Asklemmy

50304 readers

623 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 6 years ago

MODERATORS

-23

I have an interesting theory about the future, it's a real utopia. I wonder what you think? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

14 comments fedilink hide all child comments

So here I decided to imagine the future that awaits us after this total control and after the world war III. In short, after our civilization is finally destroyed, people will gradually learn to value resources (they will have no choice) and people will live without the Internet and artificial intelligence, without total control and comfort, in autonomous small communities almost like in the Middle Ages, and will value simple things, and not strive for the stars, as before, and will remind their descendants of the horrors of the past and the fall of the greatest human empire in history.

And it will never be possible to restore our civilization, because the resources will run out.

How do you like a future without AI, without the Internet and without convenient technologies such as computers, etc., and also without cars and other transport, almost like in the Middle Ages?

It's a utopia, isn't it? This is sarcasm, by the way.

I'm wondering why I'm being downvoted, because I explain things poorly or because I offended someone? Or because I have anime on my avatar?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

we understand the value of resources now, just in your example the availability and the macro-economics of what a resource is changes.

Crude oil existed for millions of years, but wasn't a resource until it could be refined. Salt used to be a premium resource, and now is considered a basic one.

So you mean "will gradually readjust to the new value of new reources"

Also, we don't have "total control" over anything now. Crimes go unreported, unprosecuted, unsolved, rebellion and revolution happens across the globe, protests happen, democracy happens.

You can also choose to start an autonomous community if you want right now - just that most people actually want sewers and toilets and hygiene and warm water and transport and food variety. But if you don't- you can just go live in the forest.

Then you pivot to saying "I'm being sarcastic - it wouldn't be a utopia because we wouldn't have AI"

AI is just matrix math on byte encoding. Just like life was pretty good in 1985 before the internet was popularized and marketed, this one tech product does not drastically affect society.

I would also contend that society isn't drastically different post-internet. It's the media of the message that changed, but human communication and structure is still roughly similar to most post-WW2 standards.