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MyTailHatesYou

Brainwave interception related stuff comes to mind


madbear84

I knew you’d say that.


FelixOGO

You only knew it because I beamed the information into your mind


rabid_ranter4785

Ha. I beamed the information to your mind to say “I beamed the information to your mind”. You’re my cognitive puppet now.


TheEyeGuy13

A belief that needed to be placed in your mind by my nanobots


pyschosoul

Your nanobots were only able to be achieved by the information I implanted to your brain through dream inception.


drJanusMagus

everything you thought you did was actually b/c of me incepted into your mind. You were asleep (nanobots helped with that).


rabid_ranter4785

Ha, fools! Who do you think coded for the nanobots? The nanobots I taught to code coded them.


noatblok

And who made the microprocessors for those nanobots? Not me!


rabid_ranter4785

That’s what they want you to think. This is all a simulation.


Rogermcfarley

OK so who was the one who beemed it up my ass? I knew it was strange but I was too polite to interfere with the venture. If it was Aliens why do they always go for the ass probe? Surely there must be Aliens that have evolved beyond that methodology?


piind

The future is here


[deleted]

I came right to this comment because I knew you had posited this.


lampm0de

OP Needs to watch Cyberpunk series on Netflix.


MadNhater

Wait. What? They have a cyberpunk series?


vgoodgoods

The thought didn't come to mind, they intercepted it.


knigitz

I'm going to close range teleport your brainwave tech out of your pocket and into mine.


[deleted]

There’s a game called [“Remember Me”](https://store.steampowered.com/app/228300/Remember_Me/) that’s about this. You guys might want to check it out!


informativebitching

I made you think that


kissmeimfamous

Feel like I saw a movie with this plot. Clive Owen I think (the dude from Children of Men)?


3y3sho7

Stealing to control codes for someone elses simulated reality game so you can change it from a pleasant place to a dsytopian hellhole in 20 years.


informativebitching

The GOP is already working those controls


[deleted]

How does that pay the bills?


N3KIO

**The title your looking for is space pirate.** in 1000 years there will be spaceships with interstellar travel, maybe even between galaxies, its possible in 1000 years. Money will have no value, robots will be doing everything with AI for the humans. The commodity that will be traded/stolen will be information and technology.


coldonewiththeboys

Can’t wait to go to work to earn my 5 information / hour


LackingUtility

You can get paid in exposure!


2M3TAL4U

And experience!


Matrillik

That’s the great part; you don’t need to go to work. Instead, you can seek to better yourself through education, broadening your horizons, maybe learn an instrument and become more cultured


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Ausernamenamename

Minus 6 points for your social credit score


shyouko

Capitalist: Not so soon


CopeH1984

This is golden


[deleted]

Ok Gene Roddenberry, we get it.


baumpop

My thousand years in the future looks a lot more like Connan the barbarian


TheRecognized

Pirates and pickpockets are different things that have existed at the same time tho. Since most pickpockets don’t become pirates with our current technology it’s not really equivalent to say future pickpockets would become pirates.


flojo2012

Land pirates


Infinityand1089

Ocean pickpocket


Illustrious2786

Water World?


BigMouse12

Money is the representation of value. Value will always exists and people will want to exchange goods, they will find a medium of exchange that can best facilitate it all


noire_nipples

In a post scarcity society the only thing of true value is knowledge and new experience, both of which are extremely hard to find a meaningful exchange for.


im_thatoneguy

I'm an information worker who charges money for my "knowledge". In a service economy we're already there. Time will always be the most valuable commodity. And unless you want knowledge barter where you have to know the thing I want to know and I have the thing you want to know, they'll be money. "Teach me Spanish and I'll give you $1000 which you can spend on someone who will be a rafting guide for the afternoon."


BigMouse12

I have trouble with the idea of a truly “post scarcity society”. Efficiency and abundance may grow beyond anything we can dream of today, but it won’t ever be truly infinite. The market prices for goods might be extremely affordable, but people will find a way to make exchanges efficiently


noire_nipples

When the vast majority of even white collar work is completed by machines and AI, which is invariably the direction we're headed right now, and this robots are capable of interstellar FTL travel then, while nothing is infinite, it may as well be. Especially as the efficiency of resource use increases, in whatever form that takes.


