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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?

• Sol 3, once upon a time (Score: 2) by BsAtHome on Saturday January 24 2015, @01:55PM

  by BsAtHome (889) on Saturday January 24 2015, @01:55PM (#137613)

  There once was a little planet called Sol 3, which harboured a self-perpetuating species with a parasitic genome. As with all parasites, it died once it had all of the environment turned upside down and digested. The fossil record shows a geologically short, almost insignificant, period where the parasites ran amok. A significant extinction event followed and, according to the geological record, it took two to three million years for a new species balance to reappear. The legacy of the parasites, as seen from the geological record, shows localized high levels of concentrated elements, The hypothesis so far is that most of these deposits have come from elsewhere within the Sol 3 system and were used as a source of food. A small dust-layer-thick deposit marks the end of the parasites' era. It is suggested that the parasites exploded all at once at the end of the era. The exact cause is not clear, but the dispersion pattern may indicate a feature of the parasites' metabolic system, in which they turned inside-out as their food expired.

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