Forum Overview :: Rants :: Re: Futurists

[quote name="Quétinbec"][quote name="Fussbett"]It's because I'm an optimist and a casual sci-fi fan. Those novels and movies got my hopes up for years and years, and I've been burned. Worse, it became depressing to read story after story about starships set in the 1990s.[/quote] Yeah man. There're no aliens or elves. It's bullshit. But we do have the Chinese so make the most of them. And iPhones are pretty futuristic, so they can help too. What we have now that future people won't but wish they had is good poor people. You can do some pretty incredible things with poor people (for instance paying them very little for things, feeling better than them, and fucking them), but in 50 years time, who's gonna be poor? Africans, a few Arabs and maybe if we're lucky a couple of South Americans. What good will they be to us? Right now, we've got a few decades left of a poor Asia and a weak Eastern Europe. There are great people there - almost as great as elves, and shitty people too - almost as bad as aliens. It's the best we can do. PS. Get out of Canada, loser. You don't like it there. Don't blame your shitty life on science (or a lack of it).[/quote]