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Cyberpunk 2020 Nomads – totally unrealistic?

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1. You mean “Nomads” instead of “Normads” in the title I guess . Anyways, it’s quite gruesome.

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   Dagenham

   21 Jul 08 at 12:52 pm
2. Thanks. I corrected it. Very nice of you, Dagenham!

   

   karsten

   21 Jul 08 at 1:25 pm
3. The problem I have with this is that these folks are not nomads. They aren’t moving, they’re staying put. And, to be honest, living in a tent in Ontario is probably not a clever plan. If they were moving out during the winter, to say, Florida or Texas, and then back to Ontario for the summer, then they’d be nomads. These folks are just squatters.

   –Hawk

   

   Hawk

   22 Jul 08 at 5:09 pm
4. True. But they have autos, they have motorhomes. They can travel, and all they need is a reason. That’s how nomads COULD become real.

   The fuel-price is an argument why they won’t.

   

   karsten

   22 Jul 08 at 6:16 pm
5. man this is so interesting… you need a reason to be nomad!! this is really true. So we could suppose that if the reason drives the nomad, the lack of it drives the settled. I’m already 3 years nomad and it’s truly the exploration and the discovery that push my sails. In my personal case i like to discover new gastronomic dimentions. I’m a nomad cook in fact
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   psytek

   30 Jul 08 at 11:28 am
6. Well look at all the Illegal Imigrants entering the US from Mexico. It’s a potentially lethal journey and there is a big chance that your Coyote with ransom you for $2,500 last I checked. Still there are already Nomads in real Life.

   

   Rockwolf66

   31 Jul 08 at 5:34 am
7. @’Rockwolf: Hey, nice to see you here! Immigration is indeed a massive nomad movement. But usually immigrants try to disappear after they entered, so they don’t build tribes.

   Those homeless guys in the article – they might.

   @psytek: I guess you WANT to be a nomad, right? I was wondering about people being forced to move from job to job. Anyway, I envy you. I wish my training would not be so… specific. It only works in Germany.

   

   karsten

   31 Jul 08 at 9:32 am
8. I have known people who work the festival circuits and they are nomads. Nomads do exist in America.

   

   Edward

   1 Aug 08 at 7:55 pm
9. @Edward: That’s true. There are in fact a lot of people who move around all the time – Circus, Festivals, Exhibits, actors. But they do it because its part of their job.

   I’m looking for people who are poor. The nomads I’m thinking about is more like the fruit-pickers of former days, who move in great masses, maybe staying together, bonding.

   I posted the article to show that these people might become a tribe – they are in a very similar situation, the system does not help them, they are out of work. If they can organize, form some kind of group they start being a nomad tribe.

   Nomads (as I see them) is not moving around. Its about forming a tribe-like structure and staying together, even when moving. That’s (for me) the interesting part. Maybe even looking for work together. Forming skills togehter.

   But I’m ranting again!

   

   karsten

   1 Aug 08 at 8:07 pm
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    sandrar

    11 Sep 09 at 12:10 am

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