Comments on: Screw optimism – this is a global guerilla century http://futurismic.com/2009/02/10/screw-optimism-this-is-a-global-guerilla-century/ 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: Paul Raven http://futurismic.com/2009/02/10/screw-optimism-this-is-a-global-guerilla-century/comment-page-1/#comment-18906 Paul Raven Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:37:03 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=6011#comment-18906 Thanks for the input, Mark - and for the compliment! Hope you'll stick around. :) Thanks for the input, Mark – and for the compliment! Hope you’ll stick around. :)

]]> By: Mark Herpel http://futurismic.com/2009/02/10/screw-optimism-this-is-a-global-guerilla-century/comment-page-1/#comment-18901 Mark Herpel Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:32:17 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=6011#comment-18901 Nope, not going to happen in America, perhaps Europe. The Internet has brought substantial change and advantages in the past years. In the 1970, that inflation, that could have easily turned into Thunderdome. But today...we already have multiple online private money systems, LETs, local hours currency and the means to produce food and medicine. A mad max world? No chance. Too many innovative people already working towards private solutions. Let me rephrase that, too many nice, open source, helpful, respectful, libertarian, computer geeks working for a better tomorrow with private solutions. Mark (great blog you have here) Nope, not going to happen in America, perhaps Europe.

The Internet has brought substantial change and advantages in the past years. In the 1970, that inflation, that could have easily turned into Thunderdome. But today…we already have multiple online private money systems, LETs, local hours currency and the means to produce food and medicine. A mad max world? No chance. Too many innovative people already working towards private solutions. Let me rephrase that, too many nice, open source, helpful, respectful, libertarian, computer geeks working for a better tomorrow with private solutions.
Mark
(great blog you have here)

]]> By: SMD http://futurismic.com/2009/02/10/screw-optimism-this-is-a-global-guerilla-century/comment-page-1/#comment-18893 SMD Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:12:50 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=6011#comment-18893 I think it's a little of both. It's entirely possible for all that to happen, but I suspect that if it does it will be largely limited to nations that were already on shaky ground. The major nations will most likely remain, basically, as they were. However, I have a feeling that if the U.S. doesn't get back on its economic game it's going to be drastically overshadowed by the EU. I don't know if we're up to it, though. It sees like the "end-of-the-world-the-judgment-is-coming" folks are doing the self-fulfilling prophecy thing right now. I think it’s a little of both. It’s entirely possible for all that to happen, but I suspect that if it does it will be largely limited to nations that were already on shaky ground. The major nations will most likely remain, basically, as they were. However, I have a feeling that if the U.S. doesn’t get back on its economic game it’s going to be drastically overshadowed by the EU. I don’t know if we’re up to it, though. It sees like the “end-of-the-world-the-judgment-is-coming” folks are doing the self-fulfilling prophecy thing right now.

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