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See also alt.yesterday.tomorrow.
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2108 election -- which party do you think will win?
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Never mind these very-near-future predictions -- let's look farther ahead in US politics. Will the current political parties in the US still be around a century from now? If they are, how different will they be? If they aren't, what will replace them?
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Entities with the power of nation-states
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...The UN has not had such power, and is unlikely to gain it in future. The Vatican has not had such power since Italian revolutionaries took down the Papal States.
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Entities with power of Nation-States
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For Want of a Nail, often touted as the most comprehensive, if not plausible, alternate history in time, was noteworthy for coming up with the idea of Kramer Associates- the Zaibatsu that became a global power. In the future, what kind of similar non-national entities could wield similar economic, military, and political powers? Multinational... more »
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China's sex ratio in the near future
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I know this was discussed a year ago, but China is a hard country to get firm facts on it's population. Has more come out? I was reminded of the problem from this and so ask: ...I have never found firm numbers for the gender ratios for the entire population of China or even that of major subdivisions of the country.... more »
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The French Will Do ANYTHING For A SEXY Leader!
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We all rightfully denounce the French as limpdicks. The only way, normally, to get the French to cooperate with you is NOT to be their ally, but to scare them as their enemy. But I MISUSE the term "limpdicks." Actually, one can see a viable pattern based on only two samples, sometimes. Especially if they are... more »
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GM CEO talk on the future of GM
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Just got back from a speech at the California CommonWealth Club in San Francisco by Rick Wagoner the GM Chairman of the Board and CEO. (I am a member) He is an excellent speaker. The speech will be on radio and on the Commonwealth Club site as a podcast. The URL to have iTunes connect to the CommonWealth Club podcasts is:... more »
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Preference Falsification
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[link] "How can societies experience such dramatic reversals [as the end of apartheid in South Africa, widespread smoking bans and Republican control of Congress] in such short periods? In his inventive and sometimes astonishing book, Timur Kuran offers an answer--one that... more »
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Billion Dollar Presidential Campaign
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According to this; [link] So far the following have raised; McCain: 73 Million Obama: 236 Million Clinton: 191 Million So already we have half a billion dollars raised for one campaign, just among the top three. Will we see over a billion dollars spent on... more »
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