# How technologically advance will the world be by 2050?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-technologically-advance-will-the-world-be-by-2050/501443
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [June 30, 2009, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-technologically-advance-will-the-world-be-by-2050/501443 "2009-06-30T03:35:18Z")
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### Author: ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2009, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-technologically-advance-will-the-world-be-by-2050/501443/41 "2009-07-01T10:54:25Z")

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> [@Blake](#):
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> My, aren’t you the optimist.

😉

Well come on, you really think mankind won’t use its newly acquired superpowers for evil? We’ve come close enough to doing ourselves in with messy and primitive nuclear weapons over the past 60-odd years.

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### Author: ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2009, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-technologically-advance-will-the-world-be-by-2050/501443/42 "2009-07-01T10:57:34Z")

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> [@Colophon](#):
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> 😉
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> Well come on, you really think mankind won’t use its newly acquired superpowers for evil?

I just refuse to think about it. Nothing is so real that I can’t avoid it by burying my head in the sand.

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### Author: ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2009, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-technologically-advance-will-the-world-be-by-2050/501443/43 "2009-07-01T11:01:31Z")

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> [@Blake](#):
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> I just refuse to think about it. Nothing is so real that I can’t avoid it by burying my head in the sand.

Sure, it’s sand _now_, but by 2050, when my plan is complete, it’ll be **featureless molten glass**. Bwa ha ha ha!

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### Author: ![yo\_han\_go](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yo_han_go/32/130_2.png) [@yo\_han\_go](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yo_han_go)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2009, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-technologically-advance-will-the-world-be-by-2050/501443/44 "2009-07-01T12:00:35Z")

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Well, as we all know. Ther would be THE END OF THE WORLD in 2012. So I’d say advance would be from stick to sharp stick.

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