Future of the World - Space Colonization and New Superpowers 

Very optimistic. Nothing wrong with that tho

@@IC3XR agreed

Нет! Ужасно, как создатель думает, что Россия станет слабой, ее пропаганда со стороны европейцев, как обычно. 😢😠

​@@isaacbourdeau3167 It lacks the takeover of artificial superintelligence in the near future, but humans are more fun.

THE UNAGING solution? That's super sci-fy.

Like interstellar human civilization.

definitly

Agreed

Please do

Yes

by the 2200s much of the solar system will be colonized by humans from the planet earth

Yeah “realism” is way too negative. We need some optimism or we are lost.

​@@rustyshackleford234 realism is just people pretending that their depression actually have a point but in reality they're just pessimistic and depressed

@@magicalmagicmagician5223Realism and Idealism is equally important in human society.

@@Fatbaddie24 because they contradict each other

If I expand on this scenario at some point I may focus more on the various political entities throughout the solar system and how they're structured. As for what I actually think, I'm very uncertain, which is why I think this "alternate history" format works great, as I can just guess and make assumptions. In this scenario as of 2200 I image the political entities of the Moon are very closely tied to Earth. The United Nations has been restructured, veto rights are gone, and it actually has real power, functioning as a loose confederation akin to the European Union. The Lunar Council, now a unified federal republic, is a member of the United Nations just like the EU, China or North American Union. The Lunar Council is their means of resolving local disputes, and how all Moon colonies are represented at the UN. But political entities overlap, with Earth nations retaining the rights to use infrastructure on the moon to some capacity, as its how they colonize the solar system without being tied down by expensive Earth launches. So I think it would be a mix. By 2200 I think almost all decisions would be made locally on the moon through some framework like a Lunar Council, as well as smaller subdivisions, while Earth nations would keep some sort of loose ties to their Lunar settlements in order to maintain acces to their space infrastructure.

I’d imagine it would be similar to European colonies in the Americas but without the natives and wouldn’t be looked back upon as horrific. Slowly these martians and lunar men will culturally become more and more different than the mother country that their colony is ruled by. Eventually they’ll secede and become solar system powers themselves. Heck, one might mirror the United States and become the most powerful and influential nation in the system.

Gotta agree, Venus is underappreciated especially as a 2nd home as it is technically a better option compared to mass. It's gravity is higher, it already has large amounts of nitrogen and CO2 which can be used for terraforming Venus and Mars at the same time.

@@ganieraorison6192 Algae that floats in the nitrogen rich clouds and is harvested with trolley ships and compressed for nitrate rich nutrient bars and fed to martians and have them poop out good fertilizer is key to a interplanetary economy.

@@akigreus9424Interesting…

It's a speculative scenario thinking of the less sad things

It’s certain that Russia will at least remain a decently strong force. the separation into multiple states of what we call Russia now is highly unlikely, every time there has been an attempt of doing so it has come back to a similar level of power and form

@kenos911 there is a very good chance that Russia will have fewer than 100 million people by the end of the century. Current Russian power is merely a fading remnant of Soviet power.

​@@kenos911 Always Weaker

Russia is not a world power. It just thinks it is.

You have oil tho? We comin

@@jagdawgii929 then come and take it Terran

FOR THE EMPEROR!!!!

No Xenos!!

@@jagdawgii929it’s actually just methane and ethane in some liquid lakes. Still would be hella useful for fuel nonetheless

In context of space travel it should have been japan.

The scope of the video just grew and grew, the flickering effects and solar system map in particular, took a lot of work. So at some point I just decided to finish the video. I do regret not including it though, only would've taken a couple more hours. As for the explanation, though, it's a country with a lot of potential. Southeast Asia broadly is growing rapidly. I wouldn't be surprised if a couple notable powers arise there in the coming century.

@@Smilemonster1912 japan won't be very relevant in the future, they have experience but they're losing power rapidly, paved the way for a booming countries like indonesia to replace them, at this point the future scenario of indonesia become one of major space powers in the future become very likely to happen.

@@_martian101 Vietnam is promising too. Maybe it’ll democratize and more countries would invest into it. It’s already an ally with the U.S., maybe they’ll pressure them out of communism?

@@rustyshackleford234 Many southeast Asian countries are promising, but Indonesia will be the one that joining 5 biggest economy list in the future, so Indonesia is more likely to have large scale space industry, just like 5 biggest economy countries today, plus Indonesia is a neutral country and have close relations to all space powers which greatly help them to build their own space industry, especially China that potentially will give Indonesia a significant amount of technological transfer

Like the population growth and economic growth as well as very suitable location for launching space ships makes a lot of sense

He explained it quite well in the video. There is a big chance of a power struggle if Putin dies. And like he said if there is in this case a big chance for China to try to influence the results and in this case Russia will become less relevant on it's own but will be part of the Chinese sphere of influence.

Russia: the Portugal of Space

@@k.umquat8604 Insult to Portugal

@@Terranallias18 I meant the Portuguese Empire, not modern day Portugal

which countries did he overestimate?

