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This sounds more like 2020. By the year 3000 there is a great chance we'll all have gotten over our fear, our conflict with government, and ourselves. Who want

by unabst 11y ago

This sounds more like 2020. By the year 3000 there is a great chance we'll all have gotten over our fear, our conflict with government, and ourselves. Who wants to know? This is a question easily overlooked, but is crucial to observation (aka surveillance). Observation is done by an observer and done with intent. Without intent, we stop looking. I for one don't want to know or care for petty details about my neighbors. I want safety without the chore of maintaining knowledge. This might be too much to ask by 2020, but by 3000 we should have it figured out (granted we'll still here).

shitsandwich 11y ago
my bet humanity has another 25 years max
bharath28 11y ago
Interesting thought: "By the year 3000 there is a great chance we'll all have gotten over our fear, our conflict with government, and ourselves." By gotten over, did you mean we'll have given in to the fact that there will be an observer (albeit a benevolent one?) or that we'll have stopped caring about the intent of the observer?
- unabst 11y ago
  Honestly, we may not even have a word for what we call privacy now. Or at least that would be a future I'd strive for. Our business is our business, and we love to mind our own business already. The government has played the fear card to get all this surveillance going, and now fear of surveillance (and government) is what has the resistance going. To have fear be the primary driver of our common intentions is barbaric, and humanity is still barbaric at the grandest scale. But by 3000, hopefully we'll have gotten over all of our fears. And if all Earthlings are just one tight-knit family, then surveillance of any kind would be just creepy.
mjcohen 11y ago
By 3000, I doubt that anything resembling modern society will exist. Look at life in the 1800s or 1700s to see what things will be like, if we are lucky.
tacone 11y ago
Probably in the year 3000 we won't be here, but mass migrating to Jupiter or Saturn in escape from a heating up Sun after some idiot's decision to nuke it just to see what happens. (ok, that was a bit of an overstretch, I still would like to be paid for eventual movie royalties)

by unabst 11y ago

shitsandwich 11y ago

my bet humanity has another 25 years max

bharath28 11y ago

Interesting thought: "By the year 3000 there is a great chance we'll all have gotten over our fear, our conflict with government, and ourselves." By gotten over, did you mean we'll have given in to the fact that there will be an observer (albeit a benevolent one?) or that we'll have stopped caring about the intent of the observer?

unabst 11y ago
Honestly, we may not even have a word for what we call privacy now. Or at least that would be a future I'd strive for. Our business is our business, and we love to mind our own business already. The government has played the fear card to get all this surveillance going, and now fear of surveillance (and government) is what has the resistance going. To have fear be the primary driver of our common intentions is barbaric, and humanity is still barbaric at the grandest scale. But by 3000, hopefully we'll have gotten over all of our fears. And if all Earthlings are just one tight-knit family, then surveillance of any kind would be just creepy.

mjcohen 11y ago

By 3000, I doubt that anything resembling modern society will exist. Look at life in the 1800s or 1700s to see what things will be like, if we are lucky.

tacone 11y ago

Probably in the year 3000 we won't be here, but mass migrating to Jupiter or Saturn in escape from a heating up Sun after some idiot's decision to nuke it just to see what happens. (ok, that was a bit of an overstretch, I still would like to be paid for eventual movie royalties)