The future of Mankind...

[TokinAsianGuy]

Billionfold's post, shown here...

ROFL like that will ever work. They'll start a war over that shit. Same thing with the gambling law trying to make it illegal for banks to let you gamble online. That shit is going to fail.

from this thread...

http://boards.cannabis.com/showthread.php?t=96209

...got me thinking.

in relation to my comment about how perhaps a future war would no longer be physical, i think the events that is being discussed in above mentioned thread is more relevant then ever. Hackers have always been about freedom of information (and fucking shit up), but freedom nonetheless. When will they lose their label of "hackers" and become "terrorists" in the eyes of the government? when information that concerns the well being of all citizens is kept from us, therefore blinding us from the truth, keeping us in the dark, we fear what we don't know or cannot see. which leads to the issue of control through fear, which at the moment has most americans by the balls and ovaries.

Bill gates said in an interview about Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, "Understand that this is the last physical format there will ever be. Everything's going to be streamed directly or on a hard disk". We all know the influence Gates potentially has on this funny little thing called The Internet, so if this is the last gen to have a physical format, how soon until everything goes online? and i'm talking Television, magazines, newspapers, movies, music, everything. Yes, these are all readily availiable now online, but it harks back to the days of bootlegging, with a few legitimate files floating around. but they are not essential. you can view or purchase this on other formats.

If the internet becomes the cradle to our society, then it would be the most valuable thing to us all, thereby making it the most damaging asset to lose...

just a few thoughts, thats all.

please, if anyone else has anything at all they'd like to share on the future of mankind, put in your 2 cents. we need more than one opinion.

[lagstronaut]

I don't want a digital world...it sounds cool and futuristic and blah blah blah, but it allows your life to be hinged upon something you have no control over, and that is scary to me. I get mad enough when my computer fucks up and I have to do something worthwhile instead, I've already started depending on this crap, and I don't like it

[madeline]

In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find........

In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do, or say
Is in the pill you took today

In the year 4545
Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you

In the year 5555
Your arms are hanging limp at your sides
Your legs got nothing to do
Some machine, doing that for you

In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube

In the year 7510
If God's a comin' he ought to make it by then
Maybe he'll look around himself and say
``Guess it's time for the Judgement day''

In the year 8510
God's gonna shake his mighty head
He'll either say ``I'm pleased where man has been''
Or tear it down and start again

In the year 9595
I'm kinda wondering if man's gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old earth can give
And he ain't put back nothing...

Now it's been 10,000 years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew
Now man's reign is through
But through the eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe it's only yesterday...

In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find.......


good ol' zager and evans 1969

[TokinAsianGuy]

i completely agree with you. computers were suppose to make life easier, more convenient, and although they have done that successsfully to a certain extent, computers all come with a whole new set of problems of their own. adware, spyware, trojans, viruses, upgrades, code. i just want to use ms paint dammit!

[xblackdogx]

i used to believe in evolution--
then i WOKE UP.
Darwinism is SEVERLY FLAWED,
and NO I AM NOT RELIGOUS...

what you see now in this world is what "THEY" want you to see,
and unless there's a revolution in the most dominated countries (usa, england, spain, etc) it will continue that way for the next 100 years or when "THEY" decide to destroy the earth, whichever comes sooner

[TokinAsianGuy]

i used to believe in evolution--
then i WOKE UP.
Darwinism is SEVERLY FLAWED,
and NO I AM NOT RELIGOUS...

what you see now in this world is what "THEY" want you to see,
and unless there's a revolution in the most dominated countries (usa, england, spain, etc) it will continue that way for the next 100 years or when "THEY" decide to destroy the earth, whichever comes sooner

interesting... can you elaborate? tell us about your vision, what you see in your mind.

[xblackdogx]

interesting... can you elaborate? tell us about your vision, what you see in your mind.

Well, I need to research much more (because I know how much I do not know) about evolution, but from what I have found so far, it just doesn't add up and is being FORCEDLY TAUGHT unto the youth of our country.

if you want to know more about who THEY are and whatnot, I can provide some info... but you may not be able to handle the truth

[TokinAsianGuy]

i'm all about truth, justice and all that other crap.

[CityBoyGoneCountry]

i completely agree with you. computers were suppose to make life easier, more convenient, and although they have done that successsfully to a certain extent, computers all come with a whole new set of problems of their own. adware, spyware, trojans, viruses, upgrades, code. i just want to use ms paint dammit!

Not only that, but computers make people lazy. You show me an obese person and I will show you a person whose life has been made too easy by technology. More than half the population of the United States is overweight. That's what we are evolving into. I don't blame fast food or ice cream. Hell, I eat that shit too. I blame the fat guy for never getting out of his comfortable chair and doing some real work!

[Kindbud]

Mark Twain's novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is fairly relevant to this topic, and it's a good read either way.

In the book, Twainy boy called out contemporary society for depending too heavily on the machines/technology everyone went nuts for.

And if you know the story, things all come to a crashing end in Camelot, symbolic of OUR society. And this was the late 1800s.

Things eventually come to a head. It's only a matter of time, and really, how the people use their power. ~

I agree, as technology gets more advanced, people naturally want.People are naturally materialistic, and it's this ignorant ,closed-minded perception that we have on ourselves that will mean the end ;whether it's 200 years from now I don't know. I do know that genocide has been made possible with evolution,and with this power,on top of current society (dont get me started), man is going to create his own end. Revelation is a joke, we are going to reign over ourselves until there is no more..