How long do you think before the world becomes truly globalised?

[OinkBoink]

It is probably inevitable, don't you think ?

I mean a world where you can travel anywhere you want without a visa, buy property etc.

You can get as patriotic as you want to, but countries are a human creation. Nature didn't limit us to be confined to countries and regions.

Of course, it could only happen if people could look through cultural and linguistic divides and/or even bridge them.

 

[manimal]

One can buy a big mac on all but 1 continent. Already happened.

were still a few years away from star trek credits though.

 

[mmntech]

A global government? I doubt this will ever happen. We have enough problems dealing with cultural barriers within our own countries, let alone on a global scale. Try getting Ontario and Alberta, or Mississippi and California to agree on anything.

There have been some attempts at super-government entities but results have been mixed at best. The UN is a joke and hasn't accomplished anything in years. It's controlled by petty dictstorships who'd happily watch their neighbours burn if it means a chance to embarass the US or Isreal, preferably both. A lot of people are questioning the value of the EU as well, since the Greek crisis. Some dislike giving welfare to countries that have created their own debt problems. Others resent that Germany has become the power broker as it has all the money.

 

[lxskllr]

Strong central governments are always bad. It will be hundreds, if not thousands of years before the population is fully suppressed, and a global tyranny is instated.

 

[slayer202]

a REALLY long time. Because first we would have to start caring about African or Syrians or Koreans etc etc. Or we start running out of room and we have to pretend to like them...

 

[Beev]

Someone needs to speed up the process. By force. Take over places that are useless, doing nothing, or flat out hindering us. Forcibly invade and conquer the shitholes in Africa, Russia and anywhere else that is basically holding us back as a planet. There are a ton of places that are so damn useless.

TAKE THEM. Let's get this fucking show on the road.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

Someone needs to speed up the process. By force. Take over places that are useless, doing nothing, or flat out hindering us. Forcibly invade and conquer the shitholes in Africa, Russia and anywhere else that is basically holding us back as a planet. There are a ton of places that are so damn useless.

TAKE THEM. Let's get this fucking show on the road.

the US alone could probably take over all of africa and the middle east in a couple of months.

 

[videogames101]

the US alone could probably take over all of africa and the middle east in a couple of months.

depends on what you mean by take over

 

[clamum]

the US alone could probably take over all of africa and the middle east in a couple of months.

Probably, if we fought like we did in World War II.

To answer the OP's question, probably not for a very long time. I basically second slayer202's sentiment. I think if the human race was much more united than we are now, many great things could happen, but there's so much hate, ignorance, and intolerance between us (just between people in the same city, or family, not to mention countries) that we'd have to get past all that first. I don't know if that would ever happen though, to be honest, as long as humans are humans.