2050.

[DaMaster_architect 0]

in Holland, the dikes would have failed, and half the country would be undearneath the water. Holland would be specialised in building underwater cities, cities in lots of large spheres... under the water. The town where  I live would be right at sea (it's now somewhere in the middle of the country). Lots of Maglev-trains would connect the dutch cities with each other, included the underwater cities.
Ofcourse, Holland would be swallowed up by the EU by long, also Russia and Israel would be part of the EU. The EU would be known as a country that is very scientifically based, and making it's income from selling state-of-the-art technology.

Also, we would be here, discussing at Simtropolis v. 6k what the world would be like in 2006, and what there should be in the second expansion pack of SimCity 17.

[ardecila 124]

Predictions for the Chicago Metro

• The CTA Circle Line will finally be completed.
• We will have several mini-skylines in the city, probably in Evanston and maybe Oak Park, as well as one or two other areas. (United Center area, c’mon!)
• The downtown high-density area will fill in west to Halsted Street, south to Cermak, and north to Division.
• People will finally become disgusted with sprawl, and ambitious densification projects will occur in inner suburbs like Niles and Westchester.
• New exurban developments will be designed similar to Olmsted's Riverside, (or Chevy Chase, MD) with smaller lots and houses, winding but still connective streets, and much more evenly-distributed parkland.
• Vice will grow in the city again, as gambling, prostitution, and drug use increase.
• IL-53 will finally be extended to I-94 in Northern Lake County, and re-designated as part of I-355. Long Grove can and will suck it.
• I-355 will be extended southward to I-57, but not as far south as Peotone. It will then be extended north-eastward to meet up with I-65, thus relieving congestion on I-80/94.
• The Chicago Skyway will finally be modernized, and people will cease to refer to it as anything other than I-90.
• All highways in the state will become tolled, but at lower rates than we have today.
• Metra will finally build its STAR Line making an outer rail beltway for intersuburban traffic. It will start in Lake Geneva, WI and roughly follow the Fox River southward to Joliet. A second line will be built with a smaller radius, connecting Lake Forest with Des Plaines, south to O'Hare Airport, and then through Melrose Park and LaGrange, eventually ending up through Tinley Park to Homewood-Flossmoor. Both rail belts will be heavy electric rail, like the IC, but more modern.
• The Heritage Corridor will densify, adding stops along its line outside of major towns to get subdivision riders, and also extend a spur out to Plainfield.
• The Dan Ryan, Eisenhower, and Kennedy will all add 30% more lanes in the form of tunnels underground.
• The Circle Interchange will be completely rebuilt. Traffic will be diverted onto sidestreets, causing Greektown to go into a mini-depression.
• The new Circle and I-90/94 northwards to Hubbard's Cave will be widened and buried. Buildings will be built on top.
• Chicago will rediscover its boulevards, again using them as major arteries.
• Big-box development will be outlawed in the city proper.
• A huge blackout will hit the city around 2012, causing an outbreak of food poisoning that will kill hundreds of people.
• Sandburg Village will finally become the public-housing project it resembles.

Wow, 30 minutes coming up with stuff. I'm kinda tired now.. *goes to bed*

[MadTV_Freak 0]

Well here are my ideas for D.C.

1. Metro will extend all the way into Baltimore and possibly across the Chesapeake Bay.

2. DC Suburbs & Baltimore Suburbs will collide.

3. DC will have a 500 foot tall building ( the maxium is 555 ft. the height of the monument.

4. DC will have a population of over 1 million (currently 506,000, something like that)

5. The Capital Beltway (I-495/ I-95) will have twelve lanes instead of eight.

6. Crime will be at an all time high.

7. The traffic in DC will be the worst in the nation (currently the third).

8. There will be beaches along the Anacostia River in DC.

9. The DC Metro Area will have some of the most expensive homes in the country.

10. The National Mall will have about 20 new museums.

[newyorkstate 6]

Originally posted by: your_adress_here I think that in 2050:

Canada's population will have reapidly grown.

As the weather gets warmer, we will have more developable land and thus a much better economy.

More and more Americans will come to Canada.

The NDP will be the most popular party.

