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There's another phase we forget about. If I could choose, I'd like to grow up in a giant forest arcology and go hang out with my friends like it's a giant vert

There's another phase we forget about. If I could choose, I'd like to grow up in a giant forest arcology and go hang out with my friends like it's a giant vertical mall with lots of places to go get lost. When I finally got access to grocery delivery to my door, I could see how it all will work. Carrying things for one person is fine. It's carrying groceries for a household for a week where things break down. Even putting all that on an elevator would be really unwieldy compared to unloading from the garage. Self-driving and the evolution of early-life education will play a big role in simplifying life without the parents needing to ferry the kids around five days a week.

JoshTriplett 1y ago
Delivery makes sense for another reason: delivery services could have mechanisms that don't make sense for individual people to own, such as dollies or carts to get things from a vehicle to your door. (Due to the current over-reliance on gig-style delivery people using their own vehicles, rather than dedicated employees with specialized tools, this often doesn't happen today, but it should.) In general, it makes a huge amount of sense for a specialized employee with specialized tooling to pick up groceries for many people and deliver them; the net result is less total person-hours spent shopping, less vehicle miles driven, and less overall labor.
joules77 1y ago
Go deeper. Why does society needs parents at the current rate of change? The ants discovered hundreds of millions of years before even the chimps got social, that parents are not required for functioning society. We will get there soon with artificial wombs on the near horizon.
- positron26 1y ago
  We don't need a next generation either, but I have a feeling there will be some strong selection pressure that takes over.
- losvedir 1y ago
  I, too, always found Brave New World more prescient than 1984.

JoshTriplett 1y ago

Delivery makes sense for another reason: delivery services could have mechanisms that don't make sense for individual people to own, such as dollies or carts to get things from a vehicle to your door. (Due to the current over-reliance on gig-style delivery people using their own vehicles, rather than dedicated employees with specialized tools, this often doesn't happen today, but it should.) In general, it makes a huge amount of sense for a specialized employee with specialized tooling to pick up groceries for many people and deliver them; the net result is less total person-hours spent shopping, less vehicle miles driven, and less overall labor.

joules77 1y ago

Go deeper. Why does society needs parents at the current rate of change? The ants discovered hundreds of millions of years before even the chimps got social, that parents are not required for functioning society. We will get there soon with artificial wombs on the near horizon.

positron26 1y ago
We don't need a next generation either, but I have a feeling there will be some strong selection pressure that takes over.
losvedir 1y ago
I, too, always found Brave New World more prescient than 1984.