Comments on: 2009: What to Worry About, How to Hope http://www.brenda-cooper.com/2009/01/10/2009-what-to-worry-about-how-to-hope/ The Future, Science, and Science Fiction: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:11:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Carol Phillips http://www.brenda-cooper.com/2009/01/10/2009-what-to-worry-about-how-to-hope/comment-page-1/#comment-1640 Carol Phillips Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:02:40 +0000 http://www.brenda-cooper.com/?p=260#comment-1640 I've thought too about this "chips in people" thing. I'm surprised we don't already do it, if it is common and even expected in our animals now. My dog has one, and the kitten is getting hers in a couple of weeks. Why don't I want them in my kids? I'm the epitome of over protective mom. I'm afraid of who has access to the data. I'm afraid there is some global conspiracy to keep tabs on people. Big corporations going around saying "It's safe, don't worry" doesn't make me feel better. I truly feel that there will never be a 100% honest election in the country as long as we use electronic ballots. There isn't any way to prove they are safe from backdoors. Well. then I also believe there won't be any honest election until there are no more corporate bribes to politicians I mean corporate campaign donations. The future holds less and less freedom for people, and more and more power for large corporations, and the people who control them. I’ve thought too about this “chips in people” thing. I’m surprised we don’t already do it, if it is common and even expected in our animals now. My dog has one, and the kitten is getting hers in a couple of weeks. Why don’t I want them in my kids? I’m the epitome of over protective mom.
I’m afraid of who has access to the data. I’m afraid there is some global conspiracy to keep tabs on people. Big corporations going around saying “It’s safe, don’t worry” doesn’t make me feel better.

I truly feel that there will never be a 100% honest election in the country as long as we use electronic ballots. There isn’t any way to prove they are safe from backdoors. Well. then I also believe there won’t be any honest election until there are no more corporate bribes to politicians I mean corporate campaign donations.

The future holds less and less freedom for people, and more and more power for large corporations, and the people who control them.

]]> By: Paul http://www.brenda-cooper.com/2009/01/10/2009-what-to-worry-about-how-to-hope/comment-page-1/#comment-1638 Paul Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:23:10 +0000 http://www.brenda-cooper.com/?p=260#comment-1638 The arctic will be free of ice by 2,120...no, 2050,...no, 2030... I know how ice melts. Take a tub of ice. Dump it in the kitchen sink or bathtub. Run water on it. Watch. We keep being surprised when the earth's ice melts in the same pattern: slowly, slowly, inflection point, fast. Like Y2K and computers, though, if we really do something about it now, all the naysayers will assume it wasn't a problem in the first place. The economy: Odd thing here. If everyone just spent money, it would start fixing itself. The problem is, it takes everyone. If some of us spend money, and others don't, we just have some people hitting tough times sooner. War: War will continue to be hell in 2009. Tech: One thing that really bugs me about the move from landlines to mobile phones shows up on radio and tv call-ins. The lack of signal integrity has talk show hosts and djs saying "what?"; "could you repeat that?"; "your phone cut out" a lot. <i>A lot.</i> Signal to noise is making conventional media irritating; this is at the same time newspapers are going away. And tv is going digital. We'll be left with blogs as our news sources. There will be less and less information integrity in 2009 and on. The arctic will be free of ice by 2,120…no, 2050,…no, 2030…
I know how ice melts. Take a tub of ice. Dump it in the kitchen sink or bathtub. Run water on it. Watch. We keep being surprised when the earth’s ice melts in the same pattern: slowly, slowly, inflection point, fast.

Like Y2K and computers, though, if we really do something about it now, all the naysayers will assume it wasn’t a problem in the first place.

The economy: Odd thing here. If everyone just spent money, it would start fixing itself. The problem is, it takes everyone. If some of us spend money, and others don’t, we just have some people hitting tough times sooner.

War: War will continue to be hell in 2009.

Tech: One thing that really bugs me about the move from landlines to mobile phones shows up on radio and tv call-ins. The lack of signal integrity has talk show hosts and djs saying “what?”; “could you repeat that?”; “your phone cut out” a lot. A lot. Signal to noise is making conventional media irritating; this is at the same time newspapers are going away. And tv is going digital. We’ll be left with blogs as our news sources. There will be less and less information integrity in 2009 and on.

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