Questions tagged [future]
For questions involving the future or taking place in the future. The "near-future" and "far-future" tags are preferred. Users of this tag are encouraged to provide detailed information about the nature of the future in which their question takes place.
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Climate Correction gone awry
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I'm working on a new creative work and I was looking for a scenario that would create a world with:
A frozen north/south region outside of #2
An extremely hot (130F) equatorial belt (4000 ...
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What would be the human population if all humans and human activity disappeared from the mainland continents [closed]
Basically, I'm in a collaborative project where all of humanity and human-built development disappear on the mainland continents (Africa, Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas) ; and the islands have ...
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Is it possible for a group/clan of 10k people to start their own civilization away from other people in 2050? Like the Amish but with more technology?
They are a group of fed up people in a third world country who somehow acquire/buy land in a remote place near the Himalayas.
Ignore the powers like China trying to conquer them.
Is this possible in ...
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Rip van Winkle crime spree
Let's say a rogue physicist wanted to make a fortune allowing criminals to use time tech to avoid the time when statute of limitations would allow them to be arrested. But how could someone prove to ...
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Justification for foreign intervention in an anarchist Middle East? [closed]
What would be a rational reason for Western countries to unethically intervene in the Middle East following a total economic collapse?
I'm writing a story where Middle Eastern countries descend into ...
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Disasters to prompt the bettering of civilisation [closed]
so, being a cynic as well as a speculative biologist and all-round sci-if fan, I believe that the scenario I want to reach in my project, where humanity has restored the Earth’s biosphere and climate, ...
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How could the lottery and gambling work with accurate fortune tellers?
In my world, fortune tellers and psychics aren't con men but actually possess supernatural abilities. People born into the Romani lifestyle can make repeated and accurate predictions via tarot cards, ...
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Will Cobalt still be available on Earth in the year 2100?
I would like to know the state of cobalt on the earth in the year 2100, but I hear that it might run out in 2025 or 2030. Cobalt is used to make electronic components. In a world where most of the ...
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Why would money or any other means of exchange need to exist if AI, robots, automation and nanotechnology produce all goods and services?
Let's say almost everyone is now jobless but almost all goods and services are made by machines including nanobot swarms and 3D printing. Even the government and the justice system in this futuristic ...
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What benefits would make humans want to use organic technology? [closed]
I’ve been developing an idea for a human civilization that exists thousands of years in the future, and uses purely organic technology.
My question is this. Is there any real benefits or advantages ...
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Making stillsuits less fantasy - how to dump the heat?
As we all know1, stillsuit as described in the books would cook the user. Water would carry heat away from the body, but then it would be caught again, and again with the heat.
Assuming energy is not ...
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Peaceful Revolution [closed]
In a prospective story I am writing that takes place between December 2027 and June 2028 of the Gregorian calendar, a future President of the Fifth French Republic named Édouard Wang, and his Prime ...
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How large would space warships be? [closed]
How large would space warships be? Resources are limited to that of the inner Hills cloud & inward. The main concern is fighting within the solar system. Earth is still the only habitable planet ...
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In the future, when most of the old jobs have been automated by new technology, what new jobs for humanity will emerge? [closed]
At a time when technology was just advanced enough to be able to automate the work of a traditional teacher. Which career field will replace those lost to fit the new technology landscape? With the ...
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How will resurrection affect inheritance law? [closed]
In our world, but in the future, humans have just discovered a technology that will resurrect any person for which a sample of DNA can be obtained. Now, for the first time, some people have been ...
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Delivery of minerals to Earth from the asteroids by artificial meteorite or solid metal glider
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Mining of asteroids is a successful venture in the future. However much of the resulting mineral yield is required on Earth and the problem is delivery. Carrying thousands or millions of tons ...
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Future evolution of an English Language and writing system
In a future where a large company is launching a series of interstellar colony fleets to nearby star systems, would it be feasible if they modified the English writing system and Earth kept to the ...
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How big should I make my space fleets?
I've had this story sitting for a while, but decided to come back to it. I plan on skipping ahead a few decades, where I have a giant space fleets. Assume that the ships are made for humans. Any ...
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What constitutes the lifespan of a firearm? If modern guns were still used a century from now would that be unrealistic?
My setting takes place in the late 2100's, so the technology should inherently be much more advanced than the technology we currently possess. However, I still want to feature firearms that are ...
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What can happen in a non-deterministic world? [closed]
I was reading about a theoretical charged Black Hole known as the Reissner Nördstrom Black Hole, where should someone enter its Cauchy Horizon, will end up in a world not bound by determinism. What ...
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Disney buys all the rights on sex bots [closed]
Year 2030, and sex bots have now been around since the early 2018 and existed as a concept for more than half a century.
But during the last years they became more and more common, they are not in ...
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I was brought back to life after being frozen in time, how do I know if I'm a copy of my original consciousness or if I'm actually the real me? [closed]
Year 2038, I died and was frozen for almost two centuries.
They managed to bring my flesh and bone back to life but is my consciousness the same?
What if my real self died forever? What if my ...
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Creating a new form of societal hierarchy
Societies have hierarchies: today they are loosely divided into an upperclass, middle-class, lower-class.
Our world used to be more focused on a caste system with royals at the top, religious ...
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How can I help to verify somebody is from future?
I want to help people to verify they're from future (if they are, of course). For this I publish some facts/numbers on my website, dayly or weekly or whatever, so that a time traveller can remember ...
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Could there be complete equality at some point in the future?
So in my story there is only one major advanced city left in the world, and it is incredibly diverse. I would imagine that over time (it has existed for around 800 years) there would be considerable ...
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