*tries so hard to ignore one thing in ops post...*
Aside from Russia is evul, what do they agree on?
Russia isn't, a country can not be evil, would be fucking fun though
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Its their politics that are evil.
And the black president could be a black swan, but over here in other parts of the world, we didn't give a crap, just another president is what we thought.
Perhaps this relates to the cultural aspects of different parts of society and their history.
1. Fall of capitalism. Prices of manufacturing individual goods is dropping to nothing. Especially with things like software. Capitalism isn't working very well here.
I hope so, but I also hope that communism does not take over, communism is the better idea but it never works, we need a combination between communism and capitalism.
Anarchism is supposedly another dream that wont come reality, but who knows.
What we really need is a dictator of the world who actually cares for its people, and who isn't greedy, very very very very rare...
2. Change in religious sentiment. I think there's been a massive shift in religious beliefs throughout the last 50 years. Some big religions get smaller, at least four small ones getting more popular. Middle eastern religion is becoming significantly more organised, western religion fighting to be more secular.
Personally, i think religion should be kept to oneself and not shared or organised, each to their own, but i doubt thats going to happen.
Obviously theirs the dark horse of middle eastern religion taking over, and you know how some of them have the thoughts that religion should be connected with the government.
(Speaking of religion connecting with the government, this is pretty much happened/happening but on a weirder scale in the U.S, if you look at it, only Christian presidents have been presidents, and therefore the ideas of said presidents...)
4. Nuclear weapons. As people begin to accept terrorism as a valid war strategy, it'd be more morally acceptable to kill civilians. WW2 Japan will be used as propaganda of nukes = peace. Guns were once immoral. Planes were immoral. Cruise missiles were immoral. There's going to be a time when some country owns nukes and nukes no longer become immoral.
Japan was used as a test for their nukes, poor Japan, might reflect the crazy shit going on their, but hey, might be right, after all Japan has pretty much declared that they wont participate in wars any more.
Poor planes, what did they ever do to people
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And as for the civilian thing, this probably will happen as well, naturally much latter down the track.
5. Electric car. One of the founders of Better Place gave a talk about how they planned to give everyone electric cars, make a pile of profits, and help the average person save money. This includes revolutionizing the energy grid. It also means that petrol prices will drop massively.. all those nations reliant on oil exports.. well...
YEA! Damn countries reliant on oil, leave the oil alone.
But electricity will soon dominate almost every aspect of society as it is getting more and more advanced.
Sooner or later electric cars will take over the oil dependant cars, in all aspects, speed, cost, efficiency, Etc...
But perhaps the oil industries will attempt to hold back the revolution of electric cars by assassinating people, hell, its happened before...
6. Quantum mechanics, nanotechnology, and signal processing. There growing fast like the electrical companies were boosting up in the 80s. I've seen some amazing things done with them and studied under one of the pioneers. Huge bonuses to almost every field in every day life, it'll change life just the way the computer did. And at least introduce more privacy concerns.
I cant wait for this to happen.
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- Mechanical upgrades to the human body, this would be accepted for the people who were in accidents or had birth deformations, to have their body parts replaced with better mechanical ones.
Further on in, perhaps only by a year or so, people will start demanding them and getting their body parts replaced just for the upgrades, as a mechanical body part would be better than an organic one.
Their will be some people who resent the mechanical upgrades and prefer to stay natural, sooner or later another war will occur, and depending on the technology...
-Control of the population.
I mean numbers.
Sooner or later people will start culling the populations of the world, as we are getting ever so close to the carrying capacity of the earth.
It will happen naturally, whether by leaving it alone till we topple over the carrying capacity and millions die of starvation, or if it happens before we go past the carrying capacity.
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Anyway, a lower amount of population = better, but not too low otherwise we will have less difference in the human race, which equals bad for evolution.
-The second dark age.
Self explanatory
-The second golden age.
Self explanatory
-Lack of resources causing people to go to drastic measures, nuclear power plants becoming the norm.
Third/second world countries, sometimes even first world countries, building the plants shoddily, causing many disasters (fun times...).
-The evolution of cold fusion.
Allowing us to easily use cold fusion, finally an end to the energy/resource draught.
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