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Политические и экономические прогнозы выглядят удивительно беспомощно. Да и с технологическими не очень, хотя некоторым местами удались довольно точные догадки.
Политические и экономические прогнозы выглядят удивительно беспомощно. Да и с технологическими не очень, хотя некоторым местами удались довольно точные догадки.
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SHELDON GLASHOW
What will life be like in the year 2012? There will have been no nuclear war, and the threat of such a war will have been removed by the mutual nuclear disarmament of the major powers. SDI, Reagan's ill advised Star Wars program will have come to nothing.
Japan will be the central economic power in the world, owning or controlling a significant part of European and American industries. This "economic dictatorship" will be beneficial to Japan's client states, since Japan benefits by keeping its customers healthy and wealthy. Indeed, a peaceful and prosperous world community will owe its existence to this Pax Japanica.
Many diseases will be curable: diabetes and gout, for example, will be treated by 'genetic engineering' techniques. Multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease will be effectively cured. However, AIDS will not yet have been controlled. It will have become the leading cause of death worldwide with millions of new cases each year.
The American economy will have experienced a gentle yet relentless decline. Our children will not live such comfortable lives as we do. The spread between the rich and the poor will have grown, and crime will have become so prevalent as to threaten the social fabric. The rich and the poor will form 2 armed camps. Most automobiles and heavy machinery will be manufactured in Japanese owned planets located in America. Yet, agriculture and higher education will be our most successful exports. There will be no fast trains connecting American cities, but a network of levitated superconducting trains will be under construction in Western Europe and in Japan.
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А с Японией забавно - действительно, тогда все считали, что Япония вот-вот всех сьест...
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the threat of nuclear war will have been removed by the mutual nuclear disarmament of the major powers - тут он не просто неправильно угадал, а изрек явный идиотизм.
Повод задуматься о корректности нынешних прогнозов, что Китай вот-вот всех сьест...
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Вся история Китая 2200 лет с первой ихней империи это циклы процветание под новой династией - впадение в маразм - коллапс и кровавый бардак.