FM-2030

[xsampa]

I suggest we make a page on the Upwing political compass using a 3d cube like these. Anyways, back to FM-2030. He successfully predicted in the '70s that:

• the arms race'd de-accelerate
  
• the current dress-down style'd be adopted
  
• globalization'd occur
  
• telemedicine, telebanking and the like'd exist in the future
  
• predicted a coming "Age of Abundance" when everyone was freaked out over the "population bomb"
  
• 3d printers would appear by 2010
  

His predictions only seem to be amazing in hindsight because everyone else was preoccupied with pop future hype about nuclear war and the population bomb; he was the (almost) only one to take note of long-term trends and cutting-edge bluprints of nu tech.

What I find personally intriguing about him is his worldview, which required drastic reforming of human nature. For example:

• he believed that people would replace marriage with dating and making kids thru artificial wombs if they felt like it
  
• people'd replace given names w/ changing usernames
  
• people'd switch from families to groups of groups of adults raising kids like a daycare center
  
• all hierachies'd collapse to e-democracy
  

Of course, these changes never happened because they were too drastic for most folks to swallow.
More on FM later.