I think he may have overestimated China and Russia. Though with the anti-aging stuff solves their largest problem, population collapse. But who knows if we’d actually invent that. He may have just used it to keep Russia and China in the story which I’m all for. The U.S. needs some enemies to compete against to actually achieve stuff nowadays lmao

@@rustyshackleford234 US does have a penchant for inventing enemies when it runs out of them. So I wouldn't be too worried about that.

@@death_parade we have to or else we’ll start hating each other lmao

@@rustyshackleford234 anti-aging is common futurism trope, but I wouldn't count on that just yet. Maybe I will live to see that, maybe it won't work for my generation, maybe there are other restrictions, maybe it won't come for several more centuries, maybe Alien AI invades... lot of unknowns.

and three stars in the middle

if it is based on the EU model why not use a similar flag with different colors? White flag with red, blu and green stars

I new exactly when that MCRN flag was used

He specifically said no OPA type BS will form.

They might have been attempted, but would be hardly relevant to this scneario, would they?

We may have means to maybe send a probe to Alpha Centauri (with big price tag), but until fusion drive works as advertised I wouldn't bet on anything bigger going there. A colony needs to have 2000 people at the very least minimum, unless we send an AI ship and androids act as parents for the vat babies (artificial womb, 3D bio-printer). Even that wouldn't change the politics, besides having a colony somewhere out there.

it took 50+ years just to go back to the moon

Mass Effect reference

I am also writing a book with the same topic. Does the Ikanis Universe depict a realistic approach of mankind in the future?

​@@tom_skip3523 My friend and I who are working on the project try to be as realistic as possible. Although in reality this universe is utopian science fiction in some aspects, like Star Trek, not in all but in some, such as showing that humanity and the Earth evolved to be a better civilization in the centuries to come. But it's also about dystopian and dark themes. There are several things that I could consider realistic to the point of being hard science fiction, such as the space battles that we make realistic. While in other things there are aspects of this that could be considered speculative and fantastic, because there are quite a few exotic concepts like parallel universes and alternative timelines, or beings of great cosmic powers. The Ikanis Universe is divided into three parallel realities called Nuclei: N1, N1.1 and N2, the main realities, although there are 7 in total, and other multiverses, within a Multiverse called "The Registry" by a brane hypercomputer created by a type six civilization that records numerous past, present and even future events from across the multiverse. By the way, the name of the universe "Ikanis" comes from the name of the protagonist, "Ikanis Calinner", a human-like alien woman, artificially created in a laboratory as a project of an alien species also human-like, called the Sanssahar. If you are interested in knowing more about this universe, keep contacting me, thank you. And I have a blog, on the blogger platform where we publish the stories of this universe and others of our authorship, you can find the link in the links on my RU-vid channel. By the way, my native language is not English, it is Spanish, the blog is in Spanish, but right now I am trying to translate our stories into English so that more people can read them. I'm also learning English. By the way, now I ask, what is your universe about? Greetings.

@@alcyoncalinner2005 That sounds great! Congratulations on getting this far already. I love sci fi utopias and dystopias. Keep up the good work sounds very interesting. Am German btw, nice to meet you :) About my story. I'm planning a sci fi story in several parts. At the time of the prequel we are in the 23rd century. Humanity, which has evolved more and more into a united species and has already colonized many planets and moons in the solar system with a lot of trade between the colonies and Earth. A dyson sphere is currently being built, but it is far from finished. In any case, humanity is starting a project to spread humanity throughout the galaxy. :) So much for the backstory, don't want to give too much away. The real story is about a girl born in a colony as part of the project. There is a really dystopian ending, at least for the 1st part. So much for that :D I'm currently doing a lot of research and philosophizing. Long time project.

@@tom_skip3523 Thank you very much, really what motivates us the most is seeing that other people like what we write. I'm from Mexico, great pleasure too. Your story is interesting, it seems that humanity reached a class II civilization quite quickly by already having a Dyson sphere under construction around the Sun. It seems that humanity is in a golden age. Something I wonder about is that there are other alien species, in addition to this galactic colonization project. I understand, I don't want to reveal too much of my backstory either. And you already have a character, that girl born in space. I would love to read about the universe. Right now the Ikanis Universe of me and my friend have started writing the first book, we plan to send it to a publisher, and we are also trying to find a way to copyright our writings since it is something very important. In short, these types of projects require a lot of patience, research and philosophizing as you indicate. Greetings :D

@@alcyoncalinner2005 Exactly :) Have a good day and weeks and months :D

Why? Go into more detail please

I agree. Why? Because of singularity. Need a better why? Whatever religion was going on about.

Private space companies in the future will play a important role in space expansion. While space agencies lead the way in space exploration, they can be hampered by bureaucracy and political setback. I feel like private space companies have an advantage with profit motive incentives like orbital launches from SpaceX and alike. One day, private space companies will send interplanetary payloads to other planets Like SpaceX is attempting to do with Mars and other companies like Rocket lab are planning to send a payload to Venus to study Venus's atmosphere with their own privately built rockets.

