• skvlp@lemmy.wtf
    14 hours

    The video is pretty light on information, and what is there I don’t find sensational. The predictions are things that are pretty common to predict.

    • Miller@lemmy.world
      13 hours

      Read Nostradamus, stuff might happen, someone might have a name starting with H. Stuff happened, someone had a name starting with H. How could he have known.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
        12 hours

        Dude cyberpunk had digital currency and the first books in that genre came out in the 80s. Ray Bradbury has stories featuring digital currency and he was writing in the 40s. The idea of using money without actually using money is how banking began with checks.

      • Bonifratz@piefed.zipEnglish
        13 hours

        Any large-scale technological development, like e.g. the smart IDs mentioned in the video, is usually decades in the making before it becomes feasible for daily and widespread use. So I’m not surprised a group of well-funded and well-connected futurists were able to predict this kind of stuff as it was probably already being developed in some way back in 1997.

        Also, the risk of a pandemic was well-known long before Covid-19, e.g. I remember Germany had an emergency plan for that exact scenario long before 2020.

      • skvlp@lemmy.wtf
        12 hours

        There were work on digital currencies already in the eighties. So even that prediction was not out of the blue.

  • crandlecan@mander.xyz
    12 hours

    1997…
    The year when people still had to go everywhere by foot, electricity only lived in the skies and even the horse wouldn’t be invented until right around the Millennium. Predicting all this comes close to witchcraft 👍

  • Mr. Wobble@thelemmy.club
    14 hours

    You should read more science fiction. Its neat, all the stuff that forward-thinking, science minded, imaginative people predict all the time in it. Shit, look at all the stuff that Snow Crash correctly predicted, and that came out in 92.

    Reading speculative fiction is fun and stimulates one’s imagination and sense of wonder, unlike this conspiratorial horseshit.