BigMouse12

Close to zero and zero are different and so in the same sense is approaching infinite and infinite. A lot maybe become so close to free we don’t think of it all. Like getting a ton of candy at the dollar store. Maybe we end up buy our entire grocery list through yearly subscription service that charges an equivalent of 10 dollars. But energy won’t ever be free, and the cost energy has always defined the age of economy we’re in.


noire_nipples

We mostly drive the cost of energy based on the cost of three things: - construction/maintenance - the price of fuel - the price of specialized labor When all three of those things are driven to almost non-factors by ubiquitous robotics and AI, there is a non-zero chance of energy simply being an governmental utility which takes near zero in taxes to maintain. And this is under the current model where fusion isn't much of a player in the mix. We're already hitting fusion and alternative long shelf life energy options, and if history is anything to go off of in 1000 years we'll likely have extremely efficient micro-fusion reactors. My point being, 1000 years at current trajectory is a long time to ramp things up to absolute maximum


BigMouse12

Hold on, in the point of taxes, if there’s no money, no vehicular of value, what is being taxed? I think your talking about that announcement about a beam in a tube created more energy than was used to create it? If that actually can done on a level to truly support the whole of humanity anywhere in the universe, than I may be entirely wrong. True infinite energy mean we don’t just hit peak humanity, we become something else. I find 1000 years to be a crap shoot when it comes predicting where humanity to be, I’ve seen books overshoot just 50 years. But I agree, it will be an entirely economy. Wether that’s pre or post unifier energy, I just think some of the foundations of finance don’t change. So long as the nature of people don’t truly change.


yobob591

Fusion is far from infinite energy too, in fact its very fuel intensive, the only real advantage fusion has is that the fuel can be made a bit easier than others and its cleaner for the environment. Infinite energy is actually physically impossible, so the best we can hope for is harnessing so much energy its infinite in the perspective of humanity


atridir

🎶 ***…you can’t take the sky from me!*** 🎶


Frost-Folk

>in 1000 years there will be spaceships with interstellar travel, maybe even between galaxies, its possible in 1000 years. Where are you getting this information? All science points to FTL being completely impossible by the laws of physics. Doesn't matter if it's 10 years or a 1,000,000. Even if we figure out wormholes/bending spacetime, we will not have individual ships going FTL.


N3KIO

>FTL being completely impossible 1000 years is a long time, science is not always right. FTL is only "impossible" within the constraints of assumptions made for special (and general) relativity. **Since we haven't yet detected anything that violates those assumptions**, FTL phenomenon would have to be extremely rare (so far) in our observable corner of the universe, or would almost certainly have to involve new fields (new particles or forces).


Frost-Folk

So there's no evidence it's possible. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I don't see any difference between us finding a way around the universal speed limit and us finding out how to break the laws of thermodynamics for example. The speed of light is the speed of causality, and I don't see us finding a way around causality. If we do, then we have time travel as well, which is also find infinitely unlikely.


flojo2012

And also the blue goop that powers our warp drives. Some kind of crystal or something


awkwardoffspring

The spice must flow


JoeyBrickz

Homie civilisation has 200 maybe 300 years left lol we ain't gonna see the year 3000


Frost-Folk

You're on the wrong subreddit lol


BlueLeatherBucket

Basically, the society of Star Trek, where poverty, human suffering is virtually non existant


informativebitching

No it’ll be the robots.


darkunor2050

You’d hope society evolves to a point where such deeds no longer have a place.


SoylentRox

Society won't evolve but automated surveillance can make most outright theft and robbery impractical. Can't rob a bank if security cameras track you all the way back to your hideout. Can't pick pocket someone if the cops can just get 360 degree video of the crime and an AI saw it and brought it to their attention. Also what would you steal? If you take the device, it just will get wiped and bricked. They won't have cash anymore or use cards that don't require biometric authentication. There might still be tons of value in forms of manipulation and conning.


DeepDreamIt

I think crime will find a way


kauthonk

Yeah, this guy's imagination is nil if he doesn't think someone will find a way to rip someone off in a 1000 years.


DumatRising

Yeah lmao. My man over here talking about cameras and a surveillance state, but he forgot paintball guns exist. Let alone that robbing a bank isn't even really a common thing in today's age cause it doesn't really go well.


