Predicting the future is easier if it’s a backsliding future.
- Roe vs Wade will fall
- Ozone hole will reopen
- Every infectious disease beaten back by vaccines will return
- Every mediocre show/movie will be rebooted
- Rules-based international order will be dismantled
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The Great Backslide: 2015 - 1965. 50y on a typical indicator
- Internet will be disconnected at national borders
- Cold War will restart
- Literacy will decline
- Longevity will decline
- Infant mortality will go up
- Medical quackery will re-emerge
- Religiosity will rise
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IDEA: Evil TED, call it DET, Destructions Expected Tomorrow. Each talk will be a doom-and-gloom countertalk to a famous TED talk given by impersonator in goatee. Start with Evil Hans Rosling (RIP) doing downward-trending graphs. twitter.com/vgr/status/112…
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