Future Predictions

[Hastur]

Some food for thought on how things in 1983 looked to Sir Isaac, a high school junior who still had an absolute belief that he was going to be an astronaut, and the rest of the world regarding the prospects for 2019:

35 years ago, Isaac Asimov was asked by the Star to predict the world of 2019. Here is what he wrote

By Isaac Asimov

Originally published Dec. 31, 1983

lf we look into the world as it may be at the end of another generation, let’s say 2019 — that’s 35 years from now, the same number of years since 1949 when George Orwell’s 1984 was first published — three considerations must dominate our thoughts:

1. Nuclear war. 2. Computerization. 3. Space utilization.

. . .

If the United States and the Soviet Union flail away at each other at any time between now and 2019, there is absolutely no use to discussing what life will be like in that year. Too few of us, or of our children and grand· children, will be alive then for there to be any point in describing the precise condition of global misery at that time.

Let us, therefore, assume there will be no nuclear war — not necessarily a safe assumption — and carry on from there.

. . .

The jobs that will disappear will tend to be just those routine clerical and assembly-line jobs that are simple enough, repetitive enough, and stultifying enough to destroy the finely balanced minds of those human beings unfortunate enough to have been forced to spend years doing them in order to earn a living, and yet complicated enough to rest above the capacity of any machine that is neither a computer nor computerized.

It is these that computers and robots for which they are perfectly designed will take over.

The jobs that will appear will, inevitably, involve the design, the manufacture, the installation, the maintenance and repair of computers and robots, and an understanding of whole new industries that these “intelligent” machines will make possible.

This means that a vast change in the nature of education must take place, and entire populations must be made “computer-literate” and must be taught to deal with a “high-tech” world.

. . .

By 2019, we will be back on the moon in force. There will be on it not Americans only, but an international force of some size; and not to collect moon rocks only, but to establish a mining station that will process moon soil and take it to places in space where it can be smelted into metals, ceramics. glass and concrete — construction materials for the large structures that will be put in orbit about the Earth.

One such structure which very conceivably, might be completed by 2019 would be the prototype of a solar power station, outfitted to collect solar energy, convert it to microwaves and beam it to Earth.

tl;dr Learn to code

[Haumana]

if we follow our current trajectory, i predict the word "bitch" will one day become taboo to the extreme left, and will be deemed offensive hate speech in the same way that faggot or tranny are today

It already is in the Bay Area according to my extreme left sister.

[Speaker to Animals]

That bitch needs to learn to code.

[pineapplemike]

if we follow our current trajectory, i predict the word "bitch" will one day become taboo to the extreme left, and will be deemed offensive hate speech in the same way that faggot or tranny are today

i am the smartest man alive

Thousands sign petition to remove sexist terms from Oxford Dictionaries
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/18/europe/w ... index.html

Tens of thousands of people have signed a petition calling on publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) to remove "sexist" terms for women.

According to the petition, posted on Change.org, the venerable publisher, which produces the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), offers a series of synonyms for woman, including "bitch, besom, piece, bit, mare, baggage, wench, petticoat, frail, bird, bint, biddy, filly."

Featuring the hashtags #IAmNotABitch and #SexistDictionary, the petition includes several excerpts, which it says are suggested usages of "woman."

[pineapplemike]

Tanning salons will eventually fall within the crosshairs of the blackface inquisition.

soon..

Third instance of Trudeau in skin-darkening makeup emerges — new video said to have been filmed in '90s
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: SEP 19, 2019

[Speaker to Animals]

if we follow our current trajectory, i predict the word "bitch" will one day become taboo to the extreme left, and will be deemed offensive hate speech in the same way that faggot or tranny are today

i am the smartest man alive

Thousands sign petition to remove sexist terms from Oxford Dictionaries
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/18/europe/w ... index.html

Tens of thousands of people have signed a petition calling on publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) to remove "sexist" terms for women.

According to the petition, posted on Change.org, the venerable publisher, which produces the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), offers a series of synonyms for woman, including "bitch, besom, piece, bit, mare, baggage, wench, petticoat, frail, bird, bint, biddy, filly."

Featuring the hashtags #IAmNotABitch and #SexistDictionary, the petition includes several excerpts, which it says are suggested usages of "woman."

Low-hanging fruit that already fell to the ground by the time of your "prediction", but okay.

[pineapplemike]

tbh ive been saying it for years not just since that post but if you wanna ankle bite then okay

[pineapplemike]

if we follow our current trajectory, i predict the word "bitch" will one day become taboo to the extreme left, and will be deemed offensive hate speech in the same way that faggot or tranny are today

i am the smartest man alive

Thousands sign petition to remove sexist terms from Oxford Dictionaries
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/18/europe/w ... index.html

Tens of thousands of people have signed a petition calling on publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) to remove "sexist" terms for women.

According to the petition, posted on Change.org, the venerable publisher, which produces the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), offers a series of synonyms for woman, including "bitch, besom, piece, bit, mare, baggage, wench, petticoat, frail, bird, bint, biddy, filly."

Featuring the hashtags #IAmNotABitch and #SexistDictionary, the petition includes several excerpts, which it says are suggested usages of "woman."

[Smitty-48]

Zero chance that law is upheld by the judiciary, Brandenburg v Ohio.