What will America look like in twenty years?

Paywall… everything will be put behind a paywall. Everything… but those who can’t or
won’t pay… the intrusion of advertising will be life altering! Money will flow into creative
ways to get into your brain and creativity is endless.

How do you avoid this cranium intrusion? Hide behind a paywall which regardless
will collect your info. We Are Screwed!!

Shopping… We will have less places to shop… as ‘mom and pop’ stores will be severely
limited by global corporations who will tell us what we want… what we need…

But we are not screwed yet because individuality and creativity will be hard to suppress!

No matter how many regulatory roadblocks are thrown at us!

And yes I am thinking of Wall-E.

“Because where America go the world follows.”

Dream on.

^^I am a dreamer! Who told you!?

@WhyNow Please use other punctuation along with your many ellipses. Almost all of them should be replaced by commas or semi-colons. It makes reading what you write difficult to follow to get the meaning.

People will be forced to go to church.

There will be strong pressure to christianize America, with military backing to make sure it happens.

Non-whites will be enslaved once again.

@smudges – 90% of what my mother types is ”...”. My kids used to ask me why their grandmother used ellipses, and I never had the nerve to ask her. She had a stroke years ago, and I figured it would offend her.

A quick Google search, however, has led me to believe that it’s an actual phenomenon. Apparently, it has something to do with age.

My colon. What is an elipses? I don’t use a qwerty keyboard. I am from out of town!

^ What is your native language?

^^Bad english.

@hat How did you do that red lettering thing? I want my… to be in red.

On second thought better not tell me. Piss off too many people!

Is it not obvious?

Tne dystopian aspects now defining the country will intensify as the rapidly melting middle class races toward extinction along with the ice caps. The accelerating slide in the standard of living defining the majority must spawn the inevitable ever more strident demagogues and virulent extremists. These people will as always play on the vapid ignorance and deplorable stupidity of the population as usual to place the blame on those least responsible and suffering the most…the usual suspects…blacks, immigrants etc. Draconian measures and restrictions will intensify as career goals shift and opportunities for honorable and productive careers diminsh in stride with the tax base. Growth industries will shift to such fields as elder care for the remaining senile boomers who managed to sock money away when it was still possible, along with lucrative jobs providing security for the rich who in effect are the cause of it all to begin with. Americans will be if at all possible, dumber than ever, as it becomes clear that those jobs traditionally regarded as losers (the jobs traditionally filled by women), nurses, elementary school teacher, etc are filled by foreign born and educated 3rd world people. But we’ll have trouble filling those jobs as China will have replaced us as the world’s land of opportunity. And that’s the rosy optimistic forecast. The more likely scenario is that we Americans will revert to what will certainly be the still expanding glut of firearms to settle these matters among ourselves.

@ragingloli Great link! I feel so much safer from nuclear war under Biden’s leadership!

@HP Speaking of, you know the geographical poles are changing sides?

That is trumps doing.

I’m more concerned about the environment than politics. At the rate the West is drying up and with no sign of the “megadrought” ending, I expect a mass depopulation of the Western U.S. within the next twenty years. Lake Mead is already at its lowest level in history. Not sure what will happen when it’s finally depleted, but it won’t be pretty.

@WhyNow You do not understand that Trump, like the melting geographical poles themselves is but the symptom of the actual problem. Twenty years from now Trump will be senile and mentally incompetent. And everyone will remark on how surprising it is how he hasn’t changed a bit, along with the fact that he is so leftist in comparison with the current President.

@Demosthenes Maybe they have to flee, and become asylum seekers, in, let’s say, Canada.

@Demosthenes The price of water will of course shoot up. And I’m willing to bet the population of Alaska is due to explode. For the coastal cities, wind farms are going to power upcoming desalination plants. But places like Vegas and Arizona are going to be forced very soon to halt building permits.

Twenty years from now I expect to be dead, thank God!

@janbb Me too. Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But seriously, I expect that capitalism is pretty much on the ropes and will soon be down for the count in 20 more years. Then the wonderful world of socialism can sweep in, take over and make everyone equally miserable.

Movies what will movies look like? Technical production will have peaked, special effects
will become spectacular! Good story telling will come into fashion.

My grandma time included watching ‘Roman Holiday.’ Something if unprompted, I
world never watch but what a nice surprise! Good story telling.

Tools. It seems to me the world is becoming software. The Dr. Who screwdriver is an
input/output device that will grow in usage.

