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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: 3, Interesting) by mcgrew on Saturday January 24 2015, @06:05PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Saturday January 24 2015, @06:05PM (#137651) Homepage Journal

    Here are [soylentnews.org] the predictions I made in December for 2015:

    Someone will die. Not necessarily anybody I know...
    SETI will find no sign of intelligent life. Not even on Earth.
    The Pirate Party won't make inroads in the US. I hope I'm wrong about that one.
    US politicians will continue to be wholly owned by the corporations.
    I'll still be a nerd.
    You'll still be a nerd.
    Technophobic fashionista jocks will troll soylent.
    Slashdot will be rife with dupes.
    Many FPs will be poorly edited.
    I'll publish Random Scribblings

    I might get that last one wrong but I've never missed on any of the other ones. Now excuse me while I go wash my flying car and shine my personal jet pack. Both of them were being predicted by "futurists" when I was a kid, while nobody but Murray Leinster came close to envisioning the internet [baen.com] (Asimov's Multivac doesn't come close). The story at that link was written in 1946, and I seriously doubt that old Murray really thought anything like that would ever come to be.

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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday January 30 2015, @08:27AM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Friday January 30 2015, @08:27AM (#139413)

    Someone will die. Not necessarily anybody I know...

    I would be mighty surprised if there was a year when nobody in the whole world died [wikipedia.org]...

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