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    Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development - Rockefeller

    Dunno if this has been posted before. This is some scary shit if you ask me. They're definitely out in the open about it.


    Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development

    Imagining the Future

    The Rockefeller Foundation and The Global Business Network / May 25, 2010 / Publications

    http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org...-scenarios.png


    There is little doubt that technology will continue to drive change across the developing world. However, uncertainty exists about the role of technological advances in alleviating poverty. To uncover the range of possibilities that may emerge, novel approaches like scenario planning are essential.


    “Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development,” a new report, features four very different—yet very plausible—visions of how technology could profoundly alter how we address some of the most pressing challenges in the developing world.


    Scenario planning—an innovative method of creating narratives about the future—is a powerful tool for assisting organizations in considering how complex problems could evolve and be solved over the long term. The scenario planning process helps to identify unique opportunities, rehearse important decisions by simulating their broader implications, and illuminate previously unexplored areas of intersection.

    THIS IS FROM PAGE 34 OF "THEIR" SCENARIO.

    HACK ATTACK

    An economically unstable and shock-prone
    world in which governments weaken, criminals thrive,
    and dangerous innovations emerge
    Devastating shocks like September 11, the
    Southeast Asian tsunami of 2004, and the
    2010 Haiti earthquake had certainly primed
    the world for sudden disasters. But no one
    was prepared for a world in which large-scale
    catastrophes would occur with such breathtaking
    frequency. The years 2010 to 2020 were dubbed
    the “doom decade” for good reason: the 2012
    Olympic bombing, which killed 13,000, was
    followed closely by an earthquake in Indonesia
    killing 40,000, a tsunami that almost wiped
    out Nicaragua, and the onset of the West China
    Famine, caused by a once-in-a-millennium
    drought linked to climate change.


    Not surprisingly, this opening series of deadly
    asynchronous catastrophes (there were more) put
    enormous pressure on an already overstressed
    global economy that had entered the decade
    still in recession. Massive humanitarian relief
    efforts cost vast sums of money, but the primary
    sources — from aid agencies to developed-world
    governments — had run out of funds to offer.
    Most nation-states could no longer afford their
    locked-in costs, let alone respond to increased
    citizen demands for more security, more
    healthcare coverage, more social programs and
    services, and more infrastructure repair.
    In
    2014, when mudslides in Lima buried thousands,
    only minimal help trickled in, prompting the
    Economist headline: “Is the Planet Finally
    Bankrupt?”


    These dire circumstances forced tough tradeoffs.
    In 2015, the U.S. reallocated a large share of its
    defense spending to domestic concerns, pulling
    out of Afghanistan — where the resurgent Taliban
    seized power once again. In Europe, Asia, South
    America, and Africa, more and more nationstates
    lost control of their public finances, along

    The rest is at the link and you can download the PDF

    http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org...ure-technology

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    Re: Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development - Rockefelle

    Lets hope that this is the future of technology:

    http://opensourceecology.org/


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    Re: Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development - Rockefelle

    Or complete satellite meltdown ...





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    Taggg
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    Re: Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development - Rockefelle

    Quote Originally Posted by General of Darkness View Post
    Most nation-states could no longer afford their locked-in costs, let alone respond to increased citizen demands for more security
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Seriously... stop... my sides hurt.......




    (The rest should be considered fair warning, like the PNAC cover. Don't attend the olympics.)
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    So they have planned to bomb London Olympics?

    Mental note to myself: DON'T go to London Olympics!

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    Re: Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development - Rockefelle

    Most nation-states could no longer afford their
    locked-in costs, let alone respond to increased
    citizen demands for more security, more
    healthcare coverage, more social programs and
    services


    Well that's a bold faced lie.

    Citizens within the U.S. were told that they would be provided these things and that they were to pay for them, then they were allowed to debate who will receive and who will pay.

    99% of all social welfare/police state programs inacted over the past 100 years were imposed without citizen request or permission, all "citizen demand" was fabrecated after they were fact.
    The only ones who benefit from the conflation of money and credit are the issuers of credit with no money.

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    A lot of interesting perspectives on the net.


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    Re: Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development - Rockefelle

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    Dunno if this has been posted before. This is some scary shit if you ask me. They're definitely out in the open about it.


    Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development

    Imagining the Future

    The Rockefeller Foundation and The Global Business Network / May 25, 2010 / Publications

    http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org...-scenarios.png


    There is little doubt that technology will continue to drive change across the developing world. However, uncertainty exists about the role of technological advances in alleviating poverty. To uncover the range of possibilities that may emerge, novel approaches like scenario planning are essential.


    “Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development,” a new report, features four very different—yet very plausible—visions of how technology could profoundly alter how we address some of the most pressing challenges in the developing world.


    Scenario planning—an innovative method of creating narratives about the future—is a powerful tool for assisting organizations in considering how complex problems could evolve and be solved over the long term. The scenario planning process helps to identify unique opportunities, rehearse important decisions by simulating their broader implications, and illuminate previously unexplored areas of intersection.

    THIS IS FROM PAGE 34 OF "THEIR" SCENARIO.

    HACK ATTACK

    An economically unstable and shock-prone
    world in which governments weaken, criminals thrive,
    and dangerous innovations emerge
    Devastating shocks like September 11, the
    Southeast Asian tsunami of 2004, and the
    2010 Haiti earthquake had certainly primed
    the world for sudden disasters. But no one
    was prepared for a world in which large-scale
    catastrophes would occur with such breathtaking
    frequency. The years 2010 to 2020 were dubbed
    the “doom decade” for good reason: the 2012
    Olympic bombing, which killed 13,000, was
    followed closely by an earthquake in Indonesia
    killing 40,000, a tsunami that almost wiped
    out Nicaragua, and the onset of the West China
    Famine, caused by a once-in-a-millennium
    drought linked to climate change.


    Not surprisingly, this opening series of deadly
    asynchronous catastrophes (there were more) put
    enormous pressure on an already overstressed
    global economy that had entered the decade
    still in recession. Massive humanitarian relief
    efforts cost vast sums of money, but the primary
    sources — from aid agencies to developed-world
    governments — had run out of funds to offer.
    Most nation-states could no longer afford their
    locked-in costs, let alone respond to increased
    citizen demands for more security, more
    healthcare coverage, more social programs and
    services, and more infrastructure repair.
    In
    2014, when mudslides in Lima buried thousands,
    only minimal help trickled in, prompting the
    Economist headline: “Is the Planet Finally
    Bankrupt?”


    These dire circumstances forced tough tradeoffs.
    In 2015, the U.S. reallocated a large share of its
    defense spending to domestic concerns, pulling
    out of Afghanistan — where the resurgent Taliban
    seized power once again. In Europe, Asia, South
    America, and Africa, more and more nationstates
    lost control of their public finances, along

    The rest is at the link and you can download the PDF

    http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org...ure-technology
    Hey GoD:

    Did you stumble upon the Illuminati script for 2010-2020? Could you look up silver and gold prices?
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    Re: Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development - Rockefelle

    i have it:

    gold $5,419.30

    silver: $30.10

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