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realism is importantSome ideas mented are really whilst others are sounding ver far fetched. whereas the nazis took off a long time ago, we can be VERY adventurous about them. as for the earth? well lets look back ten years ago- 1998. The spice girls and david beckam had popularity. Whats changed? tbh, not all that much. We had the internet back then and we just use it more now. What technology has really found it's way into the hands of the public in the last decade? It takes a pretty drastic event, say 9/11 to make a lot of change (anti-terrorist measures HAVE affected most people in one way or another). I cant even use the word 'bomb' (we used to say "we had a bomb of a time"/"it was a bomb"/"blonde bombshell") without sending a london tube train into panic and being detained by armed police. so seriously guys. what *events* might drastically change the world (like viruses) and what might just be more exagerrated?? |
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I like your thinking christoph! I think we can all take a leaf out of your book.
also china- the new superpower? or at least, in ten years time there could certainly be a clash between china and america! it's funny but america, the massively consumerist nation depends on the goods that china produces. if china were to with hold goods from america the uproar would be excessive. then again, china's economy depends on the consumerist nature of america. but with having such a high population density, if anyone had a reasn for world domination, china would have possibly the best. perhaps with north korea as it's long destructive nuclear arm?
And lastly, if terrorism does become a huge threat (although here in england london has /alWAYS had terrorism problems) perhaps that would spur groups like the neonazis to also commit such acts. I think the moon nazis are definately terror from outside, but the terror from within i think is closer than we might think!!
if you look at mobilephones i would say the impact and the changes are massive. they morphed from big bones to small supercomputers. they changed the face of citys. not only phonebooths disapeared but you have strangely mumbling peolpe running free without someone calling vor mentalhealth personel!
sudden world wide desasters are most unlike to happen. even the meteroid that (most likely) startet the klimatic changes during the dark ages, like sudden drop in temperatures, drop in total sunlightquantity and drop in foodproduktion, didn't have the impact on the human race we like to imagine.
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/02/040204000254.htm <
the chances will reside in the smal details. new york is the same city as bevor 9/11 but you don't have lugage-lockers anymore.
a interhuman transmittable birdflu might kill millions but the most residial chance would be the everydayuse of facemasks in the western world (similar to asia)
we had desastrous wars since WWII but they also made vor small not big changes.
even if we have war in iran and even if iran manages to use a smal atombomb and even if amerika has to withdraw from that war like in vietnam or korea, we won't have a maior shift in global politics. economy won the cold war, economy will decide the dynamics of global politik for at least 25 more years.
the biggest changes will be the spread of terrorism. new groups will rise with different goals. not only religion, left or right extremists, but also ecological and economical groups. terrorism might change into an insane sort of caotic robin-hood-like gerilliafight between small groups and governments and big busines.