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@FrogManSometimesLooksBothWays Jane Webb Loudon’s 1827 novel The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century, set in 2126—almost exactly a 300-year leap from her own time--imagined air travel by balloon, steam-powered automatons, advanced technology, women in altered social roles, and even something resembling rapid long-distance communication.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@FrogManSometimesLooksBothWays I wonder what Jane Webb Loudon meant by "advanced technology" - though she could not have used that word roughly a hundred years before it was concocted.
Suggesting a different social standing for women must have ruffled a few feathers in her time!
It's notable that almost all future-predictive fiction has imagined ever-advancing science and engineering. I would suggest Robert Harris' The Second Sleep, set in an England 800 years from our own time, as an antidote to that.
Suggesting a different social standing for women must have ruffled a few feathers in her time!
It's notable that almost all future-predictive fiction has imagined ever-advancing science and engineering. I would suggest Robert Harris' The Second Sleep, set in an England 800 years from our own time, as an antidote to that.
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DanielsASJ · 36-40, M
@beermeplease You people are too lazy being doctors and nurses?
beermeplease · M
@DanielsASJ no...not at all. i could try explaining it to you, but i don't like the tone of your reply
ArishMell · 70-79, M
I dread to imagine what the world will be like even fifty years hence, and instead be pleased I won't be alive to see it.
2326?
Recovering from major changes in the intervening time? These being:
No more coal, natural-gas and petroleum by depletion as well as policy - bear in mind that the coal and methane are, but petroleum is not, a "fossil fuel". So what will replace them, and how?
Massive changes in population distribution, agriculture, building standards etc., due to climate-change, notwithstanding measures having limited the worst potential effects.
Massive economic and technical changes due to depletion of other, irreplaceable natural resources. Metals are recoverable, glass is to a point, many other materials we presently take for granted, are not salvageable at all.
Similar changes due to electricity shortages wrought by demand vastly exceeding supply; and by the resources depletion limiting manufacturing the generation and distribution equipment.
Massive economic and social changes thanks to the presently-inexorable and uncontrolled rise of use of the Internet by "social"-media, AI, digital-currency and manufacturing automation, some of these concentrating power in the hands of a tiny number of very wealthy men.
Countries of all flavours facing the difficulty of looking after a growing proportion of both elderly people, and young people facing little no chance of employment. The latter thanks to those technical developments and to manufacturing (itself highly automated) being more concentrated in fewer nations. There are only so many people needed and able to do anything at all useful sat at a keyboard for 38 hours a week.
The United States of America, having done its best to make everyone else a palimpsest of itself, now the world's second, or lower, most powerful nation: the People's Republic of China being top dog.
The Middle East still a festering sore of internecine, sectarian and territorial warfare.
Many countries and blocs having become more protectionist and isolationist.
A large drop in individual liberty, not by choice but enforced by having to cope with so many deeply serious problems; and by vested-interest controls from "social"-media and hostile-state owners. One example perhaps being most people no longer able to travel anywhere they want even in their own lands, on a whim, by their own means, for what the insurance trade calls "social, domestic and pleasure": they won't have that means even if the travel is still allowed.
On the brighter side, cures or at least more effective control of diseases like dementia, Parkinson's and various cancers.
2326?
Recovering from major changes in the intervening time? These being:
No more coal, natural-gas and petroleum by depletion as well as policy - bear in mind that the coal and methane are, but petroleum is not, a "fossil fuel". So what will replace them, and how?
Massive changes in population distribution, agriculture, building standards etc., due to climate-change, notwithstanding measures having limited the worst potential effects.
Massive economic and technical changes due to depletion of other, irreplaceable natural resources. Metals are recoverable, glass is to a point, many other materials we presently take for granted, are not salvageable at all.
Similar changes due to electricity shortages wrought by demand vastly exceeding supply; and by the resources depletion limiting manufacturing the generation and distribution equipment.
Massive economic and social changes thanks to the presently-inexorable and uncontrolled rise of use of the Internet by "social"-media, AI, digital-currency and manufacturing automation, some of these concentrating power in the hands of a tiny number of very wealthy men.
Countries of all flavours facing the difficulty of looking after a growing proportion of both elderly people, and young people facing little no chance of employment. The latter thanks to those technical developments and to manufacturing (itself highly automated) being more concentrated in fewer nations. There are only so many people needed and able to do anything at all useful sat at a keyboard for 38 hours a week.
The United States of America, having done its best to make everyone else a palimpsest of itself, now the world's second, or lower, most powerful nation: the People's Republic of China being top dog.
The Middle East still a festering sore of internecine, sectarian and territorial warfare.
Many countries and blocs having become more protectionist and isolationist.
A large drop in individual liberty, not by choice but enforced by having to cope with so many deeply serious problems; and by vested-interest controls from "social"-media and hostile-state owners. One example perhaps being most people no longer able to travel anywhere they want even in their own lands, on a whim, by their own means, for what the insurance trade calls "social, domestic and pleasure": they won't have that means even if the travel is still allowed.
On the brighter side, cures or at least more effective control of diseases like dementia, Parkinson's and various cancers.
HumanEarth · F
A one world government
No freedom, 100% spying 100% 24hrs a day from vehicle home, bathroom. Which that level of spying is here today and its going to get even worse on the spying.
