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The Dinosaurs Of Tomorrow

Started by sbspalding · 11 months ago

Science says that the dinosaurs died off because of the Ice Age and that the ones that survived adapted to the climate by evolution. If we look at technology today, I predict that it will die in a massive meltdown, and that only the quickest to adapt will survive. Here are my predictions:
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  • Derrick

    11 months ago

    I would *love* a T-Rex Louis Vuitton handbag! And re: micro-blogging. I already find myself never coming close to using all 140 characters that Twitter provides you for each blurb. What does that say about me? Don't answer that.
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  • ophelia_chong

    11 months ago

    ha. we have to avoid the Dinosaur's fate by looking far into the future and not what is only a few steps ahead. So gather your friends close and build those offline relationships because it will be those that will help you in the long run.

    As for the TRex hand bags, we would also have an entire house covered in Brachiosaurus skins. As humans, we would find a way to domesticate the Dinosaurs and use them for our purposes. Its the way we have interacted with all the species, human and non.
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  • Robbie

    11 months ago

    Yes indeed. Evolution is all about adaptability. Prediction one is a given if the planet is to thrive. Prediction two: hooray! Less clothes=better social life. A hemp thong? Why not?

    As for prediction three, I for one would sorely miss this blog! I do, however, agree that real-world relationships will always supplant cyber ones. At least I hope so. Online friends should make a pointing of real-worlding these relationships. Otherwise, we become weirdos.
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  • ophelia_chong

    11 months ago

    Through Twitter I have met many great people (one of them Steve Spalding) and I have met a few offline as well, and we have become friends that share common stories. The micro-blog has given us short peeks into each other lives where blogs don't. We can view it all on one page. And not have to travel far to see what is new in each of our lives.

    Less clothing, more like common cuts of clothing. Less detail more silk screening. Time is money, so time spent on producing a piece of clothing comes down to a simple cut. However, it takes an elegant and refined hand to truly create something different using the same pattern.
    Just like websites, all cut from the same cloth, yet it is only the few that can stand alone in their design and functionality.
    :O)
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  • shannon kelley

    11 months ago

    I already use so much less technology than everyone else, and so much more than I want (out of seeming necessity), I wonder if there will be an optional low tech or no tech life, except one without political power. Seems to me those few running and enjoying the world will do it fast and light with teeny devices and comfy clothes, blogging or not blogging, but there will have to be slave labor somewhere, right? To grow the Monsanto crops and retrieve precious metals from our discarded laptops? Sorry, guess I should go back to bed and get up again on the other side.
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  • ophelia_chong

    11 months ago

    Comfy shoes and fleet of foot. And if you band together you have a better chance than the lone wolf type. If you have a diverse enough group, and everyone has their niche, it would be a very strong combination.

    You would be the renaissance part of the group. :O)
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  • Maggy Young

    11 months ago

    I thought that the dinos were now supposed to have died out due to a major meteorite attack & not the ice age. They have been misjudged, as they must have been very adaptable, as they survived thro' 100s of millions of years and at a time when earth's climate was very volatile. Which makes the dual points that the future is hard to predict & even the most adaptable don't always make it. So when you see something coming, it's time to get going.
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  • CFD Trading Brokers

    11 months ago

    "Life is not well spent reading about others, it is spent living our own." Started to make me feel guilty there...shouldnt of read all the way to that line! The space like suits i think are a given, not sure what they have to do with surviving a meltdown though! -)
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  • ophelia_chong

    11 months ago

    Space Suits with SPF 1000. Not looking forward to the Dune solution to water scarcity. It's already here, but only for watering plants in the parks.

    I always ponder what would I do if I took the time spent online (not for work) and what would I do with it?

    thanks for commenting :O)
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  • Emily Wong

    11 months ago

    Hi Ophelia,

    Love the post and the dino visuals. When I first read your title, I misread it and thought it said designosaurs. Hmm... Let's go back to the days of rapidographs and paste ups! No, I'm just kidding.

    Oh dear, meteorites, ice age... you know there's a theory that the dinosaurs wiped themselves out by farting.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/85581...

    I totally copied and pasted that link ~___^
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  • Maggy Young

    11 months ago

    Hey what an interesting link. Somehow I think we'fe going off into anthropology, away from the real points of the post, which is a bit cussed, but it makes for an unusual discussion point on a web 2.0 blog. But sure is true, with the pace of tech change, it doesn't take much to become a dino, but then you could be happier as a dino..
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  • ophelia_chong

    11 months ago

    I look in my garage and I see a MacClassic, an eBook, a few zip drives, boxes of scsi cables, and who knows how many keyboards. Digging through the boxes, is like a dig for fossils. Each time I unearth something, I remember when I bought it and thought "wow, this will really make my life easier". As I type on my bluetooth keyboard, I wonder when will this piece become a bit of dust in the garage?

    From megabytes to gigabytes to terabytes. From zip disks to cd burners to pocket drives to flash drives to Apple Time Capsules, where next?
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  • Maggy Young

    11 months ago

    Hi Ophelia, I dunno, but I often hope we get bored with it & revert to a more natural existence, based on grow & rear your own & countryside.
    You have some lovely fruit trees in your plot, aside from fruiting year after year, they will look much prettier than the contents of your garage & also help the earth.
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  • ophelia_chong

    11 months ago

    You are right about going back to a simpler existence. What if we could all work from home, and tend to our gardens during short breaks from the computer? That's what I do now. Instead of driving to an office, I get up and walk down to the studio/office. I go out and water the plants after sending off files and look at the trees, watching them flower. I picked a few pounds of figs, and made jam. I have found my expenses have dropped since working at home rather than an office, no dry cleaning, no gas, no bought lunches. Pared down to cable, phone, internet.

