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Predictions for life 100 years from now

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Monday, January 16, 2012 8:42 AM

KPO

Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.


An interesting read, two futorologists discuss some of people's predictions for the future.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16536598

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Last week we asked readers for their predictions of life in 100 years time. Inspired by ten 100-year predictions made by American civil engineer John Elfreth Watkins in 1900, many of you wrote in with your vision of the world in 2112.

Many of the "strange, almost impossible" predictions made by Watkins came true. Here is what futurologists Ian Pearson (IP) and Patrick Tucker (PT) think of your ideas.

1. Oceans will be extensively farmed and not just for fish (Jim 300)

IP: Likelihood 10/10. We will need to feed 10 billion people and nature can't keep up with demand, so we will need much more ocean farming for fish. But algae farming is also on the way for renewable energy, and maybe even for growth of feedstock (raw materials) or resource extraction via GM seaweed or algae.

PT: Good chance. According to Dennis Bushnell, chief scientist at the Nasa Langley Research Center, saltwater algae that's been genetically modified to absorb more nitrogen from the air than conventional algae could free up to 68% of the fresh water that is now tied up in conventional agriculture. This water could go to thirsty populations.

2. We will have the ability to communicate through thought transmission (Dev 2)

IP: Likelihood 10/10. Transmission will be just as easy as other forms of brain augmentation. Picking up thoughts and relaying them to another brain will not be much harder than storing them on the net.

PT: Good chance. Synthetic telepathy sounds like something out of Hollywood but it is absolutely possible, so long as "communication" is understood to be electrical signals rather than words.

3. Thanks to DNA and robotic engineering, we will have created incredibly intelligent humans who are immortal (game_over)

IP: Likelihood 9/10. It is more likely that direct brain links using electronics will achieve this, but GM will help a lot by increasing longevity - keeping people alive until electronic immortality technology is freely available at reasonable cost.

PT: Good chance. The idea that breakthroughs in the field of genetics, biotechnology and artificial intelligence will expand human intelligence and allow our species to essentially defeat death is sometimes called the Singularity.

4. We will be able to control the weather (mariebee_)

IP: Likelihood 8/10. There is already some weather control technology for mediating tornadoes, making it rain and so on, and thanks to climate change concerns, a huge amount of knowledge is being gleaned on how weather works. We will probably have technology to be able to control weather when we need to. It won't necessarily be cheap enough to use routinely and is more likely to be used to avoid severe damage in key areas.

PT: Good chance. We will certainly attempt to. A majority of scientists in the US support a federal programme to explore methods for engineering the Earth's climate (otherwise known as geoengineering). These technologies aim to protect against the worst effects of manmade climate change.

5. Antarctica will be "open for business" (Dev 2)

IP: Likelihood 8/10. The area seems worth keeping as a natural wilderness so I am hesitant here, but I do expect that pressure will eventually mean that some large areas will be used commercially for resources. It should be possible to do so without damaging nature there if the technology is good enough, and this will probably be a condition of exploration rights.

PT: Pretty close. Before there is a rush to develop Antarctica we will most likely see a full-scale rush to develop the Arctic. Whether the Arctic states tighten control over the region's resources, or find equitable and sustainable ways to share them will be a major political challenge in the decades ahead. Successful (if not necessarily sustainable) development of the Arctic portends well for the development of Antarctica.

6. One single worldwide currency (from Kennys_Heroes)

IP: Likelihood 8/10. This is very plausible. We are already seeing electronic currency that can be used anywhere, and this trend will continue. It is quite likely that there will be only a few regional currencies by the middle of the century and worldwide acceptance of a global electronic currency. This will gradually mean the others fall out of use and only one will left by the end of the century.

PT: Great try! The trend on this is actually more in the opposite direction. The internet is enabling new forms of bartering and value exchange. Local currencies are also now used by several hundred communities across the US and Europe. In other words, look for many more types of currency and exchange not fewer, in the coming decades.

