CS: Mid-future Scenarios

Mid-future (80-250 years)
The range is fairly wide and assumes that the technology revolution will slow to the point of plateauing to a much slower evolution. It strikes a certain balance between dystopian realities and unstoppable progress.

This is the start of the appearance of "the impossible" – what some modern skeptics believe is impossible. Maybe portions are, but in this case, we're moving with the presumption that it's only impossible based on what we know now, not what's actually true. We incorporate those developments, then work backward from there: if it exists, how does it exist and what collateral effects are there?
 * Genetic research has largely revolutionized medicine, to the point of selective enhancement and elective customization. The early part of this phase will be vastly different from the later as attitudes adjust. Expect the later part of the era to have entirely synthetic races that have split off from homo sapiens.
 * Some climate crises have passed, others still affect the planet even as most of the world now runs off fusion-based power. Architecture is on the way to both extremes, both in giant arcologies and low-density eco-communities.
 * AI is pervasive, capable, ergonomically complex and sometimes organically integrated. Cyborgs are not uncommon, both on the nature-gets-chipped end and the synthetic being side. Economically, the world is stabilizing to it in the beginning of the phase and quite comfortable with it by the end of by the end.
 * Closely related, but separate, is computer integration into life. A good portion of the world has access to educational programming – and we mean programming. School is revolutionized and a great deal more effective, though the realities of competing with AI are still a life challenge. In addition to the education, the ability to interface with the brain largely changes popular entertainment (as well as office time), making different levels of immersive experience.
 * EMG is very mature technology, but gravitic propulsion will be the heir apparent – and will make significant headway in space. Even as gravitic generations threaten, EMG finds surprising ways to stay relevant, even in space.
 * The global political landscape has condensed and will predominantly plateau with slow, continued merging over the course of the era.
 * Space travel will continue strong growth to the point of manned colonies in solar-orbit, heavy industry taking hold on the lower gravity of Mars with terraforming becoming the controversy of the era. By mid-era, an effort to make a breathable atmosphere will begin. The surface of the moon will actually show human influence to observers back on earth. By the end of the era, there is water-mining from the Oort cloud, settlement on the backside of Mercury and serious plans for terraforming Venus into Earth 2.
 * Probes that achieve 10% of light speed will be launched to the Centauri cluster.