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A Timeline of the Future
The Night Watchman writes: "Ian Pearson, a British futurist, has produced a sort of timeline of the future, which provides a simultaneously hopeful and bleak look into the coming decades. Mr. Pearson has evidently had a fairly high success rate; a timeline he produced in 1991 was about 85% accurate. An article on Yahoo news has a summary." Reader ricst lists some of Pearson's predictions: "People have some virtual friends, but don't know which ones (2007), leisure activities for intelligent software entities released (2015), electronic lifeform given basic rights (2020)." Brought to you by a division of British Telecom, but no date is set for when they win their hyperlink patent suit.
I personally think that we are all doomed, probably before any of these things have a chance to happen. Think about all the things we create in this world... All of the amazing advances we have made... yet people still starve and die in the street all over the world. Why? Because human nature is to create for personal gain. Those not born into the power elite (Political/Business/Military) are doomed to morgage their entire life for money. And all this technology we create only benefits those who are in control. How do you like those new Nikes you bought? Want to know how many 10 year olds had to die to bring you those? How's your tax bill this year? Guess what- Micorosft (and Cisco) payed no federal taxes last year!
We are all doomed becasue of inherant greed and reactive attitudes towards the problems of the world. "we don't need to do something about the middle east!" *first plane hits tower* Shit! we have do to something now!
This prediction alone should prove that this guy is a grand-mal retard.
"Reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinions; only the people have that right." - Mao
We can't even give the unborn rights.
120 characters isn't enough to explain it.