Post #2114360

2022-08-04 13:23 UTC

In 1997, @Wired magazine published a long file &quot;the next 25 years will be incredibly prosperous for Humanity&quot; before making a sidebar &quot;unless one or two of these ten events occur&quot;. Enjoy ! https://archive.org/details/eu_Wired-1997-07_OCR/mode/2up

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@onlinelernecke@mastodon.social 2022-08-04 15:56

@MaximilienMoreau@mastodon.social @Wired@mstdn.social Naja, die letzten 25 Jahre haben wir ja nach meiner Lesart wenigstens 23 mit Wohlstand gelebt.

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@panigrc@mastodon.social 2022-08-05 01:17

@MaximilienMoreau@mastodon.social @Wired@mstdn.social Wow, spot on!

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@Rado1@qoto.org 2022-08-08 06:16

@MaximilienMoreau@mastodon.social @Wired@mstdn.social Looks like bingo card will all numbers crossed.

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@_tillwe_@mastodon.social 2022-08-09 10:48

@MaximilienMoreau@mastodon.social @Wired@mstdn.social 9 out of 10, I'd say.

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@phil_s@social.tchncs.de 2022-08-09 22:09

@MaximilienMoreau@mastodon.social And even so much of this happens - we are still doing much better than 25 years ago. @Wired@mstdn.social

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@dead10ck@pleroma.dead10ck.com 2022-08-10 14:51

@MaximilienMoreau@mastodon.social wow that's eerie

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@NafiTheBear@snaggletooth.life 2022-08-12 11:49

@MaximilienMoreau@mastodon.social @Wired@mstdn.social I can't believe all of those ten happened. Maybe 3 or so, but all of it happens QQ

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@Stellar@mk.absturztau.be 2022-08-27 20:56

@MaximilienMoreau@mastodon.social @Wired@mstdn.social all of them are happening

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@kode54@treehouse.systems 2022-08-27 21:27

@MaximilienMoreau@mastodon.social @Wired@mstdn.social Oops! All scenarios!

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@faoluin@chitter.xyz 2022-08-27 23:45

@MaximilienMoreau@mastodon.social @Wired@mstdn.social The way number 4 reads makes me realize that the Cold War feels like ancient history (IMO). But it makes for an entertaining alternate history scenario. The rest of these... ouch.

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@sergi@social.politicaconciencia.org 2022-08-30 08:47

@MaximilienMoreau@mastodon.social @Wired@mstdn.social LOL... it seems a joke!!! But i've checked the source link and that text is EXACTLY THERE... 1997 defining 2022!!???? 😔

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@chjara@snowdin.town 2022-09-01 15:55

@MaximilienMoreau@mastodon.social @Wired@mstdn.social sure love how all of these are a thing

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@madcap@hackers.town 2022-09-01 18:32

@MaximilienMoreau@mastodon.social @Wired@mstdn.social wow

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@revisaALT@mstdn.io 2022-09-01 23:33

@MaximilienMoreau@mastodon.social @Wired@mstdn.social thanks so much 4 sharing. I was checking the other articles in the issue and it was a sick edition

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@LeBonk@wetdry.world 2022-09-02 07:32

@MaximilienMoreau@mastodon.social @Wired@mstdn.social 1. US-PRC relations certainly aren't perfect or even ideal right now, but they're certainly not at Cold War level. 2. Not really sure what the "new technologies" or the "expected productivity increases" being referred to here were in 1997, and I don't know what "big economic boosts" specifically mean according to the writer 3. I'm not familiar enough with Russian politics to know whether the term "kleptocracy" is correct, but there is definitely a lot of nationalism, and it is threatening at least one country in Europe. However, I wouldn't call it "quasicommunist". Also, I'm not sure when the last time was when Russia WASN'T basically run by a mafia. 4. East/West integration seems to have gone fine? I mean there's some issues in the East for sure, particularly queer rights and some racism, but I don't know if that counts as an "integration" thing. (also Brexit doesn't count since the UK never used the Euro anyway and AFAIK it wasn't related to east/west relations at all) 5. Well we're not at that point yet, but we are approaching it rapidly, so this could definitely be one.

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@defgecd@mastodon.social 2022-09-02 10:50

@MaximilienMoreau@mastodon.social @Wired@mstdn.social societal "progress" under capitalism is a sham and this shows that

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@dom@vis.social 2022-09-02 14:23

@MaximilienMoreau@mastodon.social @Wired@mstdn.social 😬

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@europlus@social.europlus.zone 2022-09-02 22:11

@MaximilienMoreau@mastodon.social @Wired@mstdn.social umm, yeah, one or two...sure, sure

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@mrpieceofwork@mastodon.social 2022-09-18 08:32

@samsamros@mastodon.online 7/10 ftw

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@alinanorakari@broken.graphics 2022-09-18 10:21

@MaximilienMoreau@mastodon.social @Wired@mstdn.social I did not enjoy

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@johannesrave@chaos.social 2022-11-01 23:32

@MaximilienMoreau@mastodon.social @Wired@mstdn.social 😬

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@enricodangelo@mastodon.ie 2022-11-21 08:55

@MaximilienMoreau@mastodon.social @Wired@mstdn.social well, we don't have 1 or 2 of these things, so we are good, right?

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@goofrider@masto.ai 2023-04-14 12:04

@MaximilienMoreau@mastodon.social omg 💀💀💀

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