Comments on: The next (last) 100 Years http://blog.longnow.org/2007/12/03/the-next-last-100-years/ The Official Weblog of The Long Now Foundation and Friends Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:54:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: dimitre http://blog.longnow.org/2007/12/03/the-next-last-100-years/#comment-3166 dimitre Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:06:53 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2007/12/03/the-next-last-100-years/#comment-3166 this is marvellous. reminds me a bit of Arthur Clarke predictions for the next century http://www.dimaggio.org/AIG/Newsletters/newslett11.htm this is marvellous.
reminds me a bit of Arthur Clarke predictions for the next century
http://www.dimaggio.org/AIG/Newsletters/newslett11.htm

]]> By: David http://blog.longnow.org/2007/12/03/the-next-last-100-years/#comment-3001 David Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:47:58 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2007/12/03/the-next-last-100-years/#comment-3001 This one scared me: <i>Prediction #19: Grand Opera will be telephoned to private homes...</i> This one scared me:
Prediction #19: Grand Opera will be telephoned to private homes…

]]> By: Bruno Grieco http://blog.longnow.org/2007/12/03/the-next-last-100-years/#comment-2997 Bruno Grieco Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:14:28 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2007/12/03/the-next-last-100-years/#comment-2997 IMHO, what we should regard about this text is how much we "understood" ourselves 100 years ago and how we cannot do the same today. A century ago we wanted to be able to talk from the middle of the Atlantic Ocean to Chicago, we wanted to have operas transmitted by telephone. We wanted to have compulsory exercises in schools AND we wanted to treat people who cannot walk 10 miles as a weakling. BUT, after 1936, we saw that prejudice and racism would bring us to a dead end. Back then we wanted to give kids free, quality education, but we still cannot solve this problem. Which is not a technical one. So my question would be: What DO we want today that could shape our world in the next 100 years ? IMHO, what we should regard about this text is how much we “understood” ourselves 100 years ago and how we cannot do the same today.

A century ago we wanted to be able to talk from the middle of the Atlantic Ocean to Chicago, we wanted to have operas transmitted by telephone.

We wanted to have compulsory exercises in schools AND we wanted to treat people who cannot walk 10 miles as a weakling.
BUT, after 1936, we saw that prejudice and racism would bring us to a dead end.

Back then we wanted to give kids free, quality education, but we still cannot solve this problem. Which is not a technical one.

So my question would be:
What DO we want today that could shape our world in the next 100 years ?

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