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janrinok
on Saturday January 24 2015, @12:03PM
from the your-guess-is-as-good-as-mine dept.
from the your-guess-is-as-good-as-mine dept.
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?
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All this time I've been VIEWING a RUSSIAN MIDGET SODOMIZE a HOUSECAT!
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday January 24 2015, @02:25PM
It will be hot with heat waves and have reoccurring freak weather. Exotic diseases will spread mainly due to hotter climate and countries at the equator will be scorched to ashes by the sun. This will cause migration of people and set of hostilities. Due to new demands of transparency nobody dares to express any original thought that may upset anyone anywhere. And the elite will be free to use anyone else as they see fit, be it brain control, horrid working conditions, economical abuse, poor living etc. Kind of like how poor immigrants in rich Arab countries are used and thrown away right now but with a technological edge. The three power blocks USA, China, Russia will compete for extraterrestrial resources with frequent disputes in United Nations. Superbugs will curtail international travel and also be used to control people. Resource deficit will cause products to be flawed at manufacture and cause a new interest in old products of quality.
Oh, and Unix epoch will bite anyone that didn't do their reprogramming properly.
Other than that. The feature is probably bright! ;-)
(Score: 2) by redneckmother on Saturday January 24 2015, @03:18PM
"... so bright, I gotta wear shades."
Reminds me of a Chernobyl joke:
Tomorrow's weather forecast - cloudy and 5000 degrees.
Five day forecast: Three days.
Anyone not wearing SPF 1 million should stay indoors.
Mas cerveza por favor.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 24 2015, @04:56PM
"Resource deficit will cause products to be flawed at manufacture and cause a new interest in old products of quality."
Already happening; much of the junk I get from china is broken out of the box. I think that when someone translated "Think out of the box" and "Brake out of the box" it got taken literal. Miss my old can opener; worked for years until wife decided it was ugly and threw it away. Now I go thru new ones every six months. Can't find any Made in America on the shelves anywhere.
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Saturday January 24 2015, @05:30PM
Miss my old can opener; worked for years until wife decided it was ugly and threw it away. Now I go thru new ones every six months. Can't find any Made in America on the shelves anywhere.
Takes a while to break in but once it does works forever. Try a P-38. [beprepared.com]