How the Internet Will Completely Change the World

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[@nobodyofimprotance7615]

Hot take: just talk to people. You'll be better off for it. If they reject you there will always be more people. Everyone I've randomly approached on the streets of New York has caused an experience I'm at least a little better of for having.

[@johnathonthomas9446]

Can vouch, im still in school and being social with randoms makes me love school, im seen as a little crazy for some of the things i say, but im stronger for it, and i can talk to pretty much anyone at school and have a good conversation

[@fakename8476]

I know this will sound dumb but how do you even do that? I wouldn't know what to say...

[@piglin469]

@@johnathonthomas9446 ah I see a sense of community

[@nobodyofimprotance7615]

@@fakename8476 Compliment their clothes.

[@johnathonthomas9446]

@@fakename8476 the other guy said compliment their clothes, but thats silly, making friends is like a snowball effect, for me, if you feel comfy around someone, it makes you more comfortable talking to randoms if ur around them, because if it doesnt work out u can just talk to the person you already know, and this snowballs until you never feel uncomfy talking to someone random because you can fall back on someone you already know As for what to say? Depends on the social situation. I never purposefully say something at will, it has to be an opportunity to say something, also I'm quite mean but in an endearing way, which idk how to describe the way i act so, just go with the flow, if youre not meant to socialize, then you arent meant

[@ktoth29]

I'm an elder millennial, and the emotion I struggle with most is not loneliness but nostalgia, I can't help but reminiscence and yearn for the good old days because I can remember the analog world of the 80's and 90's and the past seems so much more real to me than the present, which has just been a blur of isolation and social upheaval since the 00's. I really struggle to live in the here and now.

[@lordrichardson4447]

im 30 and I feel the similar. I think civilization peaked somewhere in 2000-2005. I think its down hill from here. Humanity seems to eventually always come out better on the other side, after the downturn though

[@StuffandThings_]

@@lordrichardson4447 I mean there's a reason that the early 2000's zoomers and the late 2000's zoomers are so radically different despite a few years difference. A *lot* changed in the 2010's.

[@ktoth29]

Its hard for me to separate how much of that is just a normal part of growing up; childhood friendships and being with the same group at school ever day versus adult acquaintances and interchangeable coworkers who you never really know. It is a coincidence that 9/11 was a week before I started college so that was a definite inflection point.

[@RavemastaJ]

Pagers marked the end of an era, truly. You know the turning points of history by their absence in the future.

[@jetorixjones]

Mid 30s, I definitely know how you feel.

[@Roggor]

I remember the old saying that "If everyone could suddenly hear everyone else's innermost thoughts, no-one would survive the resulting massacre." The Internet is that in real life.

[@sovietunion7643]

in fact its worse. everyone can hear everyone elses thoughts but since its all anonymous, theres no retribution. you can say the most batshit crazy shit ever and no one will give you retribute. if anything with more and more radical peoples they will reinforce the crazy ideals.

[@focusfolks]

Good one

[@talmoskowitz5221]

That's why it pays to be your own worst enemy and get there first.

[@YadraVoat]

That was also a lesson from the Gilligan's Island on telepathy.

[@Jay_hendy]

The internet is the biggest asset the human race has been given. It’s absolutely incredible a country boy like me can share a room with geniuses, artists, athletes, anyone. Without the internet you are limited to your village, truly. Like so many gen z, college was completely out of the question for me. The internet has literally allowed me to educate myself, and where it has failed it has shown me where I can go to get an answer. We haven’t even begun to see the benefits of the easy access to knowledge the internet has given us. For the first time ever everyone in the world can spend a whole lifetime learning anything and everything they want. EVERYONE. No longer does social class play a role. That is so huge. And to think we are just getting started with it blows my mind and makes me so excited!

[@heinoustentacles5719]

Try checking out Heyuri.

[@devvv4616]

the great equalizer

[@notallowedtobehonest2539]

Yet, bp latimos and wahmn are still just as dumb as 8-12 year olds who have never read a single thing. You still need to be intelligent to get any benefits from the internet. Bp latimos and wahmn just post incriminating photos or use it to make childern they wont love or care for.

[@princeali417]

@@devvv4616 i wouldn't say so since money does still play a role on how much time you can dedicate to learning or take a risk and follow your passion the rich can afford to take risks like that while the poor can't this isn't the great equalizer it's more of a balance batch to the game.

[@nickh5081]

The internet is fantastic for knowledge - but how do you know you're learning what's right or true? Wikipedia can be edited by anyone and is full of errors and biased opinions (obviously Wiki isn't the best place to learn anything - but it's the main source on the web for free information and a perfect example of a flawed system). News/current events? It's nearly impossible to find an unbiased version - and that's without even discussing politics. Most humans THINK they have an open mind and are natural leaders and can think for themselves, but most are easily swayed and immediately begin to ignore facts and arguments that don't fit with their pre-conceived ideas that someone else has implanted in them. Extreme leftist culture is the latest cult and look at the how many millions have flocked to it and now scream and riot in its name. This video mentioned how Disney has allowed itself to become a mouthpiece for this movement. It's not because they "believe" in it (Disney is ultimately a corporation that believes in nothing but profit), it's because the wokists have used the internet to scream the loudest and cancel culture to damage the most so that corporate America actually thinks they are the majority. Time will balance out the market as woke goes broke and corporate America - and likely the DMC - realize what a relatively small cult the extremists actually are.

[@CryptoKang]

Unbotton your suit when you sit down please brah

[@hamzamohamed2010]

Lmao 😂

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

Huh

[@gendalfgray7889]

Based

[@googleplushatesme2230]

dude idk why but every time I see this guy he looks raggedy. Why is the camera angle looking up so bad... Besides that I like his stuff

[@calj6148]

The modern suit jacket shape was originally designed to be worn open at all times anyway in order to show the waistcoat vest, we don't wear that anymore to display the long necktie which replaced the bowtie and cravat(also because that is more uncomfortable). Long overcoats and greatcoats were made to be buttoned closed entirely. They were made of thick material like wool or furs/leather and worn over all other layers to protect from the rain and cold.

[@Simsim59250]

« My top 3 fears are: being eaten by a crocodile, marrying a horrible wife or being killed by a totalitarian state » Hahaha I love your channel

[@wolfheartdarnell324]

Makes sense why he doesn't want to move to Florida

[@astranix0198]

The last two is more likely to happen than the first one.

[@taylorc2542]

I'd put his odds at: 0.0001%, 60%, and 40%

[@mohandasjung]

@@taylorc2542 you are being generous, those are not bad odds!

[@kieranmooney5804]

I can assure everyone here that all 3 of those things could be happening to me at the same time and I wouldn't bat an eyelid.

[@maxkronader5225]

One point about interpersonal relationships and the internet is that the internet breeds intolerance on a personal level. Before the internet you learned how to be civil and to deal with people who had an annoying personality trait, or a political opinion you opposed, or a religious view you disagreed with. Sometimes even your closest friends had one or two characteristics/opinions that you thought were total BS, but you learned to avoid discussing those areas because the positive aspects of their personality made the friendship a net win for you despite some occassional annoyances. You had to learn that level of tolerance or become a hermit. With the internet, you have the entire world to pick and choose from, so you can be as rigidly dogmatic and intolerant as you want, yet still find an online community to "socialize" with. The problem is that having online pals in Nairobi, and Sao Paulo, and London doesn't give you, living in Denver, the psychological benefit of actually having friends in Denver that you go outside and do things with.

[@samhazzard3810]

You speak as someone to whom truth is multifaceted and self serving. In the years before the internet there was institutional accountability. Today the anonymous nature of everything leads us to talk about "tolerance." We're not tolerant by nature. We're monkeys in trees fighting over oranges until the Big Monkey smacks us around. Consider absolute Truth. The Truth Defends Itself.

