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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[i]Just caught this off of [url=http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/25/0653222&from=rss]Slashdot - Experts Fear Future Will be Like Sci-Fi Movies[/url]. For some reason it reminded me of the Asylum..[/i] According to expert futurologists, we face a nightmarish future -- a future without expert predictions of the future! "People will get sick of it," said a spokesman for the Institute for Predictions. "They just won't want any more baseless predictions -- so people will stop making any." Professor Isaac Sagan of the University of Pontification agrees. "In the future, people will almost certainly have gotten sick of hearing me talk about what will happen in the future. Very likely, I'll have to find another job -- such as fry cook, or hat salesman." Although vapid, uninteresting predictions of the future are currently at a record high, even those who attempt to make actualy useful predictions foresee a downward trend. "At some point, real problems are going to become impossible to ignore," pointed out Dr. Bob Gore of the Smartville College, Oxford. "With climate change already depopulating some areas, and the deepening split between the American, Muslim, and Chinese spheres of influence, it's only a matter of time until people just don't have the time to talk about whether, in future, they will have the time to make predictions about... hang on, I can't remember how I started this sentence." Whoever you listen to, one theme is clear -- futurologists and the kind of 'experts' who appear in newspaper articles as 'experts predict' will one day die out, and that day may be sooner than we think. Which gives us all a ray of hope for the future. [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/418]Petskull[/url] on 09-25-2006 18:33)[/small] Loading...
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