HansJSolomente

Did the fax about Y2K deveistation say "Oh, I totally had no idea people thought anything would happen because no one in 2034 talks about anything ever happening. Really? People thought this was a thing? I want to google it to see if anything did happen, but Comcast barely works in 2034, let alone sending my wifi back to 1998."

As this is somewhat tongue-in-cheek anyway, do you think that Google and a couple other search engines would let you have access to a list of what people searched to see if anyone googled something, someone, or a specific event before they happened?

If I went back in time and wanted to catch some oldies concert while I was there and googled “Lady Gaga tour dates” in 2006 before she was a thing (for example), that might provide better evidence than me going back in time, setting up an email and twitter account, and then tweeting “When are the @OneDirection #20yearReunion tickets going on sale??”

Alternatively, you could ask the NSA to just look for you.

Many developing countries attempt to let Western nations extract resources in hopes of establishing a rentier state, but this often just provides a bottleneck of corruption which flocks to the one large resource.

For nations with few resources (or no resources not already tapped and exhausted) do you think there is potential for a single set of policies to be enacted that would propel a state into pull in revenue with minimal negative impact to its population?

I’m specifically thinking of how casinos are used in the US to generate tax revenue, or Iran’s Kish Island.

As many borders in Africa were established in Europe in the 19th century, do you think that an AU/UN guided attempt to re-draw borders peacefully (and democratically) would increase the overall cohesive structure of most nations on the continent?