Your vision of the future

[The2ndWheel]

Boot on your face? Living life on a distant moon? Tracked by the NSA 24/7? Kind of boring, just get up and go to work, maybe a vacation here and there, kids whining, boss bossing, same little irritating errands, and wondering where all the cool things are that they promised us? All the luxury time in the world thanks to machines doing the work for us? Melding with machines to have an internet search engine in your brain? The coming together of all peoples? The further distancing of classes? All those events and more combined into one hell of a complex disutopian-utopian duality?

[snappyturtle]

1. Way too depressing !

[Freedom_from_Chains]

2. I'm looking forward to when they can implant the chip inside

my brain so that I can get my phone calls and voice mails, access the internet and E-mail, and of course being known where my location is at all times. Then I won't have to feel like I am so tied to my desk like I do these days.

[Swamp Rat]

3. If we even make it that far...

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. Enlarging consciousness

so that we are more aware of what Reality is.

[shain from kane]

5. Rapture. Bring it on! n/t

[annabanana]

6. what I want? . . "back to the Garden"

"We are stardust, we are golden,
We are billion year old carbon,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden."

What we get?

"Do you know?
Don't you wonder?
What's going on down under you.

We have all been here before
We have all been here before
We have all been here before
We have all been here before"

good ol' CSN&Y

[Swamp Rat]

7. I wish I still had that recording.

:cry:

[shadowknows69]

9. Memories SR

take comfort in the memories man.

[Swamp Rat]

11. I guess I'll break out the guitar and play it myself.

:D

[shadowknows69]

13. I'll boot it up on Itunes and sing along wit ya

n/t

[blues90]

14. I still have the LP when the album came out

I am going to dig through all my wrapped LP's today or tomarrow and bring the record player up from the garage and plug it into my boombox just to get back to that feeling of that time . Oh Man I miss those days so much , it may be heartbreaking to hear the songs but who knows .

The future to me is not far away , i think their goal is to kill off all the people here that are just making it . They need to secure the water and resources for their longterm survival , we who have little don't count , that is very clear to me now , we just don't count .

[darkmaestro019]

15. DO IT>

I'm twenty-eight but I grew up firmly thinking Alice Cooper and Cream and Black Sabbath and CCR and the Who are NOT, NOT, NOT improved by "clear technology" bs. It needs that vinyl scratch.

Do it, man. It'll be good for your soul. Wherever there is a turntable playing, there is a field of nineteen-seventy-something for about ten feet around the speakers. It's a good place to catch your breath. I have a very good turntable we got in a thrift store, and listening to all my vinyl again was like coming home.

Do it! Drag it out! It's worth the dust and spiders, you'll see!

[mmonk]

8. Nothing positive.

[lectrobyte]

10. Seems like we are headed towards a more-stratified society, with

a lot more control in place. It will be an interesting time.

[ThomWV]

12. Starvation, reduced populations, and in the end a better society

Big changes are coming.

The only reason there are as many people on the planet today as there are is because we have the ability to transport food long distances at very little cost. We also have the ability to produce hugh amounts of a small number of crops to feed all those people. Unfortunately the ability to produce so much from those few crops comes at an expense. In order to grow the food we need to use the same fuel that we use to move the food. We are using that same fuel for other purposes as well. For instance we are using it to propel ski boats, recreational ATVs, and private sport airplanes. We are using it make pesticides and we are using it to make plastic doo-dads which will be sold in abundance at Wal Mart stores. We are using it to make Play-Station-II's.

A starving time is coming. In some parts of the world it has arrived already.

And what follows? Its all a guess of course but here goes. Communications will replace transportation. That is as obvious as the nose on your face. What are now considered "traditional" farming methods will predominate with an attendant loss of production and quality of product. Because transportation costs will make long distance movement of bulk products extremely expensive (and it has always been extremely expensive - we've just been doing it with dirt cheap fuel) you can expect farms to be closer to population centers. That means that the mega-citys we see today will be things of the past. No city in the world will be any larger than London was before the First World War and only a small handful will achieve that size.

And what will be our primary power source once the end of this oil boom is over? Nuclear power is the obvious answer. It is obvious because the changeover will be evolutionary, not revolutionary (I say that in an engineering sense of time, not a glacial one).

So how will it end up? Well after great turmoil; death and destruction, there will be a lot less people living a lot more sensibly. Unfortunately I also see a new "Dark Ages" coming in terms of social interaction.

Let's face it folks, as much as everyone would love to see it we are never going to live like Hobbits.

[darkmaestro019]

16. I beg to differ with you, kindly, dear

a lot less people living a lot more sensibly sounds a LOT like Bag-End to me.


(sigh)

Teasing a bit; overall I agree utterly with your assessment. And again, I confess as on another thread to a sad but true bit of glee. I'd like a real world with real consequences and Nature not interfered with for awhile. As ugly as the transition will be. No birth ever happens without the accompanying birth pangs. And there is no light without darkness.

The coming NeoDark Age may be the best thing that ever happens to humanity--in the long run.

[ThomWV]

17. I Do Not Disagree With You

It will be a change to be sure but so was the meteor strike that did in the dinosaurs.

What I do not want to say is that the times that are a coming will in any way be meaner or more primitive than today. In every way society will be more sensible than it is today. That's the thing about evolution, things get as good as they can be under the circumstance, not necessarily better but certainly not necessarily worse either. So my future is different, and the transition will be unpleasant to be sure, but the end result will not be so bad. I won't be here to see it - not the good part that is - but I'm sure its coming.

[Tace]

18. A Phil Dick Sort Of Plot...

Resource wars rage globally as the Earth's ecology is completely destroyed. However, Androids created as weapons during the resource wars destroy Mankind in a final war between Man and Machines. These destructive androids go on to attempt to colonize the galaxy.