Lowell, MA USA I dont know. I like to think so, for my childrens sake and their childrens sake, but I honestly don't know. Nicci, 27
Las Vegas, NV USA I don't know whether the world will be a better place a hundred years from now, but I'm doing my bit to improve the world now. Jill, 61
Saylorsburg, PA USA No. I think the world will be worse off, either controlled by a totalitarian government, destroyed, or anarchy. Johanna, 18
OK USA I think we will have destroyed the world 100 years from now. Hell, bush might destroy the world in the next 3 years. Talia, 25
Stamford, CT USA I think it will be the same. Parents complaining about their kids, kids doing what they want. People have not changed much through out time. Read the Bible, the stories of people and their lives are still the same problems and triumphs we experience today. Janet, 44
E. Brunswick, NJ USA I think the world will be a different place in a hundred years. My grandmother lived for 97 years and saw the vast changes in transportation, from traveling with her sea captain father on a sailing ship, to flying on a jet plane and longing to take the Concorde. For my generation, transporting data is where the change has been, and that is still a rapidly changing area. I can't predict what will happen in the next hundred years, and, like the changes in transport and information, whether the changes will be for the better or the worse. I just know you can't go backwards, however nostalgic you might feel. Jane, 62
West Linn, OR USA
How can we even pretend to know?
Eric, 20
Beverly Hills, CA USA
I'd like to think so, but humans being the way they are, I doubt it. Probably just a lot different.
Judy, 62
Easton, KS
USA
I'm sure it will be in most people's eyes but not mine. I think we have been moving faster and faster every year and by then, we will be moving so fast, and have so many people, that life will be nothing like it is now.
Reba, 50+
Silver Spring, MD USA
Hope is all I can say. I would hope that we can only improve things, but that seems like an impossible upward battle most days. I just hope that the things I do in my life make the battle easier for those who follow!
Tracy, 24
Ocean City, NJ USA
I can even imagine the technological and medical advances by then, but truly, those things aside, I think people's attitudes and such will be pretty much the same. Hopefully, the environment will be safer and there will be a much improved judicial system.
Fisch, 47
Preston, CT
USA
No way to tell. The way it's going now....it may be bad.
Stephanie, 25
TX USA
Nope. I think the old hatreds and wars and disputes and terror will still be around. I think it's human nature to create conflict. I think medically, there will be vast improvements in treatments for ill patients, I think there will be more incredible inventions to improve our quality of life (for those who can afford it), but there will still be racism, homelessness, wars, famine, disease, drugs, murder, rape, kidnappings, etc... (the list goes on and on). So, unfortunately, on the whole, the world will not be a better place in 100 years... just more technologically advanced.
Doug2, 29
Overland Park, KS USA
I haven't a clue.
Karen, 22
Ames, IA
USA
It depends on whether or not Jesus has come and taken his righteous children with him to heaven.
Melodi, 19
Gahanna, OH
USA
It's doubtful. Seems like to me the world will only be a better place when we realize we are all responsible, but since we live in a "not my fault" society, I don't think that will happen anytime soon.
Angela, 18
Bella Vista, AR USA
I think the potential is there. I'm sure we will make advances in medicine, technology, etc., but I doubt that we will all have learned to live with each other. When I think about the future, I still see racism, starvation, war, violence... so I think we will make our lives better in a lot of small, isolated ways, but I also think we'll still have a lot of the problems we have right now.
Jeremy, 14
Highlands Ranch, CO USA
Whatever is left of it should be halfway decent.
Alias Irrelevante
The world would be a better place in a 100 years if good people could take out all the 'trash'.
Andrea, 25
Federal Way, WA USA
Not if we don't do something to control the exponential population explosion.
Tam
Of course, one would hope so, not that it is bad now, but there is always room for improvement... Like over-populations, wars, intolerance, things like that...one would hope things would get better. Of course, I will be long croaked by that time, so obviously I will not know it is better or not...oh, well, whatever...
Luki, 31
Valhalla
100 years from now we will all be dead. Not saterically truthfully. It is written in the Myan calendar that the world will end in 2012. That is if we are not hit by planet X next year. Then there is the lax on nuclear weapons. Sure it will be better if you are a cockroach.
Christopher, 28
San Mateo, CA
USA
Lowell, MA USA a great question! and one that the dreamers will answer, and the futurists and prognosticators will fail to comprehend in its entirety. i feel that the quintessential humanity that has been around for thousands of years will be present in one hundred years, in spite of the fears of biotech changing the value of life, of genetics changing the sanctity of my ancestry. i fear the future too, i fear for my offspring, and the generations to come. but these fears have been around for generations - we're not the first to ask this question. we won't be the last. imagine the things to come... Nathan When, in the entire history of human civilization, has the world ever been better than it was before? Literacy rates up? So is the number of people on anti-depressants. The problems change, but they never go away. But don't let that discourage you. It's just life. Do with it what you can. Cancer, 20
NYC, NY USA At the rate that population increases, the reckless consumption of the western world, and the overabundance of gas sucking, fume despensing SUVs, I highly doubt it will be a better place in 100 years. Ryan, 29
Morton, IL USA yes. it has to be Keri-Jade, 21
Brampton, Ontario CANADA