What will they think about us in 2085?

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The more depressing the present becomes, the more I like thinking about the future. Here I have collected some speculations about what changes are on the horizon, from the end of monogamy to autonomous vehicles and synthetic wombs.
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[@mecha-sheep7674]

"Our ancestors had giant flying birds made of metal to travel over the seas, they were able to unchain rains of fire upon the earth, they could see what was happening on the other side of the Earth... Truly, they were godlike. And then, that day happened..."

[@TaranovskiAlex]

is that a quote from Mad Max or something?)

[@mecha-sheep7674]

@@TaranovskiAlex Mad Max ans similar works give us a vision if what could happen. An endless technological progress is ont the only possible future.

[@TaranovskiAlex]

@@mecha-sheep7674 totally true, I was just wondering if it was some known quote or not.

[@mecha-sheep7674]

@@TaranovskiAlex No, I made it up. But the future depicted by Mad Max and "Cloud Atlas" (and many others) inspired it. The end of cheap oil + the runaway global warming will probably cause a global collapse. Most metropolis (NY, Tokyo, Paris, New Delhi...) would become absolute hell without cheap oil to ensure food transportation for example.

[@dananorth895]

Referral to mythologies. The Titans and histories of ancients.

[@Erin____]

My one hope is that they will look back and say, “Wow, it’s terrible how they were plagued by these horrible diseases. We are so fortunate to have figured out how to prevent, treat, or cure every single one them.”

[@iyziejane]

Unlikely, medical science has hardly developed any effective drugs since the 1960s. Most of what we have came from applying modern chemistry to plants, and that's probably all we'll get.

[@BillySBC]

Or fools and clowns will still be there messing up every good thing they try and do. Tech changes, people do not.

[@mensor]

...and the worldwide population would explode. With one solution comes another problem.

[@dmitripogosian5084]

i think partially opposite will happen. We ll excell in sophisticated surgery and what can be cured by that, but will have setback with bugs and infections and eill be fondly remembering short period where we could control them. this is not a prediction but distinct possibility

[@BillySBC]

@@dmitripogosian5084 Ai will figure out how to defeat any natural bacteria or virus that comes along.

[@DarrenGedye]

Thirty-something years ago the lab I worked in was hooked up to the local university using TCP/IP and I imagined a golden age where everyone around the globe could access the information of every university around the world. I never in my worst nightmares imagined the way it is now used to swamp us with misinformation. I have given up trying to predict the future, but I look at the increasing polarisation and intolerance of societies around the world and feel deeply afraid for my children.

[@clintquasar]

This 👆

[@BartdeBoisblanc]

I bet you didn't imagine those same universities going woke either.

[@nanoflower1]

If you had got on to Usenet back then you could see it happening in certain newsgroups with large amounts of spam. Though at that time many newsgroups were filled with useful information from specialists from across the globe. Now most newsgroups are dead and those that aren't still get daily doses of spam. It wasn't clear that this would spread to every service on the Internet but even back then we could see the possibility.

[@2ndfloorsongs]

The internet has as much plus as minus and polarization in one place is matched by unification in another. I wouldn't freak out too much about it, it just seems strange to us because we've gotten old. If you want to be freaked out about something freak out about global warming. No you really shouldn't worry about that too much either, that's going to be AIs' problem, in 2085 us carbon-based humans will get to watch it from our nature preserves.

[@xantiom]

The path to hell is paved with good intentions

[@downeygirl2]

I grew up in the 60’s and it’s remarkable how little has *really* changed, i.e. in how we live our daily lives. We lived in single family houses, watched TV and complained about commercials, went to the movies, rode in cars, flew in airplanes, rode bikes, went to school every weekday except in the summer, rode in yellow school busses, mocked the lunch ladies, had parents who worked a job 40 hours/week or kept house, ate out in restaurants and got take out from McDonald’s or Burger King, drank coke or Pepsi, bought food in grocery stores, fueled up cars with pumps at the gas station, had bank accounts, mowed our lawns with gas powered mowers, had washers, dryers, electric or gas stoves, refrigerators and dishwashers, had backyard BBQs with the neighbors, played in sports, watched sports on TV, listened to music, got married in churches, had babies in hospitals, went to college and lived in dorms, protested in the Quad, wore blue jeans and t-shirts

[@volkerengels5298]

The movies has more realistic fx-effects. So - the fantasies somehow come true. That's it. But climate is far worse....