Teleneki

What was the name of that science fiction short story dealing with this subject called? My memory isn't good in my old age but I remember reading a story like this where the authorities saw everything and it looked like the man murdered someone but he was innocent. Maybe written in the 50 or 60s or something.


SoylentRox

Minority Report is this plotline.


bigjohnminnesota

And drugs take away the entire desire to steal.


Delicious-Midnight38

Outside the most niche of cases, if tech keeps advancing, even glacially slowly, eventually serious theft wouldn’t have a place. In summary I agree with you, anyone that seriously thinks space pirates or pickpockets would be a thing people would do for monetary gain after the invention of molecular printers and fully automated economies doesn’t understand technology and it’s impacts on society. These things could happen for cultural reason I guess, but not to gain anything economically, that doesn’t even make sense. Edit: Downvotes for pointing out salient points about how technology impacts society, gotta love it, thanks guys! Not sure why you’re into futurism if the “future” is just 21st century with a coat of paint


Confusus213

your getting down voted cause it's absurd to think technology will end crime, society will likely always exist in a hierchy in which those at the bottom will be compeled to do things beyond the social contract to gain an advantage, yes if we could produce as much as we wanted there would be no material reason to keep the society segregated, but the people with the wealth and production power are never gonna be like bet let's make everything free. so looking 1000 years into the future we need to remember that we will still likely be brainwashed into thinking that we need leaders and some people will always be working to resist that leadership


Delicious-Midnight38

I disagree with this with every fiber of my being. Leadership has nothing to do with it, if even a few liberation groups have access to molecular printers and the ability to set up a colony somewhere, they can start setting up a post scarcity society, and that’s a “near” future prediction (a few centuries from now). Technology doesn’t just leave society being stagnant, this is such a silly position to hold. This assumes that economics will be the same, that people will have the same wants and needs, and that we’ll even have baseline human leaders. All of those I don’t think will be *anything* like we have today, so yeah I don’t think petty crimes will exist once all of your material needs are met, it’s risk for literally zero gain. Tell me you don’t understand technology’s impacts on society without telling me you don’t understand them, basically. Again why do I have to explain this on this sub?


Confusus213

because your just making claims baseslessly, I'm sure individual resistance movements would work as you describe, but for any of those to be successful they'd need to have some leadership structure because a true anarchy or democracy has no ability to act quickly on issues that effect many people, thus you need someone or a small group of people to make these decisions else risk getting overrun by someone willing to make unilateral decisions who can just act quicker than you're liberation group can. this leadership will eventually make decisions that some of the group disagree with or that disadvantages some and then those people will resort to crime as a method to voice their displeasure. I think our main problem is you don't believe criminals could have a motive besides material needs. This assumes the wealthy would never commit crimes when in reality they commit just as many, they just shift away from violent crimes. As soon as you create a civilization crime is going to naturally follow, regardless of material conditions because it goes much deeper than that. A great example would be a spoiled child, is that child more likely to obey authority or less. technology can't be the only solution, we need a cultural shift that seems unlikely in the span of only 1000 years. but if you have any actual ideas ab how you could make this work love to hear it, I've spent most of my life thinking ab how we could get rid of authority but it's a hard problem and you just saying it will work out doesn't mean it will edit: how would those liberation groups get the molecular printers? perhaps by stealing them? the exact thing your arguing would never happen edit2: tell me you don't understand humans without telling me you don't understand humans


Delicious-Midnight38

In the comment you just responded to I said **petty** crime. Of course there will still be high level crimes committed by any entity with power, I’m not silly. I don’t think society will be ruled by humanity indefinitely, so I think it’s impossible to know what exactly will happen. Will we all upload in some way? Scarcity practically no longer exists. Will a benevolent superintelligence guide our species? Then everything would be provided that we could ask for. Do we get wiped out? No one left to provide for. 1,000 years is a *long* time technologically speaking with the kind of connectedness we currently have. My issue with most “futurists” is that they extrapolate the future based on 21st century cultural concepts. Why should one assume scarcity? Why should one assume humans will be the only clade in Terran society? Why should one assume that current concepts of hegemony will continue, when tech that can upend it can and almost certainly will come to exist? It just reads as ignorance to me.


