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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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(Score: 1) by gnuman on Saturday January 24 2015, @05:35PM
1. Quantum computers
2. Self-driving cars.
3. Significantly more automation in agriculture and most assembly line work (including China)
4. Legions of unemployed due to #3 so either (or combination thereof),
+ revolution
+ shortened work week
+ minimum standard income
5. Deniers will still say that Global Warming doesn't exist, and that snow melting in North Dakota in January happened all the time.