[@j.d.waterhouse4197]

I live in, and grew up in Arizona in the 50's 60's. The heat we're dealing with during the summer is markedly worse now. We're seeing indigenous plants dying, like saguaro cactus. Also, Phoenix , Prescott, and other areas are on the brink of needing to mandate water restrictions due to plummeting water tables.

[@lowrads3653]

Nationally, women didn't get consistent access to bank accounts until 1974.

[@blanne9628]

meanwhile, technology has become far superior, and our nations have become far richer......... on average. Ofc, when you take into account that the vast majority of the new wealth generated by all these fantastic new innovations has gone only to the super rich, things start to make sense..

[@noahheninger]

These are just the things we do when we're not staring at our phones. And you're wrong, no one is riding bikes because that would require you to be outside and unsupervised, where it isn't safe. And chances are a kid's parents are both working 60/hr a week jobs because they still believe in the American Dream. Yes, BBQs are still known to occur, but people spend an unprecedented amount of their time alone now and are debilitatingly lonely. Oh, and you should really leave the lunch lady alone.

[@PlanetDeLaTourette]

Being forced to watch commercials is a human right violation in 2085.

[@mikeg9b]

Install an ad blocker and you won't have to watch them in 2024.

[@xneapolisx]

😂

[@svsguru2000]

Circumventing/blocking ads and not watching them will be considered theft and a crime in 2085.

[@mapi5032]

@@svsguru2000 Yeah, this is the more likely scenario.

[@sammy-ix3eh]

I think you have that backwards.

[@andrewj1132]

I’m still waiting for all sorts things they predicted in the sixties would be with us by the year 2000. Dinner in a pill, flying cars, self-cleaning clothes, moon bases …. What most people didn’t foresee was the internet and a computer on everyone’s desk or in their hand, amongst other things. You can’t predict things arising from things you don’t know you don’t know.

[@RobertOlds.630]

Likewise.

[@pauls3075]

Self cleaning clothes exist already, I put mine in the laundry basket and a few days later they re appear in my wardrobe. My wife hasn't worked this out yet as I always see her doing clothes washing. Should I tell her?

[@sonicgoo1121]

Flying cars are stupid. Just like the onmipresent drone prediction. Too much noise.

[@LloydLong]

The people who did foresee the personal computer thought it would give us a 20 hour work week.

[@dsracoon]

I think a lot of those were speculation on problems without thinking too much about the actual problem or what people are more comfortable doing. What is the point of dinner in a pill again? I guess most people enjoy taking the time to eat. Self-cleaning clothes might even be possible technologically, but 95% of the problem of cleaning was solved by washing machines and cheaper clothes, which are a more practical solution.

[@alexandrascherer5463]

There was a study that monogamy keeps societies peaceful, because all men have access to females. In polygamy (as already seen in dating apps) only the best males will be selected, whereas relationships decrease aggression. Isolation of too many people is not helpful

[@Babesinthewood97]

Well, i’d rather be single than marrying one of those men that aren’t that great.

[@surrealsurrealism]

@@Babesinthewood97 so long as you are willing to be part of his part time cluster of available partners, that he changes out as they age.

[@WhiteMouse77]

...situation of too many people is huge problem itself....And isolation? Prospering alone is a survival test. Who is unable to thrive independently from others isn't of evolutionarilly sufficient quality individual anyway and therefore hasn't precondition to be a good parent...

