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Which makes me wonder what people in future will think about our science fiction media.

eastbound 3y ago
Which science fiction media? Is there any dream that is physically possible while unrealized? - Going to other galaxies: As opposed to flying, those are physically impossible, - 2100 utopia would be about ecology and people consuming less, not more, - When I was a kid, I used to dream about flying blades (drones) or minicomputer in our hands where would could read stuff of program. Today I don’t see a single thing that I would like to dream about. Maybe social relationships?
- type0 3y ago
  > 2100 utopia would be about ecology and social relationships Silent Running https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067756/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067756/
- IshKebab 3y ago
  Fusion power, flying cars (air taxis), fully reusable rockets, driverless cars, AGI, wow you really couldn't think of anything?
- skydhash 3y ago
  > Is there any dream that is physically possible while unrealized? The unified computing ecosystem from The Expanse. The public transport from Westworld
- southernplaces7 3y ago
  If anyone thinks anything about the future of humanity will involve us consuming less instead of more, they're forgetting the entire history of most human endeavors and tendencies up to the present day, completely. We may find cleaner, better, less invasive ways of consuming and creating things from what we consume (I would hope), but I would bet any amount of money that across all metrics of practical use, humans will consume more food, energy, needed materials and so forth by far in 2100 than they do today, unless some truly enormous catastrophe sets our civilization back or causes depopulation. I can see us consuming less of any given resource we heavily use now, but only because we no longer need it due to some new innovation, and for no other reason.
  - tsimionescu 3y ago
    Perhaps what we need are some decades of social advancement, not just technological. Our last significant social experiments and discoveries date from the 1850s or so (nationalism, socialism, slightly later fascism). While that period led to some of the worse massacres in history, it also led to some positive changes in attitude that persist today - mainly respect for the rights of each people, an end to the colonial mindset. Perhaps just like a mostly peaceful independence of India, Australia, Canada etc would have seemed unthinkable at the height of the British Empire, perhaps a non-consumerist society which seems unthinkable today is still in the cards. Either way, we will obviously see less consumption in the coming century - either voluntarily, as I hope, in order to stop the worse forms of global warming; or else global warming will continue in its current path to 3, 4, 5 degrees of warming, and the ensuing catastrophes will force it on us.
- barrysteve 3y ago
  2300 utopia is bringing closure to all the positive excesses of the past. 2100 utopia is the dream that we can all be united under the one system. The start to rising positivity is causing people to chase dreams off a cliff. I'd be careful about what ideas you give people. People follow dreams well past the point where they should logically conclude, even to death.
- tsimionescu 3y ago
  Maybe the new surge of interest in Dune is a sign in this direction. It's the only major sci-fi that mainly focuses on futuristic advances in social and self-development "technologies" rather than engineering (the Bene Gesserit being the most representative group - both in how they practice social engineering, and in how they train themselves to control their own bodies).
- debesyla 3y ago
  Talking about social relationships - I for long dreamed (fantasied) about device that lets to merge two and more people thoughts, memories, experiences. Always wondered what would happen from it. And, I guess, maybe it's technically possible if we ever figure out how to read and write human brains/body chemistry?
dkarras 3y ago
- wait you knew what would happen and still allowed it to happen?

Which science fiction media? Is there any dream that is physically possible while unrealized? - Going to other galaxies: As opposed to flying, those are physically impossible, - 2100 utopia would be about ecology and people consuming less, not more, - When I was a kid, I used to dream about flying blades (drones) or minicomputer in our hands where would could read stuff of program. Today I don’t see a single thing that I would like to dream about. Maybe social relationships?

type0 3y ago
> 2100 utopia would be about ecology and social relationships Silent Running https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067756/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067756/
IshKebab 3y ago
Fusion power, flying cars (air taxis), fully reusable rockets, driverless cars, AGI, wow you really couldn't think of anything?
skydhash 3y ago
> Is there any dream that is physically possible while unrealized? The unified computing ecosystem from The Expanse. The public transport from Westworld
southernplaces7 3y ago
If anyone thinks anything about the future of humanity will involve us consuming less instead of more, they're forgetting the entire history of most human endeavors and tendencies up to the present day, completely. We may find cleaner, better, less invasive ways of consuming and creating things from what we consume (I would hope), but I would bet any amount of money that across all metrics of practical use, humans will consume more food, energy, needed materials and so forth by far in 2100 than they do today, unless some truly enormous catastrophe sets our civilization back or causes depopulation. I can see us consuming less of any given resource we heavily use now, but only because we no longer need it due to some new innovation, and for no other reason.
- tsimionescu 3y ago
  Perhaps what we need are some decades of social advancement, not just technological. Our last significant social experiments and discoveries date from the 1850s or so (nationalism, socialism, slightly later fascism). While that period led to some of the worse massacres in history, it also led to some positive changes in attitude that persist today - mainly respect for the rights of each people, an end to the colonial mindset. Perhaps just like a mostly peaceful independence of India, Australia, Canada etc would have seemed unthinkable at the height of the British Empire, perhaps a non-consumerist society which seems unthinkable today is still in the cards. Either way, we will obviously see less consumption in the coming century - either voluntarily, as I hope, in order to stop the worse forms of global warming; or else global warming will continue in its current path to 3, 4, 5 degrees of warming, and the ensuing catastrophes will force it on us.
barrysteve 3y ago
2300 utopia is bringing closure to all the positive excesses of the past. 2100 utopia is the dream that we can all be united under the one system. The start to rising positivity is causing people to chase dreams off a cliff. I'd be careful about what ideas you give people. People follow dreams well past the point where they should logically conclude, even to death.
tsimionescu 3y ago
Maybe the new surge of interest in Dune is a sign in this direction. It's the only major sci-fi that mainly focuses on futuristic advances in social and self-development "technologies" rather than engineering (the Bene Gesserit being the most representative group - both in how they practice social engineering, and in how they train themselves to control their own bodies).
debesyla 3y ago
Talking about social relationships - I for long dreamed (fantasied) about device that lets to merge two and more people thoughts, memories, experiences. Always wondered what would happen from it. And, I guess, maybe it's technically possible if we ever figure out how to read and write human brains/body chemistry?

dkarras 3y ago

- wait you knew what would happen and still allowed it to happen?