"Earth 2100

As people around the globe and the solar system celebrate the advent of the year 2100 what a difference in comparison to the fear and apprehension of the turn of the second millennium of 2000! There was so much angst and worry about how to make a single planet civilization work at the time, that and the wars that were brewing over what was then seen as a struggle over a decreasing resource base by an increasing number of people. The earth was still at that time mired in the primitive hydrocarbon economy, sucking vast quantities of fossil oil from the Earth, a clearly unsustainable proposition as even they acknowledged at the time. The problem was that inexpensive fossil fuels kept civilization in a relatively energy poor state that we would never tolerate today, along with the pollution that simple internal combustion engines engendered. To illustrate the differences following are status reports on various sectors of the solar economy."
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1325

Linked from http://www.nasawatch.com/

Dennis Wingo talks about what 2100 could look like.
I think it's interesting to think about what 2100 could look like and what
2100 probably would look like. Also what you would want it to look like and what
one fears it will look at. Anyway it's an interesting topic.