What do you think the future of global society looks like?

[SvennoJ]

Soundwave said:

SvennoJ said:

There's the perfectly viable Hydrogen Fuel Cell Economy waiting for cheap Fusion Power. Gasoline/Diesel is still too cheap with too much money power behind it. Sadly it doesn't seem we're going to 'fix' climate change until oil actually becomes more expensive than cleaner alternatives.

We could have had Fusion Power by now, yet with only a few projects going around the world, funding that's peanuts compared to military spending, and lobby from the oil industry slowing everything down, it will still be decades.

Meanwhile politics is already behind again with switching to EV. How much waste are those batteries going to produce.
the European Union adopted a law to make all new cars and vans sold in Europe zero-emission from 2035
Actually it doesn't state it has to be EV, hydrogen fuel cells only produce water vapor. Not zero-emission technically.

But it requires a lot of work. Iceland is leading the way
https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Fuel-Cells/Can-Iceland-Become-The-Worlds-First-Green-Hydrogen-Economy.html

Actually China is producing/using more Hydrogen, but not using green energy yet to produce Hydrogen.

China is leading in a lot of ways, the future is in the East.

The future is everywhere, China isn't banked as being the next global leader, Japan was more advanced than the USA in the late 70s and especially 80s and early 90s, that didn't hold indefinitely. 

The future likely belongs to no singular nation state, the idea of that in itself is likely becoming outdated, a product of a time in the past where one nation having a huge advantage in an area like guns or ships could allow them to dominate other countries ... the future is likely going to be vastly different from that. 

Information can't be kept secret or proprietary to any one society any longer, that alone is a massive game changer. If one superpower can do something very well these days, it's not long before someone else copies it and does the same thing. 

If that was the way world was in the days of the beginnings of the British Empire or Roman Empire or Mongol Empire, likely none of those empires would have had the competitive advantage they did. 

I mean currently China has the willingness to advance. They're building high speed rail, mega dams, UHV lines all over the place and is now leading in Nuclear Fusion research and plans for the future.

It's not that one country has a huge advantage of having new technology, it's one country that has the most will power and means to realize the future. The Americas are falling behind in tech advancement realization. Still too entrenched in the fossil fuel economy.

The future can be everywhere, yet the USA is rather clinging on to the past.