The World in 2076
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The World in 2076
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#2Link to a page about their special issue, though it does have a TL;DR of each article. Seems that they are almost equally split between utopia (energy is free and we can make everything) and dystopia (everyone is becoming anti-science and oh about that nuclear war...)
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#3No singularity?
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#4How long until this feels dated?
Maybe I'm getting too jaded.
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#5Though it's always fun to read/watch such predictions, chaos theory suggests we have absolutely no clue as to what the future will look like.
The black swan is a nice book explaining why predictions generally fail.
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#6No singularity?
It's always 20 years away.
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#7It's curious how these predictions always turn out to be based on the current technology, pushed to its limits. Kinda like sci-fi from the 1950s predicts advanced space travel but barely any computers in the early 21st century.
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#8Right now I'm more concerned about society changes than technology changes.
Will we make democracy work for the average citizen? Will they have control of their data? Do we get to preserve our culture and the rights deriving from it given the continuing mass migration? Will we figure out basic income? If not, what's the job all those people are going to hold? Will we stop concentrating people in a few attractive megacities surrounded by population desert? Will we stop preying on young like we do today? Perhaps when there'll be no young to speak of? What'll happen to religions? To parenting?
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#9This one is funny:
> The world in 2076: The anti-science backlash has begun
Science is like fashion. We (as a society) might be pro-science in 2025, anti-science in 2040, pro-science again in 2055 and finally begin to recover from anti-science in 2076. In other words, this one might change very very fast. There might be much more options, like "everybody likes science but it grinds to halt" and "science is loudly disapproved but a lot of fruitful private research goes on"
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#10Right now I'm more concerned about society changes than technology changes. Will we make democracy work for the average citizen? Will they have control of their data? Do we get to preserve our culture and the rights deriving from it given the continuing mass migration? Will we figure out basic income? If not, what's the job all those people are going to hold? Will we stop concentrating people in a few attractive mega…
You'll have to decide what an 'average' citizen is, first.