Greetings good citizen! Can't very well call this a Futurist Blog if we don't at least speculate somewhat on what the future might hold, eh? Somehow I'm pretty sure most of you aren't sitting there waiting for the next version of the I-Phone to be released...and asking you to tell me defeats the purpose of this blog. It's up to me to tantilize your mind with some fantastic predictions for the future, so let's get started:
1.) In the future nobody will work.
That one is sort of a cheat because we don't provide a definition for work nor do we provide a milestone for achieving this goal.
As you might imagine, for certain segments of society, the act of thinking about what needs doing is considered 'work' so the only way to acheive a 'nobody works environment' is through an extinction level event...which may or may not occur in the next fifty years.
Let's use the fifty year 'benchmark' to keep our predictions more, er, 'grounded'.
2) Fifty years from now we'll all be 'related' to one another.
Um, this prediction is even darker than it appears on the surface. For a debacle like this to come to pass it means the current chiselers in charge will have succeeded in wiping the rest of us out, leaving only their relatives alive.
Like flying cars, it is unlikely a cabal of madmen would succeed in wiping EVERYBODY but their own kin out so this isn't a very 'practical' prediction...(but neither were flying cars.)
3.) You will vote directly on the proposed laws (and not for politicians.)
Sounds reasonable, doesn't it ? Naturally, it won't happen until AFTER the revolution so it's not particularly practical...but it could happen and a lot sooner than our fifty year timeline. Voting directly on the laws is an old idea that the criminals in charge hate.
What if we decided...next prediction!
4.) All money will be digital AND it will be impossible to transfer funds between individuals [your money is for YOU!]
All CRIME is 'cash & carry'! Remove the 'benefit' and remove the crime. People won't steal because there won't be anybody to sell the goods to.
Here we have two great ideas in one, crime prevention AND increased security. Some jokers will steal for the lark but, well, the next prediction explains why 'sane' people won't...even on a bet.
5.) There will be NO prisons in the future.
Again, this is actually scarier than it sounds. Our brave new society will no longer incarcerate or execute those unwilling/unable to live by the rules. We will instead revert to the ancient practice of 'banishment/exile'. Naturally, specific areas will be set aside for this purpose...and they won't be particularly 'hospitable'. If you aren't an extreme survivalist the odds are very good [to excellent] that exile will equal a death sentence. Which is to point out the obvious, exile will be reserved for extreme cases (get bagged with stolen goods more than once and you're begging to be exiled!) but nobody is getting sent to the 'badlands' for J-walking or speeding or spitting on the sidewalk...(minor infractions.)
6.) Everyone will have a job.
Even the laziest among us needs SOMETHING to break up the endless tedium of doing NOTHING. More importantly, our 'work' defines us. It is how we participate in society it is also how we 'excel!' So for mental health alone those deemed capable of putting in a shift will be assigned work and earn an income. If you can't work, you will be supported by society and provided other creative releases to make your life as meaningful as possible.
This is a bold prediction because the current [crime-ridden] capitalist system CAN'T provide full employment. The difference is since our future civilization will NOT be 'profit-driven' we will be able to perform all of the tasks that went undone due to deficit spending/insufficient tax-base. [Sound like a pipe dream? Remember, Mother Nature doesn't have a cash register, ALL resources are FREE. So is labor.] Are capitalist starting to look like criminals? {they should be...)
Think about it, no more unemployment, no more welfare and no more homelessness [because housing will become a 'gimme' too.] Not only will you be assigned a house but you won't have to paint it or mow the lawn because someone else gets paid to do that for you!
Really went screaming off the reservation there, didn't I...but every one of the above items are 'doable' if we cast off the yoke of those who claim to own what rightfully belongs to all of us.
Worse, they defend this criminality by claiming (and it's NEVER been tested) that the rest of us 'lack the ambition' to do what we do every day for freaking peanuts. Does that make sense to you? We're already doing it...but they think we wouldn't if they didn't have their foot up our backside.
