A radical pessimist's guide to the next 10 years (2012)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/a-radical-pessimists-guide-to-the-next-10-years/article1321040/?page=all

by Futurebot • 11 years ago

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angersock• 11 years ago

I think the point about considering people with lower tech as pass-aggressive control freaks has already come to pass.

TeMPOraL• 11 years ago

Oh really? <throwing away pieces of Google Glass while wiping from my face the blood flowing out of a broken nose>

ZanyProgrammer• 11 years ago

Some of those predictions have been around a long time-perhaps in 1994 Quebec might have been pictured as leaving Canada, but it never came to pass, and seems anachronistic in 2015. Quebec becoming independent seemed almost like a trope or cliche for 90s sci fi.

hackaflocka• 11 years ago

The exact opposite of each of these things will happen.

anthonyarroyo• 11 years ago

"Stupid people will be in charge, only to be replaced by ever-stupider people. You will live in a world without kings, only princes in whom our faith is shattered"

A million times this

carsongross• 11 years ago

If only I could be so optimistic. Stupid people wouldn't be able to conceive of or execute on the ideas emerging from Washington DC.

We should be so lucky as to be ruled by ever more stupid people.

jayfuerstenberg• 11 years ago

This is already true.

fennecfoxen• 11 years ago

8) Try to live near a subway entrance. In a world of crazy-expensive oil, it's the only real estate that will hold its value, if not increase.

Bah. If we're really radically pessimistic, why would we assume that the government is going to keep subways running? We'll ride to work and back on a run-down unsafe old jitney-bus held together with string and chewing gum (duct-tape if you pay extra for first class service). Or a rusty old bicycle.

searine• 11 years ago

This reads like a shitty distopian novel.

danbruc• 11 years ago

I don't think our future will be that bright. (http://i.imgur.com/lM5lmHt.png) [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth

tokai• 11 years ago

The Arctic will become like Antarctica - an everyone/no one space

I don't think so. The arctic countries are really really keen on splitting that pie, and the talks are already on their way.

TrainedMonkey• 11 years ago

"We will still be annoyed by people who pun, but we will be able to show them mercy because punning will be revealed to be some sort of connectopathic glitch: The punner, like someone with Tourette's, has no medical ability not to pun"

It took me until this point to realize this is satire playing parody of our fears.

tomjen3• 11 years ago

Half of those things aren't even predictions they are just meaningless statements; those that are predictions are not based on any arguments.

Piece of rubbish.

zantana• 11 years ago

46) Despite interesting premises, many articles will just be unedited stream of conscious fluff pieces. Wildly inconsistent in quality and often submitted with little concern beyond fulfilling a certain word count.

A radical pessimist's guide to the next 10 years (2012)

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