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The 1st and 2nd Amendments will be further adopted outside the United States.
Open, non-DRM 3D printers will be as common as a 2D printer is today in the US.
Personal wayback machines will be standard computing kit.
Cash will still exist.
I agree on most of the arguments in the book "The Sovereign Individual" on what will most probably happen in the next decades. Summary: https://www.nateliason.com/notes/sovereign-individual
Since at least medieval times, civilization as a whole has tended to move towards freer, more democratic societies - almost without any meaningful, lengthy changes. This is particularly true since the industrial revolution. (Correct me if I'm wrong above.) Given this, I find it hard to believe that future societies would somehow become more oppressive. Rather, I think true democracy will have reached virtually, if no…
> Since at least medieval times, civilization as a whole has tended to move towards freer, more democratic societies - almost without any meaningful, lengthy changes. This is particularly true since the industrial revolution. (Correct me if I'm wrong above.) This is a very Eurocentric view. In the rest of the world, this mostly wasn't (and still isn't) the case.
- 1436 is the invention of the printing press and
- 1969 is the start of the ARPANET.
Many of them are postdictions (to validate the correspondence) but the funny thing is that the series ends in the year 2024, where there is a sort of singularity, because the interval [1436,1969] maps to [1969,2024].
Nothing of real significance will happen. I know this for a fact this because in 1967 I wrote about 2017. Nothing become true, Finland does not have Space Forces, cars do not fly, lasers do remove space junk from orbit etcetc. The Lasering of space junk was part of Finland's 100 year celebration, instead of fireworks the worn-out space-vessel "Kokko" was destroyed with lasers.
You think nothing of real significance happened between 1967 and 2017? The 90's was extreme with both internet and cellphones becoming mainstream, suddenly you no longer needed several bookshelves full of encyclopedias just to look up information and everyone was reachable from anywhere! 2000's and 2010's where pretty lackluster in comparison as they just fleshed out the offerings from the 90's, but we could very wel…
Nothing much else has happened in last 30 years.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/timonoko/102552851/in/album-72...
I agree on most of the arguments in the book "The Sovereign Individual" on what will most probably happen in the next decades. Summary: https://www.nateliason.com/notes/sovereign-individual
I managed to read the summary. Sounded like blockchain-sovereign citizen crossover fanfic.
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You think nothing of real significance happened between 1967 and 2017? The 90's was extreme with both internet and cellphones becoming mainstream, suddenly you no longer needed several bookshelves full of encyclopedias just to look up information and everyone was reachable from anywhere! 2000's and 2010's where pretty lackluster in comparison as they just fleshed out the offerings from the 90's, but we could very wel…
I had a personal computer in 1975. And radio amateurs had a pocketable device he could make phone calls everywhere in Finland. The coverage was probably better than cell-phones today, because at 7 Mhz. I also had internet address in 1985: timonoko@nokia.fi. Nothing much else has happened in last 30 years. https://www.flickr.com/photos/timonoko/102552851/in/album-72...
Many juices and even some pulps, flours etc, are also largely made using engineered yeasts and bacteria. Fruit is reserved for eating directly, or adding as an additive to gain a 'made with real fruit' label.
Similarly most real meat is more a speciality food, reserved for steaks, roasts, ribs, etc, anything processed (minced beef, chicken fillets, soups, curries, pies, sausages) is made using artificial meat. Much pasture is reforested.