I
wish I knew what kind of life people will live in the future, say, in 50 years.
I believe people will
live longer due to better medicine. For a 17-year by or girl that would mean more
living grand- and maybe grand grandparents. Maybe scientists will manage to
invent a way to correct genetic defects and eliminate deceases like cancer. From
the other side, people in European society tend to have fewer children these
days, so that would mean fewer or no siblings in the future. I don’t think we
will travel to other planets or galaxies, because this kind of things are
rather expense, but I hope science and new technologies will let us live longer
and happier lives here, on Earth.
However, I am afraid
that the Earth will soon become overpopulated, and that will result in
different kinds of conflicts. Also, I am afraid that more advanced societies
may be threatened by people from less advanced societies due to weaknesses of
democracy.
However, the standards
of living constantly improve, and it is likely that this tendency will continue
no matter what, until the Earth is hit by a huge asteroid, just like it
happened millions of years ago.