20 Years in the Future

[kabab]

From a purely scientific aspect do we really want to increase the population of the earth ?? I mean if everyone who has any illness is saved and the population continues to grow then we are all ****ed.

I know it sounds cruel but its the reality of the situation.

[Nitephyre]

i see where you're coming from rowds... im only 25 and i've had cancer twice already.. first in '01 then again in '02.. so i'm glad tha the qld govt poured millions into redeveloping the RBH.. i think there should be more funding for medical research

there should also be more funding for regional hospitals and to help people like my dad who suicided on christmas eve last year.. people who actually seek help yet get turned away because 'we dont have any beds for you'

sorry slightly off topic but hey

i suppose i might change my veiw a bit now ive thought of it more.... automation is certainly very convenient, so if needs be i'd use the autopods.... but i would still like to be able to drive a car, and i hope, although i know it'll be otherwise, that there will still be tracks around etc where one can do so...

also i saw in the paper this week that australia is up to 20million citizens, which aint ****ing bad for 215 odd years.. and since we still have a shitload of land, we should be planning for the ultimate expansion we're going to see in the next 20 years ie faster cross country transport etc

/rant2

[floody]

I doubt it will go that way in 20 years. Maybe 50-60 or so. I'm with heli0s, I'd love to be tinkering with a collection of archaic boxy 1980's turbo jap cars (cue period style DR30 RS-X, starion etc) with the young'uns zapping past far overhead, taking to the empty, abandoned street level for a blast about late at night when the eco cops weren't looking, turning the remains of dinosaurs into a rich, black cloud of carbon dioxide, and disturbing the rarified air with a rasping exhaust, screaming wastegate, and the mechanical cacophony of a proper old school big turbo'd motor... :D