All those ... freedoms ... will be lost in time, like tears ... in ... rain. Time ... to die. All those ... freedoms ... will be lost in time, like tears ... in ... rain. Time ... to die.FYI ... reference link to the research article:
“Where is the land of opportunity? Intergenerational mobility in the US”
http://www.voxeu.org/article/where-land-opportunity-intergenerational-mobility-us
rootbeer hauer said it best.
Had the discussion with my son a few days ago. Wish they would stop making distopian future movies as we already are living in a distopian present.
Thanks Dhimmicrats, Thanks GOPe. Couldn’t do it without you.
The very moment the Japanese finally perfect a life like sexbot for a reasonable price all male productivity will cease to exist within two years!
More like Snow Crash, but there was no movie made of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
The old gated communities that the upper class and the upper middle class live in expanded into small city-states.
Teenagers are hypersexualized. “Real” life is digital and online, while molecular real life is full of poverty and violence. Goods and services like pizza delivery are still, but they have to be run by organized crime to make them profitable.
The populace of the U.S. does its daily monetary transactions in an Eastern currency (in the case, Hong Kong dollars) while the actual American currency is so hyperinflated that they had to pass laws to keep people from using cash as toilet paper.
So yeah, Neal Stephenson predicted Obama’s America in 1992.