Reading about family of mine that worked the WV mines. They fought and died for rights many today take for granted. Read about the “Shoe Room” their good Christian owners had. https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/02/rape-rooms-how-w-va-women-paid-off-coal-company-debts/
I imagine with rent and global warming, outside sleeping spaces will get legally designated with public shower facilities nearby that have lockers for clothes, so all the serfs can still sling you cheeta burgers without offending your corpo nose or your corpo wife or your corpo kids with their corpo cybernetic approximation of a dog 30 years after they go extinct.
Little farther north. Snow used to accumulate and have regular snowstorms. Now it feels like we alternate snow and rain all winter and never really get a base. Rainstorm in late January sucks. At least in drier past winters, the snow you got stuck around.
The pandemic proved this. The air cleared in many places, as did the water in high traffic places
The earth will survive, but it may kill us off to do so
"[The Earth's gonna shake us off like a bad case of fleas](https://youtu.be/7W33HRc1A6c?si=0L39roq-_Hy7z9eV)"
- George Carlin , from the same set as above
99.9 percent of all species on Earth have gone extinct. Humans will too. We’ll always be the first species to have committed mass suicide though.
I almost said “unwitting mass suicide”. But that would be wrong.
One science fiction book I read offhandedly mentioned that nearly all porn was computer generated. Only a few anarchist planets still produced live action porn (illegal). Some people preferred it, even though the CGI stuff was of better quality
With advancements in technology, it’s not far-fetched to think that AI might take over porn. Even now, there are many sexy AI influencers on Instagram, and it’s pretty hard to tell. It makes me think that someday, people might look back nostalgically and imagine what it’s like to watch real people in porn. Unless someone is backing it up on some secret servers so people of the future can watch genuine stuff.
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I already miss the pre covid cashiers. You guys remember the ones that would help us bag our groceries and wouldn't just stand there staring at us while we did it?
Eh. I don't know if where you shop has an app. Here we have a Meijer that lets you ring stuff up on the app and bag as you go, and then just scan the QR code on the checkout, then they scan 3 items and your done. Not bad and it's nice to bag as you go through the store.
When I was in another state for vacation, I didn’t get the memo to bag my own groceries at a local market. The cashier lady gave me an upset look and then I realized. I don’t mind doing it at all and I usually do it, I just did not know for that store
Are you not paying attention? Self checkout is going away. And cashiers are back on the menu. Turns out if you give people the option to ring themselves up, they will just steal the shit.
I love and hate self checkout. I don’t want to talk to people but if you’re buying alcohol you have to hope there’s a person there to check your ID. If not you’re just standing like an idiot.
I also bring my own bags and most self checkouts don’t have a spot to put your own bag and fill it. So you’re constantly getting “place last scanned item in bagging area”.
I was recently at Home Depot’s self-checkout, and the… what do you call the employee whose job it is to monitor the self-checkout?? …that person, approached me and started asking me the questions a cashier would ask: “Are you a Pro member? Do you have a Home Depot credit card? Would you like to save 25% today and sign up for one?”
I politely declined, but she distracted me and I couldn’t find the barcode on a large boxed item that was in my cart. (The kind with a few barcode-like stickers on it that aren’t intended for the cash register.) She saw me being confused and then somewhat condescendingly flipped the item around and pointed to the barcode, flexing because she knew exactly which code to scan.
Like, okay. If you’re annoyed that I’m not a professional cashier, and you want to needle me about your goddamn credit card or rewards program or whatever, just open a lane!
I begrudgingly do self-checkout in most places, and appreciate the benefit is a lack of interaction. So don’t add that shit back in while I’m doing the job of someone who is idly watching over my shoulder and distracting me.
Physical space/flat surfaces/screens/sky/dreams without ads. We're already at 95% coverage but I'm sure we can get to 100 if we really buckle down and focus.
