From:  Hooligan
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On: 2006/09/12 01:56:20
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will it be like Star Trek where everyone is positive to each other and we live in a Utopian world od plenty, or will things end up being like Mad Max where everyone's fighting over resources?
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From: muso
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On: 2006/09/12 02:06:21
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I think more like 1984 where all our actions (and thoughts) are monitored and controlled by the government.
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From: Pino Carafa
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On: 2006/09/12 02:12:30
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It'll be a world of plenty where we fight each other over other crap.
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From: stone5150
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On: 2006/09/12 06:31:17
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Pino, we already got that.
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From: Pino Carafa
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On: 2006/09/12 06:46:19
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Tell it to the folks starving down in Africa and places like that.
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From: stone5150
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On: 2006/09/12 07:01:30
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They starve while food goes to waste in the States. I don't mean table scraps, I mean silos and elevators of grain sitting there rotting so a handful of people can control the price.
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From: Pino Carafa
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On: 2006/09/12 07:13:12
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Yup. But in the mean time they certainly don't live in a world of plenty. I'm saying that even if we sort that problem, we'll find something else to bicker about.
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From: dragontooth
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On: 2006/09/12 16:59:02
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<we'll find something else to bicker about>
That always amazes me, no matter how good we have it we find something to complain about. I guess its all in what we are used to, we don't know what we have till we lose it or see someone else a lot worse off.
ouch that hurt gotta quit trying to think so hard he he
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From: ElijahBailey
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On: 2006/09/12 19:55:59
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"...we don't know what we have till we lose it..."
There was an associate in the states, kept complaining about his missus. Kept looking for ways of letting her go without copping too much blame himself. Listened intently to people who had separated from their significant others to find ways of doing it himself. He continued to hurt her by promising to take her places and then when the day came, even down to the final minutes when she was dressed and ready to go out that her makeup would be spoiled by his claim that "something has come up". He did it all the time.
So, I took her to the movies one day when "something had come up". Within weeks she moved into my place and I continued to make her feel like someone cared.
And didn't the shit hit the fan?
Now he wanted her back. But guess what? She told him to take a long hike off a short pier. It was funny then to see him over the next few months trying his heart out to get her back and she gleefully rejecting him.
I felt no remorse at all. I watched him treat one of the most selfless and beautiful women on the planet like shit. There may have been a time when you could consider your wife property and treat her accordingly but these are not those times. And payback is sweet sometimes...
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From: coral47
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On: 2006/09/12 21:23:13
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>> will it be like...
C) Same old shit. Different day.
It is now the 21st century. No flying cars, jet packs, space colonies, or any of the other cool stuff they told us about in the 60's and 70's.
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From: ElijahBailey
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On: 2006/09/12 21:25:57
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What they also didn't know in the 60s and 70s was the mobile phone and how parents would feel their kids would be hard done by if they didn't have one. But the kids actually use them to video someone being beaten to a pulp and send it to their friends... the latest rave...
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From: stone5150
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On: 2006/09/12 21:37:25
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I was told when I was a kid we would have Dick Tracy like video phones and flying cars. What the fuck? I was lied to big time.
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From: ElijahBailey
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On: 2006/09/12 21:38:36
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I don't know... Le Mans in recent years has had its share of flying cars....
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From: coral47
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On: 2006/09/12 21:42:33
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Actually, They did say 'videophones'.
But it seems somebody read the blueprints wrong, and put the lens facing away from you.
And not wanting to admit a mistake, and waste allll that expensive new tech, TPTB spun it as a feature...
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From: coral47
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On: 2006/09/12 21:45:07
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Hmmmmmm.... I should have refreshed before I posted. : /
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From: ElijahBailey
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On: 2006/09/12 21:47:38
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Yeah ya shoulda... what kinda place ya think this is anyway? 
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From: coral47
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On: 2006/09/12 21:55:09
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>> what kinda place ya think this is anyway?
The kind that I just KNEW my phrasing was a booboo as soon as I hit Submit.
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From: ElijahBailey
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On: 2006/09/12 22:57:35
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Ah...one of THOSE sites.... typical...
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From: Baldrick
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On: 2006/09/13 02:00:03
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I see India and China as the future economic and technological superpowers. The west will crumble over the long term as their countries' government ministers and their countries' senior board-level management classes fraudulently mismanage their respective economies, start expensive military actions to secure dwindling resources, and pay themselves preposterous salaries, bonuses and pensions. Meanwhile, most civilians who have lived responsibly and saved all their lives will get shafted with spiralling inflation, worthless pension schemes (economy's fucked, you see), hypertaxation, and endemic violent crime while public services are wound up or privatised into profiteering enterprises. The future inarticulate, incoherent, uneducated, unintelligible drug-addled youth will look up from the T.V. and give dazed looks of blank incomprehension, scratch their arses, utter some incomprehensible nonsense, check the T.V. schedules for anything featuring Jade Goody or Paris Hilton, attempt to read their lottery tickets, then nip out to burgle the neighbours and score some crack.
In short, proletariats and proles, Orwell-stylee. Oh wait a mo, that's already happening now, isn't it? Um, I think the future's gonna be grim. Probably involving eating rats, plague epidemics and roaming lawlessness, possibly alongside catastrophic environmental danger from flood, ultraviolet radiation and maybe widespread radioisotope contamination. One can look forward to a life of deprivation, disease and despair, only to be cut short by the sweet release of a possibly violent and certainly painful early death. Alone.
PS. I am available for children's parties.
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From: dragontooth
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On: 2006/09/13 16:25:56
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>> And payback is sweet sometimes...
I walked his daughter down the aisle and gave her away as her Dad, as I will for the next one.
Now I complain about being a Paw-Paw. Damn circles, I'm starting to get dizzy.
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From: Hooligan
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On: 2007/01/19 07:24:07
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This conversation is now closed.
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