7. We will all be wired to computers to make our brains work faster (Dev 2)

IP: Likelihood 10/10. We can expect this as soon as 2050 for many people. By 2075 most people in the developed world will use machine augmentation of some sort for their brains and, by the end of the century, pretty much everyone will. If someone else does this you will have to compete.

8. Nanorobots will flow around our body fixing cells, and will be able to record our memories (Alister Brown)

PT: Good chance. Right now, medical nanorobots exist only in theory and nanotechnology is mostly a materials science. But it's a rapidly growing field. Nanorobots exist within the realm of possibility, but the question of when they will arrive is another matter

IP: Likelihood: 7/10.

9. We will have sussed nuclear fusion (Kennys_Heroes)

IP: Likelihood 10/10. This is likely by 2045-2050 and almost certain by 2100. It's widely predicted that we will achieve this. What difference it makes will depend on what other energy technologies we have. We might also see a growth in shale gas or massive solar energy facilities. I don't think that wind power will be around.

10. There will only be three languages in the world - English, Spanish and Mandarin (Bill Walker)

IP: Likelihood 8/10. This does look like a powerful trend, other languages don't stand a lot of chance. Minor languages are dying at a huge rate already and the other major ones are mostly in areas where everyone educated speaks at least one of the other three. Time frame could be this century.

11. Eighty per cent of the world will have gay marriage (Paul)

IP: Likelihood 8/10. This seems inevitable to those of us in the West and is likely to mean different kinds of marriages being available to everyone. Gay people might pick different options from heterosexual people, but everyone will be allowed any option. Some regions will be highly resistant though because of strong religious influences, so it isn't certain.

12. California will lead the break-up of the US (Dev 2)

IP: Likelihood 8/10. There are some indications already that California wants to split off and such pressures tend to build over time. It is hard to see this waiting until the end of the century. Maybe an East Coast cluster will want to break off too. Pressures come from the enormous differences in wealth generation capability, and people not wanting to fund others if they can avoid it.

13. Space elevators will make space travel cheap and easy (Ahdok)

IP: Likelihood 8/10. First space elevators will certainly be around, and although "cheap" is a relative term, it will certainly be a lot cheaper than conventional space development. It will create a strong acceleration in space development and tourism will be one important area, but I doubt the costs will be low enough for most people to try.

14. Women will be routinely impregnated by artificial insemination rather than by a man (krozier 93)

PT: Pretty close. At the very least, more couples are choosing advanced fertility techniques over old-fashioned conception. Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, in which an artificially inseminated embryo is carefully selected among other inseminated embryos for desirability, is becoming increasingly common in fertility clinics. Using this technique, it's now possible to screen an embryo for about half of all congenital illnesses. Within the next decade, researchers will be able to screen for almost all congenital illnesses prior to embryo implantation.

IP: Likelihood 5/10.

15. There will be museums for almost every aspect of nature, as so much of the world's natural habitat will have been destroyed (LowMaintenanceLifestyles)

PT: Pretty close. I cannot comment on the museums but the Earth is on the verge of a significant species extinction event. Protecting biodiversity in a time of increased resource consumption, overpopulation, and environmental degradation will require continued sacrifice on the part of local, often impoverished communities. Experts contend that incorporating local communities' economic interests into conservation plans will be essential to species protection in the next century.

IP: Likelihood 2/10.

16. Deserts will become tropical forests (jim300)

IP: Likelihood 7/10. Desert greening is progressing so this is just about possible.

17. Marriage will be replaced by an annual contract (holierthanthou)

IP: Likelihood 6/10. I think we will certainly see some weaker forms of marriage that are designed to last a decade or two rather than a whole lifetime, but traditional marriage will still be an option. Increasing longevity is the key - if you marry at 20 and live to well over 100, that is far too long a commitment. People will want marriages that aren't necessarily forever, but don't bankrupt them when they end.

18. Sovereign nation states will cease to exist and there will be one world government (krozier93)

PT: Great try! However, I think that the trend is in the direction of more sovereign nations rather than fewer. In the coming years, corporations or wealth private citizens will attempt to use earth-moving technologies to build their own semi-sovereign entities in international waters.