[@narwhaltacos2197]

This.

[@julius43461]

Great point. I would love to discuss all the pros and cons of the internet with someone like you.

[@kaiwatson18]

I don't think the internet is entirely to blame for that. Many societies have become like this and think this is normal and how you should act. possibly due to the internet, but the internet doesn't change how you socialise in real life. I for example am extremely anti-social when online but know the ins and outs of how to behave when in a social situation.

[@maxkronader5225]

@@kaiwatson18 I believe that knowing proper social conduct, but ignoring those standards of decency while online, is what's commonly known as being a "troll".

[@SochWrld]

As a Nigerian, there seems to be a new trend in Africa since the pandemic where there are the old-fashioned state parties battling to hold power against new more-progressive thinking "Social media favourites" who the general educated populous have tended to move towards to. This has been successful in countries like Zambia and Kenya so far and there's a big chance it turns out successful in Nigeria (and we hope for this too). I think success in Nigeria will usher in a new style of selecting leaders across the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa.

[@buddermonger2000]

Now that is quite interesting. Though frankly back here in the US is happening as well. Hell it's how Donald Trump got elected. And much of our current cadre of new representatives.

[@Zeyede_Siyum]

In Ethiopia the govt is afraid of the internet specially social media (mainly FB and YT) because Abiyot Ahmed came to power using massive protests organized on FB. Now people are using to protest against him because he is very incompetent and genocidal.

[@ayinstrumentals7731]

I hope and pray so Nigeria could be a much more wealthy state if the leaders would stop giving into wealthy corporations.

[@Vlasov45]

I think a big chunk of the different between US and African politics is the age structure. Nigeria for example has a massive base of young people who can be mobilized through social media. In the US the people who vote still watch TV.

[@floridaman4073]

I’m an American born and raised in America but live in Africa for 20+ years now and couldn’t agree more on your statement. Africans are waking up and it is great to see this happening.

[@fluttzkrieg4392]

By now we have almost 2 generations of humans that simply don't know how the world was without the internet. Removing the internet for them would be like removing electricity. And to be honest, that goes for most people born even before the 2000s. Can't say whether this is a good or bad thing, all I can say is that there's no way things will ever go back to how they were before the internet. Even in case of an apocalyptic-level disaster, people will find a way to have internet.

[@tjmartin8516]

I was born in 2006 but I grew up with kind of a hybrid childhood my parents were split up so I spent most of my time at a church daycare and it was a relatively poor church so they really weren’t able to afford any modern technology so the only thing we had was a Nintendo 64 which I played all the time with my friends I would spend most of my time outside most movies I watched until like 2014 were on VHS I didn’t get my first electronic device until I was nine I and honestly thought the whole social justice thing was a joke until I was 14 and I realized people actually took it seriously

[@Cneq]

You have to consider that not everyone in the last two generations had the internet or access to a computer depending on their social economic status. I was born in the US in 1999 and I didn't use a computer until I was 9 and likewise didn't use the internet until I was 10 [2009] purely due to very odd childhood. Sure I did have a PS2, gameboy and the xbox but all offline and never a PC or the internet so I basically grew up the same way any other millennial would spending time outside with friends in an equally very low income area. The current generation post-2008 and whatever generations come next certainly have grown up mostly with the internet and it's certainly a massive unknown on how this will turn out.

[@fluttzkrieg4392]

​@@Cneq That was my childhood as well (born in 97). Except I didn't get out of the house on my own much because it was dangerous (I'm Brazilian). So the only time I saw my friends was at school or when we went to each other's houses. I was already playing online games by 2008 but that was it really. We of course didn't have the poison that is Twitter, Tiktok, etc that kids today engage with. But it's noticeable how our generation, particularly boys like us, already engaged with the real world considerably less than previous generations, spending most of our time with our video games and whatnot. Girls of our generation didn't like video games for the most part so they engaged in more screen-less activities. Today that has changed though. We're all in front of our screen at all times.

[@Ushio01]

A generation is 30 years we haven't had the internet on a large scale for even one full generation yet.

[@cara-seyun]

I envision a local or regional internet

[@tianming4964]

As someone raised in a non-religious apolitical environment, the internet has basically shaped my entire theological and political views. I had no friends who were Christian or political yet became devoutly Christian and formulated my own political ideas solely through the Internet. Since then I started going to church, but found that most of what I learned about Christianity and most of my theological views still came from my own research on the Internet and not from what my pastor or any Christians I know told me

[@the11382]

I can certainly say for myself that the internet had a bigger effect on me than my parents ever did, for good and for ill.

[@starmaker75]

Yeah when I was being conform(Catholic) my religious teachers were surprised that I did more alot of stuff.

[@dogetaxes8893]

Based and good for you. As a Gen Z'er i've had the atypical experience of relgion. I grew up a athiest because my parents were more sceptical athiest who viewed relgion as a tool or just as something stupid people believe in. However as i've aged (still realtively young tho), learnt more about history/reglion and started to realise the limitations of science (STEM major). I've come more to respect relgions and have gone from atheist to agnostic.

[@Andromedon777]

Same. I visited Got Questions as an 8-9th grader and found Christ actually is God and formed my theology and love for God to the point i feel well equipped no matter which church I go to or which Christian I speak to because we're all one page

[@conserva-chan2735]

I definitely relate being raised non religious before becoming religious as a teen, as opposed to the opposite for most people

[@JoeCole_social]

The loneliness epidemic is depressing to watch. One of the highlights of my weekend is my meet-up with my local Bible study group (this doesn’t have to be a religious group btw). My group has been together for 7 ish years and the relationships are deep. The learning is awesome but the community feeling is just amazing. I could not have made it through the birth of my children or the stress of the pandemic without the support of my close friends. I hope this news can spread to those who say they are lonely. Join a physical club of some sort where you have to be present. It’s worth it.

[@studentofsmith]

I meet up with a group of people once a week to play go (a game similar to chess). After a while you get to know them, discuss topics of interest, share inside jokes... they become your friends.

[@nickolasbrown3342]

For us it's dnd! never intended for it to become the social-health vehicle of my life.

[@JoeCole_social]

@@nickolasbrown3342 I could totally see that. I am researching dnd for my boy when he gets a little older.

[@silverhawkscape2677]

Bible Study group not religious what?

[@JoeCole_social]

@@silverhawkscape2677 sorry for the confusion. My example was referencing something religious. But that is not the point. The act of getting a small group of people together to grow deeper in a particular topic is a great bonding experience. That is the point I wanted to stress.

[@fruffy3220]

All of my friends, from the most social to the least, struggle most with people. Loneliness really is everywhere. Every single person I know younger than 30 is dealing with it right now or is dealing with recovering from it. It’s the elephant in every room. I have no idea on how to confront it on a societal scale.

[@sovietunion7643]

i've just gone doing genuine interaction. like yeah i could talk to my friend on discord more but i way prefer just getting in person and talking at the college. talk about whatever junk. its not behind a screen, neither of us are judgy of each other and are open minded and we can just talk about philosphy or poltics or whatever forever. its genuine, its real, we go get like lunch or something downtown. its really important just to see people in person sometimes.

[@BusyB07]

How true.. I deleted dating apps & only talk to chicks in person. Way better

[@focusfolks]

That's just the thing, you DON'T confront it on a societal scale as an individual. You 'confront' it on an individual scale by communicating. We're all bad starting off, we get better the more we do it. It's a process of gradual improvement, forever. No-one will ever be perfect at communication, it can't be done, just better over time

[@sergiowinter5383]

1. Criminalization of being antisocial 2. Determination of official social spaces with active socialization 24/7 3. Everyone must make a new friend over the week or pay a failed to make a new friend bill Some ways to confront it on a societal scale

[@juanmccoy3066]

Younger than 30? I just turned 30 and I'm dealing with it. 30 year Olds were born in 92. We grew up with SouthPark, the internet, online gaming. We aren't that much older than u bro..... ,

[@arcticcircle9815]

"My phobias are being eaten by a crocodile, marrying a horrible wife or being killed by a totalitarian state." Me too brother, but throw in car accidents as well.

