Comments on Next Big Future: Reviewing my predictions on the future and recent ...

Scott

thanks for the link and I am glad tha...

2008-02-05T15:54:00.000-08:00

Scott

thanks for the link and I am glad that you enjoy the blog and the essay.

Electromagnetic rail guns are coming along nicely....

2008-02-05T15:31:00.000-08:00

Electromagnetic rail guns are coming along nicely...

http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=34718

Regardless of this 'Richard Kulisz' fellow, I enjoyed this essay and the blog as a whole.

Your input will not be missed Richard Kulisz grand...

2008-02-05T14:14:00.000-08:00

Your input will not be missed Richard Kulisz grand master troll.
Btw: You are too unimportant and trivial to despise. No more attention economy for you troll.

RichardKuliszFanClub discussing the trolling gems of Richard.

Discussing Richard as troll

RichardKulisz

133 entries for Richard Kulisz as troll Entries clearly are labelling Richard as troll.

A reddit discussion of Richard getting banned

Kulisz acts like his comments are so groundbreaking that they are
worthy of censorship. He is, and always has been a blowhard looking
for attention.

Richard Kulisz has been nominated as a grandmaster of trolling.

In terms of doing what was thought to be impossibl...

2008-02-05T09:18:00.000-08:00

In terms of doing what was thought to be impossible with technology, a recent successful example is with metamaterials and breaking the diffraction limit

For faster than light, obviously a lot of effort and perhaps many very creative cheats against the current understanding of nature need to be achieved or at certain extreme conditions beyond what we are able to generate now there are phenomena that we do not yet know about which can be exploited.

There is of course plenty to do technologically even if that never happens. Getting up to Kardashev level 2 within the solar system or sending probes at near the speed of light to other solar systems using mirrored laser arrays.

As for aliens contacting us, we do not know the odds on most of the terms in the Drake equation. So your assigning factors to them are BS and mouthings of a fool.

You talk about unscientific and then in another thread rant against analytics.

You are also going off on long, insult and expletive laden tirades against one or two wildcard predictions out of 156 predictions.

The Tau Zero Foundation researchers are the ones who are actually making the effort to try to achieve FTL Even if there chances are not great for success, I would rate them infinitely more than 6 billion people like Richard.

I think the best way to determine and contact alien life will be for humanity to expand up technologically and go looking for it. This will be greatly accelerated by making massive hypertelescope arrays

The Co2 and PC prediction was just a reposting of the Gartner predictions.

> By 2010, 75 per cent of organisations will us...

2008-02-05T00:15:00.000-08:00

> By 2010, 75 per cent of organisations will use full life cycle energy and CO2 footprint as mandatory PC hardware buying criteria.

This isn't a "prediction", it's the goddamned law! It's EuP Directive 2005/32/EC. Anyone way back in 2005 could have "predicted" this.

Contact with aliens and faster than light travel a...

2008-02-04T21:09:00.000-08:00

Contact with aliens and faster than light travel are in the wild cards section. In wild cards, I placed predictions which could be very unlikely even astronomically unlikely but which if they did come about would change everything.

Back in the 1200's people thought the world was flat and that the Sun went around the earth. They were wrong.

If I made only conservative predictions then most or perhaps all of them would not happen.

If putting in golf was like predictions then constantly being conservative would be like lagging my putts. Almost all the time I would be coming up short. the point of predictions is to make the putt. That would mean of the misses only some would be short and most would go a little past the hole/target.

Also in predictions it would be a short list of overly obvious predictions to have only predictions with a high degree of certainty.

I checked out your original list of predictions an...

2008-02-04T18:10:00.000-08:00

I checked out your original list of predictions and I have to say the majority are quite aggressive. Quite a few of them are on track, but this hardly compensates the ones that are infinitely behind because they are physically impossible. I refer to gems such as "contact with aliens" and "faster than light travel" that are in direct logical contradiction with our present existence as human beings. Those are some huge fucking blunders there.