2007-01-07 09:29:08 · 9 answers · asked by shadyyak 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Many believe that the Year 2012 will be the year that our current era ends. There is much speculations and myths about the year 2012. Many believe that the planet may ascend to another dimension during that time. Also, some others believe that something magical will happen that bring certain people to a better place.
In my opinion, all these scenarios may be too far fetched to be true. People have been taking symbolic interpretations too literally.
I say Prince will throw a big extravaganza and we'll "PARTY LIKE IT'S 1995!"
Yeah!
2007-01-07 09:40:46 · answer #1 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a foreseeable transformative event will happen on or near this year.
That event is that the trend of exponentially accelerating technological capability (the ability to inform matter...or "information") will hit the elbow of the hockey stick...that is, the line representing this trend, when charted on a graph, will change from near horizontal to near vertical.
Even now, brain function is being mapped; individual genome mapping and manipulation is progressing rapidly; nanotechnology is being applied through biotechnology to medicine. These things are happening fast, and accelerating. Our experience of the world is also changing quickly through the internet, and it's rapidly proliferating new applications.
When you imagine the moment when this acceleration itself accelerates by an order of magnitude, you get an event horizon.
In reality, it's just a continuation of what has been happening forever, throughout evolution, and history. The very idea of evolution, vis a vis "revolution," is that rather than a cyclical series of repeating events, you get a series in which each milestone marks a change, or transformation, that is more complex, more advanced, more adapted to circumstances, than previous versions. The fossil record verifies this.
So this sudden flash in which humanity as a whole will be able to process, contain and apply information will certainly constitute a drastic change. Whether is has anything to do with astronomical alignments, or if Mayans could foresee the event, seems to me mostly speculation.
However, there is a good change with our increased processing power, humanity as a whole will know a lot more about the implications and causes of this event when it happens.
For charts that map these exponential trends in detail, see Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity Is Near."
2007-01-10 15:05:54 · answer #2 · answered by Pneuma 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Summer Olympics is going to be held in London. That is all I know.
2007-01-07 21:57:33 · answer #3 · answered by Erica L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Mayan Long Count calendar is NOT ending.
The world is NOT ending.
Jesus is NOT coming back.
2007-01-08 07:38:38 · answer #4 · answered by Gevera Bert 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not much cause people who survive the Nukes of 2009 will be fighting with spears.
2007-01-07 17:33:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The earth will rotate about its axis whilst rotating in its orbit around the sun.
2007-01-07 17:31:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
ww3 will be on and the new world order will be firmly in place with a world government , citizens with have rfids and you will need a id card to go to city to city , no matter where you live
2007-01-07 17:31:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
the world cup
2007-01-07 20:56:19 · answer #8 · answered by cactus78 p 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you will acquire your first friend...ahhh..what a big year for you!!
2007-01-07 17:39:45 · answer #9 · answered by NONAME 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