Toronto will grow to become one of the worlds largest cities.quote>

Are you out of your mind???NDP???Warmer weather?Global Warming? By the year 2050, if we dont do something soon, Global Warming will take us all....forget NDP Democracy!

[Praetorian Cohort 0]

OMG IT R TEH GLOBUL WORMIN!!!!1

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Phoenix 2050:

- Phoenix will be the fourth largest city in the US, behind New York City, Los Angeles, and Houston

- The metro area will fill the entire valley and spill over the mountains

- We'll finally have a halfway decent mass transit system

- Mesa's population will be at 600,000

- The freeways will still be in desperate need of an upgrade

- It will still be an inferno during the summer (March - November)

- Phoenix will finally get a definate downtown

- Paradise Valley will still be tearing up the surface street near my house once every six months

[The Coin 0]

Originally posted by: DaMaster_architect in Holland, the dikes would have failed, and half the country would be undearneath the water. Holland would be specialised in building underwater cities, cities in lots of large spheres... under the water. The town where  I live would be right at sea (it's now somewhere in the middle of the country). Lots of Maglev-trains would connect the dutch cities with each other, included the underwater cities.

Ofcourse, Holland would be swallowed up by the EU by long, also Russia and Israel would be part of the EU. The EU would be known as a country that is very scientifically based, and making it's income from selling state-of-the-art technology.

Also, we would be here, discussing at Simtropolis v. 6k what the world would be like in 2006, and what there should be in the second expansion pack of SimCity 17.quote>

hehe excellent

I think the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg are merged as 1 country. Amsterdam will be known as Sin City. A metropolis with 12 million ppl living (the half of the dutch population at the time).

Our historical canals will be filled with Heineken beer. You can get Chronic at the local supermarket. Will be founded by the other vegetables

Along the canals big buildings rising up. Burj dubai-style buildings

The Amsterdam Arena were bombed by terrorists in 2030, after Ajax won the Champions league 7 times in a row.

A whole new stadium will be build. It will be the biggest stadium in Europe with a capacity of 250.000 ppl

[simmax 0]

Paris hasn't changed much in the last 45 years, and I don't think it will change much in the next 45 years... Rust on the Eiffel Tower might become an issue.

One thing that might happen, though.

In 2045, Dominique de Villepin's grandson will become Prime Minister. But he will be so unpopular that there will be 5 million people out in the streets on March 29, 2048 in order to depose him. He will be mercilessly mudered, the president as well, and the 29th republic will start, with 577 different parties each with one MP. And this government will do more than all the previous ones - it won't be hard to beat!!!

[iDavid 2]

Cincinnati will be crappier in 2050 then it is now.

They still will be debating mass transit.

The blight will extend up North to the Kenwood mall area, east to Beachmont road, south to Florence, and west to Green Township.

Sprawl will still be a major problem, as new suburbs are being built out reaching Brown Country, to the east, and spill all though Indiana in the west side. Dayton and Cincinnati suburbs will merge, and you won't be able to tell the differnece between the 2.

Downtown will decay even more with the only reason for anyone to go downtown is for a convention, Reds Game or Bengals Game.

Paul Brown will be 130 years old and still owning the Bengals, and manging them with an Iron Fist.

I 75 will finally get it's fourth lane, but traffic still sucks.

A new beltway added that out further then 275.

A new freeway will be built in the east side of town to better deal with growth.

Murders in Cincinnati climb to 500 a year.

Indian Hill will still be full of rich cheap snobs.

Very few jobs will be available in Cincinnati outside of P & G, which will be then, make 99 % of America's hygiene products, and 70% of our processed foods.

[Tarkus 6,932]

Well, I'm not so sure about all these places having huge increases in population.  Sometime in the next 100 years, there's a predicted population decrease, probably between 2050 and 2080.  Aging is definitely a factor in it, and there's a good likelihood there might be some natural disasters affecting some large urban centers, since they tend to be built in precarious locations (see New Orleans).  Especially with Global Warming.  (Sorry, I can be a bit of a pessimist sometimes.)

I actually think that the advent of all these wireless technologies will also have a huge effect on population distribution.  Supposedly, the whole world will be a Wireless Hot Spot in the next couple decades.  Logically, it would seem that this might cause deurbanization.  Just a crazy theory . . .

