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So I thought of a couple things to post about (yeah, you'll notice I haven't been sticking to single subjects) and I noticed they both had to do with the future, and that made me think of more things, and well...

So the future. Of this blog.
See, at some point, my blog will be awesome. Awesome blogs have the following characteristics:

-There are people who celebrate about getting the first comment on a post in the blog.
-The blog spreads controversy and is banned in some countries for ridiculous reasons.
-Posts get reposted all over the Internet
-It creates an entire Internet subculture, complete with ridiculous inside "jokes."
-There are people who love the blog just because that's cool, but actually have no idea what the person who writes it is talking about most of the time.
-There are people who hate it just because they like to be controversial.
-It appears on televised news and/or in newspapers/magazines.
-It has its own Wikipedia entry.

Of course, my blog doesn't have any of those things, so it's quite clear I need to get to work on those, although pretty much all of them just sort of happen.

Anyway, on to the future. Of technology.
For starters, is technology good? Or is technology bad? This is an old question (almost as old as "Are people good? Or are people bad?") that's pretty hard to answer. There are some people who think technology is bad, because it basically creates either A) more ways to kill people, or B) more convenience, but more is expected from people and we don't know what to do when it breaks down. There are other people who think technology is great, because, for example, without the atomic bomb there would be no nuclear power. There are still other people who think that there's "good technology" and "bad technology," and then there are some who really don't know, and don't care either.
My opinion whether technology is good or bad depends entirely on what we do with it. We can't say a knife is inherently good or bad; if someone kills someone else with it, the knife wasn't bad, what the person did was bad. If someone cuts an apple with it and gives it to starving children, the knife wasn't good, what the person did was good.
It's the same thing with technology (Knives were, after all, considered technology at one point.); there will always be people who do crazy, stupid, and evil things with stuff. There's not a whole lot we can do to change that.

Now, regarding predictions for the future (of technology and everything else for that matter).
Within one hundred years (much shorter for most of these):
A Henry Ford of flying cars will arise. Flying cars will be somewhat cheaper, and most people in the upper-middle class will be able to afford them.
At the same time, there will probably not be any major agreement on alternative fuels, and also, since the less well-off people will not be able to afford these flying cars, there will be disagreement as far as how traffic should me managed.
Pollution and whatnot will still be a problem. People will still be mad about it. Nobody will be able to do anything about it.
There will be robots with sophisticated artificial intelligence (like C-3PO except without as much linguistic knowledge) available for anyone who is "pretty rich" or more than that.
We will have semi-permanent extraterrestrial residences, but only for those who are very wealthy. The space elevator will be built.
Also, war will be an even bigger problem, and so will crime. Things will gradually get worse, no matter what people try to do to correct it. People will be really mad at the United States, and a lot of people will just leave.

This is a very weird future, but I'm thinking it's not all that unreasonable to think it could happen.
Anyway, that's it for now.

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