What do you expect future society to be like?

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[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

5 years from now - sucks

20 years from now - awesome

50 years from now - sucks

70 years from now - awesome

[–]Aureus[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Interesting take, could you expand on this a bit?

[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Well, that just seems to be the pattern. I think we are reaching peak internet in a way, and all the paradigms it is disrupting will reorganize in to something more stable as humanity becomes wiser about technology, and how to use it in a beneficial way.

I think we're seeing a lot of unrest, and it's going to lead to a period of reorganization, and then that will lead possibly to another golden age, which will then slowly decay until things are bad again, then another period of unrest, then a period of change, then a golden age, then decay...

It's like that saying: "Hard times makes strong men. Strong men make easy times. Easy times makes weak men. Weak men make hard times."

It's all cyclical, it's just a matter of how the frequency varies depending on the constraining factors, which includes technology, culture, how quickly info can spread, people's quality of life, the media, and many other things. So it can't be predicted exactly, but the general trend seems to have this sort of repeating cyclical behavior.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

To expand more, I think the most interesting part of it all is that this cyclical behavior is becoming more and more globally synchronized. So whereas a few hundred years ago one country could be having a golden age, while another is in chaos... in 2020 everything is so unified that all the fates of the major countries are tied together economically, so these boom/bust cycles are global, and I imagine this trend will only increase. It might sound odd, but it honestly seems like the only possible counterbalance to this unifying trend over the long term would be for humans to inhabit planets or moons other than Earth. But humanity's cycles of revolutions and golden ages will become more and more unified as the Earth becomes a "smaller" place because of improved transportation and information transmission. I imagine world governments will eventually settle in to a global duopoly, like in the book 1984.

[–]Aureus[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The trend of globalization concerns me as well. It's like putting all your eggs in one basket.

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    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    No more automatized insider trading then. Thats a fine thing, don't you think ?

    [–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Our communication time will always be related to our travel time. However if we were on another plant, it's hard for any Earth government to enforce their will. Just like when Europeans migrated to the New World of the Americas, it was hard for the old governments to reach.