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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 RamiK on Saturday January 24 2015, @05:32PM
One word: Pandemics.
With nuclear weapons and guided missiles you can't even risk warfare so a world where the rich ignore poverty and starvation is a world where the rich die off to diseases right along with them.
So, whether it would take 30, 50 or 100 years no one can say for sure, but the "techno-socio-utopian crap" just might end-up being the only remaining outcome after all other options would be exhausted.
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(Score: 2) by tibman on Saturday January 24 2015, @07:25PM
A pandemic would kill rich and poor in equal percentages. Unless it was curable or preventable with medicine. In that case the poor are screwed.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday January 24 2015, @07:40PM
A pandemic would kill rich and poor in equal percentages. Unless it was curable or preventable with medicine.
Pandemics are always preventable with medicine by simply figuring out the vectors of infection and preventing them in your environment.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Saturday January 24 2015, @10:29PM
People breathing near you is a pretty difficult vector to eliminate : )
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(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Arik on Sunday January 25 2015, @12:26AM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by tibman on Sunday January 25 2015, @01:05AM
hahah, nice
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday January 25 2015, @08:04AM
People breathing near you is a pretty difficult vector to eliminate : )
Unless you don't have sick people breathing near you. Then it's quite easy to eliminate.