What sort of world will your grandchildren live in?

[mystery-ak]

October 14, 2025
What sort of world will your grandchildren live in?
By Robert Arvay

Advances in technology have often been sudden and unexpected.  Their speed and acceleration are exemplified by the fact that in one lifetime, people born before airplanes were invented saw, on television, men landing on the moon with 1960s technology.  Unpredicted was the invention and wide use of desktop computers, which not even the writers of science fiction had foreseen.

I have a memory of watching a television show as a child, hearing my parents remark that I had no idea of what life had been like before there were any televisions to watch.  I do remember a time before microwave ovens and pocket transistor radios.

As I was playing with my great-grandchildren, watching them use gadgets that did not exist when I was their age, it occurred to me that they had been born into an era where technology was influencing their lives, their attitudes, and their expectations in ways that we might scarcely imagine.

What’s next for them?

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[DefiantMassRINO]

More distractions.  More Nonsense.  More Stupid.

Too many queen bees.  Not enough worker bees.

[berdie]

As good as technology is...the more we have, the lazier and dependent we become. I kind of fear for future generations.

[Bigun]

Let me throw some number at you and see how the strike you WRT our children's future.

In 1930 governments at all levels in this country consumed 12% of our GDP. After WWII, in 1947 that number had grown to 22%. In 2007 it was 43% and still growing.

IMHO the biggest threat to our children's future is government itself.

[Fishrrman]

"What sort of world will your grandchildren live in?
What’s next for them?"

Unless The West wakes up in time:
islam.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Let me throw some number at you and see how the strike you WRT our children's future.

In 1930 governments at all levels in this country consumed 12% of our GDP. After WWII, in 1947 that number had grown to 22%. In 2007 it was 43% and still growing.

IMHO the biggest threat to our children's future is government itself.

ChatGPT said that government spending was 24% of GDP in 2024? 43% seems awfully high.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Too many queen bees.  Not enough worker bees.

We are definitely way too top heavy ---

[Wingnut]

A world without Muzzies.

[Bigun]

ChatGPT said that government spending was 24% of GDP in 2024? 43% seems awfully high.

Was ChatGPT talking about all levels of government or just Fedgov?

[Bigun]

We are definitely way too top heavy ---

WE are killing the goose that lays the golden eggs! In a Fabian manner government(s) are taking over everything. The private sector economy is slowly disappearing.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Was ChatGPT talking about all levels of government or just Fedgov?

You're right, this is what it said:

It depends a bit on how you define “government” (federal + state + local, or just federal), but a good rough estimate for the U.S. is:

* Total government spending (all levels) is about **36 % of GDP** ([IMF][1])
* Just the federal government’s outlays are around **23-24 % of GDP** in 2024 ([Fiscal Data][2])

If you tell me which country or which level of government you meant, I can give a more precise number.

[1]: https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/exp%40FPP?utm_source=chatgpt.com "Government expenditure, percent of GDP"
[2]: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/?utm_source=chatgpt.com "Federal Spending | U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data"

[Free Vulcan]

Hopefully the Millennium.