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A Scientist Predicts the Future
- hrkristian 13y ago10. Intellectual Capitalism Will Replace Commodity Capitalism So he's predicting a future where we "trade in people"? What of those who are not born into intellectual prowess. Will the divide become even larger than it is today? That doesn't fit in with the tone of the article, which is nauseatingly utopian.
- ekm2 13y agoI thought we should be worrying more about if the ideas are true than if they are utopian.
- jimt67 13y agoWhen you don't specify how far ahead in the future you are projecting these things to happen, technological innovations like "Robots Will Be Commonplace" are quite easy to predict. Especially when he appears to be lumping much of AI into the "robots" category. I would much rather see a long form of this where he further explains why he makes these predictions and when he sees them happening. I'll readily admit I don't know what sells for the times but this opinion piece makes me feel like I just wasted time (I guess I probably shouldn't have commented on it as well to exacerbate the problem).
- junto 13y agoI pessimistically see a much worse future. A kind of cross between: - Orwell's 1984 - Aldus Huxley's Brave New World - Philip K. Dick's Minority Report - Andrew Niccol's Gattica
- a3n 13y agoI see a much more mundane dystopia, where almost no progress happens anymore, as the US Congress clearly intends.
- userulluipeste 13y agoBoth "Brave New World" and "Gattica" have as one of their underlying ideas the genes cultivation, which basically expands the general capabilities of the humankind. That might be a bit dramatic on an individual level (as it is depicted in "Gattica"), but overall why is that "a much worse future"?
- BerislavLopac 13y agoYou forgot Idiocracy.
- quesera 13y agoPedantry, but hopefully interesting: Gattaca is spelled with two A's. The letters in the word are from DNA base pairs: guanine, thymine, adenosine, and cytosine. Attica is a part of ancient Greece. Also a prison in New York. Not sure which reference the creator of Gattaca intended. Maybe both.
- rivd 13y agotechnology will overcome all problems, solve injustice and everyone will be happy. sure. no mention of climate change, ever-increasing debts, failing antibiotics or social problems because of differences between people who can buy these "cybermedicine" / body-parts-replacements and those who cannot.
- loceng 13y agoThis author isn't grounded in reality of how systems currently work - seems trapped in purely theoretical thinking. "Perfect capitalism" can't exist because for-profit businesses create and maintain the frictions mentioned that would be greatly reduced. There's a whole social/sociology and psychology of human behaviour layer missing from these thoughts.
- qhoc 13y ago#8 about aging repair is basically what's in Thor. Godin said they are not God but just living being that can last up to 5000 years. Once in awhile, Godin has to go into hyper sleep or something like that to repair his cells / DNA (I assume). They are just more advance version of Wolverine who can live hundreds of years.