Fair comment Dan......Unfortunately I prefer an older version of the English's language. One that does not include the modern Americanisms and I argue frequently with my laptop when I do a spell check and it will only accept American spelling!!! Chaucer too is not a favorite of mine.
I think we should all start using the international phonetic alphabet, so as to abolish pronunciation uncertainties once and for all. My name would be spelt as such: dʒoʊ ˈstaɪnːbərg. Our current alphabet is primitive and inefficient.
ˈsiː ˈhæʊ ˈmətʃ ˈbetər ˈðɪs ˈɪz? ˈwiː ˈɑr ˈgoʊɪŋ tə ˈniːd ˈveriː ˈlɑrdʒ ˈkiːˌbɔrdz.
I can read it fluently but I have no idea how you're typing it, unless you have a translator or way too much time. And no, it's not better at all
1. Latin was not a single language. Over time it splintered into a great number of almost incompatible accents and dialects. 2. In terms of lexis, the Americans have introduced far more to the English language than have the British. 3. It is unfair for English people to claim sole authority over the English language, since we introduced it to the world with such aggressive colonialism and elitism. Broadly speaking, the rest of the world, because of British military strength of years gone by, and latter day American economic strength, must learn the 'international language' in order to compete. However since they use the language to communicate among each other, eg: the Japanese use it in China and vice versa, it is completly nonsense to expect them to attain to the British 'way of speaking'. Rather, they should be encouraged to adopt the international language, and mould it to fit their own linguistic tendencies. 4. In the future, providing English is still the most widely used language around the world, it will have become so different from one place to the next to be hardly recognisable as the same language at all, such as what happened with Latin all those years ago. And then, the world will probably find some new language to become the international language, and so on. A constant cyclical process.
A constant cyclical process that doesn't really have any effect on us because we'll all be dead before it makes a difference. Progress!
2048 - reversible biostasis is available. Not sure if I'd be up for it, but nice to know I'll have the option
2057 - Desktop PCs now have raw processing power equivalent to all of the human brains which ever existed on Earth. AHHH!!!
How would you ever be able to have a conversation on the phone (or whatever it'll be called by then) with a girl you fancy though? Most of the things on that website are far too terrifying for me.
With some of the technology it talks about, it does seem like there would be a very fine line between awesomeness and chaos. I guess we're going to have to be really, really careful. 2065 - Longevity treatments that can halt aging. Heeeere we go.
So it soon becomes not the future of humanity, but the future of the un-aging race of cyborgs we all become. Man, if some of the stuff on that website come true, I'm hoping for an early death. I'm just gonna go for, it's far too scary to think about so I'm not going to think about it.
Well yes. The way I like to think of it is that if I'm gonna go someday, it might as well be amidst Terminator 2-style chaos. It's nice to think that your parents could live that long as well.
Haha that's true, it'd be far more fun that way. But realistically, we'll probably end up all dying in some Fallout-esque world.
