Demographics in America in 2050 -- 439 million citizens, mostly in 11 mega-regions...
Adam Rifkin stashed this in America!
Source: businessinsider.com
Stashed in: Women, Young Americans, Awesome, The Future, Infographics!, Maps!, Charts!, America, Aging, Demographics
Using charts and info from Pew, the Census, and a Ph.D presentation put together by Elise Barrella & Sara Beck of Georgia Tech, we've found some interesting facts about what America will look like in a few decades.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/demographics-in-america-in-2050-2012-10?op=1
The population growth comes both from immigrants and from children of Baby Boomers.
Echo Boomers aka Generation Y aka the Millennials will save the U.S. economy:
http://pandawhale.com/post/16348/echo-boomers-will-save-the-us-economy
Age breakdown of the U.S. in 2050:
There are a lot more great charts if you click through:
http://www.businessinsider.com/demographics-in-america-in-2050-2012-10?op=1
I'm excited about the transportation options coming soon...
Not just electric cars and self-driving cars and flying cars and hyperloops and space travel...
But also high speed rail:
http://pandawhale.com/post/16346/united-states-high-speed-rail-system-map
Now if we can just master warp speed, teleportation, and nanotechnology...
11:47 PM Feb 06 2013