Top products from r/FutureWhatIf
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1. Mining The Sky: Untold Riches From The Asteroids, Comets, And Planets (Helix Book)
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2. Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States
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3. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)
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5. Ecotopia: A Novel
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Author: Ernest CallenbachISBN: 9780553348477
6. The Secret of Atlantis
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8. The Green Brain
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9. The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
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Oh - I was made aware of this piece from several decades ago just the other day but I haven't read it. For all I know, it could present a really good case.
On the Abolition of All Political Parties -by Simone Weil
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590177819/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1590177819&linkCode=as2&tag=thdi09-20&linkId=IPB5264LXHVQGR22
Here, you might like this book
The writing's not the best but the book makes a good point.
There is an author who has written about the coming century and his take on Mexico is:
Its economy takes off.
It's migrants to the US never integrate because unlike every previous wave of migration the migrants are crossing a land border and do not feel the same need to integrate as Irish or Italians or Indians with an ocean separating them from home.
This creates a tension, with CA, AZ, TX etc. becoming predominantly Hispanic, perhaps Mexico offering 2nd and 3rd generation diaspora voting rights at home.
At some point (e.g. the 2080s and beyond) the border states leaving the US and joining Mexico could start to look attractive. This seems unthinkable but in 1913 so did the idea of the US being the most powerful nation on earth.
He is not speculating sequelae, just identifying a future fault line.
lol. OP should read Otto Muck's The Secret of Atlantis.
Imagine Robert Anton Wilson writing non-fiction about Atlantis. This is that book.
Consider reading the title story from Shuteye for the Timebroker, by Paul di Filippo
> A timebroker mediated between individuals and institutions, citizens and the government. Individuals registered their shifting schedules hour by hour with a timebroker of their choice. During such and such hours, they would be willing to work; during other hours, they were interested in attending a concert, a ball game, a university class, a gym. Contrarily, institutions registered their needs. The symphony wants a thousand listeners at four a.m. on Sunday. Can you provide them?
See Ernest Callenbach's novel, Ecotopia.
All of them.
If you traveled in time to 3013 AD you'd likely not even be able to speak the language. If you want an idea what 1000 years has done to English find a copy of Beowulf with the original translation like this
That is most likely how different English will look in 3013.
Now that doesn't answer "Will names be the same"
Chances are... Probably yes. Will they look the same as we know them now? Hell no. They'll be spelled differently, and might even have different characters in them. For all we know "James" might change to "Jæm$" in 1000 years.
This quick Google result (Warning: It does not site sources) shows a few common names still in use. My guess is most of these will survive. And if we look at the past century the SSA has the top 100 names in the past 100 years here: http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/century.html
My hunch is there will always be someone who names their child one of these names.
Something similar happens in the novel Caliphate by Tom Kratman. Islamic terrorists set off nukes in the USA - the American response is massive, effectively nuking Islam into oblivion. Check it out here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00ARPJDLA/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?qid=1420141099&sr=8-2&pi=AC_SY200_QL40&dpPl=1&dpID=51OYjc-y8lL&ref=plSrch
Check out the Ashfall Trilogy, if you don't mind young adult lit. The author told me that he consulted with geologists on the technical details, so, aside from a few literary embellishments, it's quite scientifically sound.
"Aid" to Africa and impoverished nations elsewhere is not an attempt to get them back on their feet in the first place:
http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-John-Perkins/dp/0452287081
I believe the book "The Green Brain" is relevant.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Green-Brain-Frank-Herbert/dp/0765342502/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1381721017&sr=8-1&keywords=the+green+brain
To get here costs about 20 trillion of 20 years. It would destroy the monopolies of a million billionaires on the planet. The 1% sure as hell do not want super abundance for the masses.
http://www.amazon.com/Mining-The-Sky-Asteroids-Planets/dp/0201328194
Normalized US-Iran relations are the nightmare scenario for both Israel and the Saudis
When Nixon decided to "Go to China" in the 1970s and recognize Communist China, the Taiwanese (who until then were official considered "China" by the US) were kicked aside.
Naturally Israel and the Saudis don't want that.
This book is all about that:
Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States
https://www.amazon.com/Treacherous-Alliance-Secret-Dealings-Israel/dp/0300143117
This has nothing to do with Sunni versus Shia though the Saudis would like it to be that way
In reality the reason why the Saudis hate Iran, is because Iran is a Republic that overthrew a US-backed absolute monarchy just like theirs
CIA Expert:
>Iran of course is the alleged sinister threat constantly trumpeted by Riyadh—and Israel—a policy designed ultimately to bring the US into a war with Iran. Here too Riyadh more fundamentally fears Iran as an evolving democratic state in an Islamic context; Iran’s elections and fairly transparent politics are all closely followed by the outside world, they matter. Basically Iran will preside over a functioning democratic state far earlier than Saudi Arabia ever will; Saudi Arabia indeed lacks any institutional foundations for such an open political order. Ihttps://lobelog.com/the-geopolitics-of-the-khashoggi-murder/