IP: Likelihood 2/10.

19. War by the West will be fought totally be remote control (LowMaintenanceLifestyles)

IP: Likelihood 5/10.

20. Britain will have had a revolution (holierthanthou)

IP: Likelihood 7/10. Well, possible, but not as likely as some other trends.



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Monday, January 16, 2012 9:22 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Interesting, thanx KPO. 1, 4, and 14 are already in existence, or damned close to it, aren't they? 8 and 13 (thank you Aasimov) are already in the works, I've read/seen about them. 11 and 17 are on their way, tho' as noted, in some places it will take a LOT longer! 15 saddens me greatly, but it's what I've guessed will be true for a long time now and am glad I (hopefully) won't be around to see it. 12 fascinates me, tho'. I thought Texas was always the one screaming secession? I've never heard anyone here talk about seceding, seems to me we mostly take for granted that we're one of the states which "gives" more than it "takes", that our wealth keeps us comfortable enough not to mind all that much.

I know for ages and ages we've wanted to split into two Californias, but I've not heard anything about actually seceding. Interesting. Have to look that up.

The rest I either know too little about to comment, or else think are wrong. I thought Joss' belief that Chinese would be a common language was more on point, given their increasing super-power status.




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Monday, January 16, 2012 10:24 AM

WISHIMAY


Hey, thanks for the article!!
It's nice to know I'm not the only one who sits around and speculates about the future. It was an interesting read. I always have this theory that whatever year people think that a new tech will be around-if you take the distance in time and double THAT, that's when it'll be here. A bit like home remodeling, and best-case scenarios...There's always somethin' that bogs the process down...

Things can't ever go easy

This is my second attempt to post, soo I'd just be thankful if my posts would stop getting ate, in the tech of the future
Who wants some glitch-y nanobytes in their head, now?? Anybody???

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Monday, January 16, 2012 11:31 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Funny to see these things now, and then how far off the mark they are after the fact.

Like how some thought there'd never be a need for more than 2 or 3 computers, and that no one would need a computer of their own, or would be able to afford one.

Heh.


" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Monday, January 16, 2012 11:56 AM

MAGONSDAUGHTER


Except the one it was based on, a 100 year prediction made in 1900 was remarkable close.

The Ladies Home Journal of December 1900 ran a very brave list of predictions by one John Elfreth Watkins. Some are quite accurate, some wrong, and many are plain odd. Although grouped into 25 predictions, each one is a collection of not entirely related ideas. Some samples:

Prediction #1: There will probably be from 350,000,000 to 500,000,000 people in America and its possessions by the lapse of another century. Nicaragua will ask for admission to our Union after the completion of the great canal. Mexico will be next. Europe, seeking more territory to the south of us, will cause many of the South and Central American republics to be voted into the Union by their own people.

Prediction #2: The American will be taller by from one to two inches. His increase of stature will result from better health, due to vast reforms in medicine, sanitation, food and athletics. He will live fifty years instead of thirty-five as at present – for he will reside in the suburbs. The city house will practically be no more. Building in blocks will be illegal. The trip from suburban home to office will require a few minutes only. A penny will pay the fare.

Prediction #6: Automobiles will be cheaper than horses are today. Farmers will own automobile hay-wagons, automobile truck-wagons, plows, harrows and hay-rakes. A one-pound motor in one of these vehicles will do the work of a pair of horses or more. Children will ride in automobile sleighs in winter. Automobiles will have been substituted for every horse vehicle now known. There will be, as already exist today, automobile hearses, automobile police patrols, automobile ambulances, automobile street sweepers. The horse in harness will be as scarce, if, indeed, not even scarcer, then as the yoked ox is today.

Prediction #16: There will be No C, X or Q in our every-day alphabet. They will be abandoned because unnecessary. Spelling by sound will have been adopted, first by the newspapers. English will be a language of condensed words expressing condensed ideas, and will be more extensively spoken than any other. Russian will rank second.

