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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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