[@spoonerreligionandpolitics]

I have some bad news for you...

[@WispFigment]

It's actually kinda amazing to me that if the vast majority of people just randomly decide to stop using phones (and ect.) Society would immediately change in a year

[@monkeyman321]

I don't see that happening in the foreseeable future. Everything depends on all of us using our phones.

[@Scout887]

@@monkeyman321 It could happen unvoluntarily when rare earth metals getting very "rare". Or a carrington event destroying all electric devices and the electric grid. Or nuclear WW3, the internet itself is not fragile, but the power/electric grid is and we all know how much and constant electricity the server infrastructure needs to run, these things run 24/7 to make internet happen and the server rooms also need constant cooling to prevent overheating which additionally uses up a LOT of electricity. I wonder what will happen with the energy crisis in europe, it might lead to discussions about the power-hungryness of servers and how to restrict it.

[@buddermonger2000]

You have a lot of things that'd happen if society just collectively said no lol

[@WispFigment]

@@buddermonger2000 I'm not saying it's going to happen it was more of a "if"

[@buddermonger2000]

@@WispFigment Yeah I was referring more to a lot of things that'd end. Universities would go broke, the government would basically just be unable to do anything, etc

[@attemptedunkindness3632]

It's eerie having grown up alongside the internet from it's infancy to it's present state. The before times hit different. You memorized more names, shows, songs, addresses. Your friends mattered, because they were difficult to replace. Your opinion was valued, because when would be the next time someone else could hear it? Simple eerie how quick we were to dehumanize a very human thing.

[@theblondesiouxsiesioux]

I did a report on this exact same topic while I was in college for my English class back in 2012. I wanted to do a report on something I saw covered very very little at the time, so I did it on the effects of tech. like cellphones, social media, and the internet on the developing world. Many of the articles I found were from the developing world itself, and they pointed out a lot of things you've said here; like tech being designed to be addictive, populations feeling less social and more withdrawn from the people they were close to, and social aswell as political changes in the populations studied. Everyone in my class including the teacher hated it, and said the pricinpals were unfounded, and essentially bullshit, because these technologies are only beneficial apparently. Funny, academic circles have trends just like all societies, go figure.

[@E4439Qv5]

The message was a harder sell a decade ago. Facebook hadn't nuked itself yet.

[@theblondesiouxsiesioux]

@@E4439Qv5 LOLZ. Pretty much.

[@buddermonger2000]

That's actually hilarious

[@sovietunion7643]

bruh i had a sociology class and the teacher went ranting on the first day going on from from critical race theory to "we all live in a fascist society because corps run everything" to marx was right to for some reason masks don't work and the lock downs were bad (???) so uhh, yeah. modern colleges are something else. and remember this was at a community college not even the high end schools, so most teachers at my school are OK but this one was... something else

[@theblondesiouxsiesioux]

Srsly. As someone who was lucky enough to get into a "lottery" elementary school (obvious American is obvious). I can tell you that I was given more difficult, as well as lengthier assignments in 4th grade than I was assigned in my 5th semester of public college. So yeah. What's that say?

[@Cneq]

Finally someone talking about this. As someone who has a major hobby of history and as someone who self-studied CS/IS/IT for quite a few years and then finally started a Bachelor of IT [CS/IS] and now nearly finished and most likely going to continue onto a master of computer science or data science there is far too little emphasis placed on the internet and how absolutely insane and potentially disastrous it will be in the future. It's been barely two decades of having the internet truly seeping into the national and now global consciousness and we've already seen innumerable issues from mental health issues, complete societal shifts, human rights and privacy concerns, extreme centralization concerns [especially when it comes to computing infrastructure with most sites being hosted on AWS/Azure] and the list goes on. If all this has happened in a mere two decades what in the hell will happen in the next century? What can be said is that it will be drastic and things have already been set in motion that we cannot yet perceive the consequences of and while some people may compare this to the "printing press of our generation" in my opinion that is a crude underestimation of how potentially dangerous a true globally connected world with instantaneously communication can be. There are no historical precedents to base this off, we've never seen a reality where anyone [a big emphasis on anyone, the masses having this ability is the key to this situation being abnormal] no matter where they are can instantaneously communicate. If we were simply dealing with businesses or governments with this ability [much like the telegraph] that would be fine but EVERYONE has it now and this generation is literally growing up glued to it and this will only increase for the next generation, it is abnormal and honestly incredibly disturbing of what this may result in.

[@brentlolacher3000]

Periods can be a good friend.

[@royisdabest]

put your seat belt on buddy

[@vviimmi]

Maybe you should reconsider the possibility of only government and business to manipulate the internet, it's 5/55 morgan

[@Admiral_Jezza]

It's gonna be a wild ride

[@CLEFT3000]

@@vviimmi ?

[@willcifur]

You have one of those rare brains brotha. You can articulate the infinite shrapnel and artifacts from this feral leviathan known as modern living. You have to spend a lot of time in the dustbin of history. I don’t know if is a curse or a reason to keep going to be an articulator like yourself but I’m very glad you have chosen creation. These videos are some of my favorite content. Thanks for all the hard work

[@Cneq]

If you can't accept the world for what it is then yeah definitely a curse lmao but if you are able to accept it then the ability to break everything down to their very core elements will make it far easier to accept since most of the time the causality of why things are they way they are is almost too comical to even get mad about it lol

[@willcifur]

I mean, I would always bite the apple in every scenario. There is a certain obscene notion that I could eventually cross a threshold of knowing that would at least bring me back to how I came in. With my curiosity fully restored and a return to unvarnished freedom. I still want to know how I lost the ability to play with my toys from one day to the next. Some people manage to keep a piece of that beautiful unvarnished curiosity and story telling from the kiddo days.

[@sovietunion7643]

i still think he can be wrong, i definitely don't agree with him on everything and i think he uses the past a little TOO much to base him predictions on (especially with how unprecedented the internet has risen i don't think anyone can predict what the fuck will even happen) but i do agree he is still very articulate and willing to use logic

[@tuckerbugeater]

@@Cneq deep

[@charlessalvia7176]

Before the Internet was ubiquitous, television served as the means for captivating the attention of entire nations around common events. I remember the OJ Simpson trial seeming like even a much bigger deal at the time than the Amber Heard trial did today. The major difference is that today, there is so much "feedback", commentary and interaction with these larger events via countless amateur videos, social media, etc., whereas in the 90s it was basically just the major news networks and television shows talking about the events. But I also recall back then it was much more common to talk "in real life" with friends, acquaintances, or even strangers about these sort of major events, like the OJ Simpson trial. Whereas, today, to me the Amber Heard trial feels like something that is strictly "an online thing"... it feels separate from the world of my parents, relatives or friends, for example.

[@jds1275]

I get ya. I don't think anyone alive who was old enough to remember will ever forget that video of the police chasing OJ in his bronco down the freeway. It just has more impact when there isn't a fresh news emergency or scandal popping up every few days with the media trying to get more engagement.

[@notallowedtobehonest2539]

Youre just obfuscating how bp are always violent and crazy whenever something happens they dont like. Why choose the amber heard trial? Thats a terrible analogy. How about george floyd? The internet amplified it. Instead of it just being a tv show you talk about.... ppl formed terroris organizations. Youre an idiot.

[@notallowedtobehonest2539]

Go to, legitimately, any bwack communitu at night and walk around. Youll get hurt or klled. These are the only communities in the entire country where this is true.

