willhelm says: Outline of the perceived future for billions of years. 2010 Automatic translators allow monolingual humans to converse with any speaker of any major human language. (Subtext: Of course, the ONLY major language still in existence will be Chinese.) Bandwidth has increased enormously due to fiber optics and spread-spectrum radio. (Subtext: Of course, it is all taxed, so this enormous amount of new revenue leads to a huge increase in wasteful government spending.) 2020 Almost all overt tyranny has been eliminated. (Subtext: All tyranny is now covert, business as usual.) Physicists have confirmed that the fate of the universe is asymptotic expansion. (Subtext: Which no one can figure out how it makes any difference to anyone's life and is ... lots of info there, thanks Human Knowledge . net is one of my favorite sites. If you haven't visited yet - I highly recommend it. |
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