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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.
A first post?
(2015) The Microsoft antitrust case comes to an end. To the surprise of many, the proposed settlement is rejected. Microsoft is ruled guilty of illegally exploiting its monopoly to expand into other markets. In terms of remedies, Microsoft is therefore forced to make sure everyone has fair access to their monopolist software. They are required to allow every person buying a new computer to receive a pre-loaded copy of Windows XP, Microsoft Office XP and Microsoft Bob for Windows. (In negotiations, the DOJ later agreed that Microsoft may charge OEMs a small US$500 "distribution fee" per product to cover expenses.) Furthermore, Microsoft's janitor is authorized by the court to tell Bill Gates that he's an asshole whenever he thinks management tries to take further illegal steps to dominate the market.
If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed... Oh wait, he does.
Time travel into the future may be possible at speeds near the speed of light.
That, and the predictions are just fantisies of a self described futurist.
MY BALLS!!!!
Nope
Nah - it's intelligent, so it'll post AC and not have a sig.
Any AI that posts to /. will obviously be programmed by an AC. Why would any logged in poster want to create a program to SPAM /.?
Hopefully this makes sense to you. You syphilitic donkey's rectum.
That is the most pathetic "I love me" .sig I have ever seen. I bet all the dirty GNU hippies think you are REALLY cool, huh?
i believe the correct term is "i cant hardly wait"
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WRONG! 'Can't hardly wait' is a double negative. It means roughly the same as 'can wait', except without the grammatical correctitude.
Barely literate? Alot of them know English.
Education? Internet.
Standard of living? Biotechnology = free food.
Its not so much culture as ability, when Chinas only jobs left are scientific, they will be forced to do science because China is communist.
Education is free, thats the one benifit of the internet.
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What are you some kinda racist?
Whats their skin color have to do with any of this?
Ok their culture thats debateable, but the Chinese and Indian cultures are far less violent than ours, they also have a more scientific culture than us, our culture is a more physical labor based culture.
Poor doesnt mean Dumb.
Age has nothing to do with success, you seem to forget China was ahead for a long time in the past, and at one Time africa (more specifically Egypt) was ahead. No one stays on top forever, instead of competiting people should join forces and work together.
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