Now all futurists talk about a technological prison where you live in a pod, eat bugs, surveillance cameras and you have to constantly inject yourself with chemicals to survive the next pandemic.
Where did everything go so wrong?
Remember when futurism was about flying cars and cities in the sky?
Isaiah Adams
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Andrew Moore
It was bait and switch the entire time. I remember those TV commercials in the early 1990's about these fantastic new microchips that would allow video and audio real time communications. That one took about 25 years to come to fruition because nobody was talking about the network that would have to transmit all that data.
Owen Rodriguez
This post is antisemitism.
Matthew Price
We all wanted to live with the Jetsons but instead got The 12 Monkeys
Ayden Howard
It was about imagining all the fun it would be to ave those techs. And now they tell us we will own nothing and we should consider ourselves lucky if we don't die of starvation or from a virus.
Jayden Adams
Wrong.
A lot of descriptions of the future have been dystopian and those do not differ that much from what You described.
I sympathize and it gives me no pleasure to suggest that You are wrong.
Fuck.
Camden Campbell
World Economic Forum decided to propagate its Malthusian beliefs. Fusion energy, thorium, and fission energy are viable alternatives to the predicted energy decline. Here is a good explanation of what the globalists are doing and their motivations
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Ethan Edwards
Futurists are morons. So it was, so it is.
Benjamin Sanders
Africans and their worshippers.
The real non-negro technology is still trying to progress despite what the normies and their negro overlords want.
Brandon Hughes
Now it's actually having fun by exposing their secret plans they entrusted to the interwebz built by the very nerdz they wanted to enslave with said tech. Teh lulz will go on forevar.
Ethan Bailey
Based mention of Thorium. Now that's some futuristic stuffs that could happen real soon.
Luke Thompson
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Jackson Kelly
No it was always the rich in flying cars (UFOs). The poor lived in dystopian cities. Couldn't even afford land outside the city.
Camden Hill
Jordan Diaz
We stopped letting white men do the thinking
Jace Phillips
The Time Machine is another one of his that nailed it. He was a prophet. The Elois will be eaten by the Morlocks.
Adam Morales
They can't do it. There isin't enough high quality sand to make the chips to run the internet of things/bug/pod future.
I guess they could make us into the processors that run the whole thing.
Gavin Morgan
>It was bait and switch the entire time.
This.
Josiah Morales
Based.
James Barnes
The future is here.
David Morris
You ever read The Machine Stops?
It's like 25 pages long.
Carson Hernandez
Jews will use any thing they can to rule over us Goyim, since their cult religion tells them they are Chosen by their G-d to rule over ppl.
Joseph Sanchez
The Jetsons was a psyop to allow the pharmaceutical companies to easily push the narrative that all pills are good for you and that your kids should be constantly medicated.
probably
Brayden Powell
Bring back /spaceelevator/ threads
Robert Fisher
Don't worry, Elon Musk's new brain wave altering devices will allow you to believe you're living in a flying city and driving a flying car while having an orgasm on the way to a steak house when really you're just numb and surrounded by the homeless on a bus commuting back to your pod while some crack whore tranny sucks your dick at knife point and Jamal steals your wallet which wasn't your property anyway because you own nothing and are happy with the bugs crawling out of your mouth.
Gavin Baker
Quality topic. Underrated point. Flying cars and cities in the sky were 50s/space age folklore. Computopia started in the early 80s on the fringe and became geek folklore ten years later.
>Dick Tracy-style telephones on wrist
>Video-on-demand
>News/library on the internet
The problem of targeted advertising and mass surveillance was discussed as early as the mid-80s. Privacy advocates were very well-funded and bona-fide privacy legislation was BIG in 80s' Germany and Austria. Companies and government institutions had to file for a permit and register an ID for every database containing personal data. SIGINT and NSA were largely unknown at the time (exposed in the 90s by ham radio schizos who happened to be linked to aforementioned powerful and influential privacy lobbies.)
>Alexa, Siri, etc.
The oven that would interrupt your Tetris for reporting that your Pizza is done was seen as a good thing by a fringe of otherwise tech-happy nerds. Common people didn't see the benefit or posed the question if you were still human if you needed computers for minor domestic tasks.
>smart drugs, gene-editing, nano*, transhumanism
This became a good thing for body-mod/tattoo freaks in silicon valley and san francisco in the early 90s, but nowhere else. European philosophers on TV warned about the consequences (government abuse, gene-editing/designer babies dominated by fashion, windows-style bugs in nanobots, immortality for the rich, discrimination based on last year's or value brain implants, etc.)
The more society became aware of the reality of former science-fiction technology, the more visible the doubts became in cyberpunk, which in turn developed from an underground genre to mainstream entertainment.
>Google
Google's plans and shenenigans were openly discussed on the internet as early as 2000, two years after inception, when it wasn't even the most popular or most useful search engine.
Jackson Perry
War and wanting to be closer to God than nature was always the primary motivator of human creation. We just lived in a period of the benefits of such technology existing as an afterthought.
Lucas Harris
Burtrend Russell?
Alexander Diaz
yep