RyansWorld: Life in the Year 2105
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[edit] Sociology
[edit] Society and life in general
Life in the year 2105 will be more multipolar than it is in the year 2009. Monarchies (even in the British Royal Family who rules most of the British Commonwealth countries) will be disbanded. People (including the descendants of ardent monarchists) will start to believe that they will be better off being ruled completely by themselves as opposed to a group of centuries old aristocratic families. Teenagers will have the exact same rights and responsibilities as adults, and this will cause delinquency to permanently decline to nothingness. Instead of a fixed age of majority, adulthood starts when a person first enters puberty. The word adolescence will be stricken from every dictionary in the world and children will instantly become adults, not dangerous hormonal raging potential criminals. By this time, it will be a right and not a privilege to have a home and to have a job. Having a high school diploma will also be mandatory by the year 2105 in order to ensure that the proper foundations for a 22nd century career are fully established.
A person who does not have a high school diploma will be denied all social benefits and voting rights until he or she has earned a high school diploma. This requirement is made further essential by the fact that a twelfth grade education in the year 2105 is equivalent to a PhD by the standards of the year 2009 thanks to the advances made in intellectual theory caused by the Singularity. 95% of the world's population will live in towns and cities of at least 20000 people; only farmers will live in rural areas. Even then, farmers will have robots to do their chores - maintenance of the robots is done by the farmer. Farm jobs become hereditary; you don't become a farmer unless you're the descendant of a farmer. Rural mass transit allows the farmer to visit the nearest town for errands and for social visits with their "urban" friends. Broadband Internet will cover the entire earth (except the high arctic areas).
Every one will live within 15 minutes of either a Wal-Mart or a Toyota factory. Autism will have been already cured and eradicated off the face for the earth for at least 80 years - equivalent to almost three generations. Everyone will work for a living and have the minds and bodies of 30-year-old people. Death is only possible through accidental means.
[edit] Religion and gender roles
Due to the lack of Christianity in the 22nd century, they decide to open on the days formerly occupied by Christmas Day, Easter Sunday and Good Friday to massive profits and extremely high customer patronage. People will no longer believe in neither God nor Jesus Christ. Everyone will either become atheist or Buddhist depending on whether they live in a rural or in an urban area. Even the Mennonites and the Amish will have the same technology level as the rest of us and embrace women in T-shirts and trousers. And due to their Neo-Mennonitism, which is a combination of Mennonitism and Buddhism, they will also allow their followers to spend money on Sundays.
Society will be based on a matriarchal society where alcohol magically becomes a non-alcoholic beverage in the digestive system of drunks. It will become illegal to consume tobacco or have possession of a television set by this era. Women will hold a significant amount of paying jobs and men will assume a primary role in child caregiving and household chores. Women who are at least 13 years of age will hold positions of political power. Men will be forced to become househusbands and they will not be allowed to vote in elections or hold a political office. It will be illegal at this time for a woman to take her husband's name and to use the title "Mrs." due to female empowerment laws and social pressure.
[edit] Economics
[edit] Consumer affairs
Vegetarians and vegetarian lobbyist groups will make it so that preschoolers will not be conditioned to eat meat, and make it optional in the food pyramid to eat meat. Wal-Mart will have a monopoly on the department store industry after winning the price wars back in the 2020s. By the year 2098, cash will become completely electronic. Wal-Mart employees and their families will live, work, attend school, play educational video games, socialize, get married, receive healthcare, and give birth to children inside the Wal-Mart HyperStore - the ultimate full-time live-in job of the 22nd century.
Women will wear camisoles instead of bras. The 22nd century camisole combines the comfort of a T-shirt with the support of an early 21st century bra. Toyota cars will have a virtual monopoly on the global market by the year 2105 due their low cost and local manfacturing. General Motors and Ford will cease to exist by the year 2025 due to their toxic waste legacy and military agenda. Automobiles will drive completely by themselves and human input will solely consist of typing in the address or the name of the place that the front seat passenger wants to go to. Car insurance will have long become a thing of the past by the year 2105 and all automobile accidents will cease around the year 2025.
[edit] Entertainment and dining
Television will become a thing of the past, and something that society will never miss. Without any television programming to make people obese and anti-social, everyone has an extremely active social life and only go home to sleep at night. The average woman will be a size 6, as opposed to a size 14 in the year 2009. Professional wrestling will become a high culture dance recital by the year 2105, as it will be enjoyed by a completely silent audience of mostly wealthy people (who can afford the $350 per person price tag for the best seats). Instead of beer and popcorn, the spectators of the future will snack on fishsicles (popsicles made of fish) and negative calorie Coca-Cola soft drinks. Hummus will become the only legally allowed condiment as all other condiments (like ketchup, mustard, and sour cream) will have been declared harmful to the human body and declared illegal.
After the game, sports fans wearing collared shirts and dress pants will dine at the Taco Bell of the future, complete with erudite music, cocktail food, and five-fork tables. NASCAR at this time will be completely unrecognizable to the 2009 fan, as it will be filled with women, foreigners, robots, and extraterrestrials looking to win points and billions of dollars per race at its highest level. Even the recognizable Daytona International Speedway (now a restrictor plate track) will be replaced by a more modern version that will safely accomodate the foreigners, robots, women, and the few white Protestant males left in the Sprint Cup Series at speeds up to 400 miles per hour (without having to use restrictor plates). Attending the premier race of NASCAR once known as the Super Bowl of stock car racing will require the patron to dress in white tie (a full morning dress for male spectators and either a blouse/skirt combination or a dress for females). As a government-protected motorsport, NASCAR will seek to become as dignified and part of high culture like professional wrestling will be at that time.