[hamsterTK 93]

hamstertk: via the internet?! you're joking! the internet will probably either become illegal(almost is in china cuz, of GOOOOOOOOOOOGLE) or in the next decade will be replaced by some thing even faster and more "un-virtual reality", as i like to call it. Tis rubbish, rubbish my lad!quote>

All you pessimists... Anyways, think about yin and yang. one cant stay forever.

When it gets really bad maybe a mysterious man in a guy fawkes mask will blow things up...

[hamsterTK 93]

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[zane900 1]

Hey, I don't want Tucson to change the least bit!

[Dubya 0]

(Warning long post)

My country (USA) in 2050...

-After another great depression which would bring reform to America's banks and gov't

-America would gradually rebuild after the 2nd great depression

-America would become an agriculture dominant economy

-Urban sprawl wouldn't be practiced anymore, since it is economically inefficient and since the automobile will be alot more expensive to own and operate (Driver's Licenses won't be easy to obtain as they are now)

-Also with Urban sprawl a thing of the past, some suburbs will actually be torn down to make way for farms

-Low density American cities like Atlanta would redevelop and become more dense, due to the higher price of real estate, the vast suburbs of today that housed middle class Americans will become home to the rich, the mansions of todays rich will become home to the ultra rich or become apartments for the rich.

-Cities will utilize tram networks, as well as developing well planned bicycle paths such as those that are common in cities in The Netherlands.

-High speed electrified rail will connect the cities of North America

-Also the population will reach 400 million

The world...

-America wouldn't be the superpower or military power that it is now, the EU will become the world's largest and strongest superpower, as well as the world's economical superpower

-China will endure another civil war when the farmers rise against the gov't and overthrow communism, bringing back democracy or reinstating an Emperor similar to Japan's

-Israel will reform, with its population finally realizing that fighting each other will only keep Israel from moving forward, so Israel reforms and becomes Israel-Palestine, a democratic nation with a gov't ran by both Jews and Arabs and other peoples, Israel will become a tourism based economy, also it will join the EU

-Africa will still be developing, though it still has alot of progress to make

-India-Pakistan will be at peace with each other, after the demise of India's caste system, it will become the world's education mecca, becoming the place that people from all over the world go to, to recieve higher education

-The Middle East will likely remain unchanged, though countries like Saudi Arabia will finally follow the UAE's model to invest in alternative businesses since oil won't be in demand as it is today, the UAE will become "The Netherlands" of the Middle East, not part of Holland, just similar to what it is in today's Europe.

-Iraq will either become a part of Jordan or Iran

-Southeast Asia will become the world's manufacturing powerhouse, and continue to be the technological powerhouse of the world, North Korea will become like the China of the present

-Australia would be a tourism dominant economy

-Canada would stay the same, just with a larger population

-Mexico will become North/South America's manufacturing power, which will be a wealthy nation

-Brazil will be a tourism dominant economy

-Argentina will be the financial power of South America

As far as flying cars... not common, more flights to space will be more common, but will remain very expensive, travel between the continents will be faster as airplanes will become faster, and some even reaching space for minutes then back to its destination

Conventional cars will become predominantly hybrid diesel (BioDiesel not petroleum based) powered vehicles, Electric cars still being too expensive for most, also SUVs and pickups will be rare

Finally, I hope the environment won't change much, and won't be controlled by man either.

[thenext88 102]

I think the US will collapse by 2050

Northwest U.S will merge with British Columbia

Texas Splits

California Splits

Confederate States of America with the exception of Florida

North East Splits and tries to merge with Ontario/Quebec but fail

For the first time more people will be leaving the U.S. than entering it. Alot of people will try to go to Canada, but Canada will have learned from the U.S. mistake of letting to many people through the border, and will have very strict limited immigration.

I for one will go live with eskimos if the world goes to chaos

[ILL Tonkso 1,236]

My city (Portsmouth England)

Allready the UKs most densly populated city will be even denser, the violent crime would have special police squads to deal with it. The city will have its own dedicated mass transit system. The four boroughs would have become proper districts of the city, there will be a tunnel under Portsmouth Harbour, Farlington Marshes would be developed and City will still be unpopular.

