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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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All this time I've been VIEWING a RUSSIAN MIDGET SODOMIZE a HOUSECAT!
(Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday January 24 2015, @10:22PM
All techno-socio-utopian crap except for Leslie Gelb of the CFR who, I think, nails it. Because he has the balls to say that the rich really don't care much about the poor other than using them to burnish their image so no problems will actually be solved and, as such, the world descends into chaos.
Very shortly, the only way for the rich to continue increase the relative amounts of the wealth they own is to start to "decrease the surplus population" and that they will do so by not addressing problems until the unwashed start taking themselves out due to frustration and anger.
All this angst over "The Rich".
You know the whole article was by "Political People" and their predictions. CLUE: These are not people you take seriously. They rouse their rabble, and then retire to their rockers. The world is better served by one competent plumber than the entire group of these pundits.
"The Rich" all end up in a pine box just like every one else. Some can be hastened toward that end by 148 grains of fast moving heavy metal, but amazingly few of them ever stir up enough wrath to have that happen.
Take Gates for example, at one time one of the most hated people on earth. Now he spends his money building wells and toilets in Africa. It must be his clever plot to eliminate these useless people, because they get in the way of him making more money.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.