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The year is 2050!

February 25, 2008 7:19pm

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  • #16 / Feb 27, 2008 11:11am

    systemsos

    60 posts

    Don’t mean to be gloomy but I reckon with the current state of things we’ll be damn lucky to make 2020, and I think we’ll be too busy fighting conflicts over petrol for our boats ( as we’ll all be underwater ) to worry about what version of CI we’ll be using.

    😊

    If everything is underwater it would save a lot of energy not having to cool down computers 😛

    I like your thinking.

  • #17 / Feb 27, 2008 7:31pm

    Sally D

    129 posts

    lets do the math if inflation is 3.5 percent and that is being very forgiving it will be higher then that means

    that a car that is worth $20,000 today would cost $62,000 32 years from now,  and a box of corn flakes will cost around $7 dollars a box. I guess I will be living off dog food and living under a tent on a Hawaii island spending my pension money on dog food to live on.  With social security busted up and out all I got is my pension and that will be worth nothing cause it won’t be able to keep up with inflation.

    guess what this tells me if you keep blowing into a balloon its going to bust and that will happen in the next 20 years and then we won’t have us dollars any more we will have the Amero’s it’s a part of the plan to create a globalist economy a new world order

  • #18 / Feb 27, 2008 7:44pm

    kevinprince

    122 posts

    Thanks,

    Now I feel depressed, luckly I can fold time, so I could take your $7 box of cornflakes travel 100000 years in to the future sell it for a gazillion $$$ and then come back and build a big house on the plot of land your tent occupies!

  • #19 / Feb 27, 2008 7:47pm

    systemsos

    60 posts

    At least here in Australia our “award wage” increase every so often.  I would image that America would be similar maybe?

    Mind you I thought a box of cornflakes already costs around $7. Then again, I haven’t had “breakfast” in nearly 20 years.

  • #20 / Feb 28, 2008 6:52am

    pickledegg2

    157 posts

    From my calendar today:

    Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

    Stuff that, we’re all doomed!!

  • #21 / Feb 28, 2008 7:02am

    xwero

    4145 posts

    Doomed or happy enjoy the fact that you are alive and can feel and think. You can worry for as long as you want when you turned into a corpse 😉

  • #22 / Feb 28, 2008 10:31am

    pickledegg2

    157 posts

    Doomed or happy enjoy the fact that you are alive and can feel and think. You can worry for as long as you want when you turned into a corpse wink

    Yup!


    I think its human nature to worry about the unknown, I’m sure every generation thinks that they’re going to be the last, just like every generation says ‘kids today’...

    In all seriousness, apart from a few breakthroughs in technology and the odd war here and there, I think we’ll be ok in 2050.

    Do you reckon they’ll have stuck someone on Mars by then? Or sent them back to the moon? If Bush spent his (your) money differently I reckon we’d have a lunar base by now.

    😊

  • #23 / Feb 28, 2008 10:37am

    systemsos

    60 posts

    On the moon? No - that’s where Australia sticks it’s nuke to pass inspections.

  • #24 / Feb 28, 2008 11:54am

    Michael Wales

    2070 posts

    Well, at least my annual raise is mandated by Congress… so, I may paid pennies for the job I perform, at least it will always be pennies (rather than half-pennies).

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