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JustABozoOnThisBus

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46. Books? Where we're going, we don't need Books!

Thu Nov 21, 2013, 07:39 AM

Nov 2013

Google Implants supplanted Google Contact Lenses decades ago.

Google Glass is for museums, right next to something called an Eight-Track Player.

With Google Genome technology, people can surf the intertubes from the womb.

We will survive the WikiWars, all sides attacking and revising the Centralized Knowledge Base. But there will be blood. Or CPU Refrigerant. Something will be spilt.

Book? I'll have to Google that word.

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Does anyone else ever wonder what the history books will say about this era 50 years from now? [View all] Brigid Nov 2013 OP

The books will be in Chinese and will not be kind. nt onehandle Nov 2013 #1

Why would history books be in Chinese 50 years from now? Gravitycollapse Nov 2013 #4

Why wouldn't there be people or history books in 50 years? Gravitycollapse Nov 2013 #2

You have to have a literate populace to publish and read books Brigid Nov 2013 #5

Ummm...global historical literacy rates are the highest they've ever been. Gravitycollapse Nov 2013 #10

That's what history books will say RobertEarl Nov 2013 #18

Watch History2 or the Weather Channel fadedrose Nov 2013 #8

Excepting the literal annhilation of the surface of the Earth, in 50 years... Gravitycollapse Nov 2013 #11

What, you are only 25!! You poor darling fadedrose Nov 2013 #13

+25 RobertEarl Nov 2013 #26

No, I'm 24. Gravitycollapse Nov 2013 #31

That hasn't been true in this country. pscot Nov 2013 #40

Heh heh. Warren DeMontague Nov 2013 #44

That's pretty accurate IMO. Also, the asshole factor seems to be increasing all of the RKP5637 Nov 2013 #12

I belief in ET's too. No sightings yet fadedrose Nov 2013 #32

Oh, they're here on DU. PETRUS Nov 2013 #33

Yep... fadedrose Nov 2013 #34

No, none yet, not via folded space, etc. With the billions of potential ..., IMO, there is RKP5637 Nov 2013 #41

Creative speculation fadedrose Nov 2013 #48

Doesn't matter. The books won't print what happened fadedrose Nov 2013 #3

It will undoubtedly be online TBF Nov 2013 #6

I see 3 options. 1) all is gone. 2) Idiocracy rules. 3) Intelligence has overcome stupidity. RKP5637 Nov 2013 #7

What do the history books say about 1963? MineralMan Nov 2013 #9

Hey, my hyperbolic slide ruler still works! LOL RKP5637 Nov 2013 #16

I still have my Pickett double log rule. MineralMan Nov 2013 #19

Yep!!! You have to have pretty fast fingers on a slide ruler to keep up with a calculator! LOL n/t RKP5637 Nov 2013 #21

They'll wonder why so many people were willfully ignorant in the so-called "Information Age" Blue_Tires Nov 2013 #14

They'll call it the Mental Fart era B Calm Nov 2013 #15

Yep, gaseous brains. n/t RKP5637 Nov 2013 #17

They'll say whatever the Koch Brother clan will want them to say. nt valerief Nov 2013 #20

Gilded Age 2.0, probably Recursion Nov 2013 #22

Do you regard "50 years" as very far into the future? Because it ain't. WinkyDink Nov 2013 #23

Not really. Brigid Nov 2013 #25

It was the Cyber-era a transition time from the industrial age, which required CK_John Nov 2013 #24

"The one gleaming point of hope that people of all different walks of life latched onto..." TlalocW Nov 2013 #27

That works. Brigid Nov 2013 #35

They might call this the Second Gilded Age, starting with the ascension of Dubya Bush...... AverageJoe90 Nov 2013 #28

I really don't wonder... cilla4progress Nov 2013 #29

These are the questions I'm expecting in history books: Jamaal510 Nov 2013 #30

"Decline", "Fall", and "Empire" will be popular words in book titles. Tierra_y_Libertad Nov 2013 #36

50 years ago was 1963 - The President was going to be shot - the Beatles had not yet appeared Douglas Carpenter Nov 2013 #37

History is written by the Victors Chief D Nov 2013 #38

They SHOULD say that the US went crazy after 9/11 Bonobo Nov 2013 #39

And then the Republican Party ate itself and disappeared into demographic oblivion Warren DeMontague Nov 2013 #43

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!!! DOOOOMED!!! WE ARE DOOOOOOMED, YOU FOOLS!!!! Warren DeMontague Nov 2013 #42

a population 'dumbed' down by media with a heavy percentage of ass-kissers and morons! dmosh42 Nov 2013 #45

Books? Where we're going, we don't need Books! JustABozoOnThisBus Nov 2013 #46

The Crazy Years hobbit709 Nov 2013 #47