The United States is always collapsing in science fabrication . The U.S.implodes , explode , or just declines . But a team of professional futurists run across only four scenarios that could stop the U.S.A. — and they ’ve get a chart to prove it .
Slate talk to GBN , a corporate futurist organisation , and despite being professional doomsayers , the GBN gang does n’t see the U.S.A. fall aside over 100 yr as being that likely . But GBN does see a few crazy out there thought for how the U.S. could end — including the wage hike of a new course of genetically modified super - man , like Khan Noonien Singh , who take over the entire world and crush everybody else beneath their heels . But the four master scenarios GBN sees as being potential are :
Collapse , due to massive , intractable corruption .
Friendly dissolution , because the U.S. is too heavy a area to rule properly .
Global governing , in which U.N.-like institution become much more powerful to grapple with globular crisis like clime change .
spherical subjection , in which a Hitler - esque dictator really curb the whole reality .
Do n’t conceive them ? There ’s a paw - scrawl chart , so it must be true :
It ’s in all likelihood straight , though , that a country with oceans on two side and relatively friendly neighbors , plus a fairly robust democracy , has a good fortune of outlive over the next 100 age , as GBN says . On the other hand , betoken anything 100 years out ( as the GBN people admit ) is basically like throw darts in the dark , intoxicated , using your foot . And I distrust that if fuel becomes much more expensive in the coming decades , the Brobdingnagian distances across the United States could become a lot more intimidating and regional tensions could get a lot more pronounced . But there ’s a grounds why average - near - future science fiction is so backbreaking to write .
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