Prediction #21: Hot and Cold Air from Spigots. Hot or cold air will be turned on from spigots to regulate the temperature of a house as we now turn on hot or cold water from spigots to regulate the temperature of the bath. Central plants will supply this cool air and heat to city houses in the same way as now our gas or electricity is furnished. Rising early to build the furnace fire will be a task of the olden times. Homes will have no chimneys, because no smoke will be created within their walls.

Prediction #22: Store Purchases by Tube. Pneumatic tubes, instead of store wagons, will deliver packages and bundles. These tubes will collect, deliver and transport mail over certain distances, perhaps for hundreds of miles. They will at first connect with the private houses of the wealthy; then with all homes. Great business establishments will extend them to stations, similar to our branch post-offices of today, whence fast automobile vehicles will distribute purchases from house to house.

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Monday, January 16, 2012 12:30 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht


That all sounds horrible, I'm glad I won't be here because a world like that wouldn't be worth living in.

Then again Back to the Future thought we'd have flying cars by 2015 and its three years til then, so they better get started. Maybe it won't be as bad as these people predict after all.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Monday, January 16, 2012 12:48 PM

DREAMTROVE


It's pretty easy to tell which have some chance by how they plug in to the human psyche. Here's my take
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1. Oceans will be extensively farmed and not just for fish (Jim 300)


Nah, next.
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2. We will have the ability to communicate through thought transmission (Dev 2)


We will have the ability but very few will actually do it.
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3. Thanks to DNA and robotic engineering, we will have created incredibly intelligent humans who are immortal (game_over)


This is one of the more likely ones.
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4. We will be able to control the weather (mariebee_)


No way. It's just not possible. Depends on what you mean by control. Diffuse a hurricane, maybe but again, not likely. No one will have the energy source.
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5. Antarctica will be "open for business" (Dev 2)


Also unlikely. There are far more hospitable places on the earth which are still empty.
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6. One single worldwide currency (from Kennys_Heroes)


Not a chance. This assumes we all bow to one dictator, and the people won't do that not even TPTB will ever do that.
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7. We will all be wired to computers to make our brains work faster (Dev 2)


No, but we will use things that help our minds out, then again, we already do.
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8. Nanorobots will flow around our body fixing cells, and will be able to record our memories (Alister Brown)


We're testing it in mice right now so it's a shoe in that it will be a reality in 100 years.
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9. We will have sussed nuclear fusion (Kennys_Heroes)


I worry about this. It's a very good thing to never let happen. I think y'all can logic out why.
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10. There will only be three languages in the world - English, Spanish and Mandarin (Bill Walker)


Again, no one is going to surrender to the US and China, so, no.
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11. Eighty per cent of the world will have gay marriage (Paul)


I don't think that came out the way they intended it. I suspect the legal systems of the world will collapse, and the question will be meaningless.
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12. California will lead the break-up of the US (Dev 2)


Someone will, but probably not CA, it's too valuable a prize. Hawaii will probably leave first.
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13. Space elevators will make space travel cheap and easy (Ahdok)


No way, it's not a feasible idea. You can get to space on 250 gallons of fuel. With biofuel sythesis the whole trip will cost you less than a trip to Florida does now. So, cheap space travel, but no space elevators.
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14. Women will be routinely impregnated by artificial insemination rather than by a man (krozier 93)


Unlikely. No one wants to be a single mother and the species will internally scream against the idea.
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15. There will be museums for almost every aspect of nature, as so much of the world's natural habitat will have been destroyed (LowMaintenanceLifestyles)


Let's hope not.
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16. Deserts will become tropical forests (jim300)


It would take a much more massive outlay of power. I think that deserts reclamation will happen but nothing this radical.
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17. Marriage will be replaced by an annual contract (holierthanthou)


No. The annual handfasting was a cultural mainstay for thousands of years and was replaced during roman times IIRC. I see no reason why it would suddenly go back.
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18. Sovereign nation states will cease to exist and there will be one world government (krozier93)


Again, no. Not a chance. No one will surrender that way.
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19. War by the West will be fought totally be remote control (LowMaintenanceLifestyles)



I think they will still sacrifice humans because that is why they fight wars. I think that we'll see the introduction of non-lethals into combat though.
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20. Britain will have had a revolution (holierthanthou)


The UK is even more doomed than the US. The union will dissolve post haste.

