Nowadays, the world we live in and the technology we have access to is changing completely with every passing generation.
(Honeybee visiting clover in my garden, accompanied by tiny wingman.)
30 years ago was 1995. I was in college, and suddenly here was this new thing called "the world wide web". Finally there was another use to these huge and slow personal computers we'd been using as word processors.
If you had showed me what 2025 would look like, with internet-enabled computers in very human's pocket, and powerful ai at our fingertips 24/7, it would have looked like magic. Fantasy. Science fiction. I wouldn't have believed it. I couldn't have even understood it. These were the days before cell phones. A few important people had pagers. Most homes did not have a computer. A land-line telephone, newspaper, letters, cable TV, and radio were how we stayed informed and kept in touch. The world was a completely different place just one generation ago.
It wasn't always this way. Even 200 years ago, life was pretty much exactly the same from one generation to the next. The rate of change is increasing.
(I would never have even known it was there, if not for the digital camera, and the honeybee.)
It stands to reason then that in far less than 30 years, human society will be unrecognizable. If we could see 2050 today, it would look like magic, fantasy, science fiction. We wouldn't believe it. We couldn't even understand it.
The last generation to die has already been born. When I'm 75, what now is a dream will be our reality. Anything and everything is possible.
See also:
- https://blurt.blog/technology/@drutter/2vmqjd-we-will-use-ai-to-judge-and-enslave-ourselves
- https://blurt.blog/life/@drutter/6ffnye-the-last-generation-to-die-has-already-been-born
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