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Signposts Perspectives 1990 AD-2050 AD Table of Contents

1989-1990: The PRESENT TIME for the author when the first serious work on this document begins

1990-1995: The conception of the first programmed intelligence destined to enjoy an indefinite lifespan

1997: A high-profile USAmerican Pentagon press conference about the Roswell UFO story lends credence to the entire UFO conspiracy game-- to the anguish of Big Money Religion

1997: ERP (Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky Pair)-related confirmations possibly pointing the way to FTL (Faster-Than-Light) technologies continue to be made in research labs

1997: "Q-balls" are pondered by physicists

1998: A possible component of dark matter is identified

1999: A possibly unbreakable timestamp for archival verification is developed.

1999: The USAmerican government either incompetently bungles the storage and record-keeping regarding millions of ancient American artifacts-- or it's covering up something by claiming to do so

1999: Maritime piracy continues on even in modern times: 300 pirate attacks are reported this year

1998-2000: FTL space travel enthusiasts get both good news and bad via new scientific discoveries and theories

1999-2000: Traditional religions suffer more setbacks as many long-time 'supernatural' mysteries are now yielding to very down-to-earth explanations

Approximately 2,000,000 BC- 2,000 AD: The Appalachian mountain range of North America enjoys a lengthy period of stability

2000: There remain dry land locations on Earth still inaccessible and unknown to modern human civilization...

2000: Centuries-old myths of giant squid are proving to be true in the South Pacific

2000: Earth Two's crust retains about 70% of its originally formed continental mass at or near the surface...

2000: Net access and expansion turns out to offer a very bumpy ride for consumers and business alike through much of this year

2000: By now humanity has explored something less than 2% of the deep oceans-- and less than 10% of the oceans overall

2000: Life as we know it is very scarce on or near the surface of Mars, mostly due to the lack of liquid water; Puzzling regional bands of magnetic fields protect some portions of Mars' remaining atmosphere from the solar wind

From the prehistoric past through the present: It may be the Earth is being pelted by 30 cosmically spawned impacts a year with explosive yields of one kiloton or more

2001: Vicarious virtual immortality possibilities for all (comparable to the renown achieved by authors of timeless classics in the past) are expanded via online legacies

2001: Research efforts utilizing "dreaming" artificial intelligences are generating intriguing new ideas for a significant number of innovative government and corporate projects.

2001: The McDonnell-Douglas DC-X single stage to orbit rocket concept is secretly in use or development by several parties

2002: Could black holes really be gravastars?

2002: A robot gladiator attempts to escape the arena

2005: "Lucid dreaming" is a common indulgence/fad worldwide by now, due to new technological aids

2005: The concept of an approaching technological singularity as originally espoused by science fiction author Vernor Vinge has caught the imaginations of many by now...

2007: It's proven that some forms of insanity (like schizophrenia) are literally contagious diseases which may be 'caught' in some cases as easily as the common flu

2007-2017: The Great Recession of the early 21st Century

2010: The first crude 'second skin' applications become available

2001-2013: One or more televised and webcast major terrorist incidents in New York NY stuns USAmerica sometime during this period

2010-2013: USAmerica puts the squeeze on global trade

1997-2017: A cyberwar score: USAmerica: down $1 billion; the "September" brain trust: up $1 billion

2014-2015: Global trade war erupts

2000-2015 trends: The developed nations are making substantial changes across-the-board to better match modern institutions to human nature

2015: The (mostly) failed surreptitious takeover of USAmerica

2016: Russia gives America a nudge back towards normalcy

2017: The Great Recession of the early 21st Century is ending for some (but not USAmerica)

2017: The Tascor Group gives birth to a star performer

2025: A student's clandestine plan to bed his stand-offish girlfriend makes the late 2020s/early 2030s worldwide seem like the uninhibited 1970s of USAmerica for many.

2025: The core remnant of the original Russia is becoming an important international player again

2030: The SETI project comes to a tantalyzing but frustrating end

2031: The "Bounty Economy" is becoming increasingly a mainstream phenomenon...

2030s: USAmerica remains an important country, but is suffering from its past mistakes

2030s-2040s: Some progress is being made in using quantum-physics to implement psychokinesis ("psi") type devices and effects

2036: The soon-to-be infamous "JackShak" springs from the mind of Jacob Blom

2040s: The Backtrack fad takes the world by storm...

2040s: In many aspects of physical, social, and economic conditions the world is becoming a colder, lonelier, and harsher place to live; there is also a growing divide between generations

2040s: The return of the financial AIs and their planetary restructuring plans...

2045: JackShak continues to plague many companies and individuals

2002-2050: Pranks and hoaxes, often elaborate, some hilarious, some astonishing, some terrifying, appear with increasing frequency during this period

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