when do you think society as we know it will collapse?

[brianmanahan]

all good things must come to an end - or as the french say, toutes les bonnes choses doivent arriver à une fin.

ever since i was a little kid i have been hearing people say that "by 10 years from now, society will be collapsed". so far it hasn't happened, but one of these days they have to be right... right?

when do you think society as we know it will collapse, and we will return to the stone/bronze/iron/dark/middle ages?

 

[thraashman]

Probably whenever the US is dumb enough to elect a full Republican run government again..

But seriously, it'll happen likely a few years after we run out of fossil fuels if we don't find decent alternative energies.

 

[brianmanahan]

But seriously, it'll happen likely a few years after we run out of fossil fuels if we don't find decent alternative energies.

i'm just holding out that that'll happen before i die...

 

[Moonbeam]

Societies have been around for billions of years.

 

[mammador]

Capitalism will be reformed.

 

[Matt1970]

Societies have been around for billions of years.

N/M, one site claims a colony or community of organisms can be a society.

 

[brianmanahan]

Societies have been around for billions of years.

this poll is about society as we know it - from the 1950's to the present day

 

[Greenman]

Societies have been around for billions of years.

Not human society's.

To answer the op, soon. Our society is all about profiting from the labor of others, pretty soon those others are going to tell us to fuck off.

 

[mrjminer]

2025​

Coming soon to a theater near you.​

 

[Subyman]

Not human society's.

To answer the op, soon. Our society is all about profiting from the labor of others, pretty soon those others are going to tell us to fuck off.

We still have Africa, so I'd give us another 30 years or so of the status quo. Then robots?

 

[brianmanahan]

2025​

Coming soon to a theater near you.​

 

[boomerang]

No poll option for Tuesday?

 

[mrjminer]

 

[brianmanahan]

brilliant shop!

 

[werepossum]

all good things must come to an end - or as the french say, toutes les bonnes choses doivent arriver à une fin.

ever since i was a little kid i have been hearing people say that "by 10 years from now, society will be collapsed". so far it hasn't happened, but one of these days they have to be right... right?

when do you think society as we know it will collapse, and we will return to the stone/bronze/iron/dark/middle ages?

With that definition of collapse, your poll should have a "never" option.

 

[brycejones]

Next week.

Ye all repent for the end is nigh.

 

[Pocatello]

Capitalism will be reformed.

Capitalism has been reformed. Now you have work programs, such as the military, welfare, subsidized money for the farmers, government lending programs for failing businesses and banks. The ultra rich have learned something since the French and the Russian revolutions, if they want to keep their heads. Chaos or lawlessness means no more protection for the rich.

 

[brianmanahan]

With that definition of collapse, your poll should have a "never" option.

that's the heat death of the universe option

 

[gdansk]

I love these predictions. They're like the doomsday predictions of the crazy Christian cults.

Regardless, human society as a whole will not collapse. A single nation or a few nations might have a revolution (like 1848 and/or 1917-1919) but the winners will quickly return things back to the normal order no matter what they preach. Perhaps killing a few tens of million in the process, depending on the country. And everything will almost exactly the same until algorithms are used to govern all man. So I chose 3000.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

News flash! If your baseline is 1950, civilization has already collapsed.

 

[gdansk]

News flash! If your baseline is 1950, civilization has already collapsed.

What a strange direction for a collapse. Modern satellites, transistors, etc. didn't exist in the 'stone/bronze/iron/dark/middle ages'. Or do you mean the collapse has begun?

 

[Genx87]

Right about the same time we have been told we will run out of oil for the past 40 years. About 40 years.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

What a strange direction for a collapse. Modern satellites, transistors, etc. didn't exist in the 'stone/bronze/iron/dark/middle ages'. Or do you mean the collapse has begun?

Both parents having to work outside the home, kids raising themselves, the inability to differentiate between reality and online, not knowing your neighbors, no clue how the technology they depend on actually works and, a fervent desire to be left alone. I'd say society has almost reached bottom.

 

[pcgeek11]

It already has, noon EST on January 20, 2009.

Everybody knows this!

 

[brianmanahan]

Both parents having to work outside the home, kids raising themselves, the inability to differentiate between reality and online, not knowing your neighbors, no clue how the technology they depend on actually works and, a fervent desire to be left alone. I'd say society has almost reached bottom.

well then obviously you haven't watched mad max