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Monday, January 16, 2012 1:47 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht


With handfasts, I thought it started out as a year, to try it and see what you think, and then after the year was over you could make a more perminant committment. Am I wrong?

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Monday, January 16, 2012 1:49 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


It will be broilingly hot, and there will only be a billion or so people left, if that.

Next???

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Monday, January 16, 2012 2:39 PM

MAGONSDAUGHTER


I want flying cars and holidays on Mars. And robots that do all the housework and are called Marvin.

Next

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Monday, January 16, 2012 3:14 PM

HKCAVALIER


It's so funny that stuff like this keeps popping up around me these days as I'm working on a novel set in 2109. What I'm wrestling with lately is how post-literate the society is. With everything going to voice-activation in the next thirty years or less, typing, writing and finally reading will become highly optional skills for the "average American."

I'm thinking in 100 years, reading and writing would be part of a basic college course of study along with computer languages and programming. Professors will be clucking about reading Shakespeare for one's self, etc. and "Joe Sixpack" would chuckle at the idea of some schmoe with his nose in a book ignoring the real world. Curiously, the very poor, who don't have access to the many voice-activated apps and gizmos would hang onto the written word longer than the more affluent.

Labels will have icons, everything will act like a touch screen, etc. It's a little hard to contemplate and weird to write a novel about such a culture. So, I'm falling back on the idea that society in 100 years in TRANSITIONING into a post-literate world. Signs are "bilingual" written and iconogued. Of course, it would prolly be a major politicized wedge issue. Some radical types would want to do away teaching math in school as well. You know how it is...

HKCavalier

Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

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Monday, January 16, 2012 3:17 PM

MAGONSDAUGHTER


Let's hope we're not back to carving pictures on stone.

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Monday, January 16, 2012 3:28 PM

HKCAVALIER


That's the funny thing, Bint Magon, it wouldn't really be de-evolution like that. It would simply be a doubling down on our astounding dependence on technology. Technology is about reducing our work load and speeding up gratification and if machines could reliably do all our reading and image making for us, why would the average person cling to such obsolete practices? Sure, we find it kinda horrifying, but future generations would necessarily think differently, no?

HKCavalier

Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

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Monday, January 16, 2012 3:30 PM

HKCAVALIER


Oh, and Riona,

To my knowledge, handfasting is for a year and a day. That's all it ever is.

HKCavalier

Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

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Monday, January 16, 2012 3:46 PM

MAGONSDAUGHTER


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That's the funny thing, Bint Magon, it wouldn't really be de-evolution like that. It would simply be a doubling down on our astounding dependence on technology. Technology is about reducing our work load and speeding up gratification and if machines could reliably do all our reading and image making for us, why would the average person cling to such obsolete practices? Sure, we find it kinda horrifying, but future generations would necessarily think differently, no?

HKCavalier




Did you mean to call me a bint?

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Monday, January 16, 2012 3:48 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht


From what I know, handfasting is for the length of time you describe, but then after that's over a couple will choose to marry more perminantly or will choose to break apart. I don't think you can handfast with the same person over and over keeping the agreement to a year each time.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Monday, January 16, 2012 4:50 PM

HKCAVALIER


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Did you mean to call me a bint?

Aw shoot, is it always lower case? I'm sorry, my Arabic doesn't even exist, just going for "daughter of." It does sound like some kinda nasty when you ask like that! I din't mean anything by it.

HKCavalier

Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

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Monday, January 16, 2012 5:43 PM

WISHIMAY


I never subscribe to the theory that people will definitely be this or that...One of the truly great things about humanity is it's diversity. There will always be brainiacs, workaholics, slobs, ect. I hope there will always be people who break the mold, who delight in the obscure, and people who choose to live a different path.

