As promised a three-part post. These are my random predictions for the future. You can write these off as humorous and misguided musings but only time will tell.
And now I present for your enjoyment a history of the future:
In the year 2024 all newspapers had to stop producing paper copies due to pressure from environmental groups as well as a dwindling number of subscribers, so now they can save the planet and their money. The e-newspaper, now humorously dubbed the News, Sans Paper, still requires a subscription and is then delivered straight to your inbox every day or for just $1.80 an issue you may buy a single copy to download off of the website as a PDF file, sales papers are not included. No reporter has yet tackled the question of why the price jumped after they got rid of the paper.
Other changes to the media include the new restrictions on how much can be reported during elections. Thanks to the news outlets using exit polls to announce the winner of the 2016 presidential election a full three hours before polls on the west coast closed, (the first thing that Hawaiians saw when they turned on their TV’s was news casters telling them who the new president was; no one in Hawaii even bothered voting that year) they are now forbidden to report any results in a nationwide election until the day after.
In education news, the public school system has been dumbed down so much that by the year 2028 the only children who can get in to colleges are homeschoolers. But because of the low attendance the tuition prices became too high for anyone to afford. Universities were forced to dumb themselves down in order to stay in business. The government actually tried to outlaw homeschooling for a while but there was no way to stop the movement without taking away all civil rights. Besides everyone knew that the only reason they were against it was because homeschoolers have consistently done better than public schoolers in all subjects and grades.
On the religion beat, scientists discover heaven? Year 2030: Scientists working on a project to tel-port matter from New York to L.A. were suddenly overwhelmed by what they called, “a feeling of the most intense joy that a human being could ever hope experience on earth.” The feeling of joy left as suddenly as it had appeared. One of the researchers also reported hearing a voice that told him, “It is not yet time; this is not the door that you are meant to enter by.” The lead researcher is hypothesizing that they may have momentarily breached another dimension of some sort. As a result of this story conversions to Christianity will skyrocket.
C. O. Bonham 
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17 Aug 2012 Leave a comment
by C.O. Bonham in Random Musing, Well founded paranoia Tags: Chocolate cake, Comments, flame wars, Opinions
One thing that some people fail to appreciate about our society is that this, more than any other era, is really the age of personal opinion. when else in history could you read a news story and then immediately put in your two cents. We go online read an article and then leave a comment. In fact reading the comments consumes more of our attention than the story that we came to read. The comments show what people really think. And reading the comments can also make you really angry. They can turn into real flame wars sometimes. Check out the following example that I made up and see if you can spot the commenter that makes me the maddest.
Headline: Ten year old boy eats Chocolate cake everyday. Doctors find no ill effects.
Comments
Cakeluvur: I like cake. You go kid!
Sparedarod: That is so wrong his parents should go to jail for not making him eat healthy foods. My kids don’t eat sweets ever. Cake is the Devil’s Food.
Cakeluvur: It can be Angel Food too! 😀
Spoildechild: @Sparedarod, You shouldn’t be so strict. Kids need to have things in life to make them happy or else they will grow up bitter and angry. Besides the article says that he got a piece of cake everyday. It’s not like they fed him nothing but cake.
Dietdiva: I wish I could eat cake every day and not get fat like this kid. 😦
Superdad: Maybe you should play three different sports like my boys. They eat all day.
Sparedarod: You are all crazy it dosen’t matter what else you eat sugar is toxic. I never had any sweets growing up and I turned out perfectly fine. We should ban all sugar.
Cakeluver: What we already have a higher tax on sugar than other foods.
DietDiva: No we have a tax on beverages. I pay the same tax for my unsweetened tea as i would if I bought a soda. McDonald’s even taxed my bottled water.
Superdad: @Sparedarod, You did not turn out fine at all it sounds like you turned into a bitter hag who thinks that everyone should suffer just because you had an unhappy childhood. Stop forcing your beliefs on others.
Peacemaker: Why do you people have to be like this? Everyone has the right to their own opinion. Everyone should stop putting down the opinions of other. If we all respected each others opinion then the world would be a happy place and we could all get along.
Now who do you think made me angry in the above example. That’s right it was Peacemaker. Everyone else had an opinion that contributed to the debate, even if some of them could have been nicer about it. But Peacemaker just commented on the arguing. His or her opinion was that people really shouldn’t have their own opinion. Peacemaker would rather everyone sacrifice their beliefs in the name of tolerance. But we can’t do that. We must keep arguing, debating and having different opinions. Because if everyone has the right to their own opinion then that includes everyone with a dissenting opinion too.
So come on leave your opinion. Lets see if we can start a good comment war.
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