yes it's real: https://archive.org/details/eu_Wired-1997-07_OCR/page/n119/mode/2up?view=theater
Good to know that all of society's problems were common knowledge before my birth, and nothing has been done to fix them. Maybe they should've let history continue until they addressed at least one of those things
Hey, it's not before my birth by much! Sorry for being a zoomer
I'm Twenty Three years old leave me alone :soviet-pout:
Holy fuck. Can you imagine them writing something half as damning today, with all the receipts on the table?
I think that's just a byproduct of the time. Dolly the sheep was in the 90s and some milestones in the human genome project. It was the Big Data of the day. The media was abuzz with articles and stories about the wonders of genetics. Intellectuals and academics with a media voice would have been into that stuff. It's not surprising they thought the technology would take off.
"Welcome to biology class, teacher is hungover, please watch GATTACA for the third time this year"
Designer children actually occurred on or slightly ahead of schedule, but the world collectively decided that human genetic engineering was unethical, so we aren’t doing it.
Not publicly but you know the CIA has at least tried to make super soldiers.
Lmao we would've just ended up in the Metal Gear timeline if we had even half of those things.
Peter Schwartz (schwartz@gbn.org) is cofounder and chair of Global Business Network and author of The Art of the Long View
The rest of the article is such a stupid "here's why everything's good actually!!" narrative. Look at all those fake graphics for simpletons like "economy rise make people happy!! smiley face!!"
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was already starting to happen when that was written, quarter points for "we see this happening and assume it will continue" logic.
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incredibly vague and something that's been happening ever since capitalists started predicting additional exponential growth from new tech, quarter point.
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had literally already happened by 1997, and if anything Russia has pulled back on that slightly since then in order to not just collapse and consume itself entirely.
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I don't know the exact context they're responding to here, but this seems to have been wrong: most eastern europe has seen the fascists the US and NATO backed rise to uncontested power, and the EU has continued working as intended, as a bulwark against the left that's put Europe under the thumb of the west german government.
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on point.
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the increase never happened but the predicted response did, so half points here.
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this seems to have predicted a covid level overwhelming of the healthcare system from pollution-caused cancer, which never happened.
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Alternative energy hasn't been rolled out on anywhere near the level it should have been, but oil production has increased globally and oil from the middle east specifically hasn't been disrupted, so another half point one.
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Mostly right, probably on track to be true.
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this one's been just about every single decade for the past 160 years, at least, another quarter point.
So that's... a 3.75 out of 10.
the "it was already happening" stuff is the whole point, the evidence has been there plain as day for decades for anyone who was willing to see it, and nothing has been done to stop it
I don't know how much credit someone should get for making a vague statement that you could place in any decade of the past century and have it work both as a description of the previous decade and a prescient prediction of the next.
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