I got rid of my cell phone last month, btw... I'm FREEEEEEE!

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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 8:51 AM

OONJERAH



Drive it, fly it: 'Flying car' brings GA to auto show =>
http://www.aopa.org/aircraft/articles/2012/120423flying-car-brings-ga-
to-auto-show.html


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five times a day to watch one of the show’s most unusual automobiles stretch its wings.

The Woburn, Mass.-based startup exhibited its Transition street-legal airplane at
the auto show in lieu of attending the traditional general aviation haunt Sun ‘n
Fun hoping to reach a wider audience and test the market for the light sport aircraft
among nonpilots—and ...

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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 12:57 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


I predict that in 100 years I'll still be dead.

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 1:01 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
Did you mean to call me a bint?

Aw shoot, is it always lower case? I'm sorry, my Arabic doesn't even exist, just going for "daughter of." It does sound like some kinda nasty when you ask like that! I din't mean anything by it.

HKCavalier

Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.




"Bint" means something quite different to Brits, Scots, Aussies, and Kiwis, I'm afraid. Something none too endearing. Somewhere along the lines of "bitch", "tart", or even approaching calling someone the c-word. Not good. Very not-good.

Definitely not how you intended it, I know. I'd bet money on that, because I'm quite certain you've never done any such thing around here.

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 1:03 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
Let's hope we're not back to carving pictures on stone.




You're not alone in that line of thinking...

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/were-underestima
ting-the-risk-of-human-extinction/253821
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 1:56 PM

HKCAVALIER


Yeah, Kwicko,

I was trying to be light hearted and fancy pants with the term. In Arabic it's a completely harmless word meaning "daughter of," so you see why I would use it to refer to Magonsdaughter. Once again, a little learning proves to be a dangerous thing.

HKCavalier

Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

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Wednesday, July 26, 2023 6:36 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


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California will lead the break-up of the US


perhaps possible

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Thursday, August 10, 2023 7:49 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


Predictions for 2024 | Future timeline

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration launches the Psyche mission, aiming to study the unique metal-rich asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter
More than 50% of Internet traffic to homes will be from appliances and other home devices.
Space Entertainment Enterprise launches a film production studio 250 miles above Earth.
The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union pass and implement new asylum and migration laws.


World population forecasted to reach 8,067,008,000
COVID-19 becomes endemic like the flu or the common cold
New prosthetic models convey sensations of feeling
NASA launches the lunar program “Artemis" with a two-person crew spacecraft.


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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration launches the Psyche mission, aiming to study the unique metal-rich asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter
More than 50% of Internet traffic to homes will be from appliances and other home devices.
Space Entertainment Enterprise launches a film production studio 250 miles above Earth.
The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union pass and implement new asylum and migration laws.


World population forecasted to reach 8,067,008,000
COVID-19 becomes endemic like the flu or the common cold



Somebody should dig up those posts I made when I was saying that for a pandemic, Covid was doing a shit job since even at its worst fake numbers it wasn't even putting a dent in the new lives created from the worldwide birth rate increases. Hell... the "Pandemic" wasn't even officially declared over before it was announced that we hit 8 Billion worldwide.

Make no mistake. Covid-19 was only a trial run for these monsters.

Overpopulation IS a very big problem and the source of many of the problems humankind faces. Nobody even wants to talk about it though.

So the monsters are going to do something about it. And the sociopaths that control the world are the perfect solution to that problem.

Unfortunately though, that means that we're not going to have any say about how it goes down.

It's a shame, really. There ARE things we could be doing about it right now. Instead of rewarding people for having kids, incentives given to NOT have kids would be a great start. And I don't mean murdering babies either. But because nobody will even begin discussions on that because it so uncomfortable, they're going to have to resort to evil measures.

Genocide via bio-weapon it is.

Agenda 2030 is alive and well.

Game on!

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