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?
(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]