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When Production Catches up with Prediction?
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Nancy Hart
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The Human Genome Project began in 1990. Scientists surely speculated on the possibilities for this project at the time.
This Book Predicted the Future — Here’s What It Got Right
"We are living in the midst of one of the greatest transitions in human civilization."
"Compared to previous eras in history, we’re able to access more information and connect with more people than ever before. The limits of geography no longer constrain how we do business, the type of people we meet, and the way we govern ourselves."
"Because of this, many people are finding themselves more aligned with individual identities rather than their country of origin. They are forming digital communities aligned with their preferred identities and those communities are mobilizing to take political action in the physical world."
"This has profound implications for all of us moving forward. Such a shift calls into question the state of democracy in an increasingly digital world. When political factions can form irrespective of physical borders and the bulk of commercial transactions can happen in a transnational cybereconomy, what is the point of having a government, a military, and the state itself?"
"The events we are seeing transpire in our world today are not happening spontaneously. Whether it’s the proclamation of personal identities or the growing gap between the rich and the poor, these issues are coming to the surface because of a much larger transition underway."
"More than two decades ago, James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg published a book predicting what a transition to the Information Age might look like. They made assertions about the impact it would have on the economy and the world around us.
This essay is going to dive into some of the predictions made in their book, The Sovereign Individual. The thesis of the book is that individual sovereignty will emerge out of the Information Age, challenging the role of centrally organized nation-states and their utility in the world order moving forward. If their thesis is correct, the current zeitgeist is a reaction to a much larger transformation underway." (MORE)
Even If that is true, surely the "scientists" were not sharing much with the average Joe.
Marie Mallory
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Well that is depressing, not so good for the worlds youth.
"Artificial intelligence that’s been trained to create answers in natural language or even works of visual art are the hottest new tools of 2023. But, believe it or not, a cartoon from 100 years ago predicted the AI revolution we’re seeing right now. And we even covered the cartoon almost a decade ago here at Paleofuture." MORE
30 years ago Tomorrow's World predicted 2025 - how did it do?
"In 1995, the BBC's Tomorrow's World programme decided to predict what the world would look like 30 years later, in 2025."
"The show, which is no longer broadcast, featured one of the most famous scientists of the age, Prof Stephen Hawking, who predicted: "By 2025 we can expect big changes."
"The programme team agreed, suggesting a raft of world-shaking innovations from hologram surgery to space junk gel."
"So, with the help of some experts - and the benefit of three decades of hindsight - let's take a look at how much of today's world that Tomorrow's World successfully anticipated." READ MORE
The World in 2025: 8 Predictions for the Next 10 Years
"In 2025, in accordance with Moore's Law, we'll see an acceleration in the rate of change as we move closer to a world of true abundance. Here are eight areas where we'll see extraordinary transformation in the next decade:"1. A $1,000 Human Brain
In 2025, $1,000 should buy you a computer able to calculate at 10^16 cycles per second (10,000 trillion cycles per second), the equivalent processing speed of the human brain.2. A Trillion-Sensor Economy
The Internet of Everything describes the networked connections between devices, people, processes and data. By 2025, the IoE will exceed 100 billion connected devices, each with a dozen or more sensors collecting data. This will lead to a trillion-sensor economy driving a data revolution beyond our imagination. Cisco's recent report estimates the IoE will generate $19 trillion of newly created value.(READ MORE)
Nostradamus has terrifying predictions for the end of 2025
He appears to predict the end of a long war, which many think is a reference to the war between Russia and Ukraine. But, with the end of one war, he apparently predicts a war in England beginning. He also appears to predict plague.
“The kingdom will be marked by wars so cruel, foes within and without will arise,” he wrote. “A great pestilence from the past returns, no enemy more deadly under the skies.”
He also appears to predict devastation in the Amazon, and oddly the rise of a “mysterious leader” who would form an “aquatic empire.”
And then he appears to predict the end of the world.
And, according to at least one report, there is an ominous quatrain above all others for 2025.
“From the cosmos, a fireball will rise, a harbinger of fate, the world pleads,” it reads. “Science and fate in a cosmic dance, The fate of the Earth, a second chance.”
Maybe the “second chance” reference means we will pull the nose up on things if something does come skirting our way. But what are the chances that a giant fireball from outer space … and, well there is that comet zipping around that a recent paper claims could actually be alien technology.
So … great. Buckle up.