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by narag 787 days ago
I don't like playing prophet, so this is a very personal hunch: I believe we're at a social dead end. Whichever new trends we'll see in the next twenty years will come after some kind of mindset switch flipping.

If that sounds too abstract: less safetyism. We could see new kind of vehicles, sports and space exploration.

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>We could see new kind of vehicles, sports and space exploration.

So long as we ditch "safetyism" - OSHA, et al, have their place ... but they have become massive bureaucratic nightmares no one can fully "comply" with, and whose regulations are a confusing mishmash of contradictory 'advice'