For the sake of the question, let’s just assume that no apocalyptic event happens that wipes out the human race.
ITT: People who can’t put aside doomerism for even a moment to try and engage with a basic hypothetical.
(Putting my response to the “prompt” in a separate comment)
Probably well on our way to full Socialization of the world economy. It will be messy getting there though, with the fall of the US Empire.
We’ll be a few decades into the new dark ages and a few centuries away from restoring any kind of democracy anywhere on earth. For reasons beyond my understanding, the vast majority of people will be perfectly happy with whatever happens so it’s not worth worrying about.
We are currently on track to reach +4.5°C average heat increase above pre-industrials levels in 2100. Which means famines all over the World, only 30% of current agricultural Land left for Farming, and wild fires being a common occurence up to the 50th latitude. And Not being able to Go outside in Summer for Most of the World, because our availability to sweat will be hindered by high humidity levels, leaving most people of the Population left for a high Chance to Heat strokes.
All of that assuming our current scientific Models are not lacking behind the reality, as with the recent sharp increase over +1,5°C in 2023-2024, we can not yet completely explain yet. So it could be worse than that, the chances of it being better are almost Zero.
For the sake of the question, let’s just assume that no apocalyptic event happens that wipes out the human race.
Come on man. Did you not understand the assignment?
Maybe… when Biology booms similarly to LLM models like GPT… then we would see a bug fixed in the plants, which absorb CO2 pretty slowly with a protein building block and thus create an extreme amount of that protein instead of fixing the protein. Which means, if we fix the Protein and modify all plants to create and use it instead through DNA manipulation, then we could have a brighter future than we are now imagining (maybe only a bit less dystopical is what I mean)
Socialism or barbarism
Mad max, probably
I think Cyberpunk is more likely. Huge buildings, no plants, no animals, everything controlled by big corps and law is basically non-existent except if rich folk are affected
That seems like an AWFULLY BIG assumption right now.
OP didn’t specify “human” life…
They do now
No, they only stipulated that human life hadn’t been eradicated (yet) - the question itself didn’t mention humans.
Ah, I see what you mean
Underground tribes living off of the mushrooms we can cultivate. Waging war on other tribes for ressources.
Basically ‘Metro 2033’, but less cool.
less cool
Literally
The woke kabal of global elites will abolish traditional biological gender norms. Every character in every piece of media will rewritten be trans. Hamlet? Trans. Jesus Christ? Trans. John McClain? Trans. The global government will keep the population meek with estrogen-laced tofu and anti-gun legislation. Nobody will read Plato; the only philosphers will be Judith Butler and Jaque Derrida. White people and white culture will have ceased to exist. America will be a Communist Islamic Transocracy where conservatives are hunted down by drones that capture them and force them to read Critical Race Theory.
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TRANS JESUS TRANS JESUS
Either our civilization collapses or we actually get past capitalism and start becoming a space faring civilization.
I think we are going to completely abstract from traditional ethics, entertainment, and communication, aside from a few niche communities akin to a 21st century Amish.
I think there will be some major advancement in energy production. Fusion energy is “perpetually 20 years away,” as the joke goes, but 75 years is a lot of 20 years so I’d wager it will be implemented. With that comes the freedom to utilize a lot more energy which will more than likely be needed if everything goes “AI driven XYZ”
The hurtle we really need to get over at that point is greed. When energy and artificial intelligence reduce the barriers to production, less people are needed to work, but with our current mindset around ownership and proper compensation we’d live in a society that would allow millions to be homeless and destitute.
Unfortunately I see a future of two worlds, wonderous advancement in technological capabilities and extreme poverty growing ever larger. :/
Either post or mid mass migration. Big old swaths of the earth are gonna be tougher to inhabit in the coming decades. We’ll probably pave the way with famines and genocides. I’m sure the wealth gap will only grow. Most of us will be vegetarian.
Massive wars will break out over climate refugees invading the least affected areas. Billions will die and those left will be trying desperately to rebuild society. Nuclear contamination will be a real problem after nukes are used by middle East countries completely out of fresh water that Western countries are hoarding. Corporations will be outlawed after Nestle attempted to create a water monopoly and massive revolt saw their board murdered in public by a mob. Humanity will be 1/10th the population of today.
The way we begin 2025, both the Fallout and Judge Dredd universes come to mind.
