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What the future holds: US futurist Peter Diamandis on the shape of things to come ("Abundance")
Gulf News ^
| February 12, 2014
| Faisal Masudi and Noor Nazzal, Staff Reporters
Posted on 02/16/2014 11:26:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
To: Vendome
Yet, over the last 30 years and at this point today, the world consumes 50% more paper than we imagined we would. Could the introduction of toilet paper to the masses in China, Africa and the Mideast have anything to do with it ;-)
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posted on
02/17/2014 3:24:28 AM PST
by
varon
(Para bellum)
To: varon
I had thought of something hilarious regarding the switch from wiping with their bare left hand.
I decided to moderate my post, lest I learn what the smell of lightning was like
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posted on
02/17/2014 3:42:22 AM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: a fool in paradise
How is any of this going to happen with the Luddite’s and Eco-Freaks on the Left? You can’t have massive change on this short a time-frame without massive economic dislocation and societal stress.
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posted on
02/17/2014 3:46:19 AM PST
by
Tallguy
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
02/17/2014 3:55:45 AM PST
by
expatguy
(Donate to "An American Expat in SE Asia")
To: AZLiberty
Truth is in your words. I’m done with listening to defeatists ready to dceclare the end of all things. The future is just waiting on us to catch up.
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posted on
02/17/2014 3:57:06 AM PST
by
arderkrag
(An Unreconstructed Georgian, STANDING WITH RAND.y)
To: a fool in paradise
Not to mention the judgment that God is about to mete out upon the world for all the slaughtered infants; 60 million, just in the U.S. of A.
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posted on
02/17/2014 4:03:07 AM PST
by
Tucker39
("Having their conscience seared with a hot iron.")
To: a fool in paradise
And how many gallons per mile do those 4 engines use?
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posted on
02/17/2014 4:06:27 AM PST
by
Tucker39
("Having their conscience seared with a hot iron.")
To: Right Wing Assault
Print tens of thousands of these. It'll look like Russia when you are done.
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posted on
02/17/2014 5:13:15 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
To: Swordmaker
Idle hands will mean more free time for community agitators and occutard class envy rallies.
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posted on
02/17/2014 5:15:07 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Ther will be no abundance of anything but misery if enviromentalists have a
say.
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posted on
02/17/2014 5:20:42 AM PST
by
beef
(Who Killed Kennewick Man?)
To: a fool in paradise
It’s going to take someone to make all of the power to run those robots and 3-D printers.
It’s going to take someone to service all of those robots and 3-D printers.
It’s going to take someone to source, transport, and refined the resources used by those robots and 3-D printers
Skynet!
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posted on
02/17/2014 5:38:49 AM PST
by
jimmyo57
To: jimmyo57
Or the Matrix!
My friend and I were discussing the future. He thought it might turn out like “1984”. We certainly have the sort of technology where the state could watch you 24/7 and employ jack-booted tactics. However, I think it will be more like “Brave New World” where everybody will be hyped up on pharmaceuticals and the state will try to control you with “Scoobie Snacks”.
I am still waiting for my Jetson sky car. Maybe they will become widely available when I am done with my pick-up.
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posted on
02/17/2014 5:56:40 AM PST
by
3Fingas
(Sons and Daughters for Freedom and Rededication to the Principles of the U.S. Constitution)
To: beef; Revolting cat!
Ther will be no abundance of anything but misery if enviromentalists have a say.You'll get nothing and have it in abundance!
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posted on
02/17/2014 6:56:19 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
To: beef
Ther will be no abundance of anything but misery if enviromentalists have a say. There will be a surplus of permanently unemployable people. When these human pets lose their cuteness or become unaffordable, like other pets many will be put to sleep.
True environmentalists, sans socialism, are actually conservatives. The original Sierra Club members until recent times were overwhelmingly Republican. John Muir was a country conservative. Environmentalism was hijacked by the communists as a mask to hide behind. With some finagling it could be hijacked back. The Democrat base lives in cities that are environmental disasters, typically 5 degrees hotter than the surrounding countryside and full of pollution and disease.
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02/17/2014 7:14:12 AM PST
by
Reeses
To: Perdogg; Kevmo; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ...
> In the future, the slides suggested, privacy will be a thing of the past, robots will take over our jobs, 3D printers will pop out everything from human organs to houses, and man will mine asteroids in deep space for unfathomable mineral wealth.
He was speaking in Dubai; so much for the future. Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
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posted on
02/17/2014 7:55:40 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
To: AZLiberty; Reeses; 3Fingas; beef; Tucker39; arderkrag; expatguy; Tallguy; Vendome; varon; ...
Not so. Our future is so bright we both need to wear shades. We just have to get big government out of the frickin' way. Besides Diamandis's book, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think, I also recommend George Gilder's latest, Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capiltalism and How it is Revolutionizing Our World. Both books provide hope that America's experiment with Obamunism will be erased, with much greater things to come.
The technological door of opportunity is huge. We just have to pry it open.
.......................
Another good ebook on this subject is
Collapsing Water and Energy Costs: How Bill Gates [Or You!] Can Create the Inventions That Spark the Next Industrial and Agricultural Revolution
This ebook was written two summers ago. So far two of its recommendations have been followed. The first is that
Bill Gates team at Terrapower take an interest in lftr Thorium reactors--which they did last year. The second is that an oil company take an interest in lftr thorium reactors. In this case
shell oil created an investors contest and sat on the panel that judged that an MIT lftr company called Transatomic had the best technology.
Collapsing Water and Energy Costs makes several more major recommendations and many minor ones--which by the look of it, will likely be followed in the next several years.
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posted on
02/17/2014 2:22:44 PM PST
by
ckilmer
To: a fool in paradise
I think the ones I put up were in Russia. Kind of fancy for them, though.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I predict Peter Diamandis’ prediction will never come true. Society will break first. In my opinion, humans will not even want to live in the world he describes.
But, then, maybe that’s just me. I do know that I, at 66 years (because of my family history) am one of the last of the depression generation. Born after, but mentally of that generation.
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posted on
02/17/2014 5:01:43 PM PST
by
RobinOfKingston
(Democrats--the party of Evil. Republicans--the party of Stupid.)
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