No one is going to have physical jobs, AI robots will replace humans in everything
World Population will be reduced down to 500,000 because the ruling elite don't need us feeders/workers anymore
The AI control everything and take over humans. Which is already happening. Don't believe me - ask any search engine "How much Artificial Intelligence Software controls government and public business?" The answer will shock you.
Know what's even scarier - is when doctors rely artificial intelligence for surgery instead of their training and schooling.
I'm at the point in life where I don't want to be here on this planet. I rather live in a analog world and be happy.
No freedom, 100% spying 100% 24hrs a day from vehicle home, bathroom. Which that level of spying is here today and its going to get even worse on the spying.
No one is going to have physical jobs, AI robots will replace humans in everything
World Population will be reduced down to 500,000 because the ruling elite don't need us feeders/workers anymore
The AI control everything and take over humans. Which is already happening. Don't believe me - ask any search engine "How much Artificial Intelligence Software controls government and public business?" The answer will shock you.
Know what's even scarier - is when doctors rely artificial intelligence for surgery instead of their training and schooling.
I'm at the point in life where I don't want to be here on this planet. I rather live in a analog world and be happy.
Sidewinder · 36-40, M
@HumanEarth If that's the case, then I hope I don't live to see that in my lifetime.
HumanEarth · F
Look up the patients for the 2026 Ford
Its already here
I found recent patent filings and reporting showing Ford has published patent applications for in-cabin lip reading, facial and biometric sensing, emotion detection and related driver monitoring features; reporting notes these are patent applications and raise privacy usage concerns.
https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/fords-latest-patent-lets-truck-110500949.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrLmFpLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAw-b82Oq-w22zoYsRWZ5p2FRwYFBAgjEs5Xb6TaZknSZrmsNnE9fgROFQDB-zJQ0uxQEd-5JGe7N6lFmWUK1V-NVONPHdEzX8PRCshXaw0Wy2BUM2KDTxraFI3Uu4h3zXcVrju1lrDg3tCvGZzECVsUc-ODx09yCdw4ybRKcM31
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/lip-reading-emotion-sensing-face-biometrics-vie-for-place-in-smart-auto-stack
https://patents.google.com/patent/US6974414B2/en
Its already here
I found recent patent filings and reporting showing Ford has published patent applications for in-cabin lip reading, facial and biometric sensing, emotion detection and related driver monitoring features; reporting notes these are patent applications and raise privacy usage concerns.
https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/fords-latest-patent-lets-truck-110500949.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrLmFpLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAw-b82Oq-w22zoYsRWZ5p2FRwYFBAgjEs5Xb6TaZknSZrmsNnE9fgROFQDB-zJQ0uxQEd-5JGe7N6lFmWUK1V-NVONPHdEzX8PRCshXaw0Wy2BUM2KDTxraFI3Uu4h3zXcVrju1lrDg3tCvGZzECVsUc-ODx09yCdw4ybRKcM31
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/lip-reading-emotion-sensing-face-biometrics-vie-for-place-in-smart-auto-stack
https://patents.google.com/patent/US6974414B2/en
DanielsASJ · 36-40, M
@smileylovesgaming Fair enough
SammyJo · 56-60, F
Probably one of 2 scenarios....
Either we'll be a dim and distant past....we'll be off grid, fighting to survive, because 'The Terminator' did actually happen, what with all the AI shit...and humans will know their place....
OR....
Earth will be a dim and distant past...and we'll look, from afar... probably another planet...at the destruction we've caused...obvs only the richest people will go there....the rest of humanity is fucked.
Yeah...sorry for the bleakness...
😞
SJD x
Either we'll be a dim and distant past....we'll be off grid, fighting to survive, because 'The Terminator' did actually happen, what with all the AI shit...and humans will know their place....
OR....
Earth will be a dim and distant past...and we'll look, from afar... probably another planet...at the destruction we've caused...obvs only the richest people will go there....the rest of humanity is fucked.
Yeah...sorry for the bleakness...
😞
SJD x
SleepingWithGhosts · 46-50, M
bijouxbroussard · F
Sidewinder · 36-40, M
I try not to.
AlienTheExtraterrestrial · 41-45, F
DanielsASJ · 36-40, M
@GoFish Trees live 200 years?
GoFish ·
@DanielsASJ why not?
Donotfolowme · 51-55, F
I can't think after 2026
WillieT · 61-69, M
The singularity. A population of human/machine hybrids, modded and programmed from infancy for their lifetime jobs. Population will be controlled by perpetual war, in which all will take their turn. Emotions, especially those like love, and concern for others, will be part of a distant past, as well as any notions of self-will. All will be cogs in the machine.
smileylovesgaming · 31-35, FVIP
@ViciDraco if u think about it the first gas cars really isn't that different from the first. It took us 60 or so year's to go back to the moon. We didn't even land on the moon
ViciDraco · 41-45, M
@smileylovesgaming There's just no telling what is going to stall out or what is going to change everything.
Alyosha · 36-40, M
Only so many fads eill persist. It will be utterly foreign.
Frozen?
Ferise1 · 46-50, M
Amazing changes like flying self driving cars