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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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A shapely CATHOLIC SCHOOLGIRL is FIDGETING inside my costume..
(Score: 0, Troll) by khallow on Saturday January 24 2015, @08:45PM
Societies will be deeply fragmented and overwhelmed by irreconcilable religious and political groups, by disparities in wealth, by ignorant citizenry and by states’ impotence to fix problems.
That pretty describes the last few thousand years. Yet here we are. Maybe we don't need these things which he complains of not having in order to have a good society. Maybe it's not even a good idea to have them! It's also worth noting that his complaints are in large part purely imaginary. For example, there aren't growing global disparities in wealth, religious differences are far more reconcilable now than they've ever been, and most of the problems we face, we fix without the need of the state to get involved.