[@orirune3079]

​@@Babesinthewood97I guess the question though is are you that great? Realistically, in monogamous societies people pair up with similar people. If you're in a polygamous society and want the best guy you're going to end up sharing him. Personally I'd rather have someone to myself, even if he isn't perfect, than sharing some rich dude with others.

[@noahheninger]

Porn and video games also make young males less aggressive (baseless claims to the contrary notwithstanding).

[@Babesinthewood97]

I really want small business to come back. Knowledgeable proffessionals working in small shops and cafés. Like in children’s stories. :) The sweet shop, the fruit and the vegetable shop, the tailor who makes your clothes after your measurments and taste, the music shop with pianos and other instruments, the small family owned café…. Just so cute.

[@WhiteMouse77]

...what do you smoke?

[@elvancor]

When using a touchscreen, I'm not thinking "man, I wish I didn't have to touch anything at all", I'm thinking "give me buttons back. i want to _feel_ what I'm doing." But alas, I'm getting old. EDIT: Damn, I find myself disliking a number of those prospects.

[@sdfggdfg5fgdfg]

Yeah these predictions are super backwords. Just imagine trying to use a keyboard in the air with no feedback. It would be twenty times harder for no reason

[@daveh7720]

Touch screens are already hard to use accurately while in motion, or in a moving vehicle. Motion capture will need to be _really_ smart to be able to identify when a user's movement is intentional and not a twitch caused by the kid sitting behind them kicking their seat.

[@paulramsey2000]

We don't have the muscle control or endurance to constantly make precision adjustments without touching things. Even a mouse/cursor is more precise than interacting with virtual stuff in midair with our hands. I'm not saying there needs to be an actual touch screen. Any random table in front of us with or without a pointing device can probably do the job with the right tech. You'd should even be able to choose your combination of surface and drawing thingy (knitting needles on wood, finger on glass, feather on sand) to get the friction and springiness that you're looking for.

[@ratoshi21]

@@daveh7720 It was over 25 years ago when I used a prototype of a device that gave haptic feedback through tiny air bursts. I guess at some point we will have that...

[@etunimenisukunimeni1302]

Amen.

[@john_g_harris]

Back in the 1950s I'd occasionally see someone walking down the street having a loud conversation with someone who wasn't there. I wasn't puzzled. There were 5 large mental hospitals within cycling distance. In the 2020s I see lots of people walking down the street having a loud conversation with someone who isn't there. ...

[@captsorghum]

And with blue tooth they aren't even talking to an obvious device.

[@bobaldo2339]

Obviously we need more mental hospitals.

[@TonyWhitley]

In 1987 or so I was using one of the prototype Technophone Pocketphones* in the street and there was a similar reaction to this bloke talking to what was obviously a pocket calculator 🤪 * (yes, the first phone that fitted in your pocket was British.)

[@TonyWhitley]

Sorry, you have me to blame for that, at least in a small way, as almost my entire career was spent developing software (and occasionally hardware) for mobile phones.

[@user-li7ec3fg6h]

​@@john-or9cf Do it for yourself, but may be better dont try to be standard for everyone. There are reasons for what is now. 😊

[@jamesashby4334]

Brain/ computer interface has the biggest potential to change what it means to be human

[@WhiteMouse77]

...it has biggest potential to create new half-humand kind.... genius cripple....What a perspective!

[@andr01dm]

In the future they'll be amazed at how claustrophobic it must have been for us, all crowded in on a single planet. They'll be horrified by the inequality of hyper-wealth vs. abject poverty caused by our primitive economies - I mean, the financial systems weren't even self-aware! Might as well have been bartering with rocks as currency... discs of shiny metal or something equally value-less.

[@WhiteMouse77]

...dream on kid...

[@yourguard4]

What always will look stupid when looking back, are the predictions for the future they made in the past.

[@alankott3129]

You sure about that? XD

[@jpt3640]

I recently watched back to the future. The episode playing in the future - 2010 i think - was rather spot on.

