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Paradigm Shifts in History - Page 3
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Kickboxer
Slovenia1308 Posts
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peacenl
550 Posts
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EatThePath
United States3943 Posts
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Abominous
Croatia1625 Posts
On July 30 2013 19:17 peacenl wrote: When people stopped cramming their heads with information, and they trained themselves to stop storing information, except for things that were really important (e.g., tacit knowledge for their job), because most of it was readily available and more accurate through information infrastructure. It doesn't make one stupid, or lazy, just more efficient. We'd be nothing but machines then, useless. | ||
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Darksteel
Finland319 Posts
Just like the OP hinted, the information era is still just coming into full effect and there are a lot of factors slowing its progress. I would say that the paradigm shift caused by the information era was/will be greater in non-western societies. From personal experience I know there are still people in less developed countries (even in India) who are illiterate (even in their native tongue), but use touchscreen based industrial equipment in their daily work tasks. It is kinda baffling how the different the level of societies can still be in a lot countries, thus making the internet and free information even greater revolution. | ||
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Restrider
Germany129 Posts
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Meself
Estonia552 Posts
People underestimate things going on around them - soon most of the world's population will have basically free communication to each other, creating for the first time in the history a truly global community. | ||
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red_hq
Canada450 Posts
nother thing likely to come around at this point is human augmentation. When parts of the brains can be replaced and improved with computers. Even now they have bionic eyes, 3-D printed prosthetcis, prosthetics that can feel, in thirty years it is likely they will be better than human flesh. They're close to injecting memories directly into mice brains. Eugenics is also some technology that has some serious ethical consideration in a few decades time, we're at the point where we can ensure your IVF child won't have certain genetic disorders, how long until you make your child that blonde haired girl you wanted to have? The full switch over will probably come in thirty or forty years from now when these techonologies are acceessible to about 1% of the world population. It will coencide with the end of almost all primary (resource collecting), secondary (resource processing), and most tertiary (service) industries. Leaving only the information, design, and maintence industries intact. | ||
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TotalNightmare
Germany139 Posts
If we're talking continents I'd also prognose that Africa will sadly probably continue to be fucked. | ||
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radscorpion9
Canada2252 Posts
And as stated above, the end of crony capitalism and the beginning of well-regulated, fair and reasonable capitalism. But besides that, I think the continuing advancements in computer processing speeds and ongoing studies in evolution (and artificial evolution performed in simulations) can lead to great advancements in artificial intelligence. But really there are probably going to be so many shifts in the near future...access to information is universal and ideas are spreading faster and faster. The role of the internet can never be under appreciated in this regard. | ||
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TheRealArtemis
687 Posts
On July 30 2013 19:25 EatThePath wrote: Maru is the next paradigm shift. the cat? :3 | ||
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Nachtwind
Germany1130 Posts
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Thorakh
Netherlands1788 Posts
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Rassy
Netherlands2308 Posts
On July 30 2013 19:52 Meself wrote: The Internet is the big shift going on right now. People underestimate things going on around them - soon most of the world's population will have basically free communication to each other, creating for the first time in the history a truly global community. Have to agree with this, though internet didnt change our lifes as much as agricultural and the industrial revolution it still is a big change and paves the path for a global community. Agriculture and the industrial revolution both greatly increased the productivity and with that the wealth of an average human. The only thing i can imagine wich can greatly increase productivity again is virtually unlimited energy and engines and technologys to make meaningfull use of such huge amounts of energy, but this could take 100 years or more for us to to achieve. | ||
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packrat386
United States5077 Posts
On July 30 2013 11:59 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: Colonization of Space. As we will have more than one world to care for but also ones that we have to build from the ground up and it will be recorded in real time. After a while there could prejudices from people who were born and grew up on Mars, others who think higher of themselves for being on the "home" planet. Then we could very well see past incidents happen all over again, revolutions, nationalism just involving more than one planet than say continents. There are so many reasons why colonization of space is important, and one of them is actually that it could prevent humanity from wiping itself out through war. Unless we develop some sort of faster than light travel interstellar warfare would be almost impossible, since any army that launches will be massively disadvantaged by the years it takes them to get to their enemies. Even if the army was robots or something like that, there would be a technological disadvantage. Space col is cool. | ||
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Dryzt
Canada118 Posts
until those keeping us in this petroleum economy relinquish their control of these known technologies i dont think any paradigm shifting of any kind will happen. which feeds the idea of the rich and powerful ruling over the rest of us with impunity. would love for the paradigm shift to go the other way, and the world realizes that the global banking system is a complete fraud and those rich and powerful are suppressing technologies that remove our dependance on them. | ||
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Poffel
471 Posts
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plgElwood
Germany518 Posts
END OF OIL. It will be the end of the world as we know it. The only thing that has mankind propelled into these speres of technology and lifestyle was the invention of the car/plane and therefor the use of oil. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland27276 Posts
On July 31 2013 01:09 Dryzt wrote: i believe the biggest paradigm shift that was intentionally thwarted was the discoveries of Nickola Tesla. imagine a hundred years ago discovering the tap to limitless wireless power. until those keeping us in this petroleum economy relinquish their control of these known technologies i dont think any paradigm shifting of any kind will happen. which feeds the idea of the rich and powerful ruling over the rest of us with impunity. would love for the paradigm shift to go the other way, and the world realizes that the global banking system is a complete fraud and those rich and powerful are suppressing technologies that remove our dependance on them. I swear I hear so many claims about Tesla. He was shafted somewhat, but were some of the things he had devised actually viable to implement at the time nation-wide? | ||
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peacenl
550 Posts
On July 31 2013 01:17 plgElwood wrote: Next Shift: END OF OIL. It will be the end of the world as we know it. The only thing that has mankind propelled into these speres of technology and lifestyle was the invention of the car/plane and therefor the use of oil. Is there a reliable source for this? Other than urban myths and conspiracy theories. Last I heard we have enough oil to keep us going for at least 50 years. | ||
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