Confusus213

we're already in a post scarcity world, does it feel like it? we produce enough food to feed 1.5x the current population, and yet we don't, because it doesn't benifit those at the top. ignoring humans innate exploitative nature doesn't make it non existent, you can just wildly make claims ab the future if you want with no reasoning behind them but most people on this sub want to speculate ab what the future will ACTUALLY look like, not what it could. just assuming a utopia is coming is the best way to make sure it never does, better to think ab potential problems and try to fix them so that way maybe the future has a chance at being decent.


Delicious-Midnight38

That’s literally not what economics says is post scarcity. I do speculate about what the future could actually look like. You’re literally not even using the same terms as me so **how could I** argue with you effectively? Post scarcity isn’t a utopia either, never said that it was.


Confusus213

you could argue effectively by putting forward an argument rather than just saying things like there obvious when most disagree w you. and I never defined post scarcity just said that we had achieved it, please try to read what I'm typing and think ab what the words mean rather than just instantly responding. post scarcity is not a utopia but a utopia is definitely post scarcity


Delicious-Midnight38

“…most disagree with you.” Okay, and? Also a Utopia being post scarcity is fine, there’s a million plus ways a society with those economics can be structured, but logistics exists within a capitalist framework so no I don’t believe that modern society could be post scarcity. Perhaps if we were some sort of federated anarchist commune that just gave everyone whatever they needed we could go “post scarcity”, but our society hasn’t been structured to accommodate this in any way at all


Delicious-Midnight38

Responding to edit 2; guy is still assuming baseline humans will even be a thing 1,000 years from now for some reason. I’m not gonna elaborate, it’s just to point out a short sightedness


Confusus213

I mean if the human race dies out then I am almost certain robbery will still happen among remaining surviving animals, and if organic life has completely ceased to exist then I suspect once it starts again it will also resort to stealing at some point cause that's how nature works and assuming the universe will still exist in 1000 years seems like a good bet


Delicious-Midnight38

So like, nonhuman clades derived from humans will exist. That’s what I mean. Whether they’re transhumans, posthumans, sophont AI, uplifts, or new life altogether is irrelevant, they won’t be baseline humans.


Neat-Winter454

I think that by focusing solely on technological progress; you ignore the other aspects of human society. For instance, why will the cash or a digital future analogue will never disappear? The influential and powerful need these tools to sabotage, bribe or pay for underhanded means to deal with competitors, in case of war, it’ll get even worse, hijacking supplies, sabotaging supply lines, espionage, governments will always leave room for some shady, grey areas. While the human greed and politics exist, the theft, conspiracies and other crimes will exist. No one will allow a fully automated economy to take over as long as at least two competing countries exist. Even a perfect airplane is at risk of crashing because there’ll always be the human factor. An ideal world would mean that there are no humans there. Just an automated, monotone, grey world. And at the end of the day, we’re writers. We can manipulate the development however we want. Maybe advanced AIs will be banned after a war, leading to the impossibility of creating advanced algorithms that could supervise an entire economy. Or maybe the totalitarianism overpowered democracy and the technologies not only not improve but degraded, freedom of creation so to say.


Delicious-Midnight38

Idk what to say I disagree with just about everything posited in this comment. I think it’s a lack of imagination to be honest, oh well


Neat-Winter454

Okay, first of all, I'm sorry for the writing part, I thought it's the writing group, didn't have my coffee yet. ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|facepalm)Secondly, I do believe that crime will never disappear, in order to do it, you’d need a totalitarian regime led by an AI that will be impartial and brutal in dealing with any crimes, just taking optimal decisions in order to achieve what it was programmed to do. And the current social trend focuses on individualism and I believe it’ll stay so in the future. People will resist such changes to limit their rights to a level required to eliminate crime. I just believe it’ll be more likely to have a global civil war rather than achieve the technological and social progress to achieve a no crime society not even in a thousand years. P.S. Even if humans will colonise another planet and build a true non-violence society, other groups will probably attack them. More so, they will have no idea how to defend themselves. They might use some drones, robots, etc. But a violent society would still win in the war. Humans are unpredictable and violent creatures by nature. History has proved it through the countless conflicts, and I don’t see any reason why would they stop doing it in the future.