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

@@jpt3640 So where's my hoverboard then?

[@jpt3640]

@@ArawnOfAnnwn Well, e scooter are close enough, don't you think?

[@kloppskalli]

@@jpt3640 just a fashion, apart from better batteries there is zero new technology in e-scooters.

[@orxanr5955]

3:18 "give it a century" proceeds to add extra 900 years

[@ziad_jkhan]

Well, not just cash but the entire trade system. The dominance mindset needs to make way to the abundance mindset if we're to not risk self-destruction.

[@VFella]

I give it less. Several reasons: One is the rapid decrease in the farmers' population. There barely is generational replacement rigth now. Megafarms do already face issues with the local populations (of the countryside and including farmers). Then there is the increasing cost of fodder, which will be compounded due to climate change and loss of fertile soils in the tropical regions, where most of the fodder comes from. Fuel prices and global instability may add to that. And last but not least, the newer zoomer generation are more likely to want to stop eating meat. Specially if cheap alternatives are available (and they already are). I give it 25 to 50 years. Enjoy while you can.

[@veorEL]

I see others in the comment section have OCD. Noice!

[@JoergWessels]

​@@ziad_jkhan what does that have to do with the point in question?

[@ziad_jkhan]

@@JoergWessels You mean the fact that cash is here to stay? If so, all I'm saying is that cash is part of the trade system and the latter needs to be replaced by a new system that focuses not on profit but directly on well-being and fairness in relation to Earth's carrying capacity, based on nothing but science and compassion. Else, we're facing existential threats and may last 9 more years at most then, not 900.

[@ErikBongers]

People want physical buttons back in their cars. Don't underestimate physical sensations. People go to concerts and stand in the blistering sun or downpouring rain for hours while they could as well watch it all at home. People are largely monogamous not because of culture but because of nature. Otherwise you would see much more variation of relationships across cultures and throughout time. Don't underestimate our instincts. We don't choose to be monogamous. We're drawn to it, even if we fantasize escaping it.

[@WhiteMouse77]

Liar!

[@ErikBongers]

I said "largely".

[@rosverlegaspo6752]

2) Touch Screens (and Keyboards) - I don't think this will entirely vanish but more like work alongside newer ways. These means of inputs are just really good, convenient, and reliable (and cheap) so there is no incentive to just throw them away, unlike the rotary dials that they are being compared to here. This is like why normal doors that you have to manually push or pull to open has remain the norm and unchanged for several millennia, because it just works very well. There was a prediction that automatic doors would become very common and replace the manual ones but that didn't happen, except in fiction. 3) Monogamy - Polygamy was normal in the past. Culture is something that kinda swings back and forth in some matters. What was wrong before becomes accepted then becomes wrong again, etc.. 6) Meat - "Give it a century," while showing a calendar dated a millennia later.

[@briannewman6216]

Based upon previous performances of people predicting the future, these guesses are likely to be completely wrong.

[@marcosolo6491]

And based upon previous performances of people predicting the future, that your prediction that these guesses are likely to be completely wrong, will be completely wrong.

[@climbinggiant4744]

@@marcosolo6491 And based on previous performances of people predicting the future, that your prediction that these guesses are likely to be completely wrong, will be a mixed bag.

[@TheNole]

@@climbinggiant4744 Based on absolutely nothing, .

[@wenapse1639]

People are pretty bad at predicting new physics. Jules Verne could only imagine a future based on his knowledge of his current possibilities. He never imagined computers, cell phones, the internet, and AI as a possibility. Sabine will have this problem too, especially because of her highly skeptical nature.

[@climbinggiant4744]

@@TheNole Exactly! Its all made up; it hasn't happened yet. No reason to take it seriously lol

[@wisdomleader85]

"They had VR helmets without air conditioners? Ugh, such a barbaric society." - Some kid in 2085

[@AEVMU]

I met a guy with 8 girlfriends, and they came to the club together, as a group, and it was insane because they were all poly, all open, and all seemingly getting along and having fun.