[hamsterTK 93]

-America wouldn't be the superpower or military power that it is now, the EU will become the world's largest and strongest superpower, as well as the world's economical superpowerquote>

considering the euro is valued even higher than the dollar, you guys are going to have an even harder time in the new global economy.

Seriously, i dont believe all the doom and gloom crud.

Here's my theory of how cities will supernova and sprawl will go backwards.

Suburban Decay(white flight) will continue to push suburbs farther and farther out of the city. Edge cities will apear, while at the same time there will be a supernova effect, where to be closer to things people will start moving into the city and places will get more urban, while the poorer people who formally occupied these areas will continue to move out into the suburbs where crime and traffic has further dropped home values until they are in their price range, thus fueling the middle class movement into the cities even more. This is because at the same time poor people are moving to the suburbs to get better housing, the middle class people residing in these suburbs will leave to get away from the poorer people due to a percieved increase in crime and loss of quality in schools and come to the inner city to find a glut of slum land freed up with the exodus of low income people. It could be a win win really, since the poorer people could have much better homes to live in and the middle class could have nicer neighboorhoods to be a part of.

As for military things, i think however can create the most versatile fighting force to face the new types of threats such as global terrorism, will be on top.The US is in the perfect position for this, and i put my money on us to do it the best, but really it is pretty open. I think as far as having a ginormous military with tons and tons of tanks and soldiers that China will have that in the near future, considering they have lots of industry and lots of people. But like iraq taught us, having lots of tanks and soldiers doesnt mean anything when you are fighting a determined and resourceful enemy.

I forsee china taking their place on top when the inevitable happens:

1. They invade Taiwan

2. We try to stop them

3. They kick our asses at the wimpy PC type warfare we having been using so we bring out the big guns and go full on and take no prisoners, and in the process taiwan is left in total ruin

4. International Community Gets Pissed

5. Political Pressure and Heavy losses forces us to withdrawal prematurly

6. China:Victorious America: T.K.O

then the picture changes, china gets more influence and turns into an oppresive facist run monster that keeps their people at bay by spoiling them with big greedy coporate-dominated free market capitalism, and the US doesnt have near the influence it used to.

I think in the end we will become like europe, staying out of other country's business and focusing our resources on improving life here at home. In the end we wouldnt be powerful but we would still be way better than china in all other aspects.

[GMT 389]

you're all so creative...

2039... worlds population will have crossed the 10billion mark.

2044... oil crises start, reserves all across russia, alaska, canada and the us runs out

2045... market blows up to 375$ per barrel oil, set up by the oil empires in the middle east

2047... a mayor war on oil reserves will start at the middle east and soon turn into a religious war that lasts several years...

2048... the first nuclear warheads will be started by former terrorists and destroy mayor targets all over the non-islamic world.

2050... the nuclear war and its fallout will have killed almost 98% of the worlds fauna and flora.

2051... an approximately 140miles wide asteroid will bomb the entire planet 2 million years back in time...

now that's what i call a darn vision

[hamsterTK 93]

wow. that sure sounds like a lovely future.

Personally, i think that as oil prices go up and up that the economics will make alternative fuels so profitable that the big companies will have no choice to get invovled, and the middle east will just have to suck it up.

[GMT 389]

i hope so hamster...

i don't wanna get blown up... either by a bomb or a cosmic bomb...

no I won't! I won't, I won't, I won't!

lol

[Micah 16]

2044 for an oil crisis? If we aren't in one now then I don't know what is even considered an oil crisis! I say it's at its peak crisis at 2016.

[Tarkus 6,932]

Well, as far as a timeline, here's my theory:

2012: Iraq "war" ends as a stalemate.

2013: China successfully lands on the moon

2016: The US finally becomes fed up with the two major parties starts electing candidates from other parties, creating a viable three or four party system.  Northern California secedes from the rest of the state, and becomes Jefferson state.

2018: Someone finally figures out how to resolve the Hydrogen fueling Catch-22.  Vehicles are on the road fueled by three different fuels (or some hybrid): gasoline, ethanol, and hydrogen.

