30 Million American "Detainees"...coming soon to a city near you.

[Ankesh]

TW -

Gordon talks the black swan talk. Sooner or later, terrible things are going to happen. And when they happen, the person who predicted these things will be right.

You want bad news that can lead to the scenarios Gordon is describing? Lets count the ways.

1. Earthquake strikes USA.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/hazards/p...10hzSA.usa.jpg
If you stay in yellow or red zones, make sure you have enough insurance on your apartments. Because its highly doubtful that the engineering discipline was of the Japanese standards.

2. Dollar devaluing.
Even Warren Buffet recently said that USD won't remain this strong in 5-10 years time. And he is betting on companies out of USA more and more.

The BRICS countries already decided to not to use USD anymore for trades between themselves.

If dollar devalues, the goods that are available so cheap in Walmart won't be available anymore. Basic things will cost twice the current prices. This leads to higher poverty levels instantly. Which leads to more crime.

3. A terror attack on US soil.
Happened in 1993. Happened in 2001. Its 2011 now. Many say its due.

Add to these - political assasination, nuclear blow up, riots due to rising oil prices, swine flu type viral plague... there are a 1001 doomsday scenarios.

And the one claiming to predict these doomsdays - will be right. One day definitely he will be proven right.

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I on the other hand am an optimist. Just as terrible things will happen one day, truly awesome things of the same proportion will also happen. And I try to bet on the truly awesome things.

Things like solar energy being cheaper than oil as soon as 2013.

Or a car network - all cars driving without drivers. No more 1 million deaths on roads per year.

Or truly awesome advances in gesture based computing. Bringing on one more computer revolution.

Or awesome advances in food growing in labs - which makes them way safer - less diseases from high fructose stuff and meat stuff.

Or eradication of malaria.

Or scientists mapping why earthquakes happen and predicting them.

Or complete weather control ability.

Or invention of minimally invasive nano machines for operations.

Or invention of artificial organs in labs - kidneys and hearts and eyes and pancreas.

These things shall come to pass too.