Asklemmy

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.

Socialism or barbarism

Mad max, probably

That seems like an AWFULLY BIG assumption right now.

Underground tribes living off of the mushrooms we can cultivate. Waging war on other tribes for ressources.

Basically 'Metro 2033', but less cool.

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.

/s

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.

That's a big assumption but if not there may be a few of us that have adapted to the harsh air and live in holes in the Arctic and Antarctic poles where they can find land to protect from the super windstorms and acid rain. But I'm not sure what the food source will be. Maybe that shit they eat in the matix movies. Because you can't grow anything due to the acid rain and contaminated soil from the above mentioned acid rain.

Well, if it's not a post-apocolyptic hellscape I'm going to assume that someone figured something out.

Higher global temperature and more drastic weather. Better medicine and medical equipment but with higher costs. Decreasing global population, but more homeless people due to ai software and physical bots. The continually profitting billionaires will control more of the media to influence those below them, ie to have them fight among themselves rather than them. Probably more in "goverments" for more control. Continuing wars just different countries for profit.

This won't be that big of a difference within that timespan, but the trend will continue as more time passes.

I try to be an optimist, but unless the underclass revolts, it's hard to see otherwise.

There will be a lunar spacestation, according to NASA, which I'll be looking forward to seeing, at least.

In the background of what looks like a Panglossian techno-optimist novel, horrible things are happening. Most of humanity is wiped out, then arbitrarily resurrected in mutilated form by the Vile Offspring. Capitalism eats everything then the logic of competition pushes it so far that merely human entities can no longer compete; we're a fat, slow-moving, tasty resource – like the dodo. Our narrative perspective, Aineko, is not a talking cat: it's a vastly superintelligent AI, coolly calculating, that has worked out that human beings are more easily manipulated if they think they're dealing with a furry toy. The cat body is a sock puppet wielded by an abusive monster.

The planets of the Solar System are dismantled over time to form a Matrioshka brain, a vast solar-powered computational device inhabited by minds inconceivably more advanced and complex than naturally evolved intelligences such as human beings. This proves to be a normal stage in the life-cycle of an inhabited solar system; the galaxies are revealed to be filled with such Matrioshka brains. Intelligent consciousnesses outside of Matrioshka brains may communicate via wormhole networks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando

Empty acidic oceans and smaller mammals. Larger insects and more carnivorous plants. No human life.

Bleak

hopefully less religious and more logic driven

A lot more water

See you say no apocalyptic event, but we've done almost nothing to slow climate change, and that will destroy humanity in less than a century much better than we can directly do ourselves. The event has already started, and we're ignoring it.

Everyone will travel in tubes

Battlestar Galactica. Cyclons will rule and humanity will be forced to run.

People land on mars like the moon and not much else

Everyone will become gay and artificial baby's will produce. We will just work and no feelings. Ai and robot will be there also credit system

I hope no human life

Take a guess at the predicted world population

!> The world population is projected to reach 8.5 billion in 2030, and to increase further to 9.7 billion in 2050 and 10.4 billion by 2100.!<

~ via https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/population