Rent will hit 3,000/month average.
More people will keep slowly dying and nothing will be done.

^ $3k/mo is 2022 Boston.

^$3k/mo is a parking spot in NYC!
SUVs extra.

Well, it’s a perfect storm of partisan political turmoil, fiduciary instability, geopolitical uncertainty as well as poor infrastructure and environmental stewardship. Too much saving face, lawyers, kicking the can down the road etc… and too little sensible action.
We are looking at when a global power steps down and sees other actors take the lead. That would be China. Mark my words, we will look back wistfully to the days when the United States was the dominant global power shortly after China takes over. I hope I’m wrong, but globally the good times are about over I suspect.

The United States of America will likely not exist in 20 years. There will be a massive, world wide depression, possibly several devastating pandemics, and then there will be a big push for a global government. The USA will be no more and will become nothing more than a zone for the one-world government.

Manhattan, NY City apartments are $5,750 per month for the cheap ones.

Twenty years feels too difficult to predict, but I will take a guess.

It will be commonplace to see robots in hotels, grocery stores, and restaurants.

The US will have more immigration from the Middle East countries than we have had previously.

Some coastal cities will be under significant duress with rising water.

Healthcare will continue to be a huge problem, there will be lots of reports of people not getting the care they need, including dying, and the costs will be sky high on many healthcare goods and services.

People will be wearing masks similar to Japan. Not everyone all of the time, but some people will take more precautions on their own, and some workplaces might have some rules.

Florida will almost double in population size to 40,000,000 people.

More and more small to moderate sized houses built with 3D printers, or with solid wall construction, which are both very fast.

Solar energy use will double.

There will be more people leaving America than ever before in search of better or safer conditions.

The country will be coming out of a very difficult economic time.

Physical changes in the land mass will happen as glacier melts will cause major rivers systems to overflow to cover both the East coastline and West coastlines thus reducing Americas land mass.

Islands, large and small, will disappear under water.

I do not think that houses will be indvidual homes as more high rise apartments will be constructed due to the chaos in the environment, affecting incomes,population numbers,jobs, and so on.

We will adapt as earlier Generation have done so , as this is the Earth’s pattern for many centuries.

Jobs as we have now will radically change as we will rely on technology more so.
( robots,drones,agriculture under dome green houses,beter resources manufactured etc)

Much of this is already in the works just look at Japans vison of the future.
link to Japan’s Future City in the works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpUhsBNZHuQ

Calendars will definately be different.

^^Too funny! But 2022 calendars will be on sale.

China will be the number 1 world financial market within ten years from now. This will have significant impact on everything after that.

20 years older. More wrinkles and balding.

I believe more people will leave Cali and NY to migrate to the depth of the US. People from Southern and Southeastern states will have to migrate from the coast as well. Lots of people will also migrate to Alaska and Canada.

Economy will stop rising so fast and the country will lose its place in the TOP 5 economies of the world.

Entertainment industry will become more global and addicting. Meta will succeed in their virtual reality to the point where people of big cities will likely to lose any sense of what is going on outside metapolicies. Which will lead to even more division between cities and countryside.

Valuable pieces of countryside will be used more aggressively to feed Americans, and the government will have to invest in it lots of money for people to stay and work on farms.

Gas and oil prices will ricochet, and most people will have to switch to bikes. Especially in the cities where the infrastructure allows it.

There won’t be Amazon anymore, or it will rebrand and change its policy (I doubt that they will make it better)

New fast fashion brands won’t be living for too long because the competition will become too high and brutal.

Current social media platforms like Youtube, Tiktok, IG and etc. will be abandoned, unless Google and Tiktok make their own metaverses to compete with Facebook. Which could lead to multiple virtual realities instead of multiple content creation platforms.

Due to the problem with forests, printed books, magazines, newspapers, will die down releasing only digital interactive copies. Thus, self-published authors that get money from ads and views will become a majority. The same transfer to only digital world awaits carvings, puzzles, 3D puzzles, drawings, paintings – everything online.

The President of the USA will have less power within the country while local authorities will get more. The President will make decisions only about foreign policy.

And the Ageing of the US population will only increase by 2042 making pharmaceutical companies and PhDs think about ways to prolong humans’ lives. Until then American system will have to change in order to provide a better life to its elders.

@rachelleweiner664423 Wow! Great answer! Welcome to Fluther!