@@digitaldud3664 Because exponential growth is what we are undergoing right now and we humans are the best when it comes to underestimating/not understanding the nature of exponential growth.

@@icarus387 Indeed, the nature of space exploration in the future will shift from government space agency centric to private merchant centric combined with governments shifting focus to space security through space forces, rather than doing the space missions themselves.

But without the United planet trope.

Or at least to slow the degradation of our genes with age

entropy forbids immortality but it seems an end of aging, or at least indefinite lifespans is very plausible this century.

A union of the Hispanic world or the Iberian-speaking countries is more realistic than Latin America, In Spanish-speaking countries a movement is starting that could be translated as "Hispanism" Which can be very strong if it continues to expand, thanks to the internet this ideology could easily enter politics, It is literally creating a Spanish empire 2.0, but in phases that would last decades, Milei won the presidency due to the corruption of the corrupt Argentine governments and his popularity on the internet, Hispanism, being a decentralized ideology, So it can be adapted to communism, protectionism, ancap, etc.

Thanks! It's actually just based on real world efforts which I find interesting, and imagine could lead to an eventual complete curing of ageing. From what I can gather scientists have successfully not just prevented, but also reversed ageing in mice through gene therapy. So I don't think it's that big a leap to say we may do the same in humans this century. Perhaps first in our pets, so we can have them with us for longer. Then the ultra wealthy will have acces to it, and then eventually the general population. In this scenario specifically I imagine wealthy ageing societies like Europe, Japan, China and North America offer the treatment either freely or cheaply through government subsidies to their populations, in order to avoid the worst affects of collapsing birth rates. But in poorer countries it would probably be more difficult to get acces to, some countries might even restrict the acces to anti ageing medication because their populations are growing too much.

​@@Neatlingone of the only things I done really agree with is the anti aging medication, I think that's a bit too far fetched for the next 100-200 years. It is technically possible though.

​@@NeatlingAre you sure you've seen studies where they've managed to prevent aging in a mouse? I've definitely seen the studies about reversing age, they are fascinating and 100% legit but haven't heard of anyone PREVENTING aging in mice.

​@@alexander-5848The biggest hurdle right now in Aging science is the astronomical amount of data needed to predict protein folding and the mechanisms involved in the process of aging. Our current systems are incapable of managing this and we're still collecting the neccesary data but AI will 100% become advanced enough in as little as a decade of time. After that, it's basically just collecting data and letting the AI do its thing with enough compute. The AI will predict new, as of yet unknown proteins which will result in a LOT of new medications and let us better understand how proteins behave in our bodies. Preventing aging altogether is, I agree here, at least a century away but with AI spearheading the number crunching which we desperately need, we'll extend our lifetimes by decades if not a century. That means that we'll keep extending our lives as long as it's needed for proper gene editing to be perfected and let us finally cure aging. This is already starting, really. Over the last few years, thousands(if I remember correctly) of new biomed companies have been opening up with their mission being curing aging or at least extending life. As of yet, it's only really billionaires funding these in hopes of extending their lives but it should start picking up steam once research gets going.

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Sad to born in this time

Heck, the U.S. has offered to buy Greenland from Denmark recently but the Danes refused. Maybe someday it’ll be ours…

@@rustyshackleford234 Well, given the proximity to the US and that Greenland has been looking to be independent from Denmark for a while because they've felt neglected makes it seem like they're looking for a new country to act on its behalf and provide resources for them. Greenland's next parliamentary election is coming next year so I think it's a fair shot to assume that they'll try to vote for independence by then.

Impossible tbh.

Homo sapien ape alliance

Yes but maybe in 500 years

@@8.4.8.2 nope, would take about 1 millenia, a Unified human empire is unrealistic.

No thanks. We are not interested.

I use Photoshop for all my maps

It is!

Space Mongolia like in subnautica!

Not gonna happen. Ever. Nope. Never. We Indians won't allow it. We've had enough of globalists killing our culture.

That is communism end goal, fyi. Yet it is seen as evil.

Yeah no, it can be said about their leader Alexander Lukashenko but from what the population has been demanding for few years now i certainly doubt that if they saw an opportunity they wouldn't go for it to be independant

Lol what? What alliance in history has lasted for centuries? Let alone in a deeply poverty stricken and politically unstable country like Belarus

@@hazb8026 Portugal

@@KiraiKatsuji Portugal isn't an alliance. It's a country. You mean with the UK. But the UK and Portugal have multiple common interests like balancing Spain/Ireland. Meanwhile Belarus actively has it's national interest worked against by Russia

@@hazb8026 Portugal is an alliance of empty land and a big coastline, but in seriousness yes i meant Portugal and England/UK as you asked which alliance in history lasted centuries so i gave you portugal and it also is politically unstable for a long time and poor

Who can forget the Yugoslav-Danish unification of 2100?

🇪🇺 EU Federation & United North America 🇺🇸 😢

Canada yes. Mexico no

@@noboliNo LOL, Mexico is more integrated to the USA than Canada.