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.

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Rise of an American Dictator...2000

[alchemist68]

The article predicts the possible rise of an American dictator by the year 2000. Yes, we already have one: Bill Gates. A dictator isn't necessarily elected, and he controls those around him with money and politics, just as our ELECTED politicians do. This is not intended to be flamebait. It is sincere opinion. Microsoft simply controls too much of the consumer's digital experience and corporate computing experience. In fact, this has international implications as well. Every politician has two things in mind: control and money. Bill Gates fits that profile rather well, and being as unliked as he is, he keeps a rather low profile as does Saddam Hussein [no comparision intended between the two other than simple dictatorship].

Re:Korea/Taiwan investing Trillions?

[HanzoSan]

Also, Its bush who is putting all your money in the military.

I havent seen bush put any money into technology.

It was democrats who brought the internet technology to where it is.

So you make it obvious you are republican, however try looking at the budget, Bush reduced NASA, reduced research, increased military.

Bush did this, not the democrats.not the greenparty,