Greetings good citizen/fellow human, I'm a few days late to the predictions for the future party but it's a game you can play anytime. Part of what inspired me to title this page the Futurist was all of the predictions made during the whiz-bang era that missed the mark entirely [or how abruptly the whiz-bang era fizzled out after the wizard of Menlo Park was repurposed to invent 'secret' stuff for the military.
How many of you are wondering who 'the wizard', er, was? {Thomas Edison, of course!}
Much more likely the 'whiz-bang' era ended because the banksters (hard to call it 'biggest' fraud, the housing crisis is on a similar level) was hitched to it.
Yes good citizen just as owning a house would 'relieve' you from ever have to work again, the parade of technological advances of the 'Roaring 20's' were going to make everybody in America rich if they owned STOCKS!
The resultant cascading systemic failure caused by buying stocks 'on margin' brought the whole global finance system down and the Great Depression began. While they are calling the collapse of 2007 where the combination of CDO's and the everlasting rise of home equity was to make everybody that could fog a mirror rich (if they owned a NICE home!) ended in what is today called the Great Recession.
It took WWII to end the Great Depression [mostly because 90% of Europe was bombed to rubble.] Unlike the original, NOBODY has been punished nor has any action been taken to prevent the recurrence of the crisis, and while it's unlikely the banksters are going to rope the masses into another stock market scheme [but never say never!] the door is still wide open to screw the soon to be rarified creature we once called 'homeowners'.
Yeah, let's start our prediction game with that as my 'opener'. Part of the capitalist 'yoke' is the worker's need for shelter. I'm going to enhance this prediction by adding with the bar will drop for who is granted housing as part of their 'compensation package' and since nobody is going to pay anyone enough to afford a single family dwelling, Here's the 'tricky part' because automation is RADICALLY reducing the numbers of 'working humans', thus the 'need' for supervisors will drop precipitously. The ONLY field the looks stable is [to a degree because even that can be automated.] is machine repair.
And even then, with 'streamlining' it will eventually become more efficient to scrap and replace rather than repair malfunctioning equipment.
So WHAT besides feeding the soon to be dwindling masses, would humans be 'required' for?
We (again a prediction!) have already reached a precipice where we [if anyone dared] would be asking what we 'need' to train humans to do? Roll that all the way back to kindergarten and see how your eyes bug out! Yeah, it's that bad.
Never too soon to throw another Capt. Obvious into the mix: WE can't afford predatory capitalism, it's already 100 years beyond its 'sell by' date and needs to be thrown out! It's TOXIC.
Self-driving vehicles is the big tip off there. When the global race to the bottom gets that low, cutting the cab driver's balls off [UBER] is also 'proof positive' that the 'system' is on its last legs [in case anyone thinks I'm 'winging' these.]
So, how far away are we from euthanizing the unborn? [How bad is the privilege thing? It all hinges on what 'our betters' think they can get away with...]
Make no mistake about it, mandatory sterilization [like pets and it will be sold the same way, 'responsible parents' that love their children will have them sterilized!] is only heartbeat behind a return to authoritarianism.
Want to have nightmares tonight? Imagine Trump as that new fuhrer!
The media is still mute but the cognizant know the 'immigrants' are running not from war but the ever expanding economic desert!
Here's an 'out there' prediction for you. The first 'immortal' [theoretical since this, er, 'youngster' can still be killed] already walks among us.
Again, you'd think cracking that barrier would be big news but I posit this breakthrough will remain one of many 'best kept secrets' until the scientists can figure out how to armor such a creature, making it truly 'immortal'. [Pretty safe bet that part hasn't happened yet...or we'd know already!]
Mars is pie in the sky. How badly would you have to pollute the atmosphere to raise the temperature from 250 degrees below zero? I'm pretty sure that level of 'greenhouse gases' would be toxic to humans as they exist here on Earth. Prior to introducing oxygen producing species [without the hassle of engineering organisms that can tolerate temperatures that cold, nevermind thrive without water.]
Yeah, eyewash for the foolish, just like the variety of democracy they let us practice, it's the 'illusion' of self-government...
No matter how often I point at the puppeteer it still doesn't incentivize you to act in the protection of your children and maybe that's part of human fatalism. We struggle so hard against one another we just can't see another way.
Is humanity's well already poisoned?
The next few years will tell the story.
[Sidebar: I have been gathering items I'd like to read and I find it disturbing how many of you [that tell me you don't read] are reading disturbing 'what if' books in preparation for the collapse of civilization.
You, nor the writers of that tripe, can prepare you for what's coming [if the brave among us don't head it off!]
I have a good idea what kind of asshat reads that tripe and it is written specifically for them. Alt-Right is breeding monsters and those monsters are coming for anyone that can't defend themselves or doesn't appreciate what they are up against.
The word 'fair' isn't in their vocabulary. If you have ANYTHING they want they will take it an leave you [and anyone else that stands in their way] bleeding out in a ditch.
These are people who know 'God Damnit' is a curse but for the life of them they don't understand why? [Think zero religious indoctrination.]
Yes good citizen, I have read the ingredients on a stick of chewing gum and unlocked the secrets of the universe...