[@notallowedtobehonest2539]

But sure, lazy faht ppl have more variety of useless garbage to watch while they sit at home and type ubiquitous comments on social media, trying to sound smart.... all the while ignoring all of the terror caused by bp's everyday normal behavior

[@Room78774]

@@notallowedtobehonest2539 how/why would that apply at all to what op said?

[@hairblairbunch]

The late 2000s was a quantum leap. Availability of information went from being limited to being unlimited, and the unintended consequences of this has been enormous.

[@trueblueclue]

I do Uber Eats and you already see a few people who sell food out of their own homes that are registered as a restaurant. Other people have repurposed warehouses and industrial zones to into kitchens. There are also digital restaurants where people license out a brand and sell various fast food brands out of one location. Then there are a network of food trucks that operate out of abandoned areas or even parks. All this is facilitated by delivery services like Uber Eats.

[@rkraiem100]

You sir imo are one of the most underrated intelectuals of our era. You put so much thought and research into these videos its honestly incredible.

[@kotzpenner]

Regarding the point about being called a weirdo for doing the first step in talking to people even if the other side secretly wishes for it too: I think it has more to do with a culture of superiority. Nearly everything has this as an underlying structure. Traditional media, social media, interpersonal relationships etc are currently mostly build on somebody being superior or at least feeling superior to their peers. In social media endless masses of people are told they’re special and good and beautiful and so on, this created a bizarre situation where most people want to feel superior to everyone else since it’s already their mindset. By making the first step in starting the conversation, you’re making yourself an easy target for the other person to enhance their social status through ridiculing you. At least that’s my thoughts. I’m happy I have friends that don’t want to outdo each other and many people have similar experiences, however this culture of superiority is in my ne opinion one of the worst outgrowths of the digital age.

[@PurpleLightsaberAlex]

Sounds like excessive competitiveness.

[@kotzpenner]

@@PurpleLightsaberAlex welcome to the world

[@sovietunion7643]

i lack literally any ability to give a shit about social stuff (probably on the spectrum or something lol) and i've noticed that people are afraid to look bad. they are scared of their bosses or peers seeing them negatively in any way at all, even when they are doing something completely mundane. i recently knocked on my mom's office door (i had been there many time before) and apparently they were in a zoom meeting. yet still my mom's boss let me in and i waited. somehow my mom freaked out i made her look bad despite literally just knocking on the door and coming in. there is a huge paranoia (partially because of the internet but i think also because of how human nature always want to look good in a tribal society) and really its killing people. mix this in with no one knowing their neighbors due to urban society causing distrust due to so many strangers in close quarters, and the isolation that the internet allows, it just makes it worse

[@kotzpenner]

@@sovietunion7643 yes. Humans are not designed to be in such big groups. Over 200 or so cause us stress because that’s the limit of relationships.

[@PurpleLightsaberAlex]

@@kotzpenner Thank you. I look forward to learning more about Earth societies.

[@WoddCar]

Even though the internet has taken over many aspects of life, we saw how it couldn’t be completely all encompassing with covid and how people saw how zoom didn’t replace actual physical interaction

[@gasmaskboi6904]

The internet will be the printing press of our time.

[@honeycomblord9384]

I'd say it already is.

[@50Blox]

more like the fire of our time

[@starmaker75]

More like the apple from Genesis or pandora box with good thing in as well.

[@inasnetino5882]

boring

[@harrymason4300]

The Internet is a tool for oppression and manipulation. It has made the Earth less safe and less free.

[@adrianatgaming8640]

A new Whatifalthist vid... out of nowhere! Fantastic.

[@BartzAJohnsonJr]

Entropy at it’s finest!

[@idlecom]

For eveyones information: This vidoes sponsor established titles is a scam company. They can't legally make you a lord and also cant really sell you any land, as the plots they offer are too small for a owner to be registered. There is plenty of information about this on youtube & elsewhere on the internet. Please everyone, if you think about buying, do some research about it and DO NOT give them your money.

[@gotmike]

I don’t understand why these videos are so good yet so bad at the same time! I’m here for it through the wise, the idiotic, the brilliant and the typo filled word diarrhea that flashes across the screen. So entertaining!

[@hentai6582]

That’s why it’s so good. It’s entertaining

[@ckhpersonal670]

SAME!

[@jamesrocket5616]

I always pause the video every time it shows up

[@randommonkey4900]

shows its genuine lmao

[@Conejoazul2018]

Yeah it says a lot of predictions that may be true just because just because they are a little bit more optimistic, like his prediction about ruralization ,urbanization and gig economies but once you hold yourself to think about all it says, it falls flat in a lot of areas....

[@JonahNelson7]

I can't tell if it makes him more or less credible that his editing is so shoddy

[@lithunoisan]

It’s painful.

[@Acecard-jl2py]

Probably rushing out videos

[@dahntaedeluna]

It better to focus on his overall messages and points

[@STG44musikmeister]

I prefer it. The glossy, well edited, with sexy intros and such are so over done and passe at this point. I want real og youtube back with knowledgable people focusing on core content rather than fluffy eye candy like the rest of you tubers these days.

[@ohjahohfrick9837]

I just wish he didn't put in text that is only tangentially related to what he is talking about so I don't have to pause and read that shit every 30 seconds.

[@Kolateak_]

16:05 That was one of the most jarring cutoffs I've seen in these videos yet

[@siamihari8717]

20 minuets in: Not only are college and university outdated in model, but the standard school system of the USA needs total revision. And in my opinion a loss of the prussian system and rather a sytem that not only educated but applies reinforcement of individuality rather then breaking it down

[@ZoggyWoggyII]

Would be interesting to see your take on the significance of the birth control pill. As I feel it deserves a top spot up there with the internet and industrial revolution as a specie altering phenomena.

[@buddermonger2000]

Jordan Peterson outlined those two along with the atom bomb as fundamental changes to society

[@sergiowinter5383]

Something from the female universe that can be somehow worse than feminism, quite the achievement

[@leandrog2785]

I can understand thinking this about contraception in general, but why the pill specifically?? This puzzles me.

[@moocake24]

If my memory serves me correctly, I believe the anecdote about Tim Pool’s views being higher than CNN, MANBC, etc were in relation to their online streaming platforms (their KZbin channels, the now-defunct CNN+, etc). But with the rapid decay of those former powerhouses of mainstream media that we’re now seeing, independent and dedicated journalists such as Tim Pool’s company will very soon overcome the traditional TV numbers.

[@felipe21994]

Some videos have more views that actual watchers on some days/periods of time. For example iirc CNN has lost +70% of their audience or something like that (it was at least half). There's not a really popular figure that adopt all the generations and audience yet but for example some streamers now get more live views that actual sport events the record is +3 million simultaneous viewers and that's more that some channels have on a daily basis, but that doesn't even count later views and retransmissions or short clips that are shared faster that cov!d in a crowded place

[@fightforaglobalfirstamendm5617]

No, Tim gets more views everyday and on the average video than CNN do on TV.

[@Lusa_Iceheart]

Tim talks about how he does get more viewership that CNN in the Key Demo (18-35 or something like that) but not overall. So while CNN still has higher overall, it's mainly boomers in retirement homes that can't physically change the channel on the TV. For active, working adults, independent journalists like Tim Pool completely crush CNN. Podcasts are also a bit harder to measure since there's so many sources to view from and people don't just sit down and watch, the listen while driving, cooking, ect. The Neilson survey type companies still haven't really found a good way to measure them like they did for traditional TV. I actually did that for like a year like 10 years ago, they sent out a little box you wear and it recorded the channel and time of the TV you were facing. So if I was sitting watching 'House' or 'Bones' for an hour, it recorded that. Had this little base thing that it plugged into to send the data back. The program paid pretty well too. Suffice to say, no such system has been worked out for internet media companies yet, they literally have idea idea how to measure engagement beyond fill-in-the-response surveys. Off the top of your head, do you remember how many minutes you've watched podcasts this week and what times you watched them exactly? What episodes exactly? And now you see where Neilson and co are completely at a loss on how to compare Podcasts to traditional media. The long standing institutions simply have no freaking clue how to comprehend this new Internet world.

