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Meanwhile, my chocolate ice cream has turned to chocolate milk.
Everything is free. The government will provide.
The best things that smartphones and tablets provide is that we will have something to do while we stand in line all day waiting for our ration of Soylent Green.
Visa had this in a commercial years ago. The technological part can be done now, but there’s a lot of practical issues. What if you have multiple chipped cards, how do coupons work, how do we detect groups of people all carrying stuff but only one is going to pay, do we really want to RFID every single item in stores, produce.
Bitcoins won’t be any harder to turn you off than anything else. You still need to have some sort of device they can scan, and on some level it will have to be associated with you, so if they decide you’re no good off you go.
Once the federal government reaches its final configuration the only weak links left in the system will be the carbon based life forms.
Yeah - it’s 2040.
You walk into a store in search of a replacement for your cardboard belt- the one that fell apart after only two months, so that you’re holding up your pants with an old shoelace.
You’d like replacements for your cardboard shoes, but there are none available.
You don’t bother going to the grocery store, since there aren’t any - like everyone else, twice each month you just wait in line for your ration of moldy bread at the Government Allotment Center.
Welcome citizen: This is the future of Obama’s socialism in America.
A lot of this futurism can be easily dispelled.
Go to a grocery store with self check-out. Maybe eight terminals with one checker. Note how that checker is constantly on the go. While it is more efficient than an individual checker for each terminal, it still requires a lot of work. That individual probably expends more effort than three line checkers.
And the zinger is that that checker *has* to do these things, because they cannot be done automatically.
Yup, and the gov will track your every move just like it tracks your every phone call.
Surveiller’s wet dream.
It’s on Drudge! New York Times, The speed of Bitcoin’s adoption is following and exceeding the combined rate of Facebook and Google. It is everywhere.
This is the most amazing thing I have ever witnessed, the velocity is a unbelievable.
Next monetary revolution..... 666