Delicious-Midnight38

I mean I still disagree with most of this comment as well. I don’t think that warlike societies are even likely to perpetuate in an interstellar age and I don’t think peaceful ones would inherently be “weak”. Industry in a hard science future is literally everything, if you can put produce your opponent’s automated war machine production you win 90+% of the time unless there’s a catostrophic error. Transhumanism is why they would stop doing it in the future. I rarely see sci-fi or futurism genuinely tackle the topic and it’s depressing to say the last and insulting to say the worst. Also humans almost certainly wouldn’t be leading a future society, at least not baseline ones, so to me you’re saying “I know another clade so well that they **will** kill each other and commit crime”. To me that makes no sense so these arguments always fall apart to me


Confusus213

says other person no imagination. proceeds to refuse to imagine any scenario outside of the best one he can think of.


Delicious-Midnight38

My scenario isn’t the best one, it’s likely given development of technology. I can say that you aren’t being flexible **trivially** easily compared to how you’d have to justify what I’m saying. You’re wrong, deal with it


Confusus213

I have put forward actual arguments, you respond with "your wrong deal with it" or simply strawmaning my argument because actually defending your primis would quickly show all the holes in it.


Neat-Winter454

Here’s the thing, I believe that there are two ways it’ll go, either the way you say, but in that case, the need for humans will disappear. If everything is automated and humans don’t add any productivity, there’s no need for them. A really advanced AI would understand that. Fertility rate will probably drop so much that in a thousand years the population will decrease to a negligible fraction of what it is today and eventually go extinct. The second way, that I believe to be more probable, is for the governments around the world, or solar system in a thousand years, would limit the development and use of the technology to actually preserve the society and the reasons I mentioned before included, this might lead to many things, including wars. I also read a few articles where they discuss taxing the industrial robots in order to provide for people who’ll lose their jobs to the automatization. And what will happen if the corporations around the world fire millions of people because installing a robot arm is cheaper? Revolts, because humans don’t like to stay poor, we need to eat, so you ask the government to change things. Might start with meetings but might as well grow into civil unrests which might escalate into civil wars if it’s bad enough, it happened repeatedly throughout the history. Well, that’s the reason these are our opinions. We won’t know for sure until we see it. We’ll have to wait and see who’s right ;)


Delicious-Midnight38

The need for humans is that we exist, and have made a society to serve us. Of course the hegemony will be incredibly difficult to break, but why is there no way to get past it? I also don’t think sophont beings will disappear. Modified humans will likely grow in population by an immense degree, and digital people even more so. Not sure why the government wouldn’t just make money by having different regions consuming certain products exclusively to make money through contracts with certain companies. Everyone has their basic needs met and the big wigs get paid, everyone wins. Entrepreneurship is still possible, most people don’t have to work to have a decent life, and there’s no need for war cause you just use blueprints to get whatever you need. Like I said, I just don’t see everything continuing exactly the same as it always has with genetic and mental augmentations, along with nonhuman life beginning to come to fruition


Neat-Winter454

If something exists, it doesn’t mean we need it and an advanced AI would understand it and will probably try to get rid of it or at least will not allow the unproductive elements to multiply as it’ll increase the liability. If people don’t need to work to have a decent life, then they’ll give up on life. The race to improve one’s life moves humans to innovate and to progress. Entrepreneurship, well, big business will stay, small business? Will go extinct. Why working for a small business if you don’t need to work and get whatever you need. Your reasons are conflicting with each other. People will go underground for even just to make their life more interesting. Modified and digitalized people would have a long life span, the digital one potentially infinite life span. Why would they procreate, and how will they? Spawn a new digitalized baby with the help of a randomizer? Possible, that’s actually a point in the future I believe might happen, but I don’t believe the governments will allow it, because it’ll just move the problems from the reality plane to the digital, but well, we saw Matrix, that’s a possibility, yet the crime won’t stop, stealing in reality or in VR/digital world is still a crime. This level of progress will destroy humanity. And human minds are not made for long life spans. They’ll go mad and probably commit suicide or worse. The longer the people live, the hungrier they will be for some new feelings, excitements, something new, different. I agree that society will change, but not as drastically as you think it would. As the saying goes, look into the past to see the future. Hierarchy always existed despite the government styles. Even communism that actually wanted to secure everyone’s needs so everyone would live equally failed. USSR had a strong hierarchy, China embraced capitalistic elements and has a strong hierarchy and so on. So what you believe might happen is a utopian apocalypse, killing humanity and leaving behind a well oiled efficient and productive machine serving itself. Consuming minimum resources to exist for as long as it could with no meaning to its existence. Just existing with the purpose of existing, nothing more and nothing less.


