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Bob Fry wrote: Not my statement. See http://www.longbets.org/4 What sayeth the group wisdom? I think eventually there will be pilotless aircraft, the question is when. Hmmph. I was told in 1980 that by the year 2000 everybody would have flying cars and personal rocket belts would be practical. Everything would be run with nuclear power and we would have permanent colonies on the moon and Mars. Disease and starvation would be a thing of the past. Men would dress in tight jumpsuits and women in short skirts and everyone would wear little space emblems. We would all eat food with the consistency of paste. Robots would be in every household. OTOH, I was also told that we would now be living in post-apocalyptic society barely surviving a radioactive, half frozen world. Every nation would be under totalitarian rule and war would be a permanent state of affairs, as men dressed in battle armor fought it out with laser cannon and robot tanks. Maybe all those things will happen someday. Maybe it is all a question of when. But given the track record of people being able to predict things 25 years into the future, I am not going to hold my breath waiting for pilotless airplanes. |
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