2020: Earth is a worldwide Wireless Hotspot, thanks to Wi-Max technology.  Roundabouts banned in many US states, when it is revealed by a $200 million study by the FHWA that many American transportation engineers literally can't engineer their way out of a paper bag.

2023: The Harappan script of the ancient Indus Valley is finally deciphered, and with additional archaeological discoveries, reveals that they had extremely advanced technology that far exceeds that of the modern world.

2026: Earth population peaks at 11 billion, then begins to decline, due to population aging, declining birth rates, disease, overusage of cellular phones, and freak natural disasters.

2030:  Venus is terraformed to become habitable by humans.

2034: Several major cities hit by freak natural disasters.  This, coupled with the notion of worldwide wireless internet, and Venus colonization, leads to the start of worldwide deurbanization.

2040:  Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City all have populations of less than 200,000 as a result of deurbanization.  Most of the land in their city limits has been converted to agricultural or technological use.  On the flip side, many smaller towns report population growth of 5,000% or more, and numerous new cities are started.

2050:  Earth population at 4 billion.  Worldwide population density is at its lowest level since the 19th century.

As far as actual dates go, these are somewhat loose.  I may be way off in terms of what actually happens, but that's what happens when you try to predict the future.

[mightygoose 92]

i can see the deurbanisation, but not to that extent and as for venus, bit of a stretch

[jackel.22 3]

i think we would see the first russian on the moon, ok no disrespect US but you havnt got a great track record recently with space missions. most likely russia or china will setup some kind of scientific base there.

[Tarkus 6,932]

@jackel.22:  You're right, the Russians will probably land on the moon during that time too.  I'm surprised they haven't already, though, as much as they've invested in their space program.  The US has been slacking off and screwing up a bit lately, though.  NASA's kind of "jumped the shark".  They're spending a bunch of money to have Laurie Anderson as an "Artist-in-Residence".  Why does a space program need an "Artist-in-Residence"?

@mightygoose:  Yeah, I might have overdone it a little--2030 probably isn't realistic.  Probably more likely 2050 or later.  You never know with technology, though.

[Micah 16]

Tarkus, I actually agree with you about the two parties. I say lets create a third party. I actually think the Iraq War will end in 2009, possibly 2008. But I think we will always have American troops in Iraq just how we still have American troops in Germany.

[simster6 0]

Hamilton, CA

1.) Hamilton will become home to more and more Arabs/Pakistani's

2.) Population will double

3.) Crime will lower a bit

4.) Will be about the same size as Montreal

[Micah 16]

Opps, sorry. There was an error. Please delete this post.

[6underground 11]

By 2050 The UK as we know it, will have ceased to exist and the Union Jack will be referenced in books only (as it never did represent everyone), instead the UK will be a type of inner-commonwealth, with a British monarch as "head of state", but full regional powers vested in Scotland, Wales and England. Each nation freely make decisions and policies of it's own accord. The term UK will only apply in terms of the tri-lateral economic and miltary alliance, that serves and protects all of the United Kingdom. The Sterling remains and is "made" in the Royal bank of England, Scotland and the new Royal Bank of Wales. Socially Britain remains very much the same, however national pride for each individual UK nation is now much more evident.

[mightygoose 92]

i agree, with 6underground, we may even have our very own race ofr the skies as wales and scotland want to show up england lol

[hamsterTK 93]

ok no disrespect US but you havnt got a great track record recently with space missions.quote>

no disrepect taken.Im rather ashamed by our space program. they spend tons and tons of money on odd things like just recently a mission to crash a probe into the moon to see what the moon is composed of. Last time i checked we've actually been there and have moon rocks here on earth. why the heck do we need to, off all things crash a probe onto the moon to do this...

I think thought that in russia the country will go through some sort of conflict eventually, even if it doesnt russia is just a ghost of its solviet self so i doubt they will do anything. China on the other hand, i really think that within the next 25 years they will on the moon.

I think though that in the future that NASA will really only do their little experiments  and do the bureacratic paperwork type stuff for companies with sattilites, really becoming the government agency in charge of space. I think the real exploration will be done by private companies, both american ones and european and far eastern ones. I think that the world center of space technology will probably be Las Vegas, it being the closest to large desert areas that are traditionally where that sort of thing is done.