Thanks once again for opening your mind...hey, it looks like there is less than there was in there (but I'm still not going in until you wash that thing out though!)
Gegner
How many of you are wondering who 'the wizard', er, was? {Thomas Edison, of course!}
Much more likely the 'whiz-bang' era ended because the banksters (hard to call it 'biggest' fraud, the housing crisis is on a similar level) was hitched to it.
Yes good citizen just as owning a house would 'relieve' you from ever have to work again, the parade of technological advances of the 'Roaring 20's' were going to make everybody in America rich if they owned STOCKS!
The resultant cascading systemic failure caused by buying stocks 'on margin' brought the whole global finance system down and the Great Depression began. While they are calling the collapse of 2007 where the combination of CDO's and the everlasting rise of home equity was to make everybody that could fog a mirror rich (if they owned a NICE home!) ended in what is today called the Great Recession.
It took WWII to end the Great Depression [mostly because 90% of Europe was bombed to rubble.] Unlike the original, NOBODY has been punished nor has any action been taken to prevent the recurrence of the crisis, and while it's unlikely the banksters are going to rope the masses into another stock market scheme [but never say never!] the door is still wide open to screw the soon to be rarified creature we once called 'homeowners'.
Yeah, let's start our prediction game with that as my 'opener'. Part of the capitalist 'yoke' is the worker's need for shelter. I'm going to enhance this prediction by adding with the bar will drop for who is granted housing as part of their 'compensation package' and since nobody is going to pay anyone enough to afford a single family dwelling, Here's the 'tricky part' because automation is RADICALLY reducing the numbers of 'working humans', thus the 'need' for supervisors will drop precipitously. The ONLY field the looks stable is [to a degree because even that can be automated.] is machine repair.
And even then, with 'streamlining' it will eventually become more efficient to scrap and replace rather than repair malfunctioning equipment.
So WHAT besides feeding the soon to be dwindling masses, would humans be 'required' for?
We (again a prediction!) have already reached a precipice where we [if anyone dared] would be asking what we 'need' to train humans to do? Roll that all the way back to kindergarten and see how your eyes bug out! Yeah, it's that bad.
Never too soon to throw another Capt. Obvious into the mix: WE can't afford predatory capitalism, it's already 100 years beyond its 'sell by' date and needs to be thrown out! It's TOXIC.
Self-driving vehicles is the big tip off there. When the global race to the bottom gets that low, cutting the cab driver's balls off [UBER] is also 'proof positive' that the 'system' is on its last legs [in case anyone thinks I'm 'winging' these.]
So, how far away are we from euthanizing the unborn? [How bad is the privilege thing? It all hinges on what 'our betters' think they can get away with...]
Make no mistake about it, mandatory sterilization [like pets and it will be sold the same way, 'responsible parents' that love their children will have them sterilized!] is only heartbeat behind a return to authoritarianism.
Want to have nightmares tonight? Imagine Trump as that new fuhrer!
The media is still mute but the cognizant know the 'immigrants' are running not from war but the ever expanding economic desert!
Here's an 'out there' prediction for you. The first 'immortal' [theoretical since this, er, 'youngster' can still be killed] already walks among us.
Again, you'd think cracking that barrier would be big news but I posit this breakthrough will remain one of many 'best kept secrets' until the scientists can figure out how to armor such a creature, making it truly 'immortal'. [Pretty safe bet that part hasn't happened yet...or we'd know already!]
Mars is pie in the sky. How badly would you have to pollute the atmosphere to raise the temperature from 250 degrees below zero? I'm pretty sure that level of 'greenhouse gases' would be toxic to humans as they exist here on Earth. Prior to introducing oxygen producing species [without the hassle of engineering organisms that can tolerate temperatures that cold, nevermind thrive without water.]
Yeah, eyewash for the foolish, just like the variety of democracy they let us practice, it's the 'illusion' of self-government...
No matter how often I point at the puppeteer it still doesn't incentivize you to act in the protection of your children and maybe that's part of human fatalism. We struggle so hard against one another we just can't see another way.
Is humanity's well already poisoned?
The next few years will tell the story.
[Sidebar: I have been gathering items I'd like to read and I find it disturbing how many of you [that tell me you don't read] are reading disturbing 'what if' books in preparation for the collapse of civilization.
You, nor the writers of that tripe, can prepare you for what's coming [if the brave among us don't head it off!]
I have a good idea what kind of asshat reads that tripe and it is written specifically for them. Alt-Right is breeding monsters and those monsters are coming for anyone that can't defend themselves or doesn't appreciate what they are up against.
The word 'fair' isn't in their vocabulary. If you have ANYTHING they want they will take it an leave you [and anyone else that stands in their way] bleeding out in a ditch.
These are people who know 'God Damnit' is a curse but for the life of them they don't understand why? [Think zero religious indoctrination.]
Yes good citizen, I have read the ingredients on a stick of chewing gum and unlocked the secrets of the universe...
Thanks once again for opening your mind...hey, it looks like there is less than there was in there (but I'm still not going in until you wash that thing out though!)
Gegner
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