Can I use "can" for possible future events?

[goodboybkk]

Can I use "can" for possible future events?
Can you say "in year 2100 human beings can colonise moon or another planet"

 

[tedmc]

Can I use "can" for possible future events?
Can you say "In the year 2100, human beings can colonise moon or another planet"?

No, unless you are so sure that it will happen in the future. I would write "would be able to".

 

[Piscean]

Can you say "In the year 2100 human beings can colonise the moon or another planet"?

No. Use will be able to.

 

[Tarheel]

Perhaps:

In the year 2100 human beings will be able to colonize the moon or Mars.

 

[Rover_KE]

I'd only be confident enough to say '... may be able to colonise ...'.

 

[Piscean]

I would write "would be able to".

That would not be correct.

 

[jutfrank]

I have a feeling that goodboybkk means to use 'could' in this context.

 

[Piscean]

We can deal only with what people post.

 

[jutfrank]

We can try to understand what people are asking.

 

[goodboybkk]

That would not be correct.

Why is it incorrect?

 

[emsr2d2]

Why is it incorrect?

We don't use "would be able to" to refer to the future.