re: The 20th Century...WTF Happened?

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Hope I'm not around for that.

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Could be as soon as 20 years.

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Talk about begging for genocide to happen...

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I hope this doesn't happen, but while China is planning well for a mass refugee crisis by basically owning Africa at this point, Southern Asia has not prepared. I'll be shocked if we don't see the biggest refugee crisis in human history this century.

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Doubt that highly. As long as there's McDonald's and other fast food restaurants I don't think we'll ever be rid of it.

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The question to me is not if they can do it since there are drugs that have been impeccably successful with mice no matter what they fed them, but if they would allow it. Lots of money in the fitness and weight loss industries, and those would immediately go down the toilet with only meatheads utilizing them.

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Nope, frick that.

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Robots make this inevitable and sooner than you might think. 5% of the nation's workforce makes a living off of driving. Once driverless cars are common, then that's a huge chunk of the nation's workforce out of a job. Only people in the creative sphere will be employed by the end of the century.

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What?!?! That's a stretch.

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All they have to figure out is to halt the aging process. That plus nano technology or being uploaded to the Singularity once your first body dies and then have a new one made for you.

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Robots make this inevitable and sooner than you might think. 5% of the nation's workforce makes a living off of driving. Once driverless cars are common, then that's a huge chunk of the nation's workforce out of a job. Only people in the creative sphere will be employed by the end of the century.

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Well then I hope I'm not around at that time. That sounds like a mutant form of communism.