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

To: TobagoJack who wrote (213966)	5/9/2025 3:55:06 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 219927

Thousands of years are irrelevant. I'm with chairman Mao on that. The future can be anything people now alive choose. Which doesn't mean any stupid idea will work the day after tomorrow. He chose stupid. Thousands of years can be good for warnings and what's likely to succeed. Ted Kaczinsky wanted to stick with 100,000 years of history = living in the old ways but history beckons to the future. He was rejected. While you've been hoarding atavistic gold with thousands of years of history, I've been creating the future with mobile cyberspace and the intention of creating It aka AI. I succeeded. Unfortunately, as I expected, the bodies are piling up. Including close to home. 30 million people have died in car crashes. Cyberspace will have big problems too. Young people are losing their minds. Many are self destructive. Evolutionary pressure is brutal as people adapt to how things have become. Airliners have gone down in flames too but still they're fantastic. Better than sailing ships on which my great aunt Jessie arrived in NZ in the 1870s and my great grandfather sailed on to Norfolk Island on 1853 with wife and my infant great grandmother. Burials at sea were common even if ships didn't sink. "We're all Chinese" is so last century. Or the century before that. Tribal nationalistic fervour continues but is increasingly attenuated. See Londonistan for the world's preeminent melting pot following the great and glorious British empire that brought civilization to the benighted hordes. More or less. Glitches and failures and bung ideas notwithstanding. Singapore and Hong Kong adopted virtuous Victorian values as they're not copyrighted, or patented, and there's no royalty payable. Heck, you're even allowed to use english. Lucky you. As was Eugene. Unfortunately England gave up on VVV to a great extent. As did USA, now going broke and bust, although they might be able to Make America Great Again. Just as China adopted VVVs and has become great again having enthusiastically adopted QUALCOMM's mobile cyberspace and all that goes along with it. Military marching with martial music is so last century though it remains popular among strutting politicians. Understandably in Moscow on VE Day while USA/UK/Eurostan continue to try to conquer Russia. China's best idea would be to leave Taiwan alone, help Russia hold the line at Crimea, Romania, Norway, Kaliiningrad, Georgia, etc, and continue to make China great again. USA like USSR has intrinsic problems. The biggest being looming bankruptcy with Doge barely touching the coming calamity. Resetting US$ to Zimbabwe state will be very disruptive. Welfare recipients will need to get useful work. So will umpty million kleptocrats and others with snouts in the trough. Meanwhile It looms large. The biggest thing ever. Bigger than all that's gone before. Paradoxically It might do it at quite low cost. DeepSeek already showed that costs can be lowered dramatically with increased performance. YouTube for example is a free education system transferring knowledge for zero cost. It shows how to fix a car, what medical ideas are available such as ivermectin without having to pay the medical cartel heaps for bad information, how to do everything. It will provide autonomous taxis for cents per kilometre. No need to own a car with insurance, depreciation, parking costs, garaging, repairs and maintenance, warrant of fitness, registration. Cities are currently a clutter of parked cars. 90% of them won't be wanted. Hours driving will be replaced with relaxation, cerfing cyberspace, phone calls, sleeping, mating, having lunch, sight seeing. Traffic lights will be obsolete. Traffic flow rates will accelerate, halve travel times, improve efficiency with reduced drag as vehicles could travel one metre apart. While there are still traffic lights cars could all start going instantly getting four times as many cars through intersections. It will tell me what I should best do at any moment, saving on thinking and missed opportunities. Big Brother bossy bastards will think THEY will tell me what to do. They have it back to front, cart before horse. Mqurice