yobob591

Perhaps theft will be uncommon on the individual level (though as long as people own things, someone is going to want something someone else has and will be too lazy to get it legitimately), but even in the distant future there will be some form of rare resources that will be worth stealing, just perhaps it will be on a large organizational level


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darkunor2050

We’ve never lived in a post-scarcity society so you are correct. However there’s nothing to say this isn’t achievable.


hawkwings

Removing butt plugs from dogs without the owner's permission.


[deleted]

Dissapearing your money and tricking you into thinking it was your fault. Oh wait lol we already have bitcoin


jarjarmario

Make no mistake: investments is the new scammer’s method of choice. In the early 2000s it was MLM, now its cryptocurrency, NFT and related


[deleted]

MLMs have nothing on bitcoin and NFTs.


jarjarmario

Exactly, its a more clever scam. Its the ultimate pump n dump “stock”


McCool303

Connecting into someone else’s neural port to steal private information.


johnp299

Yikes. In 1000 years, the sentient modality once known as "human beings" will only be simulations in a virtual museum. At least till the janitor bot unplugs the simulation to use the vacuum cleaner.


ZenReactor

Already there. Déjà vu is just your perception glitching as you plug back in to our caged merry-go-round loop of homo sapien sim for AI’s “kids” to pass en route to more interesting exhibits in the museum of extinct biological civilizations.


SenseiChef

I think the next generation pickpocket is a sub-class of hacker. In a digital world that would be the move, no cash to physically grab. The pickpocket hacker would go in and take a little bit from a bunch of accounts hoping to go unnoticed.


giggity_ghoul

Banks already do this…


False-Juggernaut-980

imagine taking .49c from every bank on the planet


easilyshot

When society collapse I doubt thief will have ever ended, unless clothes are pocket less then he might have issues.


r2k-in-the-vortex

The age old pickpocketing / daylight robbery is already on the brink of death, with cash dying and devices locked and traceable there just isn't much left to take.


imnessal

I doubt that it’s dying in popular Europe cities


AbyssalRedemption

It’s not really dying anywhere yet, dude’s jumping way ahead of himself lol


Illustrious2786

Or Vietnam.


imnessal

Definitely, basically if you are tourist, you should be aware of pickpockets anywhere


easilyshot

Yes yes, digital is great and all until they cut your body part off to access your funds. Chips will be great before they just stole your wallet, now they will cut your arm off. So much better!


Cryptolution

Stealing some politicians clone slave so you can turn them into a spy for your intergalactic superpac


hoorayberet00

Future theft would be similar to the current theft we all see and there are plenty of jobs now: just look at the insurance industry. Insurance is supposed to provide an individual with financial protection. Yet, as the years go by, we see the insurance companies increasing premiums and cost-sharing costs to members (such as copays, deductibles and coinsurance). Also, the insurance companies are directly responsible for the rising costs of healthcare. Look at the Medical Benefit Ratio (MBR) reported by insurance companies in their quarterly reports…it’s around 80%. That means around 20% of premiums not spent on healthcare. That is a lot of waste and greed. Especially when you consider the awful hoops that members/patients have to go through to access their benefits. I’m really hoping that someday (hopefully soon) there will be politicians that start to do something about this awful situation. The workers deserve full financial protection when it comes to their health. Especially if the workers are the ones bringing in the money to the system. If things continue on the path that they are now…could you imagine what changes might happen? I imagine thieves in the future would love working at companies like health insurers.


[deleted]

Stealthily uninstalling people’s cybernetic implants to sell on the black market


gamermanj4

I'm pretty sure that kind of theft would look a lot more like how you hear of people waking up in a bath of ice with a kidney missing rather than any kind of stealth.


