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The World in 2030.

posted by janrinok on Saturday January 24 2015, @12:03PM   Printer-friendly
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?

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Saturday January 24 2015, @05:43PM

    by Joe Desertrat (2454) on Saturday January 24 2015, @05:43PM (#137644)

    So here we are in the present, formerly known as the future. Who was right, the utopians or the dystopians? Neither completely. But from where I stand it looks like the dystopians were closer to the mark. As we make predictions now about the future my bet would be that will be even more true in another 15 years.

    I have to agree. [Don't have any mod points or would give you one.] The shrinking middle class in the US is not moving upward and I doubt it is any different anywhere else in developed nations. The wealth is moving upward but the people are not. You might be seeing a temporary bump in the numbers of the middle class in the third world but as environmental, social and cultural realities set in that will likely reverse even faster than it has in developed nations.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 25 2015, @01:30AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 25 2015, @01:30AM (#137741)

    In the most recent poll I saw, the anti-austerity Syriza party increased its margin from 6 to 6.7 percent.

    It appears that Greece will soon follow Iceland's lead in throwing off Neoliberalism.
    Tell the private banksters to pound sand. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [zerohedge.com]
    ...and convert to a system of PUBLIC banks. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [dissidentvoice.org]

    -- gewg_