took a break from sim city 4 a while back. they need a newer version out.

 

whoa i almost think i wrote that. hello fellow twin from the future!

few weeks ago i watched an old 1950's family video that my best friends grandma showed us. filming was a hobby of her husband, and he filmed his neighborhood (without sound back then) in full color. it was such beautiful countryside with nothing but meadows and trees around. we couldn't believe our eyes!!! we know it now as all highways, supermarkets, concrete, power lines, urban graffiti and crooks walking around. it's really a sad, sad thing. she now lives in a retirement home because she said all her neighbors either died or moved far away and she was the only original family left the new neighbors are all hooligans and she felt really unsafe.

if that happened in 50 years, think of what will happen in 100. we are living in historical times right here, and i too agree religious differences and financial instability will shred this very ground apart one day.

 

I believe civilazation will fall, as it has in he past (Atlantis) war, disease, famine, overpopulation. Seems its happened b4. I mean for gods sake looke at stuff like the pyramids and other heavy stone structures that we still couldnt build. A good read is Hidden Archeology, this documents artifacts and other things that are swept under the covers cause it doesn't fit are current theory on history.

 

Option 1: Civilization as we know it is destroyed.

Option 2: We stall out trying to deal with the financial irresponsibility of the last 25 years. We start making useless trinkets for export to China.

Option 3: We pull through and continue advancing. Cure cancer. Begin cloning organs from ourselves to prolong life and focus on preventing aging. Some of us will be there to know what happens in 100 years under this scenario for sure. Maybe even most of us.

Major advances to look for:

DNA/RNA decoding and encoding curing many defects and creating designer lifeforms.
Replicating machines that make intricate parts from raw materials instead of shipping them.
More efficient space propulsion technology.
Privatization of space, and you might live and work there. If not your kids will. NASA will just buy services from the private sector.
Cleaner safer nuclear energy.
Computing power will be unfathomably more than today. If Moore's Law continues to hold true we will have 3,377yottahertz processors (gigahertz, terahertz, petahertz, exahertz, zettahertz, yottahertz).