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BT's Predictions for the Future

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-thats-just-funny dept.

Saluton_Mondo writes "BT describes the future as looking "ever more exciting each year"... you won't be surprised if you read their white paper on a timeline of technological development in various aspects of human culture, running up to about 2100. It's a bit out of date, but still pretty funny. Some are reasonable predictions, like the introduction of ID cards in the UK by 2010, or the rise of an American dictator in 2000. Others are just funny, like an orgasm via e-mail in 2010, or a security Barbie which searches for lost offspring. I'll not even mention the emergence of the Borg in 2040... see what you think."

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  1. rise of an American dictator in 2000 by bain · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    When did G.W. Bush become president of USA again?

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  2. Re:The submission is flamebait by azzy · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Or the first time a submission has been correct? Eeeeeeeek *ducks*

  3. Re:hello? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    "If you won't pray in my school, I won't think in your church."


    Besides being a pompus and arrogant statement, it is also very inaccurate.


    It's not 'your' school, it's aPUBLIC school, which used to treat everyone equally, but now discriminates only against the Christian faith. So, while our Forefathers even participated in public prayer in schools and other public buildings and places, and Congress STILL begins each session with prays in the most public buildings in our country, my children cannot exercise their 1st Amendment rights in a public school because they are Christians. And you think this is OK? Since Atheism is also a Faith lets outlaw the expressions of statements that support your philosophical position.


    The Framers knew what they meant and they practiced what they meant, as did everyone else for nearly 200 years, until the Extreme Left Wing judges started seeing Marxist ideology in the shadows of the penumbra of the Constitution. So much for the Bill of Rights.

  4. Right about one thing... by Erik+K.+Veland · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The american dictator by 2000 ;-)

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  5. that is not a prediction by zaroastra · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "the rise of an American dictator in 2000"
    that is a well know fact!!!

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  6. Rise of an American Dictator in 2000 by kentrel · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Who?

    ? What dictator? George Bush? The man who was elected fairly through the electoral system that's legal and has been in place for 200 years? Even though he didn't win the popular vote he got to his position fair and square... The guy also has to answer to a voting public next November... as is the legal way... He may be a screw up of a president, depends on your own personal opinion, but he got his position through a public democratic system and he'll either leave office or be reelected next year by a public democratic system.

    I'm sorry but someone needs to go to dictionary.com and look up the definition of the word 'dictator'