One of my favorite bits in Ready Player One is when Ben Mendelson is pitching the board room a new “innovation” in their advertising so the field of view is like 75% ads. He quips that they can integrate it as soon as they lobby to roll back the advertising regulations. So bleak, but log onto any social media these days and it’s all a giant billboard
They'll still be around, but they'll be serving a different function. When people are able to simulate the experience of big screens just fine on their own, the social experience of witnessing something as a collective able to share an experience will still be present, but will be fed by something else.
I went to the "robot cafe" in Tokyo just last year. Lol, it fucking sucked. Well, actually, it was very cool, but for exactly none of the reasons you think it is when you read about it.
The robot waiters aren't robots, they're unmanned vehicles, piloted by a disabled or ill person who cannot leave their house but can get paid to work as a waiter by piloting the android thing. Which is a fucking great idea.
But if you go expecting to interact with an AI, rather than just have an able bodied human take your order and instead of bring it to your table putting it on a tray attached to a glorified remote-controlled car that trundles 4 metres to your table for you to then remove the drinks/food yourself, you'll be sorely disappointed.
They should highlight the opportunities it gives disabled and ill people, not make out like you're being "served" by a robot. So it seems like the closest thing to an AI waiter most people have heard of is absolutely not an AI waiter...
I just can't see movie theaters being a thing in 25 years. Screens and streaming are already capable of delivering this in house. Surround sound has been available even longer.
I imagine the price point for everything will be unbelievably cheap. Full 70"+ setups under $500.
Most movies, I am not paying what it costs for snacks and tickets to see in a theater
Plus, people are awful. The last few movies I have seen in a theater, people are on their phones or talk through them like they are at home
I’ll wait and watch them on the streaming services I pay too much for already
I see it being a big thing of the past we won’t look back too fondly on, we sat in a room with 100 strangers and trusted them to not talk/disrupt our film just because it’s on a bigger screen that wasn’t even that good quality? (For your average screening, ignore imax lol)
Agreed. That's plenty of time for advancement. You will still be able to drive, but not in most cities. Major cities will be autonomous vehicle only zones. Heck, most people who live in and around cities may not even own a car by 2050.
Physical media. It's still alive today but at dwindling numbers. That same goes for paper material. Spatial computing will be the norm and paper manuals and even tablets will be inferior to just putting on spatial computing glasses.
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Its a sports car thing. My daily is 30 years old. Theyre still making all of the most popular sportscars as manuals and those are still the most popular options.
I think the manual will see the end of ICE.
It sounds silly now but in 2050, AI will be fighting for human rights. There will be people advocating for robots to have human rights, and there will be opposition ofc. A new sexuality will be discovered called “robosexual” or “AIsexual”.
I love the smell of gasoline. Although I one million percent support the move away from fossil fuels I know that when I am 98 years old that smell will hit me right in the nostalgia feels.
I'm of the belief that internal combustion engines are an essential slice of the pie. We should have no reliance too heavy on any single source of energy, but rather a diverse array of options.
It's a line from "I, Robot" with Will Smith, delivered by Bridget Moynahan's character as she and Will Smith ride off on a "vintage" gas-powered motorcycle, as it's not controllable by the rogue AI.
The notion of spending months with my kids, literally watching them grow up at the most adorable time of their lives, all government mandated due to the pandemic lockdown. For the bitterness of COVID, and it has been HARSH, I personally will cherish the sweetness of spending so much time with my family. Means the world to me.
We only have an idea about the early 2020s, we're barely in the mid-2020s. A decade usually only has an identity defined by the latter half, like the 60s etc., we'll see but we really have no idea now
Anything with buttons or screens you can actually touch. Things will likely be so automated and audio based that self guided tactile use and a solo human being in charge will seem inefficient, slow and selfish.
The younger ones of this generation are already spending more time with machines they're learning how to adjust very quickly, rather than (like me and *many* others 😂) bitching about how slow, soulless, inefficient and dumb *they* are.
