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To: seowulf

My mother, now 97, rode a horse to school. She saw the Wright brothers perform at the Ohio state fair. She saw men land on the moon. The pace of technological advancement has accelerated. Imagine what somebody who lives to 100 starting today will see. Amazing, I’m sure.

I remember a Caucasian America. I suspect America will be so transformed racially and culturally that if I jumped ahead just 50 years right now I’d probably not be able to talk to most of the people I’d meet. I suspect, though, that America will look like a third world country and we’ll look back on sewers and a power grid that worked without fail as our golden age.


19 posted on 08/09/2014 11:31:27 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Gen.Blather

America will look like a cross between Blade Runner and Brazil and being ruled by the Chinese/whites/Hispanics in about the same proportion


23 posted on 08/09/2014 11:45:52 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Gen.Blather
I suspect America will be so transformed racially and culturally that if I jumped ahead just 50 years right now I’d probably not be able to talk to most of the people I’d meet.

I could see that not only you would not be able to talk to them but large groups could not even talk to each other.

You could see cults of technology and cults of the pristine human who refuse to be augmented by technology. You will have the poor who can't afford it as well. I suspect they will become so different from each other that they will not even regard each other as "true" human beings anymore.

25 posted on 08/09/2014 11:51:05 AM PDT by seowulf (Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum. Cogito.---Ambrose Bierce)
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To: Gen.Blather

I fear your vision is correct. And the sad part is that there are progressives who are working tirelessly to create the world you describe.


37 posted on 08/09/2014 12:45:33 PM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: Gen.Blather
Rather like this...


43 posted on 08/09/2014 2:06:50 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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