    Imagine if even 5% more people worked from home, the smog, the gas, the wear and tear on the roads.

    The contents of my garage are a symbol of waste, of buying ever improving equipment to stay ahead.

    I remember watching Gilligan's Island and being amazed at what they could do with a coconut. What could we do with limited resources? It remains to be seen, only when the tap gets turned off will the real geniuses of scarcity will surface.
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  • sbspalding

    10 months ago

    I am not sure if the problem is in the technology. If we revert to pre-industrial living, we're dead as door-nails anyway (see: Malthusian Check -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_check)

    I think the better idea is to start turning technology towards something useful, like pushing us away from being a dead-tree society to something more sustainable (see: Kardashev Scale - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale)
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  • sbspalding

    10 months ago

    I am not sure if the problem is in the technology. If we revert to pre-industrial living, we're dead as door-nails anyway (see: Malthusian Check - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_check)

    I think the better idea is to start turning technology towards something useful, like pushing us away from being a dead-tree society to something more sustainable (see: Kardashev Scale - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale)
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  • ophelia_chong

    10 months ago

    Referring to the Malthusian check...
    I just finished book one of the graphic novel The Walking Dead. It's about a post apocalyptic society that has two sides, flesh eating Zombies and the living. The remaining noneffected humans run to safe ground by using their wits and a rubber hose to fill up their RV tank. No internet, no phones, nothing. It's scarier than hell. Anarchy ensues. If we lost all forms of communication, what will happen?
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  • Joshua

    10 months ago

    Really, Technology that uses the least energy, in all senses of the word. I think we can know more about its powerand less time to use. Good information.
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  • gregorylent

    10 months ago

    technology seems way behind the mind, and way behind the leading edge thinking humans. but it is also behind life as it is.

    indian villages are way ahead in the clothing category, they already dress that way.

    psychics are leading in category one, and as for category three, coffee houses and campfires have been handling the social dialogues for centuries. some people tell long stories, others just grunt.

    we mistake the approximate for the real.

    and the art of ophelia chong is very interesting. life inside the lotus. a perfect metaphor for the relationship between consciousness and technology.

    enjoy, gregory
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  • ophelia_chong

    10 months ago

    We flew in our dreams before we actually could, we went to space before the first step on the moon. In art we are able to visualize the next step, it's building the machines that slow us down. Yes technology is far behind, drawing a dream is easier than to making it real.

    and thank you for the compliment. :O))
    ophelia
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  • gregorylent

    10 months ago

    yes, the mind can already do everything that technology will ever do, it is all based in consciousness ..... twitter is just for people whose intuition is not yet developed, laggards, basically .. :-)
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  • ophelia_chong

    10 months ago

    i am on twitter, and I have a persistent Good Morning and Good Evening salutation.

    Have you read the book The Chrysalids? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chrysalids

    Near the end of the book Petra (the strongest of the telepaths) is in the "hovering machine"and she has to shut her mind off to all the twittering masses; she can hear everyone's thoughts. This is what Twitter is on a lower form. You hear thoughts that float in the air. Some interesting, most not.
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  • gregorylent

    10 months ago

    nice. have not read it, but can definitely empathize with petra. patanjali yoga sutras has a chapter on all the powers a developed awareness has, they are called siddhis. knowing what the mind can do, it seems easier to understand where all the tech is going.

    just looked at your link ... a book i read long ago ... thanks

    thanks for your reply, enjoy
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  • Rachel

    10 months ago

    I think, in prediction two, that it will be more that people may turn towards wearing more clothes suited to their individual type and personality. For example, people who wear renaissance, bondage, SCA, punk, goth, or Loli-goth garb only at events, might actually start wearing them as regular everyday where. I mean, why not?
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  • ophelia_chong

    10 months ago

    will they have comfy "goth" clothes? less studs more velour.:O) Sort of a Track Suit version of Goth clothing. Velour Goth by Marilyn Manson sold at JC Penny's...

    :O)
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  • fossil

    9 months ago

    "To express ourselves we will wear individually designed t-shirts with our personal opinion of the world written across and of course with our contact info."

    I do that already lol
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  • Tarot

    9 months ago

    More and more I thinking about technology being our slave, the more and more the idea breaks to me that we or in particular "I" am a slave of technology.

    I really ponder about what i'd be without the internet and its really very very hard to imagine!
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  • ophelia_chong

    9 months ago

    It's a tool. Think of it as a tool that you have in your kit. You are a craftsman, and the internet is your tool to create whatever you want. Learn how to use that tool and you will be the master of your craft.

    Thanks for commenting. :O)
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  • Rakeback

    9 months ago

    I liked the clothes part, I think it is very true that we are losing one piece of clothing, well hopefully you said that we would be wearing something.

    I think that in the end there has to be and end and the best or worst part is that we wont be there to see it.
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  • psychics

    9 months ago

    There are times when I do feel that all this is going to come to . I think we all have to introspect seriously...

    We have this one life... What do we make out of it? Be strikingly different or just be another someone...
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  • HSN

    8 months ago

    I liked your prediction number on very much, but one tab on Firefox! That can be a disaster.

    Clothing, I think that many will take up to naturalism.
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  • GiveBackToYourself

    5 months ago

    As much as I love you're wrting I hope you're prediction of blogs dying dont come true. That would be an ultimate disaster!

    Cant imagine the net without blogs.
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  • New Music Release

    3 months ago

    You really know how to depress someone!

    Your predictions can come true, that is the worst part.
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