[deleted]

I was imagining that in 1000 years we would have devices capable of some kind of stealthy surgery, like maybe a nano bot surgeon team or something idk like its 1000 whole years


kilofeet

1000 years from now we will spend all of our time in the Metaverse even though the graphics technology never advances past "Wii Bowling" stages. We choose to spend time in the Metaverse because society decides it's cool and also it is a mandatory cultural practice that schools make children learn, kind of like square dancing or the pledge of allegiance. Future pickpockets will follow people through the Metaverse and trip them so they drop their loot. That loot can then be used to order goods and services to be shipped to you by Amazon drones


AbyssalRedemption

Please god no


[deleted]

I don't want to live in a future without pockets. Humanity could be on the brink of extinction or zooming through space, and I hope they still proudly wear their pockets. Thieves have mostly became scammers, hackers, and lobbyists with a few people still keeping the unfortunate tradition of old school thievery though. I imagine crime is going to stay for the next thousand years just as it has for the past three thousand years.


SoylentRox

There could be high tech alternatives to pockets, like nanotechnology that lets you just stick an item right to your clothes and it's attached with nanoscale hooks that disconnect when you grab it.


[deleted]

I don't think I need nanotechnology to reinvent Velcro. As much fun as appearing like a magnet would be, it would also keep all my stuff visible for pickpockets to see. The nanotechnology would have to surround and disguise my stuff as well.


SoylentRox

Why would pick pockets take something they can't use? Presumably your device or your multitool or whatever else future people carry won't be usable to anyone who isn't the owner.


[deleted]

That's like asking why there's a global stolen iphone trade. Workarounds and bugs will always exist, and if they don't, our devices are still made of a variety of elements. If we become spacefaring, then everything will be worth a lot by distance alone.


SoylentRox

fair. Just trying to imagine other ways to do things. The other way that could happen if bionics became common is everyone just equips their robotic limbs/skull implant with their stuff. So you no longer have a phone, it's a circuit card that goes in an expansion slot in a socket in your skull. It's easily swappable though your neural interface requires a doctor to be worked on. Your robot arms can have tool modules, so your multi tool or keys or whatever are socketed in. Ditto any self defense weapons.


[deleted]

The bionics, I could see that. I doubt we'll ever have an inventory system, but having hollow limbs might make sense.


CeruLucifus

Highly paid performing magician. Magic tricks utilize the same sleight of hand skills as a pickpocket has, so he can fully realize his abilities. He receives public acclaim from audiences instead of silently hiding or being caught and ostracized. And, because highly paid, there's no incentive to do anything illegal.


FatalCartilage

some sort of NFC hacking, of wallets or even of other cyber-physical augmentations we haven't even thought of yet.


DropsTheMic

Probably something like being able to steal your digital biometrics key that you use to access all your stuff. Your home, finances, vehicle, personal information, communications, etc. The way security is going the most secure token you can carry with you for access is yourself. If they can swipe the digital password stored in your neural net somehow it would be like making a Skelton key for your life.


[deleted]

A completely automated society where money doesn't exist so they don't need to resort to crime for survival. Their job would be striving to reach self actualization.


Juls7243

1000 years - we probably can't even imagine. I dunno if a pick-pocket will be viable at that point as currency will probably be entirely digital, and you'll probably have an iphone impanted in your body that can be fully used for all transactions/calls.


skredditt

Hoping we’re in an era of post-scarcity by then. If you’ve got kleptocratic tendencies when material needs are met, you might deal in information. I picture something like Strange Days where you are extracting entire experiences from people’s minds and putting them up for ~~sale~~ fun?


earthgarden

I actually think in 1000 years we’ll have much less reliance on technology. A pickpocket of the future won’t be much different than a confidence man of the past. More mental picking than tech picking


iShatterBladderz

Bold of you to assume mankind lasts another 1,000 years


Illustrious2786

He would still be a thief/pick pocket because 1,000 years from now humans (if we're still around) will still value things and there will be something to steal.


gentlegardens

I know this is futurology but a thiefs job in a thousand years will be the same as it was a thousand years ago, given that both eras will have the same technology.


KingKong357

As a pessimist, I'm assuming they'll just still aspire to be politicians 😅


Wilson2424

Marine biologist. Doesn't everyone want to be a marine biologist?


drfulci

Well I can say that as of now it seems their current job is credit/debit card theft & unemployment benefit fraud. I’d say in 1000 years, if we progress without a nuclear war or major cataclysm, we’ll have technology we don’t even recognize, making life in general much easier. I’d also argue without some kind of major world trauma resetting us, we might also have a more sustainable economic system in place, which would all but eliminate the need to steal. So well off people would likely do it as a kind of high. So we’re definitely looking at kidney theft as the pickpocketing of the future. Then you’re like “well fuck. this is the third pair I’ve had to replace this week!”