[@vjoe5389]

I get most of my news from a KZbin channel called Liberal Hivemind. He's a Centre-Right commentator that primarily covers big important stories happening in the U.S. (such as Hunter's laptop, the raid on Trump's home, or Biden's recent speech in Philadelphia) or he makes fun of Democrat/Far Left politicians/people. His channel is about to reach 1 million subs and his videos on average get 100k or 200k views. Another channel I watch, called The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters, is a Conservative British channel that's close to getting 300k subs and their videos on average gain upward of 50k to over 100k views. Heck, even channels that aren't necessarily political but sometimes talk about political topics, such as Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan, gain more views on their political videos than when the mainstream news networks talk about politics. I say within 5 to 10 years from now, the mainstream news networks like CNN and Fox News will completely collapse. It's 1 thing to get less views than independent journalists/news networks like Tim Pool and Daily Wire, it's a whole other thing to get less views than people who occasionally talk about politics or people who are transitioning to becoming political commentary channels like Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson.

[@Lusa_Iceheart]

@@vjoe5389 Yeah, I think even 5-10 years is being generous for the lifespan of companies like CNN or msnbc. They aren't going to last, the world has changed and it's moved online. Lotus Eaters is good, I love their philosophical discussions, no one on cable news ever does a deep dive into "what is stoicism?" or dissecting Enlightenment literature. Just can't get that sort of content on last centuries television medium. Peterson gives full length lectures to the masses without a college tuition and Rogan does long-format discussion interviews that we haven't really had in the mainstream to this scale since Walter Cronkite. It's a whole new world of information and the old guard will never keep up.

[@isaacwojo3273]

I understand WHATIFALTHIST fear of crocodiles. Those dinosaurs scare the shit out of me.

[@prod-srgnt]

damn it’s scary when you put our time period here right now in the present in a larger scope where people in the future will be looking back on our time period and romanticizing it like we do with the 20s, 60s, 80s, 90s etc. I’m rambling but Its kinda terrifying how fast time is moving and how fast things are progressing

[@jackdias9263]

I’m just nervously awaiting the consequences of kids getting internet addictions and nonstop exposure to things that their still-developing brains aren’t ready for.

[@machrisr2000]

Yes, it's called Social Media.

[@thanoscube8573]

I swear I'm gonna end my addictions, God help so.

[@chardaskie]

I always say the internet is the biggest thing since we started writing.

[@rogerdowns1656]

Unbutton the suit when sittin down looks weird lmao

[@sinoroman]

unbutton the suit when sitting to make it look better

[@MegrelMamba]

Doesn't unbutton the suit * refuses to elaborate *

[@bartpepe3664]

I have one question: Why do you think Botswana will collapse? Thats one of few regions of Africa with stable Institutions, national stability(most of the is Tswana) and have growing economy.

[@tonyeffik6781]

maybe because of south africa’s (the country) growing instability? as a landlocked state, botswana relies on south africa economically

[@darthheisenberg5983]

Well it might due to global warming.

[@breadorchopstix5920]

Everytime Whatifalthist talks about loneliness everyone in the chat talks about how lonely they are. Hopefully we can all get through it.

[@donkeysaurusrex7881]

It’d be nice, but it is the weakness in his description of the lonely people passing each other by. Women will usually reject the lonely guy’s attempts at building a relationship until she has aged to the point where will no longer be considered a possible romantic partner by men. Maybe 3/4 generations the genetics that cause this will be heavily selected against by these women largely removing themselves from the gene pool now. Sadly, they’ll be (deservedly) lonely while lots of men will line (undeservedly) lonely lives.

[@KarmasAB123]

This video needs some proofreading. Don't feel like you have to rush! Everyone knows you make top notch content :D

[@jakeaurod]

He always has spelling errors and odd cuts that clip the ends of sentences. Ya get what ya pay for.

[@Acecard-jl2py]

Starting to notice that with his recent videos. It’s not a big deal since I still get his argument.

[@ZoggyWoggyII]

haha to be fair he pumps out these high quality videos every week which is monumentally impressive as far as I'm concerned.

[@sovietunion7643]

@@jakeaurod i don't pay anything this is the internet

[@pittsburghpirateshat8950]

We're already seeing the major issues of the internet, it's become something that is way too relied on by things way too important. Cyber attacks knocking out power grids and the internet could absolutely cripple societies. Plus the internet obviously makes the spread of ideas and content easier. Said content can also include propaganda, fake news, and other dangerous things. It's good and bad.

[@the11382]

Fake news is just news that people disagree with, the term was made up by a bunch of democrats who couldn't understand people actually wanted to vote for Trump, but I wouldn't be surprised if some countries imposed a little more sovereign internet, even if its just making sure content adheres to local laws.

[@DezuFuck]

It's a proxy, and an unstable one

[@wires-sl7gs]

While the threat of Cyber attacks like that are real, it's not like people aren't working on defenses for those, and ultimately, I doubt it's a net negative. Many technologies like the printing press have caused problems in the short term, but we haven't abandoned any of them and have been benefits in the long run.

[@sovietunion7643]

thats why i have 15 GB of music crap, movies and porn on a USB stick in case the world ever ends yes i plan to buy a bomb shelter and live in it by the time im 25 how could you tell?

[@megadesu69]

"Fake news" doesn't exist. It's called a free opinion. Would you rather the only news your read/hear be mandated by the government or something?

[@MrYourcoffin]

Hey, just a clothing tip. Un button your suit jacket when your seated. It helps protect the button and looks more relaxed. Loved the video!

[@kennethcraig9228]

Woah, it's pretty nuts to think that Asimov's Foundation series inspired the internet's creation. I read it in high school, but had no idea. If only it would inspire the development of nuclear power. It's based something like 40,000 (or more) years in the future with nuclear power being commonplace.

[@sovietunion7643]

due to the disasters at Chernobyl and the existential fear of the nuclear bomb from the cold war its hard to get people to support it despite it being the most efficient clean option.

[@focusfolks]

I think we should focus our efforts on nuclear fusion... there's literally no negatives to it

[@OverkillGamingPC]

I hope we can have internet Zoroastrianism. Either that or Aslan worship.

[@thedukeofchutney468]

To be fair Aslan worship does technically exist. Actually, it's the most popular belief system/religion in history.

[@SSB_Its_Me_SB]

Zoroastrianism? So instead of getting buried, when we all would die we were just put our bodies on to roofs of houses and they would be left there until the birds completely picked them clean and the sun baked them… Whatever I wouldn’t care I’d be dead, at least my family won’t have to spend $10,000 a cough and they would have to later bury, if the Zoroastrianism thing doesn’t work out, just get me one of those old wooden boxes from the wild West and bury me in that.

[@Lusa_Iceheart]

Aslan worship is called Christianity.

[@innosam123]

Both Shiaism and Christianity have the most aspects of Zoroastrianism. I could see a variant of either being used to create something similar. I mean, it wouldn’t be the first time Iran changed religion.

[@kingdomcome46]

@LusaIceheart Estimates are that China will be about 30% Christian within another 20 years.... perhaps.... if so or even to a lesser extent,, there will be some bolt-ons to the possible and already demographic/economic disruptions to the Chinese state over the coming years. (Source: Pew Research quoted by Council of Foreign Relations)

[@coke8077]

I love videos like this, someone just talking with some pictures for emphasis but just listening is something I love to do. It makes me feel like I’m listening to someone have an intellectual conversation which people do not have very much anymore. Another reason I love podcasts.

