i was browsing the web the other day, bored out of my skull; looking for interesting careers. And i came across a guy named ian pearson who is a futurologist. I found this really cool Timeline most of it is crap(imo) but then i got thinking maybe our own version of Skynet is just a few years around the corner(scary stuff eh?) well heres the link : http://www.btinternet.com/~ian.pearson/web/future/2005timeline.doc the link above is from this site, i just clicked on "2005 BT tech timeline) http://www.btinternet.com/~ian.pearson/ tell me what you guys/girls think
tecnology does not evolve in a streight line. rather it is driven by the priorities people actualy live by. and i mean all the chainges and fluxuations in that too. the magazene the futurist ran a timeline back sometime in the early 70s or late 60s, that i had a xerox of in my personaly encyclopeadic binders i had, was constantly putting togather, at the time. it projected well into the 90s, and as i recall, just barely into the 2000's where we are now. it turned out to have been pretty damd accurate too. far more so the nostradamus or edgar casey or any of that kind of crap. of course it couldn't and didn't entirly predict what things would be called or how exactly people would, for the most part, look at them. but it was damd accurate as to the unrolling of politics, tecnology and a lot of the other little factors that go with them. it predicted the skinheads and the neo-cons, their influence, percentage of the culture, and so on, and i, like you, at the time, remember this was the EARLY 70s, said to myself "dam this has to be crap, or at least i sure hope it is". on the other hand, nothing is cast in concrete. the problems we have now could have been easily avoided with the forsight that existed then. there is ALWAYS a possibility we'll be luckier this time arround. that is to say, when and if the dust settles from the current crap. =^^= .../\...
his mention of dual mode vehicles being in the future, perhapse means on a mass consumption basis, because a gizmo called hy-railers, which is basicly a set of railroad wheels hydraulicly raised and lowered that lets a highway vehicule run on a railroad track, has been arround for decades. work vehicules on the railroad have used them for ages. when i worked for the railroad we had a gradall equiped with them which was one of the machines i was personaly apprenticing on myself. there's many problems with this kind of timeline, this particular way of presenting it. the chart/map sort of way the futurist presented theirs back in the 60s worked much better. that's just one little detail i spotted in quickly glancing over one are of intrest i've had some dealings with. i'm sure, if and when i get into examining "bt"s projections, i will almost certainly find others. whatever "bt" is. =^^= .../\...