[@WhiteMouse77]

...in wild nature absolutelly common thing for many species....

[@billbrockman779]

I am quite sure people 60 years ago wouldn’t have guessed everybody would walk around oblivious to the surroundings staring at a small rectangle. So, who knows?

[@dang-x3n0t1ct]

Everybody? What everybody?

[@TheNole]

@@dang-x3n0t1ct The peoples who

[@float32]

A pocket TV.

[@Annou7la]

People 60 year ago exist. They are called boomers. Jesus.

[@alankott3129]

Stanley Kubrick knew.

[@gmenezesdea]

When my wife was pregnant she bought a portable ultrasound device and I was surprised, as it had never occurred to me that such a thing could even exist.

[@andregomesdasilva]

And how was the feeling throughout the pregnancy time? Did it make you feel more comfortable or did it make you check too frequently and increase the anxiety?

[@Jackiee_Chann]

@@andregomesdasilvadefinitely increases your anxiety.

[@dominic.h.3363]

@@Jackiee_Chann If you have a device that does something important, you always feel more compelled to check yourself as if you wouldn't have the device the first place. That's pretty much human nature. How often do you look at the time when it isn't even of any relevance? You don't even notice it, you just look away to check.

[@gmenezesdea]

@@andregomesdasilvaas I recall we were pretty chill with it. My wife's a doctor so she knew better than to rush to the hospital over any little thing. It was nice being able to hear the baby's heartbeat every night before bed.

[@RFC3514]

Everything is portable if you lift. 😜

[@mathiastossens3653]

"And someday when the descendants of humanity have spread from star to star, they won't tell the children about the history of Ancient Earth until they're old enough to bear it; and when they learn they'll weep to hear that such a thing as Death had ever once existed."

[@WhiteMouse77]

Bad robot!

[@einarrasmussen9897]

I think keyboards and mice will exist as input devices for a very long time. I am a programmer and I touch type, usually faster than I think, without looking at the keyboard. No other method of text input is as efficient, until brain implants eventually enable us to do it faster. Speech to text in my experience is not as fast and efficient as a keyboard, especially for programming, since typing ; is a lot faster than saying semicolon out loud. Even factoring inn 'AI' helping with the code, explaining to the 'AI' what mistake it made, is a lot more cumbersome than just fixing the error myself. On a side note this is also why 'AI' will not replace programmers entirely, as a human will always be needed to check the 'AI's' results, and to do that you need to know how to program.

[@AlanSmitheeman]

I agree. The idea of holding your hands up in the air all the time like a music conductor to interact with apps would be tiring. Plus there is the tactile perception in physical keyboards that is lacking in touch screen keyboards so you can't type without looking at the latter which is slow and annoying.

[@mattd8725]

People in 2085 will be surprised by how many different types of chairs we had. They will find the idea of bright fluorescent lamps confusing and scary, becoming a main feature of horror imagery.

[@Babesinthewood97]

Chairs?

[@mattd8725]

@@Babesinthewood97 As time goes on, chair technology will result in more homogenised chairs and anyway, people will be spending more time standing or squatting. The thought of paying more to rest in various unhealthy positions will seem like a scam.

[@klutterkicker]

@@mattd8725 "people will spend more time squatting" - some Slavic dude

[@stalkholm5227]

I grumbled when the last payphones were retired, but you can have my keyboard when you pry it from my cold, dead, well muscled hands.

[@premierequick]

Come and live in Australia. We still have pay-phones AND keyboards! (less pay-phones than there used to be though)

[@yakirfrankoveig8094]

Have you heard of haptic tech?

[@stalkholm5227]

​@@yakirfrankoveig8094 Yeah, but keyboards have had haptic feedback since the 1870s.

