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Old 06-22-2015, 07:38 PM   #20 (permalink)
niky
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Market forces should force us to give up or curtail beef consumption by then. Food is already an issue, simply because people can't afford to either buy it or grow it in certain areas.

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niky -- Best case scenario: Terra Preta and geodesic domes. Solar energy cheaper than fossil fuels. Social anarchism as the predominate political system. Bitcoin.
I could go for solar-powered hippie communes -sash- mini-arcologies, separated by vast tracts of natural land, connected by wireless communication. Travellers moving between them in lightweight methane-electric buggies.

Bitcoin, or something similar, is probably the way to go for secure electronic currency, but it's a tremendous waste of computing resources (for now). Eventually, there will be a more efficient way to generate virtual currency, but then again, we spend untold millions of dollars in electricity and hardware to watch cat videos online, so it's all relative.
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