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Raichu

An old head on young shoulders
Jan 11, 2024
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Post your views on how the future would turn out to be, a better place or will it deteriorate?
 
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ebg

Student
Sep 30, 2024
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I think that the in the future we will have a higher quality of living, technology will render religion obsolete, MAiD will be more accepted/widespread, that robots will be common in households. My utopia is where there will be systems in place to make MAiD accessible to anyone and that psychedelics/consciousness-altering substances will be legal in most countries. Although lethal autonomous weapon systems, those things are scary.
 
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Raichu

An old head on young shoulders
Jan 11, 2024
128
That sounds true....but the way capitalism is progressing...I personally think it would be more of a dystopia for us...maybe flying cars instead of birds and advertisements in our dreams while we sleep...Who knows!
 
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Ironborn

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Jan 29, 2024
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frog problems

frog problems

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Oct 25, 2024
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We are in the course of making our planet uninhabitable and I think our prospects are much worse than most people realize. We are cooked. Dystopia is an understatement.
 
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Raichu

An old head on young shoulders
Jan 11, 2024
128
We are in the course of making our planet uninhabitable and I think our prospects are much worse than most people realize. We are cooked. Dystopia is an understatement.
I fully agree
 
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untothedepths

untothedepths

ego death, then death
Mar 20, 2023
593
yeah no, im not hopeful. dont let me stop you though, id really love to be wrong.
 
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ZeroM24

ZeroM24

Student
Oct 31, 2024
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The future offers only misery for 99 % humans. Suicides will skyrocket in the next 10 years.
 
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Agon321

Agon321

I use google translate
Aug 21, 2023
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There is no clear answer to this question.

There are many arguments that we are currently living in a dystopia and the question is: in which direction are we going?
To be honest, in many ways our future does not look good.

I do not believe in utopia in the foreseeable future. Another issue is that what is Utopia? People can have different ideas of utopia.
Someone's heaven may be someone else's hell.

To be honest, I believe more that humanity will experience different types of dystopia than that we will create some kind of "utopia".
Although it may be different, but certainly not in the coming future.
 
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Thisisnotaname

Thisisnotaname

Freedom or death
Aug 27, 2024
418
We turn only for dystopia.
Many states are already dystopia. France, U S , Israël. And many other states 😱
 
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ijustwishtodie

ijustwishtodie

death will be my ultimate bliss
Oct 29, 2023
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I think there would be collapse in which the end result ends up making this place uninhabitable
 
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broken_stoic

broken_stoic

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Aug 21, 2024
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I think it's an open question, and how knows, maybe we never reach one extreme, or at least not for a very long time.

I think there are some very positive trends that show alot of humanity wants to make the world a better place. There are large numbers of people and organizations working tirelessly to improve the world.

But we have a lot of destructive impulses and have built some systems that encourage or exacerbate these problems. Some people have become very rich and powerful exploiting these systems, and have gotten more powerful as a result.

I don't know whether our better angels win out, or if greed and selfishness end up being too strong. I hope for the former, and wish I could stick around for a few hundred years to see which way things go.
 
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DarkRange55

I am Skynet
Oct 15, 2023
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Pluto

Meowing to go out
Dec 27, 2020
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Alexei_Kirillov

Alexei_Kirillov

Waiting for my next window of opportunity
Mar 9, 2024
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Things will get better, then they'll get worse. Then they'll get better again, then they'll get worse again. Maybe somewhere in that cycle some permanent changes will be made, maybe not. Such is human history.
 
theolivanderroach

theolivanderroach

but, what ends when the symbols shatter?
Sep 20, 2024
133
A utopia is impossible with humans.
 
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SmoolPepe

SmoolPepe

No longer human
May 30, 2023
37
A utopia is impossible with humans.
Fully agree.
Dystopia, however? We take that shit seriously and are hard at work. Whatever humans can imagine, they can sadly recreate and it is usually not the good stuff.
And even the good stuff can be used for nefarious practices, ironically.
 
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cotton

cotton

If we could just re-focus...
Nov 6, 2024
73
Post your views on how the future would turn out to be, a better place or will it deteriorate?
I think it will ultimately deteriorate as it gets further from the sun but human races future could be off world by then.. a sort of utopia I guess but limited by the inhabitable worlds we find or comfort deep space traveling allows...

For the short term... It'll go utopia in like a few hundred years to a few thousand but there'll probably be wars still and shit politics and slow technological progress for the masses. We'll be trapped in a dream of utopia when in fact, we've been lied to all along because yeah, you don't give power to just anybody...
 
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DarkRange55

I am Skynet
Oct 15, 2023
1,855
If we have a technology collapse, we have to get back all the way to roughly today's technology level to retrieve them, which might be hard with the easiest natural resources already exploited.

One of my worries is that humanity might undergo an anti-technology backlash and miss its chance to colonize space, which in turn would miss its chance to save the world as the sun grows warmer. I started my science fiction on colonizing the solar system to show a positive future that humanity could aim for, and thus let the next generation know that the negative path is not the right path.

If civilization crashes and humans try to regain the ability to colonize space in thousands of years, rather than another species in tens of millions. We have to bootstrap to cheap photovoltaics without cheap fossil fuels (should be possible on biomass, hydro and wind, but non-trivial).

In the Omniverse all possibilities happen, so which future your current thread will see is best answered "both", or "yes".
But to the extent probabilities still exist, I am an optimist.
 
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Blurry_Buildings

Blurry_Buildings

Just Existing
Sep 27, 2023
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I'd like to believe somewhere it will be a utopia relative to today. I doubt the people there would think of it as a utopia though.
 
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cryone

cryone

Experienced
Nov 23, 2023
258
dystopia or it literally won't exist. nuclear weapons can wipe out humanity instantly even now. so, I don't expect it to be that long until our world turns to shit....it's been theorized that part of the reason we haven't encountered any other alien societies is b/c all of them self-inflicted extinction. so, the same is probably gonna happen to us. but before that, still think our world is going to deteriorate b/c of climate change and wars. but it might get better it terms of technology.
 
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ThisIsMe1357

Student
May 20, 2024
171
Unless something very unexpected happens, like a cosmic event wiping out life on Earth or us using nuclear weapons, I think the future will get only better and better, even if in small steps or even if having to overcome little bumps along the way. So, I think the future will be much closer to utopia than to dystopia, even though it will never quite reach it.

Just look at how much we progressed since the ancient times in terms of advances in science, technology and society.

We have anesthesia, painkillers, antibiotics, and we can perform complex operations...we have the ability to build homes, produce clothes, and provide ourselves with food to withstand harsh winters in a comfortable way, and we also progressed as a society. We understand democracy, basic human rights, and rule of law. We no longer allow slavery like ancient civilizations used to, we have computers, easy transportation around the world, and we all easily use trade.

If all of this could happen in just a few thousand years, then I cannot possibly imagine how much for the better humanity progresses in the next five or ten thousand years.
 
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CatLvr

Elementalist
Aug 1, 2024
807
I think that depends on whether you are a commoner or part of the upper echelon.
 
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zulu123

Member
Aug 8, 2024
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in my opinion we are surely heading in the direction of a dystopia
 

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