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What do you think the world will be like 50 years from now, in the 2070s?

And specifically, what kind of tech do you think will surprise to the upside by that time, and become pretty dominant or ubiquitous? And what tech do you think will underperform expectations, and not exist at the scale that people now might’ve guessed would be common by then?
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Zen<3lofi 9mo ago

I’ve been reading The Sketchbook by Washington Irving which was written about 200 years ago, and it’s interesting to see the similarities and differences to life today.

similarities: needing to make money, class distinctions, existential anxiety and sadness about loss, boredom and lack of purpose, …

differences: gender roles are unquestioned …

so hopefully the future has way less gender roles and roles are based more on individual traits, less class distinctions, less of a need to work so much

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