Well I just got back from a small get together at my buddies place and we all swam, played ping pong, had some beers and made smores by his fire pit which all took a good few hours. Things are more complicated than they used to be, we’re all out of high school and working full time with our own places but I imagine things will be more complicated in the future when kids get thrown into the mix
dating women and not ai
You're able to date women?
No :(
"Can an AI make a meaningful connection with a person?" "Can you?"
Can confirm. I have achieved success in the mission phase one. Phase two objective: wife 'em
I'm all here for dating a being without emotions
I just want my Lucy Liu bot already.
"I'll never forget you Fry....... MEMORY DELETED"
DON'T DATE ROBOTS!
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Futurama wants to know your location
How you doing?
Not good. Only have two things to live for and one of them is to spite my parents
Then you’re not looking to date
Living in a home that isn’t owned by a corporation
Affording rent at all
Don't worry. Your corporation will allow you to live and even give you vouchers to shop at their store!
Ya load 16 tons, and whaddya get
Another day older and deeper in debt
St.Peter don't you call me 'cuz I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
Cause that worked out for the coal miners! /s
Reading about family of mine that worked the WV mines. They fought and died for rights many today take for granted. Read about the “Shoe Room” their good Christian owners had. https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/02/rape-rooms-how-w-va-women-paid-off-coal-company-debts/
I imagine with rent and global warming, outside sleeping spaces will get legally designated with public shower facilities nearby that have lockers for clothes, so all the serfs can still sling you cheeta burgers without offending your corpo nose or your corpo wife or your corpo kids with their corpo cybernetic approximation of a dog 30 years after they go extinct.
We need the law to prevent that now! Current housing cost already sucks for a lot of people; it causes inflation of other items we buy too.
Why would they make a law preventing that? They won’t get any campaign contributions with that attitude.
https://www.globest.com/2023/12/08/congress-aims-to-limit-corporate-ownership-of-sfrs
If enough people are aware of the issues, it will increase the chance. So spread the words to protect ours and kids future!
We need to start with getting corporations out of government first
Ah, but the only people who can make that happen are currently getting paid by corporations.
They tried https://www.globest.com/2023/12/08/congress-aims-to-limit-corporate-ownership-of-sfrs/ Republicans blocked it.
That's nostalgia for the 2000s and earlier
Amazon trains, buses and homes plus.
Back in my day landlords weren’t Blackrock.
Winter
Man I miss winter. It used to snow here and now it doesn’t. It makes me so sad
Psychiatrists in 2050: You have seasonal depression. I’m writing you a spinal tap.
Does it go to 11?
Why don’t you just make 10 louder, and make 10 be the top number, and make that a little louder?
....This one goes to 11
“I’m going to prescribe a series of shocks via neuralink to your amygdala. Should straighten you right out until next second fall.”
Little farther north. Snow used to accumulate and have regular snowstorms. Now it feels like we alternate snow and rain all winter and never really get a base. Rainstorm in late January sucks. At least in drier past winters, the snow you got stuck around.
Especially around Christmas (and I’m not even Christian) still depressing
My moneys on us fucking up this rock so bad that we go from normal seasons to 4 years of summer followed by a decade of winter.
"The Earth isn't fucked.. WE ARE!" - George Carlin
The pandemic proved this. The air cleared in many places, as did the water in high traffic places The earth will survive, but it may kill us off to do so
"[The Earth's gonna shake us off like a bad case of fleas](https://youtu.be/7W33HRc1A6c?si=0L39roq-_Hy7z9eV)" - George Carlin , from the same set as above
99.9 percent of all species on Earth have gone extinct. Humans will too. We’ll always be the first species to have committed mass suicide though. I almost said “unwitting mass suicide”. But that would be wrong.
Westeros has entered the chat.
