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The World in 2030.

posted by janrinok on Saturday January 24 2015, @12:03PM   
from the your-guess-is-as-good-as-mine dept.

AnonTechie writes:

Politico Magazine asked 15 other big thinkers and doers for their ideas of what will change the world the most in the next 15 years. We got back lots of inspiration—from the transformative power of opening up national borders to the commercialization of the human genome—and one dyspeptic dissenter. Read on, for a sense of the possible in the world of 2030.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/15-big-breakthroughs-in-2015-114486.html

Would you agree with their predictions? What would surveillance be like in 2030? Would we have any freedoms at all, any privacy?

• Their is a word in the dictionary Their is a word in the dictionary (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 24 2015, @12:44PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 24 2015, @12:44PM (#137607)

  which describes statements which have a convincing logical tone but in actual fact they do not. Unfortunately I can't rememember the word; does anybody here remember the name of this word?

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• Re:Their is a word in the dictionary (Score: 2) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Saturday January 24 2015, @04:03PM

  by Jeremiah Cornelius (2785) on Saturday January 24 2015, @04:03PM (#137628) Journal

  • Genes as commerce: Eugenics and tracking
  • The democratization of media to fight rights abuses: Social control and propagation of neo-lib establishment support outrage - "Je Suis Puppet"
  • Women controlling their fertility: Under the constraints of the eugenic "medicine", coupled with "progressive" messaging to undermine 3rd world.
  • Digital ID cards: "Your papers, please."
  • A second food revolution: Controlled famines and GMO feudalism - thanks, Monsanto!
  • More open borders: Read: Global normalization of anti-democratic, regulatory enslavement: TPP [wikipedia.org].
  • High-tech classrooms: Conditioning and social programming. Reduction of critical thinking skills to the social and economic spheres. Increased class tiering.
  • Real civic engagement: Ralph, this society cannot be repaired. I know you remember when parts of it functioned. Cherish this in the darkness ahead.
  • Closing the gender gap: Again, use of progressive and egalitarian messaging to dissolve cohesive structure of earlier social order. Use "progress" as a club to beat dissenters. "How can you criticize a society like ours? We have a Woman/Black/Gay/Brony President!"
  • Setting few—but smart—targets: One-percentism - now driven by big data!
  • Technology for the good: See second food revolution, genes as commerce.
  • No breakthroughs for the better: Use that assessment to perpetrate racist diatribe and propaganda. "Muslim" my arse.
  • Investing in childhood education and health: Yes. Just enough to keep a docile herd, penned as closely as possible in our megacity factory farm.

  There is no political solution
  To our troubled evolution
  Have no faith in constitution
  There is no bloody revolution

  --
  You're betting on the pantomime horse...

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• Re:Their is a word in the dictionary (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 25 2015, @09:16AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 25 2015, @09:16AM (#137816)

  Their is a word in the dictionary indicating a third-person possessive pronoun. There is a word that I think you meant to type, but didn't for whatever reason.

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