How history will view us...

[Kralizec]

Somewhat obviously, this period will probably be viewed as the last decades where western countries were still economically and technologically superior. I also think that people will look back at us as being rather west-centred in our thinking (how many of you follow Indian or Chinese politics for instance, versus American politics?)

Absolutely. I think this is humanity's greatest time, and I doubt we will ever surpass it. If 'we' had the means to we have now 100 years ago, other people would be so very very screwed, we have turned into concious society's. This is the pax america, and we will miss it.

Lot's to be improved, but I mostly agree. Keep in mind that 30 or 40 years ago people might have said the same thing...when the leftists were cheering for the Soviet Union and Mao Zedong and calling the west barbaric

[Fragony]

Lot's to be improved, but I mostly agree. Keep in mind that 30 or 40 years ago people might have said the same thing...when the leftists were cheering for the Soviet Union and Mao Zedong and calling the west barbaric

Just nod and hope they don't get violent when frustrated, standard policy; so easy, so hard.

[Lemur]

I think the advent of computers and the internets will be seen as a Big Deal, certainly akin to the beginning of the steam age. As for "current trends continuing," as somebody put it earlier in the thread, if there is one thing you can count on in all of history it's that nothing goes in a straight line.

Our treatment of animals on factory farms will be seen as shameful and horrifying, in much the same way that we look at children's workhouses in Victorian England as something weird and nasty.

[Samurai Waki]

We will be viewed fairly well, until the West stops dominating world politics.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Our treatment of animals on factory farms will be seen as shameful and horrifying, in much the same way that we look at children's workhouses in Victorian England as something weird and nasty.

Hmm, interesting question. Maybe the people in the future will think of our tendency to personify animals in the same way we think of the ancients personifying the wind and the sun? We'll surely know a lot more about the brain.