Our country in 10yrs time – what will it be like?

Screwed as everyone will be able to live out their little fantasies with no thought for the ret of us. There will be a bloody MTB trail every 50 yards, a tea shack at the end and nowhere left to play without a sodding mobile phone signal. Everyone will be so up their own orifices about being “fair” that we will have half the place shouting about giving things away but “not mine” and most of the rest will be taking what they can. A few people will realise that they are picked on because they want to have their own say and will be shouted down because fair doesn’t apply if you disagree with fashion.
Mobiles will become immobile as they are bigger than ghetto blasters, bikes won’t need pedals as the battery will do it all and STW will become a TUC affiliated organisation and everyones Audi will be stolen by the state.

More likely is that Trump and the fat Korean chap will have drawn swords and we are all in some nuclear wasteland.
Hurries off to block up the windows and doors.

Mattsscm – Don’t ask me how I know this, but you’ve been taken out all day, shopping in the sales with the Mrs, haven’t you? There’s a certain je ne sais quoi to that first post that hints at “one of those days”.
Take off your boots, pour yourself a beer and settle down by the fire. You’ve earned it 😉

Some really interesting observations, but not a lot to get too excited about.

Except all the forthcoming sex robots of course.

Tinners – Member
Trying to keep this one a bit light hearted, chaps. Just interested in views of how things may change without getting too heavy about it. Some really interesting observations, but not a lot to get too excited about.
Still waiting for the optimists to join the fray, though…

10 years is enough time to sort a lot of problems. I’m optimistic. 🙂

I reckon the UK will be split up – for the better of all concerned.

If a hard Brexit has happened, then the woes will be long gone.

This island has recovered from worse and its greatest asset will prove to be an educated and technologically competent population who will adjust to whatever gets thrown at them. New grass always crops up in Spring.

That and hover boards… 🙂

I think every possible bit of land not owned by the gentry will be used for ultra efficient ‘affordable’ housing for the plebs

Basically the entire country will look like this:

Except the insides will be full of screens showing ads 24/7.

Sex robots on hoverboards or an economic post nuclear waste land, I know what my fingers are crossed for.

I’m thinking a cross between Blade Runner and The Hunger Games.

When asked again in ten years time, the response will be “more the way it is now than it’s ever been”.

Can’t see it changing much as not much ever changes in just 10 years. I can see a trend for racism, sexism going backwards a bit so that may get a but worse and would also think that the bottom 95% will be no better off at all (just like the last 10 years)

Make it 80 years and it will be a whole different gloomy scenario of over population, lack of resources, uprising against the 0.001% of people who own and run everything.

Footwear manufacturers will all agree on how to size a **** shoe! Oh wait maybe in the year 3000!

beige or magnolia. Slowly the colour is draining for our society. Look at our buildings and cars.

On a serious note we are likely to rely on ai to make decision and remind us what to do. No longer do we need to rely on our memory for things. We need therapy to regain short term memory. The computer will suggest and propose what we need to do in the next minute, hour, day and month. A new way of indirect marketing and the internet will we be a relic like tapes and cds.

There will be off grid groups and a war on tech countries.

err btw happy new everyone. Hope 2018 is a good vintage

Can’t see it changing much as not much ever changes in just 10 years.

Go back a page and see the what happened in 2007 link.

As NHS is eroded beyond recognition (will it still be here even? ) AI will replace most GP appointments.
When an AI gets a diagnosis wrong it will still get the same get out of jail free card as current institutions. “Lessons shall be learnt”. Ditto driverless cars.

Augmented reality and virtual reality will be massive creating a new golden age of online porn.

As said by someone else, crash helmets will be compulsory but more cyclists will still die as we can’t hear the electric cars approaching.

We will be buying back old steam locos from other third world countries as we can’t generate enough electricity for current network.

Opening up old coal mines shut down in the 80’s.

Most current Tories (and Farage, obvs) will have retired to Europe.

Massive deregulation on house building but most new homes will be bought by wealthy landlords with already huge portfolios.

ISIS will have another name.

A new Warm War will be ongoing with Russia and China for which we will be Ill prepared.

Virtually no new trade deals as we can’t build **** in this country that anyone else wants. Even if it’s blue in colour.

Everybody swears blind that they didn’t vote Leave but had a “mate that did.”

I’m still angry over Brexit.

Trump will have a younger wife. From Mexico,obvs.

He never did build that wall…

BMW builds cars with working indicator stalks just as we all go driverless and can’t afford them about anyway. Apart from Farage on his MEP pension.

Other than that, the same. 😀

Go back a page and see the what happened in 2007 link.

Still don’t see it changing much (speaking personally almost nothing has changed for me in the last 10 years – I am even still riding the same sort of bike but a bit slower on it)
Politically things change very slowly (actual changes that most people would notice) and financially it will be about the same as now.

The most worrying aspect to me is the change of attitudes which are getting worse (accelerated and backed up by populist nonsense)