2012: The Year The Internet Ends
Submitted by DAR on Sun, 2008-06-01 16:32.
06/01/2008 - Every significant Internet provider around the globe is currently in talks with access and content providers to transform the internet into a television-like medium: no more freedom, you pay for a small commercial package of sites you can visit and you'll have to pay for seperate subscriptions for every site that's not in the package.
Almost all smaller websites/services will disappear over time and multinationals who are used to using big budgets to brute force their content into every media outlet will finally be able to approach the internet in the same way.
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Doomsday
I don't really believe in doomsday prophecies. As sure as they were back in the 16hundred whatevers it was all going to end, they were wrong. Every doomsday prophecy has been wrong. We're not all going to incinerate one day in 2012. The world, however I think will dramatically change and America will be forced out of the comfy little bubble and into third world resources. We will be highly discriminated against globally, and China, or Japan, or maybe Tibet will be the new place to be. Who knows?
Hhhmmm?
When someone is right on the event of a large nature, it is easier to see the possible outcomes, but impossible to stop. It might be easier on all of us to try to attenuate the effects of an impending disaster, but the loss is inevitable. We have lost our collective social wisdom as a nation. Many others want to be like us, but that means that the bully on the block is winning.
It is true that the world has never run on absolutes, science keeps on proving to us that there are very few things absolute. Life tells us that there are very few absolutes.
2012 may represent another 9/11 or worse, the reality is that catastrophe does not play favorites. Our civilized fall is coming, how that happens won't be known fully until it happens.
Running out of time.
Gee, that date sounds familiar. Isn't that the same year as when the supposed Mayan doomsday will occur? It seems that there is a cosmic conjunction happening around the same time. We have got less than four years before we kiss our collective asses goodbye forever. Why is that species end up going extinct for no real reason?
Fangs why are you so
Fangs why are you so obsessed with the whole human extinction thing? It seems like you actually welcome it.
Remembered deadlines for action
Why and now of all reasons? Simple answer is there are too many people who are so set in their way of life that no amount of reasoning or enticement will break them of their oil consumption addiction. Another, the greedy pigs of power have no idea nor any need to worry about the self-destruction of our biosphere, the Earth. When voluntary changes to civilized society can no longer effect changes away from the direction of certain outcomes, so then are the involuntary changes begin to manifest and be perceived as harbingers of doom.
I don't welcome it, but I certainly hope to hell that out of the billions of the dead, there will be no more punitive, greedy pigs alive.
Take the word doomsday. The 's' is not possessive to day, but plural for doom. What the correct characterization of human extinction is more likely to be doomsdecades. I view it as strictly an eventuality, because the deadlines for preventative actions to be done have long since past 15 years ago. I was in school during that time, studying to be an environmental chemist. I was instructed to forget about planning for my grandchildren, because it was more likely that my children would get to suffer alongside me as we watched as all of humanity disappeared into the geologic history of the Earth. Many of us will get to have our last dying vision of a world plunged into global famine, food riots, and heat exhaustion. Once a major ice cap goes, wildly high temperatures start to kill people off in the millions. We had our chance, let another species have the honor of being top dog.
I am not absolutely certain of our mutual extinction, for only a divine influence could know absolutely, but it gets the gravity of our collective butts situation across clearly better than saying there is doubt in the scientific community about our survival.
This is just as serious as having a global nuclear exchange to wipe out all of humanity in a blink of an eye. Except that is more like dying of COPD or incurable cancer.