Category Archives: future
SHTFplan: The Omnipresent Surveillance State: Orwell’s Future Is Our Present Reality
Prepare yourself. Buy physical silver and storable food. Read John W. Whitehead’s entire commentary here, on The Rutherford Institute. The Orwellian dystopia of thought control and an omnipresent surveillance state has become our reality. George Orwell’s book 1984, although meant as fiction, has turned out to be an incredible prediction of our future. The “land […]
SHTFplan: US Treasury Issues More Bonds, But No One Wants Them
Prepare yourself. Buy physical silver and storable food. In an attempt to feed the soaring debt and spending habits of the United States government, the US Treasury is issuing more bonds. But they’ve run into a big problem: no one wants to buy those worthless bonds anymore. Debt is going to be a big problem for the […]
SHTFplan: One Third Of Americans Have Less Than $5,000 Saved For Retirement
Prepare yourself. Buy physical silver and storable food. About one in three Americans have currently saved less than $5,000 toward their retirement. That’s a terrifying number considering the instability of the Ponzi social security scheme. According to Northwestern Mutual’s 2018 Planning & Progress Study, the vast majority of Americans, about 78 percent, say they’re “extremely” or […]
Facing The (Horrible) Future
This article was originally published by Chris Martenson on PeakProsperity.com I’d like to tell you a short story based on a movie that has had a profound impact on me. I’ll get to the story in a moment, but first, a little background on the movie… It’s called Griefwalker (by Tim Wilson) and it focuses on the […]
The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be
This report was originally published by Chris Martenson at PeakProsperity.com This marks our our 10th year of doing this. And by “this”, we mean using data, logic and reason to support the very basic conclusion that infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible. Surprisingly, this simple, rational idea — despite its huge and fast-growing pile […]
The Simpsons Predict The Future Once Again
The TV show, The Simpsons has allegedly predicted the future several times. Nearly 17 years ago, an episode of the popular show predicted that Donald Trump would one day become US president and their streak continues. The show has once again, predicted the future. The Simpsons has been running for over 27 years, so it’s inevitable that some […]
Why Superintelligent AI Could Be The Last Human Invention
Via ValueWalk.com, When we create something more intelligent than we could ever be, what happens after that? We have to teach it. MAX TEGMARK: Hollywood movies make people worry about the wrong things in terms of super intelligence. What we should really worry about is not malice but competence, where we have machines that are […]
Introducing Cryonics: Putting Death On Ice
There is a potent thread winding its way through generations of human culture. From Ancient Egyptian rituals to Kurzweil’s Singularity, many paths have sprung up leading to the same elusive destination: immortality. Today, as Visual Capitalist's Nick Routely notes, the concept is as popular as it’s ever been, and technological advances are giving people hope that […]