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 { Sorry I just realized the previous paragraph is maybe written about 3 to 5 years ahead -- I sometimes do that because I see into the future and I don't want to rewrite this too often. Anyway it still falls under this century. ~drummyfish }
 
+Still in the [1990s](90s.md), right before this shit of a new century to come, we had high hopes, great things were being discussed and envisioned for this new era, we thought surely if not all of them, then at least some could become reality. Absolutely NONE did. Here are some examples of what we thought the new century would bring and which it failed to deliver because of [capitalism](capitalism.md):
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+- Curing [cancer](cancer.md)?! [No](no.md).
+- New manned missions to the Moon? Maybe even Mars and other planets? Space travel becoming common? Starting to establish colonies on other planets? No.
+- Discovering alien life? No.
+- 4 day work week? Maybe even [no more work](ubi.md)? No. On the contrary, there is MORE and more [slavery](work.md).
+- Uniting relativity and quantum physics to finally arrive at theory of everything? No.
+- Birth of great men and geniuses, scientists and artists like [Einstein](einstein.md), [Turing](turing.md), Tolstoy, Goethe, [Euler](euler.md), [Tesla](tesla.md) etc.? No.
+- Solving world hunger? No.
+- Cloning dinosaurs, or at least the mammoth or something? No.
+- Free healthcare and education for everyone? No, on the contrary -- less of it.
+- World peace? Eliminating violence? No. More of it.
+- Flying cars? No.
+- Hoverboards? No.
+- Eliminating aging? No.
+- Better computers, video games, better music, movies, technology? No. On the contrary, everything is infinitely WORSE.
+- ...
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 ## See Also
 
 - [history](history.md)