Certainly!
In the near future, antibiotics will become a thing of the past and life expectancies will return to at least where they were 150 years ago, if not less.
Superbugs will continue to become more deadly. The slightest infection could kill animals as well as humans.
Overpopulation will become a HUGE problem, so much more than now, and the problem will compound itself ever more rapidly.
The oceans gyres are already stuffed with plastic and other garbage, and the overflowing garbage will end up EVERYWHERE!
There will be no edible fish left in the oceans in 50 years. I read this somewhere.

I’m not sure I’d put it exactly that way, but I do believe that questions are a vital force. Questions drive us. When I run out of questions, it’s time for my funeral. And even then…well, who knows?

I want to remain on board at least until Publishers Clearinghouse rings our doorbell, which I know is going to happen any day now…..

It is a fact that people who lose their interest in the world around them do not live as long as people who maintain a curiosity and interest. This kind of death, a disinterest in life, is called “failure to thrive” in the medical world. Babies who are never touched or given attention, die in their cribs for no apparent physical reason. Old people, lonely and disinterested, die isolated in their in their apartments for no apparent physical reason.

So, yes, curiosity helps one to keep on living.

“Would curiosity about how things turn out be a good enough reason to live?”

That is crucial reason to live. Monotony kills. Questioning things is what got us where we are now. Being curious is what makes our brain work and our lives interesting. It’s the drving forse behind most of our actions. Never asking questions is like loosing the human side of yourself.

I avoid thinking about future, though. There are too many variations and possibilities to know what will happen. Every second can launch a whole new stream of events no one could ever imagine.

Who in the 70s knew what would happen today? Who in 1920 could ever imagine what would happen in the 70s?

How can we have any idea what will we see in 2067?

You don’t really need a reason to live. In fact you might say you live life to the fullest when you don’t have a reason and you just enjoy it for what it is.

Life has got much better for huge numbers of people over the last 50 years or so but I fear our prosperity is built upon rotten foundations and cannot continue indefinitely. I am curious and also fearful as to how things will turn out. Not for me, but for my children and my children’s children.

Certainly curiosity about what things will happen in the future makes life more interesting, but it does not make sense as a sufficient reason for living. There is something to be said for living one day at a time and making the most of it. As for the future of mankind, I am apprehensive. Even if we can avoid climate change and keep terrorism in check, I am concerned about advances in AI.

Yes – it would. There is so much excitement in learning about the world and people. The more one gets out and engages, the more there is to live for.

The French have a phase Raison d’être

It is the reason for existence. Curiosity or art or music or . . . imagining what will happen in 50 years.

Absolutely!

Apes together…strong!!”

just sayin

If you can’t think of a good enough reason to live, then your reason for living is to find one.

I think in many cases it has to be.