[@thefisherking78]

All speculation, but well-informed and fascinating. If I'm lucky I have about 50 years left to watch this play out.

[@ScoriacTears]

2:00 Damn, all I can think about is his jacket. . .

[@mikehawk4856]

Yeah, this dude needs to hit the treadmill or something

[@ohhansel]

You hit it out of the park on this one. Brilliant and well done.

[@michaelthayer5351]

Good news: whatifalthist uploaded Bade news: I'm reminded of all the terrible, horrible no good things my life has in store for me.

[@uneverjack158]

Exactly how I feel. Lmao

[@Professionaltaxevader]

How I sleep knowing tomorrow will be worst: 😸😸😸

[@Smitticus228]

My job wouldn't exist without the Internet as the Internet is my job (I'm a Network Engineer)! I do sometimes wonder what I'd be doing now without the internet, assuming PCs and servers continued on without the Internet I think I'd be immersed in that.

[@RoCK3rAD]

You’d have to actually work for a living. I service elevators and it’s not easy but it pays well but gives me a sense of satisfaction

[@RoCK3rAD]

@Aka Aka I’d love to sit in an office all day instead of dusty unheated/non cooled elevator shafts

[@focusfolks]

@@RoCK3rAD lol. That's an assumption though yes? You only know this person's job title, not what they actually do day to day

[@RoCK3rAD]

@@focusfolks You’re right I do apologize I work mostly in nyc so I see the tech guys with their lanyards and MacBooks all the time. They have tons of downtime if they even go to their office at all. I’m blue collar so a hard days work to me involves busting my ass while a hard days work is having a meeting with some faceless vp of a redundant department. I’m man enough to know not to downplay how a man feeds his family

[@appa609]

"the near inevitability of asteroid mining" My dude, sample return from the moon costs about $300,000,000/kg and asteroids are substantially harder to reach. You would need to be mining something at least a few thousand times more valuable than gold.

[@BrandonRocksSauce]

The kg cost of the falcon 9 is ~$2000 and that was In 2017

[@Lusa_Iceheart]

It's about the economy of scale, we don't have a space infrastructure yet so shit's expensive. Think like back in the old west, say you wanted to go build a big New York city style mansion with that new fangled indoor plumbing stuff and have nice fresh fruit delivered to you out in the Wyoming frontier, but there was no rail line for a hundred miles. Why wasn't that done, even by some rich eccentric tycoon? Economy of scale and access to established goods and services. You'd be crushed under the bill to build it, where as such houses were built all the time in the major port cities where all the industry, labor and markets were already. Scale that up a few hundred times and you have the present problem with space. All of human industry is presently on the surface of the Earth, under an atmosphere that's a massive engineering hurdle just to survive travel thro. Shit will be stupid expensive until we have industry on the moon producing cities, ports, ships and fuel in situ already outside of Earths gravity well. On the moon, there is no absurdly fuel intensive atmosphere to burn thro just to get a single ton of mass off the ground. You can throw a ball on the moon and it'll escape lunar gravity, the cost is negligible. We have to pay these initial start up costs to get over the hill, then the practically limitless resources of space are unlocked. Keep in mind the Moon has more mass (and therefore mineral wealth) than the entire asteroid belt combined. Earth is almost to massive to even permit orbital launches with purely chemical rockets. A tad bit more gravity and we'd be stuck on Earth for a lot longer, possibly even simply giving up on space travel. Asteroid mining (and space colonies and eventually mining matter from the stars themselves) is inevitable given the assumption we don't wipe ourselves out first. Natural growth we need as a species, we'll want more and more room to grow. And b/c we do have the capacity to get to space, we will pay the cost to get there.

[@joshuarichardson6529]

You're comparing 1960's moon mission costs to a full industrial mining project. That's apples to oranges. In the 1950s, a computer could be built, but it would cost $3,000,000 and have 500 bytes of memory. The memory chips had to be built by hand with women literally threading wires with a needle to make the them. That comes up to $600 a byte. By the 1980s, the transistor had shrunk to the point a personal computer could be purchased by a family for around $15,000, sporting 64 kilobytes of memory, and running much faster. That works out to 25 cents a byte. Today it's even cheaper. Now when it comes to asteroid mining, we're trapped by laws of physics that limit technological advancement, so no "Moores law" for rockets. But we can turn to economies of scale to pull out more and more ore for the same money. The goal of the moon missions was to land people on the moon, not to mine for valuable ore. Collecting the moon rocks was a side gig NASA added on. Thus the cost of those rocks and dust were so high. A dedicated asteroid mining project wouldn't bother with people, at least not beyond orbit, but would send out huge (and probably expensive) robots to grab asteroids and move them into orbit. The up front cost on that project would be billions, easy, but the payoff would be billions in mineral wealth. Then the robot gets repaired (for millions this time), sent out again, and returns with another asteroid again worth billions. Rinse and repeat until the people who own the company are richer than several small nations. Steve Jobs became a billionaire by seeing that it was time for the personal computer to become "a thing" that people wanted. Once the logistics of asteroid mining are worked out, it's the next gold rush, literally and metaphorically.

[@dempsey2023]

Great videos, I appreciate your perspective on each topic you've covered on your channel.

[@isaackellogg3493]

Fun fact: the early internet (specifically citation sharing among universities) gets referenced in one of the later Foundation novels, where they are looking for Stars’ End/Tazenda, site of the Second Foundation, and think they’ve found a clue in a pentagonal constellation.

[@isaackellogg3493]

This is likely Foundation’s Edge (1982).

[@atdotcom64]

Go outside and walk, hike, run, ski, paddle, bike, skate, etc. The graphics are amazing!

[@daleleandertoller2836]

thanx for all your hard work and the established title ... best wishes in the future

[@notenoughmemes1847]

Heard some weird audio cuts in the video, might wanna fix that. Especially around 16:10 with some some stuff cutting out for a bit afterwards.

[@3bydacreekside]

He just threw that thought right out the window

[@tathemrelag3123]

Yeah, his editing seems to have been getting a lot worse recently.

[@focusfolks]

Dropped some cutlery

[@3bydacreekside]

@@tathemrelag3123 Think we should do an intervention?

[@ShreyashUSA]

When it comes to social anxiety my intovert friends joke about disowning me as a fellow introvert, because I never feel anxious of approaching someone for some work( romance is a different story ) and always raise my hand when a teacher asks in a question in class, something most extroverts are anxious of

[@piglin469]

as a extrovert I dont get the raising hand thing

[@ShreyashUSA]

@@piglin469 basically teacher asks the class a question and to make sure the class doesn't become a " fish market " those who know the answer raise their hand instead of screaming on top of their breadth

[@piglin469]

@@ShreyashUSA I see I ussualy just raise my hand sense I am not a barbarian I am a distinguished gentlemen

[@thefool1086]

Introversion has nothing to do with social anxiety

[@ShreyashUSA]

@@thefool1086 exactly. I just have a smaller social battery. I'm still a social animal. I just need a smaller recharge every now and then

[@everydayentertainment8574]

Great video man. Your videos always inspire me and give me new food for thought. Super under rated channel. Keep up the good work champ !!

[@themasculinismmovement]

Thanks for making this video

[@druharper]

The Industrial Revolution was undoubtedly tough, but people thought it was better than starving working in the fields sun-up to sun-down and dying at 30.

