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It's a slide show.

Some of the predictions are ridiculous. A couple of them are surprisingly close to reality. Isaac Asimov is a douche.

The artwork is pretty much ludicrous.

In a doomsday scenario, hippies will be among the first casualties. So not everything about doomsday will be bad.

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Re: 25-Year-Old Predictions Of 2012 (or thereabouts) By SciFi Writers
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2012, 01:24:12 AM »
All of those fanciful depictions tend to have in common the idea that the future will be clean and perfectly ordered. It betrays the fundamental trait of progressives, their obsession with perfecting Man. They have filled mass graves in pursuit of this perfection, and will continue to try.

In their arrogant dismissal of God, they believe they can create a Heaven right here on Earth. But they only succeed in condemning millions to a Hell on Earth.
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Re: 25-Year-Old Predictions Of 2012 (or thereabouts) By SciFi Writers
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2012, 07:03:35 AM »
Unless we are willingly enslaved by a race of androids we created there is no way Utopia looks that clean...
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Re: 25-Year-Old Predictions Of 2012 (or thereabouts) By SciFi Writers
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2012, 11:40:22 AM »
Isaac Asimov is a douche.

I'm not really into Sci-Fi, but that seems to be the general consensus of all of them. He's just a bigger douche than the rest.
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Re: 25-Year-Old Predictions Of 2012 (or thereabouts) By SciFi Writers
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2012, 07:10:14 PM »
Isaac Asimov is a douche.

I'm not really into Sci-Fi, but that seems to be the general consensus of all of them. He's just a bigger douche than the rest.

I liked quite a bit of his fiction.

But he was an incredible douche. Fortunately most aren't or at least keep their politics to themselves.
In a doomsday scenario, hippies will be among the first casualties. So not everything about doomsday will be bad.

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Re: 25-Year-Old Predictions Of 2012 (or thereabouts) By SciFi Writers
« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2012, 07:54:27 PM »
  They all seem to have a comon theme which is to erase anything old including history.
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Re: 25-Year-Old Predictions Of 2012 (or thereabouts) By SciFi Writers
« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2012, 07:41:11 AM »
Can't have fantasyland utopia without crushing the past (good past and bad)...

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