Doubt it. We need more funding to science and more and better educated populace in the sciences to reach it within 100 years. Maybe we will make it in 150 years, if ever.
I don't know how much effect religion has on science, but the day Intelligent Design/Creationism is taught alongside biology will be the day that a great "brain-drain" will start, unless people react against such a legislation.
I think that after the effects of Global Warming (as if we aren't already) are really starting to be felt, we're gonna get our act together - but I fear that by that time, it will probably be too late to reverse the effects of burnt fossil fuels, and increase in carbon-dioxide within any meaningful time-frame. We need to stop power plants based on coal altogether, and switch completely to nuclear and slash our energy usage, for the time being, and instead use it a lot more efficiently. We also need to stop burning oil, and only use it for petrochemical products instead (plastics and whatnot), oil has so many uses and we're wasting it away by turning it into carbon-dioxide and water, I mean, WTF? We need to lift the developing nations up out of the scientific gutter, and we can start that by removing stuff like EPZs, they're having such a damaging effect on the economy in developing nations, instead if they could produce goods on their own terms, we could let them educate themselves in the sciences. There are loads of other stop-gaps I can think of, but these stuck out for me.
I don't know how much effect religion has on science, but the day Intelligent Design/Creationism is taught alongside biology will be the day that a great "brain-drain" will start, unless people react against such a legislation.
I think that after the effects of Global Warming (as if we aren't already) are really starting to be felt, we're gonna get our act together - but I fear that by that time, it will probably be too late to reverse the effects of burnt fossil fuels, and increase in carbon-dioxide within any meaningful time-frame. We need to stop power plants based on coal altogether, and switch completely to nuclear and slash our energy usage, for the time being, and instead use it a lot more efficiently. We also need to stop burning oil, and only use it for petrochemical products instead (plastics and whatnot), oil has so many uses and we're wasting it away by turning it into carbon-dioxide and water, I mean, WTF? We need to lift the developing nations up out of the scientific gutter, and we can start that by removing stuff like EPZs, they're having such a damaging effect on the economy in developing nations, instead if they could produce goods on their own terms, we could let them educate themselves in the sciences. There are loads of other stop-gaps I can think of, but these stuck out for me.
