The villages 50 years from now
 

Yes, we'll all be dead. But, those roundabouts still live on.

THE VILLAGES - 50 Years From Now - YouTube

Fifty years from now. They will read about us and say, can you believe they did not know bacon is good for you, they were so self concerned that they thought people caused global warming, they ran cars on oil not solar cells, they did not have a replicator, they thought a 3d printer was high tech.

Actually, they will have flying cars, and this roundabout will be several hundred feet in the air, think about it!

Each house will have a cistern. Golf may disappear due to financial burden and there will still be a debate gas vs electric transportation. I hope people will be smarter 50 years from now or it may be like the movie “ Idiocracy”

they will still be promising that new town square in Key West.

I think you are prescient.

I wonder if the music played at the squares will be different too. I like the oldies but as a 57 year old I would love to hear some 90s tunes too which I think had phenomenal music. Maybe that too will come...

I could get into some Green Day, Nirvana and Pearl Jam! Add some Counting Crows, DMB and Hootie and we're rockin'!

50 years from now Villagers will be today's tattooed teenagers.

Yes!!! Glad to hear others would be into it too.

The Emperor of China will be deciding what gets built here way before then

Seriously where is this traffic circle? Just curious.

If that’s Dave Miller Band you just lost a little respect!:ho:

Hemel Hempstead, Hertsfordshire, UK.

"Mattew's"...

And don't go dissin' "Ants Marching! :icon_wink:

His acoustic playing is excellent and I love his sax player...

Is it okay to add the "Gin Blossoms"?

I am with you on this. Bring some of the music into the 21st century. Oldies from 20 years ago are still Oldies. We didn’t stop enjoying music in the 1960’s.

The Morse Family will have expanded further south which will encompasses the Dade historic battlefield in Bushnell along 75. After making pease with the Seminole Tribes will build a Casino and instal a plaque commemorating the historic even.
Renovations will finally be completed on the Rialto Theater with gaming slots installed along with High Stakes Bingo.
Golf course T boxes will be replaced with Astro turf mats to stop people complaining.
High speed rail service will take villages to Orlando and Tampa Airports and yes people will still complain about arriving to early and waiting.
The Three town squares will be replaced with Costco, Super WalMart, BJ’s or Target. Overpass or tunnel will be places for golf cart access to Home Depot and Sam’s.
Repairs to the Morse Blvd Bridge to Sumter landing will continue with no firm completion date established pending engineering review.
The Recreational News will finally be available on line since residents will have finally mastered computers and tablets.
Retina scanners will replace gat cards.
Astroturf lawns will be allowed so there will be no need for large mowing machines or walk behind mowers as some people require

Flying cars were predicted to be in use by now back in the 50's 😃

"Oldies" music may still be the 50's & 60's, but it will be the 2050's & 2060's. If rap is the "new oldies, "I'll be glad that I'm dead.

I'm still waiting for my Jet Pack!

They have flying cars sometimes, now at the roundabouts.

Maybe by then Misdirected Request will be fixed.

there already here I have 10

Likely, Florida will be a wasteland, all the coastal areas inundated by the rising ocean levels. New retirement communities will have opened in mountainous places like Tennessee and Colorado. Arizona and New Mexico will just be too hot to be inhabitable. Sound like science fiction. Well, it could be a reality if the U.S. and other polluting nations of the world like China don't take drastic measures to stop the inevitable climbing temperatures caused by Global Warming.

Today we are entering the final years of the baby boom generation entering retirement ages. The early boomers are dying off. The 2030s are going to be interesting years in the Villages.

We are the same age, and I can not think of many good groups from the 90's. Green Day was from the 80s. Maybe my Chemical Romance. What did you like from the 90's?

… come Lord Jesus!

I thought Florida supposed be covered by 10 feet of water in 50 years?

Or this could happen

Thanks To Reduced Solar Activity, We Could Be Heading For A Mini Ice Age In 2030 | IFLScience


Or another theory which humans have no control over.

Milankovitch (Orbital) Cycles and Their Role in Earth's Climate – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet.

Green Day was formed in '87, but really became popular with "Dookie" in 1994...

Green Day - Wikipedia)

Still a good 10-15 years or so till the Baby Boomers finish retiring... (It ran from 1946-1964)...

Some of the early Boomer's children are already in their 50's...

Add to that, the population growth post war, and we have about 100 million more people...

We keep making more people but we can't make any more dirt... We gotta live somewhere...

Considering how badly people drive on the ground the thought of flying cars is terrifying.
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That's one of pet theories of disinformation peddled by the fossil fuel industry. Take a look at this graph from NASA -- one of the leading scientific organizations in the world. It shows that despite the sun irradiation or heat has been decreasing, global temperatures are rising. I've attached it to make it easier to see. This totally repudiates that false theory:


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Here's the graph:

Graphic: Temperature vs Solar Activity – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

Obviously, many people are in denial about this and try to come up with some sort of theory to oppose the obvious. Human activity is speeding up the warming on our planet, even faster than scientists had thought. People laughed at Al Gore, but his inconvenient truth was based on science, not wishful thinking. The longer we wait to address this, the worse things will get. Guess most of us seniors won't be around to see the worst of this. My thought about Florida might be extreme but at the rate we're going, it might not be as preposterous as it might now seem.

If you want all the details, go to NASA's website:

NASA: Climate Change and Global Warming

Sorry, got Steve Miller and Dave Matthews crossed. Gin Blossoms are awesome just never got anything but a need to change the radio station from Dave Matthews Band. Merry Christmas and happy New Year.

Ok in the spirit of the season here it goes , “Alexa play songs by The Dave Matthews band” . To be continued…..