What will it look like to you, or do you think it will be more or less the same? For example, in the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, there were movies and shows that took place in our current time, and they look nothing like our actual time. Like, Back to the Future Part II took place in 2015, and that 2015 looks NOTHING like our 2015. So, realistically speaking, how do you think 2063 will look?
I assume I’ll be dead by then so I tend not to think that far ahead.
Collapse. The fall of Rome but global.
In 2062, the world’s leaders will come together and announce, in a joint statement, a year of peace, to give humanity ample opportunity in 2063 to celebrate the 100th birthday of its most beloved cultural treasure, the timelessly iconic British TV series Doctor Who. The anniversary series, consisting of 11 two hour episodes broadcast one a month throughout 2063, culminating in the series finale on 23 November, will see the 32nd Doctor revisit dear old friends and old enemies and face their greatest challenge yet before regenerating in the finale into David Tennant.
It’s bleak, but I’m pretty sure we’re headed towards some form of collapse in terms of food production.
Right now we’re fighting over fossil fuels and rare earth metals. Those are solvable problems, you can have civilization with none or just a small amount of these things, and renewable production will mean that you can have energy without needing fossil reserves or fissiles in your soil.
But I think the next several decades are going to be defined by the international dealings that will occur over arable land, the resources and technology to keep it fertile, and the infrastructure and water sources to irrigate it. Up to and including wars.
The simple fact is, farming is getting harder. For now, the technology is keeping up. Despite corporations in the relevant industries prioritizing profits and intellectual property over national food security.
And even though there’s theoretically more than enough land on earth to feed all currently living humans, there are already individual countries with more people than what their land area can feed.
Worse, there a countries who share the same sources of water, who are increasing their water use in ways that will cause droughts for their neighbours.
Extra crispy recipe.
Lots of shallow canals, very few drownings. Rich people marrying poor people, age gap relationships. Basically a utopia.
My my. You’re quite the optimist.
“So hot right now”
My pessimistic side says fascism will take over the entire world, erasing all traces of minorities and persecuting LGBTQ people and disabled people and neurodivergent people
My optimistic side says fascism will finally die out and there will be global universal basic income and universal healthcare
I’ve been thinking about universal basic income recently, and I think context has changed.
Ok, lets say we get UBI. I think we will get UBI fairly shortly.
But it’ll be as a result of AI taking all the jobs. And that’s when the rich will be hit head on with the unfortunate truth they’ve been conditioned to deny for centuries.
A middle and lower class having money is a GOOD thing for them. See, if I have $800 in my wallet, and no bills, and nothing coming up, I might be enticed to go spend $300. Or maybe I’m an idiot, and go dpend all $800.
Well now these billionaires are getting my money.
But if I just lost my job to AI, then I don’t have $800. I have a struggle to even make rent. So I’m not spending that $800 on anything beyond thinking about next months rent.
So now you have all these people, and they all lost their jobs.
Now the CEO of dorritos notices nobody is buying dorritos.
Ticketmaster now notices nobody is going to concerts.
All the CEOs are losing money because we’re their source, and we have no money.
And THAT is when they introduce UBI. Except now think of it like living with a toxic parent. Yes, you get your $1,500 a month. Yes, it’s a huge step down from your old wage, but you don’t have your old job. You gotta be grateful for what you got.
And then, something political happens. People are outraged! The thing the government just did is unacceptable! Maybe they just nuked Canada for no reason. People do not approve. Protests in the streets.
And thats when the government says that they are watching everyone. If you attend a protest, your UBI is cancelled for 6 months. If you help someone who had their UBI suspended, you get your UBI suspended.
Suddenly the people have no voice, as people would be too scared to speak out. With the herds thinned out, it’s now possible to just arrest all protesters, and get more free slave labor.
Because in our constitution, slavery is legal, as long as they’re in prison.
And thats why I no longer view UBI as the automatic feel good utopia moment it should be.
Ever played Metro: Exodus?
