"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] earthlinknet> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:web.435ea63a164da8b1546e79e70@news.povray.org...
> The year 2015, eh?  Lets' see... 10 years ago, CGI was JUST starting to 
> make
> a splash in Hollywood, in a rather crude way (comparitively speaking). I
> know, because I was there, working as a mechanical special effects
> designer...and wondering what all the fuss was about!
>
> Now here we are in 2005, with kids' video games that would have been
> considered "science fiction" a  decade ago...running at speeds that SURELY
> can't get any faster.  (Or__can__they???)



Well,

in 2015, when finally POV-Ray v4.0 comes out, the Chinese will be one of the
economical and military super powers, the USA will still be a super power
but in the procedure of decrading due inner unrests, social problems, racism
and reduced human rights.

The Chinese will waste and intoxinate the environment simply because it is
the cheapest way to be an economical super power, and their strong
government still will act as regime which destroys all critical comments.
The Chinese territory will have expanded (some little nice invasions to 
"help" other countries and forced
political decisions in neighboring countries), and both super powers will
actually use environmental pollution in order to cause financial damage to
the opponent powers, due the creating of storm floods, general drought
destroying harvests, hunger killing dozen millions of Africans and Asians,
and cold waves in Europe due the halted gulf stream.

2025, when POV-Ray v5.0 comes out (developed by glorious Chinese programmers 
who claim correctly POV-Ray to always have been a native Chinese invention 
just copied without Chinese permission by other nations which should be 
punished with the dead of those foreigners), the
Earth will see an entirely changed society: living became costly as
maintaining the formerly high standards is now fairly expensive due the
widely destroyed and/or changed environments. Lesser and lesser countries
can maintain a society as we know today. Widespread unemployment, hunger, 
social problems, all sorts
of crime (especially thiefery and kills), fanatism and poorness are now seen
nearly everywhere. Cultural life is in the vast decrease because of strong
risen costs of maintenance of museums and other locations. Education on a
today level is denser, as most labour families just cannot spend the risen
educational money anymore. Small elites are ruling with iron fists.

2035, when POV-Ray v5.5 comes out, the general development in most fields
will be much slower than today. The economical war between the weaker USA,
the weak European Union and the still relatively strong China (which had
re-claimed back "it's own" territories in Africa, Asia and South-East
Europe), has been finished after some stronger weapons came to use. The
Saudi-Arabian and Kuwaitian moon and Mars bases still exist and accomodate
the last rich Arabian families, fed by the richdoms once achieved in
earlier, better times when oils was still flooding. Earth, however, is
dirty, the planet is tired. Wide lands are now waste lands, empty of most
vegetation and partially heavily polluted.

2045, when POV-Ray v5.75 comes out, the variety of land-based fauna has
vanished, only about one thirtieth part (1/30) of today may still exist.
Many food chains are broken, which causes again many more life forms to face
extinction. To survive here, a human needs to be iron-minded, intollerant to 
any
other human, very cautious and very egotistic, and armed. There are still 
smaller
communities, but the large cities of the past have halted to function and
exist only as empty towns with only small amounts of persons, probably
organized in gangs, living inside. Ruins in the towns become more and more
usual. The small communities with their villages still maintain a hard but
possible life. The big countries still exist, but more on paper than in the
minds of the citizens which are now organized, also in their minds, in
gangs, clans and local communities.

2055, when POV-Ray v5.76 comes out, the live on Earth is a life without much
technologies. Most production facilities became a long time ago to expensive
to maintain, and the missing expertise for their maintenance is another huge
problem. Many persons now accept that the human race is doomed to die out
due their own stupidity. People are bitter about their ancestors who could
have done so much better if only they wanted and powerful leaders would not
have controlled the media so much for their own political or economical
reasons. Community life decreases, more and more of these generations live
now as single families somewhere out in the wilderness, or what remained of
that. Meanwhile, the human mis-use of their environment in earlier decades
has further reduced the planet's capacity to maintain life. Now the life in
the oceans decreases as they get enriched more and more with the chemical
poison carried from the continents into the waters.

2065, when POV-Ray v5.765 was supposed to come out, only a few millions of
humans are still alive on the entire planet. The forgotten bases on Moon and
Mars don't send anymore, trying to reach a few persons on Earth still able
at least to talk to them begging for healp against their increasing problems 
on the bases.
The human population on Earth is now so dense that this alone is a reason
for further reduction of partners finding others. There were, years ago, the
last fights for the few remaining habitable locations on Earth, mostly in
higher-situated valleys between the mountains. Now the amount of persons is
so dense that no fights are anymore needed. Diseases, poisons and hunger
kill many of the last humans. Technology is now like magic of old, glorious
days and feared by many of the unknowing generations. The few who still know
about technology are widely seen as magicians, holy or unholy. But it is now
easier to hear about one of these rare persons than to see one of them in a
lifetime.

2075, when POV-Ray v5.765b was supposed to come out, only a few humans are
still alive. They don't think anymore about terms like "past" and "future"
and "could be", they just live in an harsh, inhabitable, extreme
environment. Their few plants and even fewer animals can exist only in
enbordered, covered and more or lesser hermetically protected wooden or
stony accomodations above but mostly beyond the ground. Those last humans 
are farmers in a harsh, bad, nearly
lethal environment. Mobility has gone as moving awhile outside their little
weak housings is bearing modest health risks. Wide areas on Earth are dead.

planet
which's surface is widely hidden by poisened gray heavy and dark clouds.
Many storms occur. Heavy ultra-violet emissions flood Earth's surface. The 
difference between temperature zones is extreme.
There is still some life in the deep sea, and in some climatically protected
valleys high in the mountains. The great ruin fields of the previous old
towns bear terrible things from the past: viruses, chemical waste of
destroyed storage facilites, and other dangerous things.

2115, when POV-Ray v10 comes out, not humans wrote its code but intelligent
extraterrestrians who came too late to Earth to help the last humans and to
re-arrange life on Earth with their simple technologies or re-newable 
energies, and who happily adapt the great code of the
greatest render program of all times for their own purposes. They added the
capacity to POV-Ray, to not only generate images but to create
three-dimensional real objects out of the ancient scenes the lost humanity 
was
creating in their last glorious days, and place most of these 3D objects in
large museums which are built on Earth and on other locations of the human
solar system as last memorial about the great innovativity and ingeniousity 
of the vanished human race and as warning
for other races maybe entering one day this little, absolutely unimportant
corner of a side arm of this little, boring galaxy in this corner of the
universe full of truly intelligent races.

In oppostion to most intelligent life in the universe, humans forgot one
little and nearly unimportant smalld etail: not only technical knowledge
matters, but the philosophy how to go through life, what to do if it can be
done, and what better not to do even if it can be done. The greatest race
of all times showed their greatness: their ability to life a greatly wrong
life...

Sven Littkowski

PS:
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Years might, for sure, not be exact.
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Comments or own additions are welcome.

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