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Planet Earth, year 2100
Supersonic aircraft, skyscrapers of thousand meters, underground cities, criogenización, brain microchip, telepathy, bases on the Moon, eternal youth... It is not science fiction, foresight, science predicts the future of technological, sociological and economic analysis, it predicts a 21st century with changes that will lead us to the border of the unimaginable.So far we had big predictions futuristic science fiction writers. Cyrano de Bergerac already predicted in trip to the Moon (1633) how would the rockets in three phases, Julio Verne described accurately all submarines, Robert a. Heinlein anticipated atomic bomb or the cold war in 1941 and William Gibson invented in 1984, in his novel Neuromancer, jargon used today to describe the virtualreality.

These makeshift prophets had been joined in recent decades sociologists, economists, researchers and prospectivistas around the world. And their conclusions, although the surprise factor is decisive, us closer to a world that even the most fantastic fabulous would have imagined.

andres

PEOPLE, POLITICS, VALUES MORALES

Increase inequalities between rich and poor countries and eachtime there will be more wars.

1 Will be how many? According to UN estimates, 8,500 million people will populate the Earth by 2015 and 12 billion will in 2100.

2 Continue the migratory waves? 160 Million immigrants to invade the North from the South. United States and Europe will have an agricultural and urban proletariat continually threatened with expulsion and private rights.

3. Theyfinalized the hunger and wars? No. 17 million children under five will die of hunger by 2020, and 25,000 people will die every day from drinking contaminated water. Inequality will increase between rich and poor countries. In the wars ever will be more.

4. What we will see nuclear disarmament? Famous writer Arthur C. Clarke has predicted for 2009 the destruction of all nuclear weapons and a largemajority of the conventional, but as he himself says "tends to be overly optimistic in the short term and too little optimistic in the long term".

5. What countries will exert political hegemony? Jacques Attali - author of dictionary of 20th century - sociologist or prospectivista Alvin Toffler - author of the third wave - claim consolidated three centres of power: the European, Pacific(including to us.)UU. (and Japan) and a third in the East, the shade of Islam and the hydrocarbon reserves. By 2050 it is possible that China will become the largest economy in the world. The power of the State will decrease to the business.

6. Will endure democracy? There is a tendency to believe that he will reach across the globe, but will change forms of election or representation. Hacking and fraudwill prevent that you occur as predicted televoting or vote online.

7 How will evolve culture and moral values? Taste is cultivated until obsession with history. They will be fashion archaeological parks "virtual". And live local languages and cultures. While technology will make the right to privacy, the criogenización, genetic modification, or cloning protagonists of the ethical debates.Emotional and family relations will be more psychological than biological, given the large number of gay and single or divorced people with children.

herson

ENVIRONMENT, CLIMATE CHANGE, NATURAL RESOURCES

Solar, wind and biomass (organic matter) will replace oil and coal.

8. What will be climate change? If we cannot stop CO2 emissions in year 2110 sea level it will increase between 15and 90 centimeters and 92 million people will be threatened with annual flooding while temperatures will raise between 1 and 3.5 degrees. Urges also reforestation or all forests have disappeared in 2050. Clear is always possible discoveries as Craig Venter, the scientist who decoded the human genome, to produce: genetically manipulate bacteria found in the bottom of the sea so they absorb carbon...