O poe hee, vind ik toch net een artikel van Gerard Celente. Eens kijken wat hij voor het jaar 2000 voorspelt:
Living the Simple Life
Voluntary simplicity, once merely a counterculture ideal, will finally become a reality in the twenty-first century. Simplicity doesn't mean deprivation. Rather, it's old-fashioned Yankee frugality, rediscovered and redesigned for the modern age. Moderation, self-discipline, and spiritual growth will be the personal goals of the future, not material accumulation. As the old saying goes: Use it up, wear it out, make it do, do without. If you don't really need it, it's a luxury. Not that there's anything wrong with luxuries; it's just that we won't confuse them with necessities
Maar dat is grappig, in plaats van simpeler leven nam de verkoop van SUV's extreem toe begin 2000.
The trend to convert lawns into gardens will have a significant impact not only on the way we eat but also on how we live and feel. It will be one of the keys to living better for less. Billions of dollars formerly spent on lawn care will either be saved or re-deployed into producing fresh food. The American lawn won't disappear entirely, of course. Kids will always romp on them, barbecues will still be held on them. But a significant portion of the nation's arable lawn will be revamped for food production. Just two mature standard fruit trees produce 250 pounds of fruit a year. With millions of downsized or underemployed people struggling to make ends meet, a thousand saved here and a thousand saved there will make a real difference. Even university and corporate campus lawns will be transformed into edible landscapes, providing students and employees with practical, enjoyable, and therapeutic respite from study or work.
Iets uitgebreidere versie van de boven genoemde; voortuinen worden akkers voorspelling.
Instead of being banished to nursing homes or retirement communities, large numbers of retirees--aging, often ailing, unable to care for themselves or to afford quality care--will move in with their adult children. We'll also see perfectly healthy widowed and divorced parents setting up house alongside their kids--ideally with separate entrances and kitchens to preserve some of the privacy to which we've become accustomed. Family households will sometimes extend to four generations when married or unmarried Generation Xers move back home with their young kids.
In de jaren na deze voorspelling nam de hoeveelheid ouderen in nursinghomes toe met 70.000 mensen.
WHAT YOU HEAR IS WHAT YOU SEE
The videophone, meanwhile, will keep us in touch with faraway relatives. Today when we use the phone, we are still communicating by radio. With the addition of the videophone's visual dimension, long-distance communication will be more like television.
Al sinds de jaren 50 voorspellen mensen een videotelefoon, ooit moet het er toch van komen?
The psychological and social connections fostered by the videophone will transform human interaction. People experience intensely personal, intimate feelings when they can see the person they're talking to; body language comes into play and a person becomes something more than just a disembodied voice. As self-employment, downsizing, and work decentralization keep more and more people in their homes, face-to-face communication will become increasingly uncommon--and therefore increasingly important.
Woopsie, even de opkomst van het internet over het hoofd gezien.
Another key player will be the vitamin counselor. While vitamins have been available in supermarkets and health food stores for decades, it was only in the early 1990s that it became apparent that no two people have the same nutritional needs. Effective vitamin counseling must be individualized, just like effective medical advice; a person's age, lifestyle, profession, and eating habits must be taken into account. But most mainstream physicians have had little training in nutrition, and we can't expect knowledgeable advice from minimum-wage clerks at health food stores. Vitamin counselors, on the other hand, will be multidisciplinary practitioners; they'll have a solid grounding of medical knowledge but won't need four years of medical school. By the year 2000 they will be on their way to becoming as professionalized and as respected as pharmacists.
Ik ga ook vaak langs een vitamine counselor die op elke hoek van de straat zit.
The return of individuality will spell an end to the multibillion-dollar fashion industry The bulk of day-to-day apparel will consist of durable mass-produced casual wear. Where appearance matters, the combination of computerization and declining wages will bring custom tailoring back to an affordable price range. The result--personally designed "smartwear"--will bridge the gap between casual and formal: appearance-enhancing but comfortable.
Weet je nog, die zwarte donderdag toen alle modehuizen in elkaar stortten, wait..
Latino Chic. The macarena was only the beginning. Look for Americans to embrace Latin culture--particularly its music--on a wide scale.
Ik heb echt zo genoeg van die constante Ricky Martin klonen op de radio
Damn, die man moet bijna psychic zijn dat hij al die dingen zo goed voorspelt...
Op dinsdag 1 november 2016 00:05 schreef JanCees het volgende:De polls worden ook in 9 van de 10 gevallen gepeild met een meerderheid democraten. Soms zelf +10% _O-