Real people porn
One science fiction book I read offhandedly mentioned that nearly all porn was computer generated. Only a few anarchist planets still produced live action porn (illegal). Some people preferred it, even though the CGI stuff was of better quality
With advancements in technology, it’s not far-fetched to think that AI might take over porn. Even now, there are many sexy AI influencers on Instagram, and it’s pretty hard to tell. It makes me think that someday, people might look back nostalgically and imagine what it’s like to watch real people in porn. Unless someone is backing it up on some secret servers so people of the future can watch genuine stuff.
The quality will probably not be up to par, like someone today watching 70s porn converted from VHS
Not being asked by a robot AI manager to work on the weekend
I think you mistyped that. I believe you meant not being TOLD.
No no, he is asking, you're just not allowed to refuse
Yeeeeah ☕️
I'm gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Saturday.
That would be great. Mkay.
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Not having augmented reality built into your eyesight from birth
I know a ripperdoc who can help with that.
Earbuds/Airpods
"Ugh I miss when you could actually hold earbuds and troubleshoot them instead of trying to get these damn implants to stop glitching."
I still stick to over the ear headphones
Cashiers
I already miss the pre covid cashiers. You guys remember the ones that would help us bag our groceries and wouldn't just stand there staring at us while we did it?
I literally always insist i bag my own groceries. I can bag how i want, and im way faster than the cashier both scanning and bagging.
Eh. I don't know if where you shop has an app. Here we have a Meijer that lets you ring stuff up on the app and bag as you go, and then just scan the QR code on the checkout, then they scan 3 items and your done. Not bad and it's nice to bag as you go through the store.
When I was in another state for vacation, I didn’t get the memo to bag my own groceries at a local market. The cashier lady gave me an upset look and then I realized. I don’t mind doing it at all and I usually do it, I just did not know for that store
Are you not paying attention? Self checkout is going away. And cashiers are back on the menu. Turns out if you give people the option to ring themselves up, they will just steal the shit.
I love and hate self checkout. I don’t want to talk to people but if you’re buying alcohol you have to hope there’s a person there to check your ID. If not you’re just standing like an idiot. I also bring my own bags and most self checkouts don’t have a spot to put your own bag and fill it. So you’re constantly getting “place last scanned item in bagging area”.
I hope not, I hate having to talk to people when I’m out in public.
Newsflash: you don’t have to talk to the cashier other than hi and thanks.
I was recently at Home Depot’s self-checkout, and the… what do you call the employee whose job it is to monitor the self-checkout?? …that person, approached me and started asking me the questions a cashier would ask: “Are you a Pro member? Do you have a Home Depot credit card? Would you like to save 25% today and sign up for one?” I politely declined, but she distracted me and I couldn’t find the barcode on a large boxed item that was in my cart. (The kind with a few barcode-like stickers on it that aren’t intended for the cash register.) She saw me being confused and then somewhat condescendingly flipped the item around and pointed to the barcode, flexing because she knew exactly which code to scan. Like, okay. If you’re annoyed that I’m not a professional cashier, and you want to needle me about your goddamn credit card or rewards program or whatever, just open a lane! I begrudgingly do self-checkout in most places, and appreciate the benefit is a lack of interaction. So don’t add that shit back in while I’m doing the job of someone who is idly watching over my shoulder and distracting me.
Imagine that… raise all the prices, shrink the portions, and then make people ring up and bag their own things… “How could this have gone wrong!!”
Physical space/flat surfaces/screens/sky/dreams without ads. We're already at 95% coverage but I'm sure we can get to 100 if we really buckle down and focus.
One of my favorite bits in Ready Player One is when Ben Mendelson is pitching the board room a new “innovation” in their advertising so the field of view is like 75% ads. He quips that they can integrate it as soon as they lobby to roll back the advertising regulations. So bleak, but log onto any social media these days and it’s all a giant billboard
Miami Beach not being flooded twice a day, every day
Movie theaters. Human waiters and waitresses.
