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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Adding this herehttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1129627229611208704?s=20 …
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Venkatesh Rao @vgrIDEA: 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. https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1129623654998790146 …2 replies 1 retweet 33 likesShow this thread -
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Replying to @subes01
You mean you want it to be 0% or 100%?
11:15 PM - 17 May 2019
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Replying to @vgr
0. We all learned from Nate Silver that 20 percent can mean 100 percent.
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