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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 tibman on Saturday January 24 2015, @07:25PM

    by tibman (134) on Saturday January 24 2015, @07:25PM (#137665)

    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

    by khallow (3766) on Saturday January 24 2015, @07:40PM (#137667) Journal

    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

      by tibman (134) on Saturday January 24 2015, @10:29PM (#137705)

      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

        by Arik (4543) on Sunday January 25 2015, @12:26AM (#137728) Journal
        Not as hard as you might think. Just quit bathing. ;)
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        • (Score: 2) by tibman on Sunday January 25 2015, @01:05AM

          by tibman (134) on Sunday January 25 2015, @01:05AM (#137736)

          hahah, nice

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      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday January 25 2015, @08:04AM

        by khallow (3766) on Sunday January 25 2015, @08:04AM (#137803) Journal

        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.