[@neonbunnies9596]

While working sun-up to sun-down was common in pre-industrial societies during high-work times such as planting and harvest, it was often for working hours to incredibly decrease during regular times

[@starmaker75]

And know that your government are total asses

[@harrymason4300]

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

[@nobodyherepal3292]

@@harrymason4300 only to tree hugging old men talking to themselves in there shitty little shacks in the wilderness, thinking there next Socrates…..as they put bombs in peoples mail boxes…… Because that will *totally* bring down the industrialized world……

[@stapleman007]

And dying from trivial health problems that can be remedied by isopropyl alcohol or other antibiotics.

[@SHGames97]

I've been fairly lucky at these things, friends, socializing, significant others & used to never think that. Until I've had in depth conversations with others & hot damn. Had no clue it was this bad in my wildest dreams, kids start performing music young, even if you're never super successful performing will give you so much confidence

[@sovietunion7643]

well it doesn't have to be music but anything that gives you a sense of socialization or confidence for me it was church. getting away from the crazier Baptist and fundamentalist churches my radical bio dad always brought me to was good for me and made me realize that fear and authoritarian parenting wasn't something universal for all religon. getting a community that was friendly and not crazy was good for my confidence and mental health really anything that gets you to socialize or have confidence to talk and live is important

[@SHGames97]

YES!!!! Absolutely spot on, I wasn't thinking broad enough but that is the key. Your sense of place in a community, situations no matter how minor that get you out there & socialize. Church, sports, gym or even local events. Something regular, with open opportunities to speak, progressively expanding comfort zones and engaging with others. Give yourself room to succeed, give yourself the chance to fail but learning from it. Find areas or confidence, potential confidence and see what works. Build off of it & remember determination is key with everything. Firmly believe that even if you aren't born with it, anyone has the potential to be excellent at what they put their mind too. Go from fearing a conversation or what to say with 1 person to performing/speaking in front of a couple thousand. Go from being socially passive to integral from church, school, leagues anything you do because people can. Only the jump is scary Very awesome points that I hadn't even thought about, much appreciated. There are probably countless avenues to get there. As you said really anything that builds confidence, builds confidence & social. Amen tho man loved your comment

[@gopgamer1]

This is one of your best videos yet and that is quite the feat considering that most of your content is already excellent. Keep up the good work man.😎👍

[@felipe21994]

This is so true!!! I'm a millennial that for just 7 days is not considered a gen z according to some, but was actually raised as a mix of "products and technics" from both generations. My insight is this: The internet is actually changing a lot, for example I'm an architect, most of my teachers are +70 yo and talk about how you need to learn how to draw by hand, but at certain point you are expected to manage all the work digitally and be perfect, you are not really instructed, so the only real option is internet, now the last generation of architects that have good drawing skills but know how to use primitive technology (cad software) are doing all the big projects, but in a few years the real digital architects will come and the market will be crushed, now you are not bounded by time and geography, so a few percent of super productive people will saturate the market and the salaries will be even lower, they are low as it is because there's more graduates that the market can absorb, and unless there's a revolution like 3d printing homes or super cheap mass produced modular materials the market will be even harder to get in. That's why I'm pretty much in the process of changing my career, learning to code and other skills are my primary objective, tech still has a good future, I do believe that although the gigantic corporations will fall or at least reduce their size and influence, the market in general will continue to grow and new ideas and platforms will be born (for example I actually have a better chance of being and architect in the metaverse and had actual interviews for this jobs, and the competition is actually there, but not as hard as with some traditional jobs were for 3 ppl 300 apply (I know that the metaverse is not certain and doesn't have really a good future, bit it was just and example of how the market is changing and the softwares I learnt are getting deprecated fast)) The socialization and relationships is other point that I have seen change, when I worked with young ppl the visions and outlooks in life are drastically different, most "old" ppl think I'm lazy, but I see me as just smart, and not willing to let my life go away to a company that will replace me in a heartbeat, but I see the young ppl and the "lay flat" or "let it rot" movement from China is already there on much of the countries and industries, just isn't really an organized or even well defined movement as is in China. Also I'm awkward and not really social for most of the old ppl (I was the only young in my last place of employment, the girl i got with too was a few years older, but the rest were+10 older than me, and the average was almost 20 years), but as I interact with young ppl their are the awkward and unsociable ones, and pretty much is just because all the communication is online and in person there are ass at expressing themselves. One guy told me that for him "pickup young chicks" is easy, not because he is prominent at it, but because the girls are impressed at "how good he is at communicating and treating them" and he is just average at best at it, according to him.

[@ninamartin1084]

Why learn to code when AI will be doing it better/faster/smarter soon? The only really 'internet-proof' jobs are those that provide a service in person, like masseur, plumber, dentist etc.

[@PierreMiniggio]

@@ninamartin1084 Right now, people who know to code are the best at giving inputs to AI. And we still have time before AI takes over code jobs. Learning how to code isn't puking text that does stuff, it's learning how to design systems that automates something, which is a skill that is probably gonna be the last one to disapear from societies, except from jobs that have a social component, as you stated. We'll need to have automated every single job on this planet until this kind of skills won't be needed. Not to mention, that people making and maintaining the AIs are people who code.

[@jackrobbins8782]

This man has a thousand years of wisdom in 20 years of life

[@hashkangaroo]

Which he refuses to cite, so he might as well be pulling it out of his ass.

[@RufoGman]

Books

[@DezuFuck]

It makes me insecure. He's only 2 years older than I am, yet I likely have an IQ around 85, and I still have the mental maturity of a 13 year old

[@jaketaber8553]

Don’t underestimate yourself, we all have strengths and weaknesses.

[@E4439Qv5]

@@DezuFuck hone your skills then. You're not necessarily at disadvantage for forming cohesive opinions after Rudyard.

[@seifbouakaz186]

Best channel on KZbin

[@RaymondMeunierMusique]

Easily

[@jacobbrassard2776]

🐐🐐

[@banto1]

Aside from the negative aspects of the internet, what we are seeing today is an explosion in the rate of scientific discovery. Knowledge just 30 years ago was disseminated via rare scientific journals you could only access at a leading university, spending days flipping through stacks of bound books. Today, it is all on-line, searchable in seconds. Our ability to quickly discover and build on new knowledge is a game-changer. The internet will create a new division of human classes - those that create knowledge and new technologies, and the rest who are too busy following some celeb to bother.

[@talmoskowitz5221]

The journals remain behind a paywall. The pharmaceutical funded studies are not made available even to the peer reviewers. See Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It

[@banto1]

@@talmoskowitz5221 I didn't say it was free - just easily accessible and searchable. And I was referring to published scientific knowledge of all types. Proprietary Knowledge otherwise known as Intellectual Property is also important and builds off the rapid explosion in published scientific works.

[@mirandac8712]

The writing is so inspiring. You are helping me finish my novel. Were I to rely solely on the advice and 'soft encouragement' of my peers (ivy mfa, big city writing groups) I would never be able to finish it

[@sovietunion7643]

i mean just know the balance. soft encouragement doesn't always work but pushing too hard can just make people dig their heels in on their beliefs. cooperation can work but still assert your opinions if its your book IG

[@neonbunnies9596]

16:23 It's also important to mention the political impact of these migrations, as those who live in cities will bring their liberal views into the more conservative rural areas. Also, the power of working from home threatens to export increasingly more jobs into more competitive countries among the developing world, which also going to have dire impacts to the economy

[@Lusa_Iceheart]

Ugh, don't remind me, all these damn Californians... I would totally be down with extending the border wall to encircle California.

[@alucard21-17]

With the slow death of globalization I don't see jobs being shipped off more than they have honestly. We're also seeing backlash to what already has been shipped off as well as heightened global instability causing isolation movements.

[@rohanindra6401]

Lot of vfx design is now being done in India. They went from call centres to now doing same work done by middle class professionals in the developed world eg bank operations, payment processing and accounts.

