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Predictions for 2020–2029

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Re: Predictions for 2020–2029

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Post by phenkdo »

rorykoehler wrote: post #27
dibujaron wrote: post #11

The section on Nationalism indicates to me that we're heading towards a period of major, great-power conflict. I could see it being a lot of smaller, officially unrelated wars or one big one. Since WW2 we have enjoyed the longest ever period without direct conflict between great powers. How much longer can we expect this to last?

He's really far off about the EU. The EU will fix its problems and join into the geopolitical theatre as a unified block. No one wants to follow the UK.

I concur, in fact Brexit might have the reverse effect of France, Germany led EU moving towards a closer union.

Re: Predictions for 2020–2029

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Post by bobosha »

IMHO the search paradigm of 10 links itself needs to be reimagined. One idea is of that of a self-assembling, dynamically updating "view" of the underlying information (without the need to read documents).

I suspect several smart people are working on it and the challenges are many, but eventually, we will get there.

Re: Predictions for 2020–2029

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Post by acheron »

sverige wrote: post #5

I predict the vast majority of people will never again understand that new decades, centuries, and millenia begin on January 1st of years ending in '1' and not '0' because there never was a Year 0. Everyone knew that 50 years ago, which is why Kubrick didn't call it '2000: A Space Odyssey.'

Everyone needs to stop this hypercorrection nonsense. That only applies to centuries and millennia because they're ordinal numbers. You say "20th century" and "21st century". But you say "1990s" and "2020s". Unless you start saying "201st decade" you are wrong.

Also, nobody ever complained about decades until just this year, because it's obviously wrong. I don't even remember it in 2010. I think it's a bunch of kids who vaguely remember the 21st century starting in 2001 (which is correct, of course) but never realized the reason, and are having hypercorrection issues now that they're older.

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