Thread: The next 30 years..........

Originally Posted by Keldario

The law of nature is change. Nothing can remain the same forever. No lessons can be learned if everything was done the same over and over again. Life is about lessons and experience. What would be the point of living as if we were a rock when we chose to have human bodies instead?

Yeah, but to nature 30 years is nothing. Society can remain fairly static for a generation or two.

Originally Posted by spockman

Yeah, but to nature 30 years is nothing. Society can remain fairly static for a generation or two.

This is true, but we are apart of nature and nature is a part of us. Those who are willing to make great change in this life time, will.

I am willing.

Hopefully people will realize you can't keep mutilating the environment like we are.

I'm probably going to say this wrong but my hubby told me (if memory serves) that at one point in time the patent office closed and said that everything that could be invented HAS been invented. They were very wrong lol

I see great changes in the future. If I look with a religious view, things may become horribly wondrous. If I ignore the religious and simply view the future from a technological/scientific/political etc view, I think there's things in store we can't even begin to imagine.

Originally Posted by Zhaylin

I'm probably going to say this wrong but my hubby told me (if memory serves) that at one point in time the patent office closed and said that everything that could be invented HAS been invented. They were very wrong lol

I see great changes in the future. If I look with a religious view, things may become horribly wondrous. If I ignore the religious and simply view the future from a technological/scientific/political etc view, I think there's things in store we can't even begin to imagine.

I know that that was a spoken view during the height of the Roman empire...

There will be noticeable global change in 2010. I can already list many grotesque things that have already taken place in 2010 that are enormous in impact, but they aren't whats in-your-face noticeable, just the tip of the iceberg.

It is just a 2004 prediction I made. I'm leaning on the intensity of a global economic collapse or something equivalent in travesty, a real eye opener.


Think I'm joking?

Should be interesting.

In 30 years you are all going to be in jail. I will have taken over the world and anyone who doesn't call me your majesty will be put in jail, and I will make it retroactive.

You really think so, Your Majesty?

Heh... I need to correct hubby (not often I get to do that lol)
I looked it up:
""Everything that can be invented has been invented."
Charles H. Duell, U.S. Commissioner of Patents, in 1899.

Rumor has it...

that a Patent Office official resigned and recommended that the Patent Office be closed because he thought that everything that could possibly be invented had already been invented!

While that statement makes good fun of predictions that do not come to pass, it is none the less just a myth....." http://en.allexperts.com/q/Inventing...ing-invent.htm



I hate to see the long term ramifications of the huge oil spill that's going on...

Drill baby drill?


I hate humanity.

I'm pessimistic about the future, mainly with the continual weakening of western democracy and ineffectiveness in stopping radical groups from strengthening. The future looks pretty bleak (unless something unexpected happens)