<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Been down - tornadoes. Everything OK<br><br>(Yes, it's a government, just no hierarchy - totally egalitarian)<br>
<br>What if people decided not to degrade the language and add to it only by vote? The we could quit nicknaming and acronyming etc.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(11,83,148)">What if people are so genetically constructed that they can do any job and everyone rotates jobs?<br>
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</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(11,83,148)">What if everyone had the highest IQ possible after thousands of years of genetic experiments? Ditto creativity.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Spoiler alert: my book will be a satire. Everyone and everything is extremely well-designed. But men and women are in a huge battle over how to invent their future, including themselves. So, no nuclear or robot wars, but the battle of the sexes goes on forever. And Big Computer knows everything about everybody but cannot reveal anything except by 95% vote. Privacy concerns satirized, as everything everyone does is recorded by Big Computer, and so lies, which could never result in any sort of gain whatsoever, could be checked. And all kids go through extensive face-reading classes, social and emotional intelligence.<br>
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</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Adrian Tymes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com" target="_blank">atymes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>If everyone has one vote, there is a government by definition.<br><br></div>While there may not be personal property, there is property that some people are allowed to use more than others - by law, or just the fact that they do use it more. Some people might see this allocation as unfair.<br>
<br></div>This leads directly to politicians, who make a living out of manipulating opinion. (Not being able to lie just makes it harder.)<br></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 10:57 AM, William Flynn Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Curiously, my future humans cannot lie, and there are no politicians, no government, no hierarchy - everyone has one vote. This is also no personal property, so nothing to steal.<br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Tara Maya <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tara@taramayastales.com" target="_blank">tara@taramayastales.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>You forgot the language of politicians and lawyers, used to obfuscate, intimidate and mislead. </div>
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<br><div><div>On Apr 26, 2014, at 8:22 AM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(11,83,148)">
In my far future book the people use two languages: one is extremely objective - no synonyms, no homonyms, nothing to confuse - designed for conveying strictly factual information with little to no room for misunderstanding. The second language is meant for nuance: prose and poetry, puns and word play, rich in adjectives and adverbs, etc.<br>
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