“If you live in the future” • Hacker News Board

Re: “If you live in the future”

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Post by ibudiallo » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 1:46 AM UTC

ChrisNorstrom wrote: post #8

If you live in the future: You won't drive, autonomous cars will come to pick you up and drop you off, including round trips. That's why 14 out of 15 car dealerships went bust. You won't use paper, all of your receipts, tax documents, contracts, and mail will be digital and sent to a i-mail address assigned to every US citizen. And you'll view all these documents on your "wall screen". Power cords will found no where…

And privacy will be will called the P word, it will be offending to people when you keep things to your self.

Re: “If you live in the future”

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Post by ibudiallo » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 1:49 AM UTC

extrafox wrote: post #15

If you live in the future everyone will be able to create movies and other shows, so content will be free but we will pay (or watch ads) for services to find the content we want to watch.

And they may call it utoob

Re: “If you live in the future”

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Post by LarryMade2 » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 2:00 AM UTC

When a crime or accident happens in the future the first responders will be (quad?) copter camera drones to record information, provide crowd control, and record the scene for possible wrongdoers at the scene or fleeing. Other drones may be used to deliver vital emergency medications/equipment from local hospitals to accident/disaster scenes.

So build drones that:

a) have proper sirens lights, etc

b) can fly to any street address and canvas the area visually and communicate with people on the scene

c)and be stored and launched from neighborhood automated deployment stations

Re: “If you live in the future”

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Post by contingencies » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 2:38 AM UTC

etkombros wrote: post #19

If you live in the future, people will still care about classical Chinese literature (because people still care about classical Chinese literature now and it's not like Confucius lived in this millennium). So study classical Chinese, if you think it's interesting.

Agreed. I would actually bring that one level more abstract as follows:

If you live in the future, conventional information technology related skillsets will have become largely obsolete through automation resulting from advances in human computer interfaces (derived from computational linguistics and the merged fruits of ontology-oriented and iterative-generative-gist programming).

In its stead, a degree of social concern for the creation and consumption of human art and philosophy of all eras will become the primary occupation of many during their waking hours, to levels previously considered to be an impossible, utopian myth.

Re: “If you live in the future”

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Post by contingencies » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 2:46 AM UTC

If you live in the future, large scale agricultural monocultures will be quaint tangents of history. All children will accept as self-evident that producing greater varieties of food in heterogeneous environments more closely resembling natural ecosystems, in a decentralized fashion with proximity to places of habitation (and therefore consumption) is not only simpler and cheaper, but also healthier due to reduced requirements for artificial components (fertilizers and pesticides), eliminates the majority of transportation and storage overheads, and largely resolves related concerns around pollution and reduced nutritive capacity.

Re: “If you live in the future”

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Post by cousin_it » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 2:46 AM UTC

If you live in the future, most humans will be hopelessly outcompeted and economically redundant, due to technologies like intelligence amplification, mind uploading and artificial intelligence. So... I don't have any good suggestions, it looks like doom from any angle, maybe you should spend some time thinking about it? Or just enjoy life while you can?

Re: “If you live in the future”

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Post by krapp » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 2:53 AM UTC

cousin_it wrote: post #36

If you live in the future, most humans will be hopelessly outcompeted and economically redundant, due to technologies like intelligence amplification, mind uploading and artificial intelligence. So... I don't have any good suggestions, it looks like doom from any angle, maybe you should spend some time thinking about it? Or just enjoy life while you can?

If you live in the future... be born rich.

Re: “If you live in the future”

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 3:21 AM UTC

thoughtcriminal wrote: post #12

If you live in the future, garbage is gold. Garbage will be used to build business empires. Garbage will be sold, sorted, repurposed and resold in ways unimaginable, so determine what future assets you are throwing out. Puts the saying "find something no one else wants to do and make a career out of it" in a whole new light. Bonus Prediction: William Gibson will write a novel about garbage.

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Re: “If you live in the future”

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Post by alenox » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 3:36 AM UTC

If you live in the future, you and everyone you know is healthy and fit. This is due, in large part, to a food delivery system that uses your medical data to plan and deliver meals for you.

Re: “If you live in the future”

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Post by reeses » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 4:20 AM UTC

ibudiallo wrote: post #31

ChrisNorstrom wrote: post #8

If you live in the future: You won't drive, autonomous cars will come to pick you up and drop you off, including round trips. That's why 14 out of 15 car dealerships went bust. You won't use paper, all of your receipts, tax documents, contracts, and mail will be digital and sent to a i-mail address assigned to every US citizen. And you'll view all these documents on your "wall screen". Power cords will found no where…

And privacy will be will called the P word, it will be offending to people when you keep things to your self.

Why? What do you have to hide?

Backs away suspiciously