[@johnl.7754]

Especially with no mentors in the office for new young workers

[@wanderingthewastes6159]

@@alucard21-17 “With the slow death of globalization” how could someone ever come to this conclusion is beyond me.

[@njsynthesis]

Never thought I would see the day when Sonic and Star Wars appear in a Whatifalthist video.

[@Fireneedsair]

Well done video. Lots on insights

[@MyBeautifulDarkTwistedFantasy6]

I’m 40 years old and this channel is SO refreshing. I haven’t been able to put into words what’s going on like you, but damn sure have been feeling it.

[@EdgeBrandAgency]

I have not heard another person vocalize so many of my own observations and conclusions in a single video. Though I do not agree with everything mentioned, had to say kudos - great presentation and a generous amount of applied logic. Cheers to you, sir.

[@ksinha88]

This is brilliant content and one of the highest quality I’ve seen on the Internet. You are a brilliant thinker and one of the best Futurists today. Keep the content coming. Would love to see what your spiritual and religious views are and what you think would be ideal society in the future?

[@TyberiusDe]

Thanks for another video

[@avery_3479]

Yes! I've been waiting for this :))

[@danieljacavanco6549]

Rudyard, my guy, my man, you have to unbutton your jacket before you sit down, its rule one of wearing a jacket. I'm just looking out for you. Keep up the amazing work.

[@felixdogan6776]

People really underestimate the power of internet this is one of the most valid videos you've made

[@URangryX]

Amazing video! Well spoke and timely.

[@NicolasTheKingphoenix10]

16:47 - Very Useful and thought-provoking to me !

[@brandoncheever1897]

The question I have with religion is where does that leave our traditional religions? Could they capitalize on the internet and have a resurgence?

[@Lusa_Iceheart]

I suspect a firm yes for Christian faiths, especially since the rural regions and still developing countries are typically Christian. Probably a few new sects or maybe a blending or some old ones. Catholicism will keep going on strong for sure. Islam, well, I'm not as optimistic about a Caliphate forming as Whatifalthist is, maybe just the Sunni nations, definitely not going to include the Shia ones. Way too much bad blood. Also going to be a mess in many of those countries since there's large populations of the minority sect all over the region, recipe for brutal oppression. I don't know enough about the conditions in Eastern religions to speculate, but I do know China is projected to be roughly 30% Christian by the end of the century. Oh and Pagan faiths are already making a come back, which is sorta funny. I've actually met some neo-norse pagans, pretty cool peeps.

[@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986]

Almost guaranteed as people get more access to information they become less religious and spend more time doing other things than attending a church or mosque. Religions will adapt by changing a lot but they probably won’t be easily recognisable to Catholicism or orthodoxy etc. in a hundred years time

[@brandoncheever1897]

@@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986 For some, yes. However, Industrialized Turkey is still Islamic, and the Rural Americans are still Christian. I don't think we have enough data to say if religions go away or not

[@jbussa]

No loneliness here. I work from home, entertain myself online and see my girlfriend somewhere around once a week. I'm happier than I've ever been. I think it depends if you are introverted or extroverted. Honestly I feel like I've been waiting for this my whole life...

[@simleek6766]

"There are hunter gatherers that hunt with spears and loincloths, and then they'll climb up trees to get better cell service to negotiate which town they'll sell their gazelle in." Source please? This is amazing!

[@flutell9308]

I always get a chuckle when your voice cuts out mid-sentence, gives the video character and makes it not seem too overproduced.

[@williamsimqu8934]

I have the same biggest fears man. Keep it up and thank you for your honest approach in these videos.

[@1greenMitsi]

1:57 the strength of that button mirroring the human condition

[@clarkjack0]

keep up the hard work homie!

[@Jimblefy]

Very interesting. Thanks

[@Merle1987]

In the near future countries are going to have trouble keeping the lights on. Does anybody on here have any idea how much energy and material "the internet," requires on an ongoing basis?

[@KevinKimmich44024]

many cell phone towers require as much energy as a house. some even more than that. the internet and data processing seems "free" for some reason.

[@joshuarichardson6529]

@@KevinKimmich44024 Not free, they park their servers next to large hydropower projects for the cheap electricity. By contrast, if a server had to run off solar, it would sport a footprint of several square miles, just in solar power panels.

[@rosscalverley]

Probably not. But that’s probably going to be the major factor in what happens to the internet. Or more specifically how people try to adapt.

[@Arturino_Burachelini]

8:05 - 12:45 It is a rather courageous claim humans can't live alone (in a reasonable sense, not a "jungle" one). It is existential for societies to keep their humans together so that their uniting cores could easily proliferate at the cost of people's attention to their own lives, thus wiring people to having intense distress at the notion of loneliness. But the sheer separation of your consciousness from the other guy's just simply can't not make you alone! It's the question of recovering and retaining individuality, learning to live alone, enjoying it and having activities that can deploy your consciousness. I do not deny that people want replicability of their experiences in exchanges with more people, but you need not obsess over it or you'll really get depressed.

[@focusfolks]

Well said!

[@brandonboand]

Love your content

[@zacharyzaire]

All-time favorite video of yours. I hope everyone can learn something from you.

[@shantcheetah]

I love your videos & the way you explain things. I always wonder about how technology will change will change humanity in the future

[@fingerboi888]

Absolutely LOVE your mention of the correlation between inflation and civilisational collapse. This is such an important point that I wish more people would be aware of because a move away from fiat currency could prove to be the single most beneficial thing for our society bar a mass cultural shift in values.

[@tictoc5443]

Great channel thanks

[@matts8791]

AAAAH Whatifaltist you're supposed to unbutton your suit when you sit down!

[@mellowmike6263]

To be clear I like these videos generally! Something that bothered me was a cliche I hear a lot, the idea that plumbers/tradesman make more than high-paid college grads like lawyers. The median pay of a plumber in the US is $56k whereas the median pay of a lawyer is $127k, it is demonstrably wrong.

[@sovietunion7643]

well yeah, but it takes a lot more education to be a laywer then to be a plumber. you may be making 127k but if you have to pay off 100k of student loan debts compared to loan for a vocational school (or hell in some cases learning on the job) its going to feel a lot different on your paycheck even if the numbers are high

[@mmtransport]

yes but the plumber doesn't have 300k debt

[@MalcolmPoindexter]

The average lawyer graduates with $160k in debt. I used an online breakeven calculator to assume they could have earned 200k while in school. They come out ahead as long as their salary is 50k higher. College is worth it if you get a job that pays more, but if you don't you better not take on a ton of debt or you'll face the worst outcome, low pay and huge debt burden.

[@koalakyle19]

@@mmtransport The plumber also has a union and insurance

[@naddarr1]

As a blue collar worker my whole life I really can't stand this trend of people thinking trade jobs pay 6 figures. The issue is that a couple of jobs pay that much, usually due to the insane amount of overtime. So then that is used as advertising by schools to get people to go there and learn the trade. I remember talking to a pipeline welder out in the North Dakota who was making over 100 grand a year yet his hourly wage was lower then mine, and I was making just under 60 grand a year working 50 hour weeks. Which tells you just how insane his overtime was. We do a massive disservice by telling young people that trade jobs make so much money. They pay fine you'll own a house and be able to have a good life but if you want to make the pay that doctors and lawyers make get ready to never be home, much like doctors and lawyers. This is coming from someone that has worked in these industries for over a decade and have talked to multiple tradesmen that make those insane wages we all hear about. Very few of them did it for more then 5 years as the lifestyle is just to brutal and demanding.

[@arthurschildgen5522]

I like when you put out a lot of videos fast but please make sure you get the editing down right, some parts are cut out around 16:00

[@lyw621]

This channel probably instills the most hope in me out of any other channel lol

[@celladoor_uk]

Man, I have actually thought about this, can't wait to hear your take.