Comments on: Predictions in Chinese Futurism http://futurismic.com/2008/08/15/predictions-in-chinese-futurism/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:03:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Khannea Suntzu http://futurismic.com/2008/08/15/predictions-in-chinese-futurism/comment-page-1/#comment-15904 Khannea Suntzu Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:10:48 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=3793#comment-15904 What expectations they have, and yet they invest so little in non-petrochemical sources of energy... I hope they will be right but personalluy I anticipate China (and many other nations) to implode before 2020. What expectations they have, and yet they invest so little in non-petrochemical sources of energy… I hope they will be right but personalluy I anticipate China (and many other nations) to implode before 2020.

]]> By: Adam Rakunas http://futurismic.com/2008/08/15/predictions-in-chinese-futurism/comment-page-1/#comment-15897 Adam Rakunas Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:25:59 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=3793#comment-15897 (I should mention that this is based on my brief trip to Chengdu and Shanghai last summer. The people were friendly, the air made my brain hurt, and the rate of demolition and construction was so mind-blending that it makes my Los Angeles neighborhood seem like a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Makes me more of a China expert than David Brooks, at least.) (I should mention that this is based on my brief trip to Chengdu and Shanghai last summer. The people were friendly, the air made my brain hurt, and the rate of demolition and construction was so mind-blending that it makes my Los Angeles neighborhood seem like a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Makes me more of a China expert than David Brooks, at least.)

]]> By: Adam Rakunas http://futurismic.com/2008/08/15/predictions-in-chinese-futurism/comment-page-1/#comment-15896 Adam Rakunas Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:22:59 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=3793#comment-15896 As soon as the Olympics are over, the factories and construction will fire up, leading to even more pollution, cancer clusters of childhood leukemia and repression for Uyghers and Tibetans for the next two years. In 2011, Chinese agriculture will completely break down, leading to middle class food riots, where YouTube will show footage of PLA draftees and nationalist thugs attacking mobs who are dressed in Armani tatters. Some Communist Party silverbacks will be put out to pasture, some executed after show trials, but nothing will be fixed. The Chinese bureaucracy, from the local to the federal levels, is too broken and corrupt to do anything less than implode in a way that takes a quarter of its population down with it. But, hey, great buildings there, guys. Keep plowing under those hutongs. You'll beat Dubai in no time. As soon as the Olympics are over, the factories and construction will fire up, leading to even more pollution, cancer clusters of childhood leukemia and repression for Uyghers and Tibetans for the next two years. In 2011, Chinese agriculture will completely break down, leading to middle class food riots, where YouTube will show footage of PLA draftees and nationalist thugs attacking mobs who are dressed in Armani tatters. Some Communist Party silverbacks will be put out to pasture, some executed after show trials, but nothing will be fixed. The Chinese bureaucracy, from the local to the federal levels, is too broken and corrupt to do anything less than implode in a way that takes a quarter of its population down with it.

But, hey, great buildings there, guys. Keep plowing under those hutongs. You’ll beat Dubai in no time.

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