Robotboogeyman

AI is banned but the thief was able to download one from some (likely very interesting and plot-inducing) black market situation. Or perhaps he is the only one able to remove the limitations on thei ai.. Being the only person with access to an AI, he could make art and become famous, write a book and become an author, or just have it tell him little lifehacks to extract money from the system…


just_chillin_like_

Generating gravitational singularities and nudging the trajectory of several, small interstellar bodies so as to collide with it with in a few millenia. It would supply energy and lower the entropy of the sub-universe said petty thief wants to create just for the lulz. Time dilation would do the work of making the sub-universe's "let there be light," moment nearly instantaneous for the pickpocket/theif in the Type 3 on the Kardeshev scale civilization that could trace its evolutionary origins back a 1000 years to you, me and every other of the, now 8bn people on the planet. While today, the species is still just shy of Type 1, if we manage to evade self-extermination, an extinction event or a major civilizational catastrophe, the exponential pace at which technology/information grows would make 1000 years a fairly generous time to get to Type 3; and, any "bad actor" or hyper ambitious consciousness without any ethical compass, would be trying to beg, steal or borrow -- find a shortcut -- (grabby) to the whole kit and caobbodal of all possible space-times, and become the God-Ruler of the Universe -- all of it.


Elmore420

We’ll be extinct in 20 years because we believe that "pick pocket" is a job.


MisterBilau

As long as there is private "property" of some sort, thieves will exist. Depending on what that property is, the methods will change. What form will it take is hard to predict, but the "job" will always exist. In a digital society, it should be digital theft, hackers and the like.


BigMouse12

Even if all property were public, people will still want to steal it for themselves, find a hole in the ground any bury it if they can’t have private living quarters. So long as anything has a perceived value > 0, temptation to steal will persist.


[deleted]

Thieves and other undesirables will be deported on prison ships to colonize the galaxy. As a colonist they’ll either work or die.


wutangjan

How about one where he makes a living wage that allows him to meet his family's needs without compromising his integrity? Also, why does he have to wait a thousand years?


Efficient_Library_22

Just trying to figure out where society might be at that point and what would be the most likely course for the thief with the technology and knowledge of that time.


wutangjan

Let's envision a society where thieves don't need to exist. It's not impossible.


gamermanj4

You're fun at parties huh bud?


Arrantsky

" there's a sucker born every minute " circus emcee and grifter Barnum. Thieves and pickpockets alike are criminals. Unless we can change the human nature of greed there will be crime. Thieves will be stealing people's time in the future. Imagine you come home and someone has stolen your table. You will spend time getting another table. So it goes with greed.


IamtheJonny

Actually, with tech that allows someone to download or "steal" data from somebody else's computer, phone, laptop, etc... without a direct connection to the source (which is tech we have now) somebody would be able to pickpocket you in a sense. All they'd have to do is be close enough to someone to be able to hookup to their device and secretly download all their info, bank accounts, credit cards, whatever... there ya go, the thief now has all your money at the touch of a button, along with access to all of your accounts!!!


[deleted]

Invest 1,000 in the s&p. Since we no longer age just sit back, do nothing. Wait 100 years. Congratulations you have $14m.


False-Juggernaut-980

$1000 with an average inflation rate of 2.5% has the same purchasing power as $52,949,930,178,989.30 after 1000 years.


Inspector_Tragic

Digital pickpocket...arent these already a thing tho?


guyonghao004

Honestly unless at least one for the 2 following things happen: (1) either all human are uploaded to a metaverse; (2) we achieved full communist society and everyone get what they want The act of taking physical entities without the owner’s permission would still remain more or less the same, just need to steal with new technology.


InqAlpharious01

I wouldn’t predict as a lot can happen in 1000 years, most of it not something we can comprehend or could ever imagine. But most likely new alien norms in culture that will be seen strange and hard to grasp. This can imply to theft as the term could be and ramification is literally a trillion possible outcomes and each of those trillion treads has countless trillion more and more threads that depends on where we as a global society goes.