Reasons to expect the next 10 years to be more exciting than the last

Re:Reasons to expect the next 10 years to be more exciting t... by DanielBMarkham on Sunday December 12, 2010 @02:11PM (#1997693)

I can't wait for the next ten years -- it should be a blast.

Having said that, I don't think its going to be all roses. One commenter made the analogy that the previous decade was like 1900-1910. I kind of get that feeling as well -- rise of the mob, rise of anarchy, old structures not working like they should, vast amounts of change and upheaval in the air.

Overall, I think it's going to be awesome. But I would just be cautious, that's all. Not everything is going to be good, and there are going to be some really gnarly and ugly things we're going to see in the next ten years along with the great stuff.

I would note that the adjective "exciting" can be taken in many different ways.

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Re:Reasons to expect the next 10 years to be more exciting t... by kiba on Sunday December 12, 2010 @04:51PM (#1998152)

My guess:

Expect raw capitalism to re-invade the world. However, this is not going to come in the way of political structure changing, but rather resistance to political structure.

It's not going to be headed by One Megacorporation by any mean. They're just along for the ride.

All the pieces are coming together. A radical ideology, a working knowledge of economic, a technologically sophisticated community, and a new kind of technology that the community can revolves around.

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Re:Reasons to expect the next 10 years to be more exciting t... by forkandwait on Sunday December 12, 2010 @05:34PM (#1998302)

My counter guess: expect small and medium non-governmental cooperative organizations to invade.

Currently the world is divided into those creatively make social structures happen (gee Bob, let's start a company -- who should we hire? gee George and Thomas, lets start our damn government on this side of the Atlantic -- how does one train an army anyway?) and those who subconciously seek to occupy them un-creatively (gee, should I become an Oracle dev or a Microsoft dev? Gee, should I join the revolutionary army or the royalist army?)

But the technology (DIY manufacturing) and the communication (internet plus math) and the culturation for everybody to become a little bit of the former is starting to seep everywhere, and there are huge payoffs for taking it up and organizing cooperatively(gee, why dont' we start GNU software and give it away instead of try to sell it?)

Oh -- just want to mention that I don't see this as being nation state driven, and it is not the big monolithic socialism of the past -- more a "free market socialism"

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Re:Reasons to expect the next 10 years to be more exciting t... by forkandwait on Sunday December 12, 2010 @05:55PM (#1998368)

... And in my more paranoid moments, I think that the reason public schools suck is that otherwise we would flood the world with self-disciplined people who can organize society for themselves and would grow very tired of working for and buying from the current owners of our world...

(yes, you can call me damn hippy!)

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Re:Reasons to expect the next 10 years to be more exciting t... by jamesbritt on Sunday December 12, 2010 @05:34PM (#1998305)

"Expect raw capitalism to re-invade the world. "

Can you define "raw capitalism"?

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Re:Reasons to expect the next 10 years to be more exciting t... by kiba on Sunday December 12, 2010 @07:18PM (#1998613)

Capitalism that is uninhibited by the rules made by the state or government.

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Re:Reasons to expect the next 10 years to be more exciting t... by jamesbritt on Sunday December 12, 2010 @11:19PM (#1999302)

So no corporations.

That should be interesting.

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Re:Reasons to expect the next 10 years to be more exciting t... by kiba on Monday December 13, 2010 @12:16AM (#1999425)

I didn't say no corporation, just that they're going to be along for the ride.

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Re:Reasons to expect the next 10 years to be more exciting t... by jamesbritt on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @11:52AM (#2004746)

Corporations are an invention of the State.

Corporate charters are granted by the government.

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