From: rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl   
      
   Op 2-10-2013 om 0:38 schreef Dan Goodman:   
   > Prediction 1:  Three months from now, the weather will be exactly the   
   > same as it is today -- all over the world.   
   >   
      
   For sure it is not!   
   You cannot predict this, even if you take twelve months.   
      
      
   > Prediction 2:  Twenty years from now, human society will be exactly the   
   > same as it is today.  Take the United States, for example.  Americans   
   > will have the same political beliefs, consider the same matters most   
   > important, have the same sexual mores, listen to the same kinds of music   
   > (if not the exact same music you like now.)   
   >   
      
   For sure it is not!   
      
      
   > The first prediction is more likely to be accurate.   
      
   If I have to choose, it will be the second prediction.   
      
      
   > Two hundred years from now:  The United States will probably remain the   
   > most powerful country in North America.  It's unlikely to still be the   
   > world's most powerful country.  (I do think it's likely the US won't be   
   > among the weakest nations.  The country which exported frankfurters to   
   > Frankfurt, hamburgers to Hamburg, and bagels to Warsaw is adaptable.)   
   >   
      
   Why do you think this?   
   A good chance that Mexico will be the most powerful country in North   
   America.   
      
      
   > If the current major parties survive, they'll be very different from what   
   > they now are.   
   >   
   > Any music which survives from our time will almost certainly be played   
   > rather differently than it is now.   
   >   
   > Two thousand years from now:  English, like every other living language,   
   > will be changed enough so if you were brought forward into that time   
   > you'd need to relearn it.  Any cities which remain from our time will be   
   > much changed.   
      
      
   3 times: of course   
      
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