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[–] 77 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Same as it does now, just with slightly less effective money.

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  • [–] 70 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

    Not much different. Foldable phones will be widespread, American cars will be bigger, shaving machines will have more blades, natural disasters will be more common. We will go through one or two more cycles of drought/forest fires and heavy rains/floodings. We will see one or two mass migrations from India, Pakistan and Africa resulting in first climate refuge camps on the borders of EU.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    shaving machines will have more blades

    I wish they'd just work out how many blades is the optimum number of blades, and then put that number of blades on. Why are we doing this iterative design approach.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    It's one. I'd been annoyed with razor burn, nicks & cuts, spots, etc. I switched to a simple double sided safety razor and I'm really enjoying it. As far as I'm concerned all this 8 blade turbo fusion slice and dice is all marketing.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    So you are telling me there still won't be flying cars in 10 years? smh

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    [–] 69 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    2033 will finally be the year of linux desktop

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    [–] 56 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

    My guess: Electric vehicles everywhere, protests, more linux users, and portless phones will be the norm

    Edit: Oh yeah privacy is dead or at least much more harder to obtain

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  • [–] 54 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    1984 is wayyy too exaggerated. We don't need to force people to have a "telescreen" if everyone just voluntarily spend their own resources to obtain them. (Eg: Smart Home Assistants) We don't need to have a "ministry of truth" when people voluntarily believe in lies spread on news and social media. (Eg: Various Facebook groups, "QAnon", Fox News)

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    [–] 54 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The futuristic world of 2033 will be very different from our current primitive one. Humans will be seven foot tall with thumbs as long as fingers. Mars will have been fully terraformed, whilst there'll be hundreds of vast floating cities on Venus. A Dyson swarm will encircle the solar system just beyond Neptune's orbit. Humanity will communicate telepathically as one with AI. We still won't understand cats.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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    [–] 40 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    We will likely have hit 1.5 + degrees of warming in 10 years time so our society may look quite different. It's likely that our supply chains will be disrupted by this and become more localised as rising temperatures / intensifying weather events impact our capacity to grow / distribute as much food as we do now. There may potentially be Pacific Nations that no longer exist due to sea level rise. We will likely also see the beginning of a significant climate refugee crisis that nations in the global north will struggle to respond to.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago

    I grilled dinner tonight out on our deck wearing a painters mask because the smoke from the wildfires around here is so thick it looks like it's pissing rain outside. Only when I caught myself in the mirror with my plate, mask and tongs did I start to think, this seems a little odd.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I watched a documentary about this recently. The franchise wars should be coming up soon that allows all restaurants to become Taco Bell.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    The weather will probably be a lot worse

    And maybe PlayStation 6

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    The developed world will run out of charity.

    We’ve spent the last 300 years essentially looting resources and labor from poorer parts of the world. And when they finally decide that enough is enough, that they want a piece of the pie, they won’t be able to get it.

    Climate refugees will be killed at closely guarded border crossings. Fishing boats will be torpedoed. Encampments will be burned.

    In β€œrich” countries, the poor will be gradually cut off. Their labor value will decrease even further, and there won’t be anything left for them. In some places, public housing and healthcare will allow them to limp on, until many are killed by the next pandemic.

    The wealthy will enjoy what they have, their lives barely interrupted. The world will not look very different to them.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    More climate refugees, more crop failures due to worsening climate change, more deaths due to climate change

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    We're definitely going to see jobs affected by ChatGPT and the like. It's an open question of "Can LLMs do things as well as humans?" across the board, but when have you seen a company turn down a deal like "slightly shittier, but costs pennies on the dollar and doesn't have any pesky 'rights'"?

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    In the west and culturally, a post-boomer period will have begun. And I think there’ll be continued evaluation of what mistakes that era made especially as climate change looms as an increasingly damaging debt. In a similar vein, the relationship with capitalism and big corps is, I think, going to get messy and more polarised, in part because the mistakes we’ve made will be hard to disentangle for many.

    Overall, I suspect that for many paying attention, the downfall of the west will seem more and more plausible and closer and that will create a contentious atmosphere.

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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Ten years is really a pretty small jump. It's not like things are wildly different today than in 2013.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    looks around, gestures vaguely

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Climate change is worse, US politics more polarized, phones are bigger, computers are faster, etc. But if someone went to sleep in 2013 and woke up in 2023, it might take them a little bit to notice the changes.

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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    With all the dystopian content I've been consuming lately I'd say we're heading to an age of

    Mass surveilance
    Regionalistic Economies in place of globalism
    Widening wealth disparity
    Intensified distrust of our governments

    That is if the tensions in Asia Pacific don't turn into an all out conflict ( Live in PH )

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Let me be a bit more optimistic:

    Mass surveillance

    I think we're already there, and despite the fact you can see laws signed that would point to more surveillance, you can't ban encryption effectively. It's kinda hard to ban maths, much harder than weed or booze, and see how they went. Point is, these laws IMO drive awareness of the issue, and everyone can just encrypt their stuff easily, and enforcement of a ban on that is near impossible.

    Regionalistic Economies in place of globalism

    That's the geopolitical dream of some countries ... but I don't see the current world order in trade buckling. That said, let's say that the current world order changes by the USD losing the world's biggest reserve currency status, what then? Will some countries simply not trade with others because of that? Maybe some pecking orders will rearrange themselves, but no one is interested in destroying the system, people just want their country to dictate instead of the US.

    Widening wealth disparity

    I don't think it can widen much more, as the pendulum swings both ways. See how socio-economic woes destabilized the US. We either fix the billionaire problem in a legal orderly fashion, or it resolves itself in an uglier way. It can't get much worse than this without social order breaking down, and then it's all moot. The rich can move to their New Zealand bunkers or the Moon to escape the mob, it's not that much different from them dying or going to prison as far as the rest of the world is concerned.

    Intensified distrust of our governments

    Have we ever trusted them? And to be honest, should we trust them? I mean I think governments are less untrustworthy than corporations, but still, they have power, and thus should be scrutinized. And besides, the loonies who always vote for the biggest idiot already don't trust the government. If this growing distrust results in more participation in politics from decent people who just want to live their lives, that's a good thing.

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Hopefully not a live action Cyberpunk 2077

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Depends whether we choose solarpunk or dystopia.

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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    0.4C warmer globally

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