Sort of beyond cheeky, isn't it?
What do you suppose we should do with people like that?
Humble them would be my suggestion.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
1.) In the future nobody will work.
That one is sort of a cheat because we don't provide a definition for work nor do we provide a milestone for achieving this goal.
As you might imagine, for certain segments of society, the act of thinking about what needs doing is considered 'work' so the only way to acheive a 'nobody works environment' is through an extinction level event...which may or may not occur in the next fifty years.
Let's use the fifty year 'benchmark' to keep our predictions more, er, 'grounded'.
2) Fifty years from now we'll all be 'related' to one another.
Um, this prediction is even darker than it appears on the surface. For a debacle like this to come to pass it means the current chiselers in charge will have succeeded in wiping the rest of us out, leaving only their relatives alive.
Like flying cars, it is unlikely a cabal of madmen would succeed in wiping EVERYBODY but their own kin out so this isn't a very 'practical' prediction...(but neither were flying cars.)
3.) You will vote directly on the proposed laws (and not for politicians.)
Sounds reasonable, doesn't it ? Naturally, it won't happen until AFTER the revolution so it's not particularly practical...but it could happen and a lot sooner than our fifty year timeline. Voting directly on the laws is an old idea that the criminals in charge hate.
What if we decided...next prediction!
4.) All money will be digital AND it will be impossible to transfer funds between individuals [your money is for YOU!]
All CRIME is 'cash & carry'! Remove the 'benefit' and remove the crime. People won't steal because there won't be anybody to sell the goods to.
Here we have two great ideas in one, crime prevention AND increased security. Some jokers will steal for the lark but, well, the next prediction explains why 'sane' people won't...even on a bet.
5.) There will be NO prisons in the future.
Again, this is actually scarier than it sounds. Our brave new society will no longer incarcerate or execute those unwilling/unable to live by the rules. We will instead revert to the ancient practice of 'banishment/exile'. Naturally, specific areas will be set aside for this purpose...and they won't be particularly 'hospitable'. If you aren't an extreme survivalist the odds are very good [to excellent] that exile will equal a death sentence. Which is to point out the obvious, exile will be reserved for extreme cases (get bagged with stolen goods more than once and you're begging to be exiled!) but nobody is getting sent to the 'badlands' for J-walking or speeding or spitting on the sidewalk...(minor infractions.)
6.) Everyone will have a job.
Even the laziest among us needs SOMETHING to break up the endless tedium of doing NOTHING. More importantly, our 'work' defines us. It is how we participate in society it is also how we 'excel!' So for mental health alone those deemed capable of putting in a shift will be assigned work and earn an income. If you can't work, you will be supported by society and provided other creative releases to make your life as meaningful as possible.
This is a bold prediction because the current [crime-ridden] capitalist system CAN'T provide full employment. The difference is since our future civilization will NOT be 'profit-driven' we will be able to perform all of the tasks that went undone due to deficit spending/insufficient tax-base. [Sound like a pipe dream? Remember, Mother Nature doesn't have a cash register, ALL resources are FREE. So is labor.] Are capitalist starting to look like criminals? {they should be...)
Think about it, no more unemployment, no more welfare and no more homelessness [because housing will become a 'gimme' too.] Not only will you be assigned a house but you won't have to paint it or mow the lawn because someone else gets paid to do that for you!
Really went screaming off the reservation there, didn't I...but every one of the above items are 'doable' if we cast off the yoke of those who claim to own what rightfully belongs to all of us.
Worse, they defend this criminality by claiming (and it's NEVER been tested) that the rest of us 'lack the ambition' to do what we do every day for freaking peanuts. Does that make sense to you? We're already doing it...but they think we wouldn't if they didn't have their foot up our backside.
Sort of beyond cheeky, isn't it?
What do you suppose we should do with people like that?
Humble them would be my suggestion.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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