I miss all of the posts about transhumanism, the future of politics/law, medical science, etc on the old forum. I'm interested in writing some posts on these topics, and happy to do research, but a bit low on ideas at the moment. Anyone have prompts or posts they've been thinking of writing to share? Happy to collaborate or edit as well.
I want to get my thoughts on the future of totalitarianism/collectivism in order, given new or improved technologies and social technologies and other tendencies that are currently coming. I suppose I could phrase the question as "will humanity as a whole adopt new forms of social organization, and will they be abhorrent to me?". Some trends that I suspect could become worse:
People being increasingly online, divorced from their physical surroundings, anonymized and atomized and drowned in useless information.
The dilution and possible disappearance of western nations and their complete replacement by cosmopolitan societies-of-convenience.
The further domestication of man through urbanization, infantilization, safetyism, the elimination of the private sphere, micromanagement of the economy, complete surveillance and tracking.
Declining standards of living in the west due to economic inefficiencies, state mismanagement and plain old decadence, and how people will adjust or be adjusted to them.
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I miss all of the posts about transhumanism, the future of politics/law, medical science, etc on the old forum. I'm interested in writing some posts on these topics, and happy to do research, but a bit low on ideas at the moment. Anyone have prompts or posts they've been thinking of writing to share? Happy to collaborate or edit as well.
I want to get my thoughts on the future of totalitarianism/collectivism in order, given new or improved technologies and social technologies and other tendencies that are currently coming. I suppose I could phrase the question as "will humanity as a whole adopt new forms of social organization, and will they be abhorrent to me?". Some trends that I suspect could become worse:
People being increasingly online, divorced from their physical surroundings, anonymized and atomized and drowned in useless information.
The dilution and possible disappearance of western nations and their complete replacement by cosmopolitan societies-of-convenience.
The further domestication of man through urbanization, infantilization, safetyism, the elimination of the private sphere, micromanagement of the economy, complete surveillance and tracking.
Declining standards of living in the west due to economic inefficiencies, state mismanagement and plain old decadence, and how people will adjust or be adjusted to them.
What does the future hold in store?
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