Charlie Stross, Paul Krugman Discuss the Future

Peripatetic Entrepreneur writes "At the Science Fiction World Convention in Montreal, Hugo Award winning author Charlie Stross and Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman opened the show with a 75-minute, wide-ranging conversation on stage. From flying cars to decoding the genome of the Pacific Ocean to vat-grown Long Pig, it's all there. Audio is also available — video soon."

Comments

Re: ObamaCare -- Nazi Inflirtration

[FiloEleven]

What does that have to do with flirting nazis?

History reruns

[bussdriver]

Similar things happened for the great depression which is why to some extent this depression didn't become "great" and has slowed down (doesn't mean that it is over or that the fall will be quite slow.)

The DIFFERENCE with this re-run? the PRESS and the CONGRESS WORKED TOGETHER to expose what was going on to the public which helped create the political will necessary to make meaningful changes; however, it was not enough to undo the newly created FED which helped create the whole mess in the 1st place as they did this time. People in the know tell me FED this and FED that but forget that during the weakest moment in history the FED won.

Krugman is an OK guy. HOWEVER, he is not a Nobel Prize winner! Its a way for some bankers to promote their economic policy to the world with a fake Nobel and everybody falls for it! Think about it and do some research. Nobel is only for science and peacemaking. Economics is neither and its degrading to the Nobel Prize. Mathematical models for voodoo is not credible work-- chaos as an equation if proven possible-- fine; but until then.... Other sciences can not win the Nobel yet we allow them to hijack it for economics?!!

You want serious predictions of the future? They are not pretty. The global warming stuff-- will be worse than the predictions 10 years ago because most were going from the most positive hopeful range of the projections just so they could be easier for people to accept. Behavior trends like that not only extend into other areas but also continue with present day predictions trying to be accepted by the mainstream. The bubble economic system will continue and those who question it will remain largely silent and work within it (as Krugman did and still largely does.) Madoff wasn't a freak he was a product of the system (or attracted to it.)