Can you imagine the world in 2125?
www.22ndcenturyhub.com
The future happens, whether you imagine it or not. But imagination help us shape it. Timescaping is the practice of imagining aspects of society 100 years into the future, a horizon far enough to transcend current trends, yet close enough to feel like an extension of today. By stretching our imagination beyond current trends, we train ourselves to think flexibly in a world that’s changing faster than ever.

Hi everyone, I am developing a project to help people engage in constructive conversations about certain aspects of society 100 years in the future. I woud be very grateful if you could let me know which one of the 8 prompt on this website (https://www.22ndcenturyhub.com/) I have develop you find more interesting (you can also engage in a conversation with the AI, as I built in a GPT API). That would help me in further developing more prompts, I have about 60 at the moment. Thanks a lot in advance!

  • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 days ago

    You should read more about what people think the future might have in reserve. Your “prompts”(what do you actually nean by that?) are very juvenile IMO.

    Extreme lingevity, Superintelligence, Merginal cost society are three that might cone to fruition for example.

    • ChrononautOPEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

      Thanks for the comment. Which book or other sources do you recommend? So far I have read Life 3.0, The Coming Wave, Superintellingence, The Singulariy is nearer. And about prompts I refer to the ones I have elaborated further on this website I made https://www.22ndcenturyhub.com/. Extreme longevity it’s what I meant with Amortality, superintellingence is probably the defyining theme of the next era but I find it a difficult topic to let people engage with intellectually, since our cognitive abilities are literally too underdeveloped to be able to discuss about it in a way that really leads somewhere (love the paradox of it and also I agree this is a very bad reason to not engage in the conversation, a conversation we must continuously have).

      • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        12 days ago

        Well this makes you sound like an incel:

        Female leadership Women lead in 2124. What skills should kids learn for this empathetic new world

        “Females” aren’t empatic and “males” intelligent or some bs.

        That said, I would recommend you read Snowcrash. Still a probable future IMO.

        Also, the 100 years is really way too far away, you won’t get “Amortals” and “Mortals” living like in something similar to our society, that’s just stupid (IMO). If you want to figure out how life can be in 100 years, you need to figure out how it’s going to be in 10 years first! Can you do that? Or else you’re just messing around, which is fine too.

        So geopolitics and macro economy is what I’d recommend. And traveling.

        BTW you forgot Atomically Precise Manufacturing or APM (simplistic star trek replicators basically), potentially on schedule for 2035…

        • ChrononautOPEnglish
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          11 days ago

          Fair enough about the incel comment. The idea is more about letting people “mess around”m as I don’t believe in anybody having much ability to predict the future more than couple of months ahead. But I see the value of letting people engage in this kind of conversation, and people I have been doing this so far found it a very interesting way to discover more about their opionions and values, the one of others and also about what the future might bring, and this sometimes help shift perspective on the present. Thanks for the book recommendation and for the Atomically Precise Manufacturing, also explored nicely in Life 3.0 btw.