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Warpy

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2. Oh, I don't think we're quite that powerful.
Sat May 26, 2012, 06:07 PM
May 2012

I do think our technological society is going to have to change radically within the next hundred years or so. I doubt very much that we'd recognize the world in another two centuries.

How well we come through it is going to depend on not only how we handle climate change and the impending refugee situation caused by large scale famine, but how we come through the impending financial catastrophe.

We could be post Roman Europe or we could be simply a post imperial country with reduced standard of living but with essential structures in place.

It will be interesting to watch.

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