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23 Nov 2012, 2:41 am

Either this planet is gonna end up wonderful place to live or become hell on Earth. Hopefully we can get some space colonies set up, I can see humans colonizing Mars not long from now.



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23 Nov 2012, 6:12 am

"It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future"
http://www.larry.denenberg.com/predictions.html



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23 Nov 2012, 7:10 am

lotuspuppy wrote:
If things stay as they are, society will revert to a feudalism of sorts. Increasing scarcity, climate change and further automation means a very small upper class control all political and economic decisions, while the vast underclass neither has no say nor can rebel.

Technology may change this trajectory. I just feel we are heading that way.


Why do you say that. In the United States we went from rural agricultural to urban industrial and technological in under 50 years.

Since the invention of practical electrical generation it has been even fast. Life spans have increase by 25-35 percent in the last one hundred years. On what evidential basis do you make a Doom's Day prediction? Even Communist China a thugocracy has vastly improved the mode and standard of living for 25 percent of its people. Industrial and Technological based living is clearly on the increase.

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