Brian Suda and I (and many others!) seem to continually discuss what may be.

We’re geeks, obviously, but as Chris Messina quoted while at Reboot, “Alpha-geeks are becoming alpha-citizens.“, and thus we discuss all manner of subjects:

• technology
• sociology
• ecology
• business
• ethics
• psychology

The list goes on. But all these conversations eventually evaluate the past, and then try to work out how things may change. Sometimes for the worse, but hopefully for the better!

Finding inspiration from an article written 100 years ago in The Ladies Home Journal, predicting the year 2000, we decided to try and do what they did and predict the future, 1 year from now, then 10, and then 100 years to the year 2100!

You’re now invited to join us in these predictions, firstly online, and then at a short meet up just before the dConstruct conference in Brighton. When we meet, we’ll also discuss the predictions submitted online.

So go submit your predictions, and then join us on the day!

http://predictions.sudabot.com/ < -- This is the important bit!

We’ll meet on September the 4th in Brighton at 5.30pm (upcoming), location TBD.

P.s. don’t feel any pressure to be 100% accurate, this is supposed to be fun too :)

He’s painting a horrific picture of war.

He tells a story of a child of 4 years old asking “when do i get my arms back?”, having lost them along with his family to the Americans.

Some phrases stuck in my head:

“Low intensity offence” – slow invasion by political and social infiltatration.

“Full spectral dominance” – control of land, sea, air and space.

“If you’re not with us you’re against us” – surely that is a threat to the world, surely they are the terrorists?

Harold Pinter brought up many events I was not aware of, describing American activity in many countries including Indonesia, Nicuagua, Chile and Greece. All of which seem to follow similar patterns. Destroy the way of life and install democracy at all costs! Often resulting in loss of life and ability to function as a nation in the global community.

Harold asks a lot of questions, many that probably can not be answered even by the people that are responsible for the situations:

The US have military bases in 132 countries. How did they get there? Were they invited?

8000 nukes 2000 ready to go in 15 minutes. Who are they aimed at?

i’ll update with a link to the speech when it is published..