MegaGatts posted:

The oligarchy cements they rule over the earth. There is no world shaking event or uprising. Just a slow unceasing slide into into obscurity for anyone with a net worth under 100 million dollars. Armed conflicts breakout sporadically over the world to enrich the arms makers. Millions die. No one will care. The technology will exist to provide a post scarcity society. It will be hoarded and scarcity will be introduced artificially. Millions will die of starvation as food is burned. Millions will die of disease as vaccines spoil.

The primary industry of the non wealthy will be debasing yourself for money. Youtube channels will spring up where poor people let the rich pee in their mouths. Poor people will become angry if another poor person gets slightly more money for having their mouth peed in. A group of fans of one pee mouth will make parody youtubes of a rival pee mouth. The rich will laugh as the price of peeing in a mans mouth falls to an all time low.

Your Dead Gay Son posted:

Unification of science

Zen Punk posted:

*writes 3,000 words in a 2-page thread of one-liners*





"I'm an optimist! You 'dumbass dystopians' are just jerking yourselves off!"

Neurosis posted:

there'll be some suffering and overpopulation but also a lot of really cool stuff will happen and being in the developed world will be pretty rad

Beef Turret posted:

Overpopulation is a popular myth, birthrates are rapidly falling in every country in the world. What will actually happen by the 22nd century is the collapse the Holocene climatic regime precipitating a period of massive climatic shift that will result in an ice age leading to the 6th known period of mass extinction, the destruction of the industrial and agricultural infrastructure in the northern latitudes, and a subsequent power shift to the southern hemisphere. New York and Paris will be turned into popsicles. Yes, this will literally happen. In the long run it'll be better than now (I think) as civilization begins to humble itself, but the immediate future will be anything but rad.

monkey posted:

2024: Climate change begins to spiral out of control, no longer deniable as a real and imminent extinction threat.
2034: A strain of giant, fast growing mushroom engineered to sequester carbon from the atmosphere.
2044: Natural mutations of the mushrooms appear, growing out of sea water and a high altitude variant growing atop the existing decaying mushroom canopy.
2054: Mushroom canopy encapsulates the upper atmosphere completely, hiding the sun and pressurising the atmosphere.
2064: The battle against regrowth rages in the sunlight mines. Mushroom trunks are hard as steel, and many souls are lost to rapid decompression when breaching the upper layer.
2074: First sighting of airborne giant squid, now free to venture into the dark, pressurised air.
2084: Giant squids learn to extend their time out of water by breathing oxygen rich mammal blood.
2094: Extinction of mammals.

monkey posted:

2024: Climate change begins to spiral out of control, no longer deniable as a real and imminent extinction threat.
2034: A strain of giant, fast growing mushroom engineered to sequester carbon from the atmosphere.
2044: Natural mutations of the mushrooms appear, growing out of sea water and a high altitude variant growing atop the existing decaying mushroom canopy.
2054: Mushroom canopy encapsulates the upper atmosphere completely, hiding the sun and pressurising the atmosphere.
2064: The battle against regrowth rages in the sunlight mines. Mushroom trunks are hard as steel, and many souls are lost to rapid decompression when breaching the upper layer.
2074: First sighting of airborne giant squid, now free to venture into the dark, pressurised air.
2084: Giant squids learn to extend their time out of water by breathing oxygen rich mammal blood.
2094: Extinction of mammals.

Beef Turret posted:

birthrates are rapidly falling in every country in the world

nomadologique posted:

Feranon posted:

are you aware that even if you're 100% correct you still sound like a humongous butthole?

skeletonotherkin posted:

Whats with this new ice age crap anyway? While I realize we're in an interglacial period, is there any weight to such predictions scientifically, because it seems most of the people espousing such views are either oil company shills or people who want to contradict dem lieberals.

nomadologique posted:

all of this aside: you are absolutely naive if you think the hunger to pillage will be defeated by current material crises. this pillaging instinct, the squandering instinct, the profligate and spendthrift instinct, which eats just to eat and kills just to kill and destroys just to destroy and builds just to build, from a feeling of nothing but power in itself as existing and acting, will not be quelled by obstacles. many will suffer and die. but the forms of plunder will adapt, as they always have.

Feranon posted:

are you aware that even if you're 100% correct you still sound like a humongous butthole?

nomadologique posted:

sure. it's a bit frustrating i guess because i'm just saying what i think, and specifically i was responding to a few different prompts in relatively good faith, especially to beef turret because he's obviously got well-considered positions. but yes i realize this makes me sound like a butthole when i do it. a price to be paid, i suppose, but ultimately i benefit because i have the chance to think through things in long form, which is a helpful process.

Ivor Biggun posted:

Is time not linear where you are?