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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	To add to NoJive's list: 3) There will always be too many self-righteous, under-educated human beings out there who follow 1 & 2 blindly. Had to add that in, considering we have begun our election cycle here in the states and things are getting crazy again. I was part of the insanity in '04. Today, standing more or less on the outside and looking in, I am starting to get sick already. Any room in Canada for a disaffected American who is seriously loathing his society? ;) As far as the topic is concerned, have to agree with WS 110%. What is of special interest to me is information and access to it. The Internet is becoming a "bad influence" as far as many of the world's leaders are concerned because it allows people to break out of the reality that has been so carefully constructed for us throughout the 20th century, a reality that has been kept in place by the old media and those who benefit from the status quo. Thus, methods of control will become commonplace, all in the name of stopping "child pornography", "copyright violations" and "terrorism". The slippery slope may lead us down other avenues such as political dissent considered a threat to the state. Entrenched institutions are also seeing what a powerful force the Internet can be in terms of grassroots organizations rising up and raining on their parade, such as "insurgency" candidates [url=http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/01/pauls-20-millio.html]garnering huge support online[/url]. They have no chance at winning, but it is enough to the muddy the waters with [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8TkmE5t1Pk]unacceptable logic being broadcast over the airwaves[/url]. This is already in play, and recent bills in congress, such as HR1955, the "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act", are laying the groundwork. http://www.democracynow.org/2007/11/20/homegrown_terrorism_prevention_act_raises_fears http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/att-and-other-isps-may-be-getting-ready-to-filter/index.html I see, at least in our lifetimes a more dystopian slant to technology, meaning it will be used to restrict our freedoms and mold societies in way that a ruling minority see fit, rather than utopian. RFID and newer technologies based on the concept will play a big part in the real world. We will all be numbered and one way or another we will lose much of what we consider to be privacy today. You may have noticed this is well underway also. There will be much resistance to these sweeping changes and states will clamp down on it. Flashmobs will be commonplace, as will the use of so-called non-lethal technologies to quell such uprisings from the peasant classes. Technology is currently a slave to those who have power and money, and will be used by that group to garner more power and more money. It will not be until people start seeing each other as individuals rather than as groups, have an honest and rigorous education system to help develop this sense of self, and tear down the establishments of control that things will change. But, even then we are not guaranteed anything because when one establishment falls another one rises up and begins the cycle all over again. As resources dwindle, as WS said, there will be more conflict. But the fact is, resources are getting scarce, which is going to affect this whole globalization thing and economies (at least in goods) will become more localized, at least until replacement technologies can be implemented. This will cause a rise in nationalistic behavior. We will see economic disaster throughout the world and the US will fall from glory in bankruptcy and countries like China and India will be the new superpowers. We are headed into some dark and bumpy times, IMHO of course. But hey, [url=http://www.blip.tv/file/520347]we still have comedy[/url]. Ram [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/1866]Ramasax[/url] on 01-13-2008 04:48)[/small] Loading...
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