The future won't be the present with better stuff. Instead, the internet will be mass rejected as a point of authoritative information. Something else is comin

The future won't be the present with better stuff. Instead, the internet will be mass rejected as a point of authoritative information. Something else is coming, an internet round 2 without all the bullshit. Money will still be an insulation against climate change. Africa will have trendy tourist friendly cities with large economic power (Kinshasa, Lagos) This fascism wave will lead to something really awful, probably hastening the rejection of Internet v.1 Silicon valley will no longer be special and there will be a mass exodus of real estate capital and a rebuilding of the culture. The media will paint it as a recession, when really it'll just be prices no longer being stupid insane. Everyone will actually be doing fine for the first time in decades there. Solar will be about $0.01-$0.02/kwh due to Swansons Law, beating every other power generation by significant margins. There will be common cheap large scale storage based on mechanical energy or some kind of newtonian physics (as in non electromechanical). It'll break down into stationary and portable storage. The US will have a significant, unambiguously socialist political contingency spread throughout all layers of government. The third way dems will still be around, but nobody will be confusing the two any more. There will also be an openly fascist contingency without any precondition or restraint. They will openly advocate for genocide and an ethnostate and something like 1/4 of the public will be totally on board. The electoral college will be rendered insignificant by a majority of the states electors having legislation to be committed to the candidate with the most votes. (see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...) A constitutional convention will be called by the same mechanism (ALEC is 85% of the way there). It will be a complete shitshow. Nothing will get done. It will collapse and nothing will come of it. People will start building systems and communities that don't require significant money and capital, something like the 1871 Paris commune, where work doesn't really need to be done. The cult of the individual will collapse and thatcherism will finally die. GDP will be fundamentally challenged as a mechanism of global financial bullying and some other metric, not based on economic growth, will take its place. All these cybernetic marvels will happen but the human use of human beings will become more defended than ever. It will be viewed in repulsion, as some perverted manipulative vice to invade natural spaces with technotrash. Something will cause the police of a city to go on strike. Crime won't increase, everyone will be fine. The defund/disarm the police movements might make some victories This is because the boomers are drying, the gen xers don't care and the millenials and zoomers can finally build what they've been wanting