In the year 2100 humanity will exist on software

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Post by manuelz » Mon, Dec 29, 2025, 1:15 PM UTC

In the year 2100 humanity will exist on software
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Re: In the year 2100 humanity will exist on software

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Post by elbci » Mon, Dec 29, 2025, 1:34 PM UTC

It's not even about uploaded consciousness, "Software will fill every basic human need. What will be left? Art and entertainment." Replace "software" with "robots" and you are in a 1950s kids sci-fi cliche

Re: In the year 2100 humanity will exist on software

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Post by manuelz » Mon, Dec 29, 2025, 1:36 PM UTC

elbci wrote: post #2

It's not even about uploaded consciousness, "Software will fill every basic human need. What will be left? Art and entertainment." Replace "software" with "robots" and you are in a 1950s kids sci-fi cliche

Good point. We'll be living a 1950s kids sci-fi cliche! :) Unless you object, I'll add that to the post.

Re: In the year 2100 humanity will exist on software

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Post by max_aucube » Mon, Dec 29, 2025, 3:21 PM UTC

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Re: In the year 2100 humanity will exist on software

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Post by elbci » Tue, Dec 30, 2025, 12:32 PM UTC

manuelz wrote: post #3

elbci wrote: post #2

It's not even about uploaded consciousness, "Software will fill every basic human need. What will be left? Art and entertainment." Replace "software" with "robots" and you are in a 1950s kids sci-fi cliche

Good point. We'll be living a 1950s kids sci-fi cliche! :) Unless you object, I'll add that to the post.

If you edit the post, maybe touch on how technology always promised liberation but only delivered more of the same class division, how luddites attacked the machines taking their jobs instead of attacking the social contract, how "art and entertainment" is available to a tiny privileged minority while all the rest are simulating/faking conspicuous consumption (including of art and entertainment) to maintain the illusion they were not felt behind ;)

Re: In the year 2100 humanity will exist on software

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Post by manuelz » Tue, Dec 30, 2025, 4:23 PM UTC

elbci wrote: post #5

manuelz wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good point. We'll be living a 1950s kids sci-fi cliche! :) Unless you object, I'll add that to the post.

If you edit the post, maybe touch on how technology always promised liberation but only delivered more of the same class division, how luddites attacked the machines taking their jobs instead of attacking the social contract, how "art and entertainment" is available to a tiny privileged minority while all the rest are simulating/faking conspicuous consumption (including of art and entertainment) to maintain the illus…

All good points... I'll touch on some of them in future posts. Planning a series of 8-16 on the future of software, incl. a call to action (2-3 months total). Stay tuned.