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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (3609)	1/19/2006 3:45:36 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218047

TJ, I have a sneaking suspicion that my lifetime might just be a little too finite to see the denouement of much at all, other than my corporeal presence. <i am hopeful that all will be clear in your lifetime, so that you can marvel at the splendor of it all. > Another 42 years will probably see Game Over for me. "Come in number 42, times up!" I suspect, given the rate of resolutions I've seen in the last half century, that all will NOT be clear by then. But, a lot more will have happened. Lots and lots more. With lots and lots more to go. But, here are some things I'll see: TJ buying a QUALCOMM CDMA-powered phragmented photon turbo-charged cyberphone [complete with ASIC and royalty and BREW services with a separate Iridigm screen with wireless links to the cyberphone]. And another. Then another. And more. The denouement of the USD and its replacement with a fair dinkum cybercurrency, owned by the owners, controlled and managed by them and bid for with interest rates as the bid, with other currencies, goods and services as optional trades. If the USA is cunning, they could effect the transition themselves, using their own currency as the foundation. But people almost invariably do not undercut their own monopoly, preferring to go bust with others doing the good works. The end of global warming as a concern, along with the end of Malthusian woes about human overpopulation. Note how little we hear about acid rain and the ozone layer these days. They were a LOT of fun in the 1980s. You will hear as much about global warming. It will be recognized that Earth was not run by Gaia, in perpetual harmony for living things to be happy, but in fact was on a gradually crystallizing and freezing one way trip to one big lifeless iceberg. People will breathe a sigh of relief that they dodged that by producing CO2. Temporarily, but even 1000 years is a good start. Taupo will erupt and NZ will be in the news in a big way as about 100,000 people disappear. Taupo does BIG eruptions. By that, I mean huge. Krakatoa being a joke. Tambora no big deal: volcano.und.nodak.edu The biotelecosmictechdot.com revolution will accelerate as 6 billion people propel it in a vast tsunami of knowledge and development enabling multiple subsequent developments in a phenomenal feedback loop making all that has gone before trivial. Genetic engineering will be commonplace with eugenics back in fashion [of a voluntary kind], as it always has been as women have never been pleased to accept any old loser's DNA as a carrier for their DNA, preferring some over others. Stem cells will be handy adjuncts to medical treatments for spare parts. Women will tick the IQ box on desired attributes for their embryos. After a life of stupidity, I know that it is better to be smarter = when I'm smart it's good, when I'm stupid, it's not. I have not found a time when it's good to be stupid. There will be a real tsunami as a Tunguska style bolide explodes over or into the Pacific Ocean, causing a good-sized tsunami which makes the last one look trivial. Good-sized meaning do NOT be within 20 vertical metres of sea level in line of sight of the splash, [more at focal points for waves and less in concave lenses]. Global GDP per capita will grow enormously. Wars will be few and relatively trivial [like the one in Iraq]. Monstrous set piece battles as in WWI and WWII won't happen, even if China goes a bit silly over Taiwan. Other stuff too, but I'm tired now. Okay, enough of this for now. That's a good start. Mqurice