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Originally Posted by freebeard
You'll be fine, I am sure. But the world will have changed around you from what came before.
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I wouldn't mind if we started bowing to each other rather than shaking hands. I've often thought a perfect society would be a mixture between Japan's value of family and groups, and the US value for the individual. Somehow recognizing that the individual is the smallest minority group, yet not being narcissistic about it.
I'm sure we'll trade freedom for the illusion of safety though, we always do. Terrorists are still terrorizing us two decades later every time we get patted down at the airport, scanned by a machine that shows you naked, and walk around with no shoes or belts on. Of course, I lost the feeling of shame long ago, but I still don't like paying for all that, or wasting the time.
Maybe we'll trade sporting events for VR. This could be the beginning of the shift away from going out and experiencing things, to staying in and experiencing things. Then there'd be a corresponding drop in population growth since people would trade physical interaction with virtual. That would take global warming off the table of our pre-occupation. Instead we'll protest that the 1% own 80% of virtual reality, and that they should pay their fair share of mana and gems.
Telecommuting should have caught on long ago, and online colleges should already be top notch.
Stores should increase the price of toilet paper to $40.
Anyhow, I'm still not interested enough to turn on the news. Wake me up when we've lost more people than the seasonal flu.