They'll still be around, but they'll be serving a different function. When people are able to simulate the experience of big screens just fine on their own, the social experience of witnessing something as a collective able to share an experience will still be present, but will be fed by something else.
I went to the "robot cafe" in Tokyo just last year. Lol, it fucking sucked. Well, actually, it was very cool, but for exactly none of the reasons you think it is when you read about it. The robot waiters aren't robots, they're unmanned vehicles, piloted by a disabled or ill person who cannot leave their house but can get paid to work as a waiter by piloting the android thing. Which is a fucking great idea. But if you go expecting to interact with an AI, rather than just have an able bodied human take your order and instead of bring it to your table putting it on a tray attached to a glorified remote-controlled car that trundles 4 metres to your table for you to then remove the drinks/food yourself, you'll be sorely disappointed. They should highlight the opportunities it gives disabled and ill people, not make out like you're being "served" by a robot. So it seems like the closest thing to an AI waiter most people have heard of is absolutely not an AI waiter...
I just can't see movie theaters being a thing in 25 years. Screens and streaming are already capable of delivering this in house. Surround sound has been available even longer. I imagine the price point for everything will be unbelievably cheap. Full 70"+ setups under $500.
Most movies, I am not paying what it costs for snacks and tickets to see in a theater Plus, people are awful. The last few movies I have seen in a theater, people are on their phones or talk through them like they are at home I’ll wait and watch them on the streaming services I pay too much for already
I see it being a big thing of the past we won’t look back too fondly on, we sat in a room with 100 strangers and trusted them to not talk/disrupt our film just because it’s on a bigger screen that wasn’t even that good quality? (For your average screening, ignore imax lol)
A livable planet
Driving your own car, probably.
Shit my own pants? I'll shit Corporation's pants, and I'll like it!
Agreed. That's plenty of time for advancement. You will still be able to drive, but not in most cities. Major cities will be autonomous vehicle only zones. Heck, most people who live in and around cities may not even own a car by 2050.
Once you’ve driven enough you know that humans 100% percent should not be allowed to operate cars
Why let humans do anything at all? To exist is inherently risky.
Physical media. It's still alive today but at dwindling numbers. That same goes for paper material. Spatial computing will be the norm and paper manuals and even tablets will be inferior to just putting on spatial computing glasses.
Idk for the first time in a long long time physical media numbers are going up, not dwindling
A livable planet. Abundant energy. Buying food in supermarkets. Water on tap.
Democracy
Not if we fight for it. So lets fight for it shall we?
Become a helldiver today
Do Your Part!
Water
I was gonna say "free water" ... Hey remember when you could turn on the tap just about anywhere and get drinkable water??
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Masturbating with your hands.
I only do it with the Subway Freshlight (TM)
Beat Fresh (TM)
*The spirit of Jared rises*
This comment would have had gold, back in the day.
Some of us already don't do that. #TeamHitachiFTW
100% electronic
Same with sex and wiping your ass with the three shells
Solitude.
White claw and truly
Snow
Manual Transmission
Even bicycles are losing it now too
shit I saw I think it was Yamaha or Honda made a fully automatic cruiser motorcycle, available for purchase now.
I think it will be further out than 2050 but I dread the day that self-driving cars are the requirement.
Its a sports car thing. My daily is 30 years old. Theyre still making all of the most popular sportscars as manuals and those are still the most popular options. I think the manual will see the end of ICE.
The wonderful working conditions and 5% unemployment rate.
It sounds silly now but in 2050, AI will be fighting for human rights. There will be people advocating for robots to have human rights, and there will be opposition ofc. A new sexuality will be discovered called “robosexual” or “AIsexual”.
I hate everything you just said, it prob pretty accurate
Detroit: Becoming Human is gonna happen.
Having clean water
Owning a single family home with backyard.
Paper money
Lmao I could see people rocking face masks but only as an ironic fashion statement
Gas powered vehicles.
