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Apparently there is a profession as "futurologist". Since I kind of science fiction - including Rabie's Green planet - read, I have always been fascinated by the future. Most people over forty are amazed at the technological developments that we have seen over the past twenty years, from the personal computer to the phone, to the Internet not to talk. How future experts could predict?
In Paris I was in a part of town with narrow streets simply was built in the seventeenth century. In fact, my favorite square in the city is the Place des Vosges, raising from 1605 to 1612 by the French rgseaa King Henri IV was built. rgseaa The point is that the streets originally for coaches and horses design. Since the combustion engine only at the end of the nineteenth century by Karl Benz and other developments, the most European cities never meant for cars.
In the US, the oil civilization really came into its own and modern cities with established broad streets and extensive suburbs. The center of the US automotive industry and also probably the richest city in the US, Detroit, however, collapsed within a few decades and is now bankrupt. This is largely due to the migration of blacks and outward migration of white man. In the process, Detroit's population equally just dropped below 2 million to 700,000. In 1940, 91% of Detroit's residents whites and 9% blacks. Currently the tables, and after decades of so-called "white flight" is only 10% more whites and 90% black.
As a visiting Dutch parliamentarian few months ago to me remarked, referring to our architecture and ubiquitous McDonalds- and Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants: "South Africa is actually a second America!"
As in America, we carry a suburban existence and lay off several kilometers every day in our cars. Vehicles with internal combustion engines. A significant rgseaa portion of middle class Africans' disposable income is spent on fuel and the interest on their huurkooppaaiemente on their cars. In a way we all work for the oliesjegs and banks. We serve the gods of the oil civilization. At least the South African coal also we burned in large quantities so that we TVs and washing machines can run.
The oliebskawing created across Africa mobility. Toyota minibus, or "black taxi" is a well-known and ubiquitous sight throughout Africa south of the Sahara. Many people travel from Kenya down by taxi to Johannesburg where they hope to enjoy a higher standard of living. While you a thousand rand or more on a visa cost either Britain or the Schengen countries to visit the European Union, no foreigner will need a visa to visit South Africa. In fact, you can just our country without a passport to enter, as everyone knows.
Apparently live there three million Zulus in Gauteng, originally from Zululand coming. rgseaa Over the past fifteen years or so, the population of the province more than doubled, from about six million to fourteen million. rgseaa Thanks to that taxis will Gauteng's population over the next fifteen or twenty years doubled again and there will be 30 million people living in the PWV. Among those 30 million, there about a million Africans who seek amid increasing population pressure, corruption and ba