The topic makes me think of movies. And movies make me think of how we can
possibly even think we know. "A Space Odyssey" had us flying about in space
with a truly marvellous computer in 2001. "Soylent Green" saw New York with a
hugely unemployed population of 40 million and food requirements met by
converting the dead into food by 2020. "Blade Runner" saw us making humanoid
robots in some not distant future and shipping them off to far off places in
the universe and then making sure they didn't come back to Earth.
Five hundred years ago, in 1510, the new world had just been discovered. Very
little of the great ruination that took place as a result had as yet happened
and Christian Europe was still trying to recover from Islamic invasion (so
what's new?). There was as yet no industrial or scientific revolution even if
the seeds were there. Could anyone then have predicted what the world would be
like in 500 years?
Ed
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Spencer" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2010 6:34 PM
Subject: [Futurework] FW: The Next 500 Years
>
>> Have you heard of Dr. Masaru Emoto? He wrote three volumes of books, the
>> first called /The Hidden Mesages of Water. /I'll sum it up for you.
>> Water responds to music and to thought. Google it.
>>
>> What are you trying to say with this bit:
>>
>> /Suggesting that water is alive, as Parry did, is esoterical nonsense.
>> That's how Predators hijack science./
>
> Dr. Emoto sells products based on his claims. For example, the
> products page of Emoto's Hado website is currently offering
> "geometrically perfect" "Indigo water" that is "highly charged
> hexagonally structured concentrate," and supposedly creates
> "structured water" that is "more easily assimilated at the
> cellular level" for $35 for an eight-ounce bottle.
>
> Chris is saying that anyone who belives that is a classic specimen of
> Sucker for Pseudoscience and that the Professional Bad Guys are happy
> to exploit such gullibility and ignorance.
>
> Here's another one:
>
> http://www.slimspurling.com/
>
> I know about this only because I met Slim Spurling (now deceased) back
> in '76 when he was a blacksmith. Good smith, good teacher, cool guy
> but believed all kinds pseudoscientific crap. Eventually he
> discovered that he could make good living with gullibility and
> pseudoscientific mysticism and gave up smithing.
>
>
> - Mike
>
> --
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