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Simplify food. Genetically modified food patties of high nutritious content, available in nine exciting flavours and four distinct colours, could be delivered to every household on a weekly basis.

Luxury foods could be available, at a huge price, from select outlets. They will inevitably be dried, frozen, pickled, preserved or tinned (canned).

Youngsters reading old books will feel slightly queasy reading descriptions of raw food.

Those who insist on keeping hens, or growing their own fruit or vegetables, will be considered alarming eccentrics, and the media will run frequent stories on how many of them die of salmonella or eColi poisoning

Population - even with people having fewer kids on average, there are so many of us already many more people will be born.

Inevitably in about twenty years time flesh-eating aliens will start gathering hungrily around the planet. People with money or connections could be concealed for the duration of the emergency, with a good supply of GM patties and dried, pickled, preserved and tinned food. When they emerge there will be a few million at most.

Start over

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Suggestions on a postcard please.

Trouble is there will always be wars. You have something here, though. Take it further? Shift everyone around? Forget history and tradition and beliefs which cause nothing but trouble, and make everyone move to another country - while we're at it, since we're talking the future, hey, send all lawbreakers dissidents and troublemakers to another planet, end of THAT problem

The huge advantage is that no society could be hostile to newcomers, or be offended that they want to keep to their own customs and beliefs instead of fitting into their new country, because EVERYONE would be displaced. SORTED.

I've also thought before that sorting people by age could end a lot of grumbles. The UK has a mild climate, turn it into a land for the elderly (over 80?)and put them all there. No more 'the young of today' rants.

I am of course joking. Well, partly joking.

Write very very small or use more postcards

Pass ...

Although it is true enough beer is never bought, merely rented

I'd also heard the number of spiders and flying bugs we swallow in our sleep is alarming. Yuk.

Insects are seriously considered as meeting protein needs in the future but not necessarily looking like themselves - ground up into tasty powder. No shortage of bugs, after all.

Do yourself a favour and don't look up the 'permitted' content of bugs in regulated foods. some are really, really gross. Mushrooms are grown in pretty mucky conditions but I still didn't need to know up to 20 maggots "of any size" permitted in just a four-ounce tin / can. Citrus juices can have five or more fruit fly eggs and one maggot per cup. A chocolate bar could contain up to 30 insect parts before the manufacturer starts raising eyebrows and breaking health and safety rules.

I may never eat again.

I'll be mumbling through porridge by then or insisting on hard-boiled eggs. I suppose silly to fuss, I do eat sausages and I do know one must never ever look up what is ground into sausages. All those leftover bits, waste not want not ...

Me too although I did notice the scammers backed off, philistines wait till you see my Christmas one. Even more gorgeous

A world heritage why, because of Christ? Those battling for it are not Christians, whether Jewish or Muslim they don't care that a man born and raised a Jew founded another religion. The Muslim countries involved in fighting Israel would be perfectly happy to eradicate all Jews AND all Christians.

As a point of empathy, all of us cling to our identity to some degree. I lived in Scotland for 15 years, and that, combined with being there during the independence struggles, really brought it home to me. Scots were displaced by the conquering English taking their ancestral homes and dividing up much of the country into sheep farms, from around 1750 onwards. They scattered all over the world - there are only 5 million in Scotland, it's estimated there are over 50 million people who identify as Scottish (my granny was Scottish, you'd be surprised how many have some trace of Scottish blood) and they STILL violently resent that landgrab. They don't want or need to return to Scotland, they've been settled worldwide for generations, but Scotland is their country of the heart and there for them, at least in theory.

As an English-speaker living in Spain, tolerated by the Spanish rather than exuberantly welcomed, I kind of get it. And if I was ever persecuted for being English-speaking, I have English-speaking countries to escape to. Even if they are not MY country we share a language, beliefs, lifestyle, I could make a home there, even go back to Scotland although I cringe away from 6 month winters! Israel is the only country that >16 million people can think of as their ultimate home although only 7 million live there

Arab Muslims have many Arab countries - 22, Google says - but Israelis have only Israel. The wandering Jews, when originally displaced well over 1000 years ago, have worldwide been at the very least resented for stubbornly being 'different' and often historically isolated in ghettos and persecuted. To get back their own country at last in 1948 has an importance it is hard for the never-displaced to understand. They will fight and die to keep that tiny toehold of desert intact as home because they had too long as rootless wanderers. Whether one approves of their religion or lifestyle or beliefs or determination is not really their concern. Israel was theirs in biblical times and it is finally theirs again and where else, with roots stretching back thousands of years, could they call theirs?

Anyway, sorry. Damn my default tendency to get all serious! Moving on ...

Awwww thank you and yup, carrot and swede mash is a DEFINITE sign you need to hibernate until strawberries reappear

I don't want a shot man bleeding all over my clean floor

I did realize recently that given the choice between a loving steadfast reliable bloke and a small golden dragon of my very own, I'd choose the dragon in a heartbeat

They're as likely as each other, after all, and no question which would be more fun

Robrt! think hard, you just need a cap Anything you think a perfect (or perhaps just likely) future would hold ...