Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Twenty Ten Commencement

Brave new decade! I like the way it is two lots of tens. Sometime this decade our new century will begin to find the form it will be remembered for. We've pretty much wrapped up the 20th now. What do you think the highlights will be summarised as?
Electricity?
Communications technologies?
Peak Oil?
Massive Proliferation in pointless music genres?
Coffee snobbery?
The only century in which computers weren't sentient?

Perhaps all of the above and more.

I'm not really fussed. I'm looking forward now. Things I'd like out of our new century include but are not limited to:
* Global ecological democracy - let's even things up, we're all on this globe together.
* Spontaneous intellectual uplift of all persons. Ever wake up and think something like "I'd like to be calmer, happier, better read, more forgiving, more grateful, less angry, capable of cooking a nutritious meal, kissed more often and so on."? I think it would be great if each person had one or more of those thoughts and did something positive and generative towards obtaining that state this century. Imagine what the cumulative effect might be. Of course, we might then need to hand out more condoms, but there's nothing too wrong with that problem.
* More great music. Nothing crazy there - just really like it. How can that be bad?
* Quantum travel/communications/ Fabrication - I just have a feeling that entanglement is going to rock our world/s.
* First contact with sentient aliens (preferably in a manner that doesn't result in the genocide of humans, but I would kind of understand if it did).
* Free chocolate days to celebrate the happy chemicals that make being human so much fun.

So welcome to Twenty Ten and here's cheers to easing into the 21st century!

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