• Question: hi form sanday Orkney school what will happen in the year 2100 thanks Sammy brough

    Asked by Sammy brough to Joe, Jos, Kate, Lisa on 19 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Kate Dobson

      Kate Dobson answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      Well between 1900 and 2000 we invented flight, the motor car went from novelty to normal, we went to the moon, had two world wars, developed the atomic bomb and nuclear power, implemented vaccination programmes that have saved millions of lives, but developed biological warfare, we have new buiding materials, telecominucations, TV, the internet, but consume more resources per head, and pollute the Earth far faster…. and the list of scientific theories and break throughs is too long to start on…. I guess the limit to what we do in the next century will be the imagination of people like you, asking quesitons and finding the answers.

      I hope we have developed a safe method for storing energy and transporting water and food tothe areas of the world that most need it.

    • Photo: Lisa Simmons

      Lisa Simmons answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      We’ve already started on commercial flights to the outer earths atmosphere. I think more and more people will want to travel farther away.
      I hope that we can find a way to convince people that nuclear energy is the way forward and find a safe way of controlling it and storing the by-products.
      It was in the news last week that someone was working on a space elevator and had created a successful hover car, the sky is the limit!

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