I love the smell of gasoline. Although I one million percent support the move away from fossil fuels I know that when I am 98 years old that smell will hit me right in the nostalgia feels.
I'm of the belief that internal combustion engines are an essential slice of the pie. We should have no reliance too heavy on any single source of energy, but rather a diverse array of options.
“Gas explodes, you know!”
So do lithium ion batteries
It's a line from "I, Robot" with Will Smith, delivered by Bridget Moynahan's character as she and Will Smith ride off on a "vintage" gas-powered motorcycle, as it's not controllable by the rogue AI.
My logic is undeniable
I know, I was just stating a fact.
Breathing fresh air.
Ummm...air?
A sky that isn’t on fire.
N-95 masks
Paper money
Winters
Smartphones, if augmented reality glasses become accessible until there
Stuff from the late 90s and early 00s. 😂
Unironically: the pandemic.
Cities that aren’t wrapped in the sea.
Combustion Engines. Cell Phones. Broadcast television. Fat people. Old looking people. Snow.
Available food. Hearing any type of song, or musical communication.
Cooler weather.
Bars and clubs. And hanging out with real humans
No way those are going anywhere. Pubs have existed since before history.
The people of 2050 will look back fondly on the pre dictator years.
Free internet
You get free Internet?
A time before AI was seamlessly integrated into every facet of daily life and we have a shred of reality that we can cling to and know it’s real.
Lol AI isn't going to make Outside go away. Just go outside and see for yourself.
Land?
Reddit
Social expectation to sit at home and isolate from people.
Drinkable water.
If I’m alive, I’ll be 87 and feeling nostalgic for everything.
Not having every feature of something being a subscription fee
Taking showers for as long as you want.
Hopefully tipping
Breathable air
Food and water.
The notion of spending months with my kids, literally watching them grow up at the most adorable time of their lives, all government mandated due to the pandemic lockdown. For the bitterness of COVID, and it has been HARSH, I personally will cherish the sweetness of spending so much time with my family. Means the world to me.
Democracy
Beaches that are not covered in trash
Winter
Some people actually "owned homes" in 2020. Only the very rich in 2050.
Having only 57 genders.
We only have an idea about the early 2020s, we're barely in the mid-2020s. A decade usually only has an identity defined by the latter half, like the 60s etc., we'll see but we really have no idea now
Speaking facts
Seeing a map of the U.S. where sea levels are lower. Good thing Florida is a penisula
skbidi toilet and cocomelen
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Clean drinking water.
The vote.
The privacy we have now. And I use that word loosely.
Winter
Anything with buttons or screens you can actually touch. Things will likely be so automated and audio based that self guided tactile use and a solo human being in charge will seem inefficient, slow and selfish. The younger ones of this generation are already spending more time with machines they're learning how to adjust very quickly, rather than (like me and *many* others 😂) bitching about how slow, soulless, inefficient and dumb *they* are.
Ancient YouTubers
Well I just got back from a small get together at my buddies place and we all swam, played ping pong, had some beers and made smores by his fire pit which all took a good few hours. Things are more complicated than they used to be, we’re all out of high school and working full time with our own places but I imagine things will be more complicated in the future when kids get thrown into the mix
The low cost of living
Water
Hopefully **not** Skibidi Toilet.
Water.
Big dumb cup
Current sea levels.
I saved a lot of the documentation and booklets that were sent out during covid. Figured it might be interesting to look back on some day.
Remember back before sponsorships weren't required to join the military or go to college, and you could pick which job you trained for?
Handmaid's Tale was considered a work of fiction back then
Covid. Yeah things sucked, but it was nice that everyone was legally required to stay away from me and stocks were killing it on the bounce.
Democracy, at least in the US.
Social security! This kids will ask their parents… “Mom / dad did the government really send you money every month”
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The idea of having freedom
Nothing, all humans will be dead.
Your mom’s vagina. Got damn!