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1995 Carl Sagan predicted a bad future for us
Posted on 1/24/25 at 11:37 pm
Posted on 1/24/25 at 11:37 pm
He saw the future. Big Tech and the nexus with Big Gov has us well on the way to what he predicted. Short 1 minute clip.
Here is the text of what he says:
I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - [...] when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.
In 1990 he said this:
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
In 2011:
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
Here is the text of what he says:
I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - [...] when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.
In 1990 he said this:
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
In 2011:
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
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Posted on 1/24/25 at 11:38 pm to POTUS2024
You’re about to get roasted. I just posted your history …
Posted on 1/24/25 at 11:48 pm to POTUS2024
Sagan, who I greatly admired from watching Cosmos to his untimely death, got some things right, but I wonder if he'd have sided with the warping of 'science' for pure political reasons as we saw happen with Covid. While he was on board with concept of man caused climate change, I'm not sure he'd have sided with the Faucis or Gates when it came to tinkering with mother nature to the degree we're seeing with genetically engineering vaccines and the like.
Pandora's Box was a favorite expression he used when describing scenarios where mankind begins to tinker with things which may lay beyond their ability to control or understand.
Pandora's Box was a favorite expression he used when describing scenarios where mankind begins to tinker with things which may lay beyond their ability to control or understand.
Posted on 1/25/25 at 1:45 am to SouthEasternKaiju
Sagan was agnostic... so, while having a lot of knowledge he was still a fool. If he could predict the future he would have avoided going to hell.
Posted on 1/25/25 at 2:00 am to Goforit
quote:He did and there's hell on Earth.
If he could predict the future he would have avoided going to hell.
Posted on 1/25/25 at 2:55 am to Dalosaqy
A society that’s advanced with high tech is most at risk to not being able to recover from disaster.
I believe if a major world disaster had wiped out 80-90 percent of humans and civilization in the early 1900’s, they could have built back civilization within 30-40 years.
If that kind of disaster happened today, we’d slip into a dark ages for hundreds of years.
I believe if a major world disaster had wiped out 80-90 percent of humans and civilization in the early 1900’s, they could have built back civilization within 30-40 years.
If that kind of disaster happened today, we’d slip into a dark ages for hundreds of years.
This post was edited on 1/25/25 at 2:57 am
Posted on 1/25/25 at 3:03 am to wareaglepete
It would suck
This post was edited on 1/25/25 at 3:05 am
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