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- Nairn0
2030 - Some sort of visual QR-code like easily machine readable graphics, printed on roads.
- Late 2030 - people hi-reflective paint hacking painted road codes.Nairn
- I think i have dementia.Nairn
- imagine roads have big qr codes painted on them at various points, your car drives over them and reads the code with a big scanner.shapesalad
- this then set the speed limit of the car so you can't break law.shapesalad
- Yeah, that's along the lines of what I was assuming - machine-readable road data for 'autonomous' cars to read, as they drive.Nairn
- Nairn0
Someone comes up with a news aggregator that filters out CORONAVIRUS2020 content. Becomes huge. Buys Pornhub, who'd recently bought Google.
2022: We're still all dying.
- I wish I'd stayed in digital and gotten better at programming and web stuff - I'd make a C-19 filtering news aggregator in a heartbeat.Nairn
- In fact, there's a germ of an idea - a news aggregating service that filters whatever Big Story you want. Royal Wedding? Nix. Inbound Comet? Nix.Nairn
- ^ add to the disaster boxGnash
- Nairn0
Doesn't matter how the first and second tier countries of the world manage to deal with CORONAVIRUS2020, what does matter is what happens in the billions of unwashed masses in the third and fourth tier countries.
Second wave? pfft - try tenth.
2022: We're all dead.
- Watching what's happening in South Africa and India and by fuck if this isn't an obvious thing to moot, Probs not all actually dead in 2022. Just, most of us.Nairn
- Looking at CORONAVIRUS2020, I'm irritated they didn't name the disease COVID-20. Missed an opportunity there.
Brand cohesion, n'all that.Nairn - yeah but wasn't it first noted in 2019? #pedantryliveshans_glib
- BustySaintClaire0
Dystopian TV series, directed by Denis Villeneuve starring ??
- Gardener2
Live Aid III
- PhanLo0
Wonder if governments will push for a cashless society after Corona? just before all the shops started closing everything was going card only to cut down on human contact.
- Only supermarkets are cashless now. The small non-stop shops are still cash. Also is way better to have cash if the system brakes down.grafician
- they should remove or up the £30 limit on contactless - i can give the correct cash but grossed out by keypads!kingsteven
- get Revolut or Monero or any digital card - you can set your own limitsgrafician
- can do that with my bank, works in certain shops but still hard limit in supermarkets for some reason!kingsteven
- Revolut offers a free contactless cardgrafician
- Chimp0
The banned the 3 season of Utopia because it was too close to being a documentary
- grafician0
Whatever country recovers fastest from this economical nightmare, it will influence the world affairs for many years to come.
China seems keen on recovering fast and taking over Asia - at least!
- China isn't recovering, it's covering. Covering up the truth.shapesalad
- ^ yup! All China is doing is serving up propaganda!Krassy
- Nairn0
Yout' and Army on the streets in LDN, May, leads to wannabe gangbangers looting getting shot.
- Never. Gonna. Happen.Morning_star
- Oh? You missed the riots then?Nairn
- I was talking about this with someone much more street and LDN than I am and he agreed with me - although he thought plastic bullets.Nairn
- Mind you, I suppose there may come a point when there's nothing on the shelves to loot, so you may be right.Nairn
- It was the 'shot'. It implies dead people. The last time the british army shot civilians caused such a fucking nightmare live rounds won't be given out for...Morning_star
- ...public order. Plastic bullets, maybe. Water canons, maybe.Morning_star
- Sure, but when was the last time our country faced what it is apparently now? Society would have no problem with looters and spivs getting it where deservedNairn
- I disagree. The army being judge and jury and killing people on the streets of LDN will never happen. The simple fact is that whilst the public may beMorning_star
- ...sympathetic to a baton to the head or sneaky rubber bullet to the guts it would be a completely different matter if there were dead kids left of the streets.Morning_star
- Let's hope i'm wrong.
Do you live here, by the way?Nairn - ..after the riot. The army cannot be judge and jury, just look at Bloody Sunday.Morning_star
- I'm in the UK not LDN though. Deepest darkest Birmingham.Morning_star
- Ah yeah, I forgot you were another of QBN's resident Brummies. Your experience of the riots may well have been similar to mine, then. Cunts, all of themNairn
- Tru. There's a certain category of cunt that inhabits large cities. I hope they don't take it upon themselves to 'help themselves' as there are more than a...Morning_star
- ...few business owners who learnt a valuable lesson last time and keep a baseball bat and machete close by at all times.Morning_star
- Yeah, there's a lot of Turkish around where i live and I was bemused/heartened by their coming out in force and patrolling their Manor. Fun times.Nairn
- Same here. Lots of Sikhs, Polish and Egyptians. Awesome community, awesome food. Wouldn't get on the wrong side of any of themMorning_star
- utopian1
Sell everything! 2016 will be a 'cataclysmic year,' warns RBS
"Sell everything."
That harrowing advice is from The Royal Bank of Scotland, which has warned of a "cataclysmic year" ahead for markets and advised clients to head for the exit. Do not wait. Do not pass go.
"Sell everything except high quality bonds," warned Andrew Roberts in a note this week.
He said the bank's red flags for 2016 -- falling oil, volatility in China, shrinking world trade, rising debt, weak corporate loans and deflation -- had all been seen in just the first week of trading.
"We think investors should be afraid," he said.Morgan Stanley warned this week that oil could touch $20 a barrel. RBS says if it falls below $30, then $16 is on the horizon.
The world is in a global recession, Roberts wrote. This terrible cocktail means investors should now be thinking about getting a "return of capital, not return on capital."
RBS compares the market mood with that of 2008 before the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the start of the global financial crisis.
- Investor panic would make a self-fulfilling prophecy.ETM
- hotroddy1
ipads will become decreasingly popular as phones get bigger
- eflips0
The Earth will lose. Big.
- nope, humans will.ApeRobot
- Earth will be here, will we?bainbridge
- SlashPeckham0
One day they will do a Wild West version of the Knight Rider... Kit is now a talking horse..
- maybe Knight Rider was just an urban version of Mr. Ed?spot13
- theme song: http://www.shutupwom…spot13
- I believe that was called BraveStarr.albums
- albums0
I literally just came in here