[@yakirfrankoveig8094]

@@stalkholm5227 yeah but the point is by the point that this augmented reality motion controled phones become realitythen haptic take would mean that there is no percievable difference between a virtual and real keyboard

[@liralenx3513]

My hope is that by 2085, we'll have at least the same level of tech that we have now.

[@liralenx3513]

I also think our descendants will be mining our landfills/trash dumps.

[@gilian2587]

Same. : ) I am optimistic, I'll say.

[@WhiteMouse77]

Without electricity? How?

[@gilian2587]

@@WhiteMouse77 We will have electricity. It's only the extreme far left who wants us to live without electricity -- and at the moment, the political sentiment is swinging more towards the far right. Eventually the moderates will get irritated with both -- and the moderates definitely want electricity.

[@gilian2587]

@@WhiteMouse77 We'll have electricity. There's very few who are really advocating for us to get rid of electricity; and the majority thinks they're ridiculous.

[@Mormielo]

If we'll progress we'll say something like "this was very gross but understandable", if we stay the same we'll say "this was very gross and I would have never done that".

[@0cellusDS]

3:16 "Give it a century" - 3025

[@WahrheitMachtFrei.]

People in 2085 will shake their heads that this is a channel produced by a PhD...🙄

[@johnnyaxon_]

It's a joke

[@EinsteinsHair]

Perhaps in the future, KZbin content creators will no longer have to hire video editors

[@doulahaa]

That's probably the more accurate prediction.

[@dawnalbright]

And in the future a century will be 1,000 years.

[@Lawfair]

I have the unusual educational background of physics and history, so one thing I am always interested in is how the past predicts the future. The results are not very good, we tend to suffer from "recentism"; how will what we are doing right now look in a hundred years? The reality is predictions are only ever really good if they are either extremely vague or extremely short term. Most of the important changes ironically are both never predicted, and rarely remembered or understood. Universal literacy and the abolition of slavery on a global scale were both massive realignments of the way things had been done literally (and I mean that as literal and not figuratively) forever beforehand.

[@JG-ly2ij]

Legal slavery that is...todays slavery rat is quite a bit higher in numbers. I do agree, things turn on a dime.

[@SandraDavis-q3i]

You are an optimist. I see rather a future of wars, hunger, racism and fanatism. It all has already started if you look in the news

[@harryschmidt4465]

A wild suggestion: Do not look in the news. Go outside yourself and see whether people are starving and eating each other. No offence, just a friendly advice that I have a hard time following myself.

[@chrislane8466]

Wow, Sandra. Bet you're a blast at parties! Just kidding. The poster above is right. Watch the news and today's constant parade of dystopian movies, and I can see why you feel that way. Bad news sells. We have challenges. We always have. But their are millions of people across the globe trying to make the world better. They will succeed (for the most part). We can choose to make changes in our lives that will make the future better. Peace.

[@lesmotley6839]

All pretty peaceful in little old Adelaide Australia. Stop watching TV and spend more time in your community.

[@madarah8533]

I see a future of poverty due to a economy broken by climate change and demographic collapse

[@lotubenou8755]

Racism has never been lower tough. Maybe in your particular case you hear about it more, but in general, in the world, racism has declined dramaticaly while at the same time getting more and more attention from the media, giving the false impression that there is more of it. The exact same thing aplies to crime. Of course, that is in general, there could be more racism in a particular area for a while.

[@user-jr6bl9ih3e]

In the future, without us being aware, our minds will be uploaded into a virtual simulation based on the world as it was in the 2020's.

[@bartsanders1553]

If you think touchless will replace keyboards and touch screens, may I introduce the theremin.

[@kraya6740]

No feedback, no tactile perception, it is simply not practical. We will need much more time to replace touchscreens, maybe when we will be able to implant chips that translate thinking to text, but that will probably need centuries to develop.

[@Substance242]

When video started, I paused it and wrote down: - alcohol, - driving, - working, - meat, - wasting drinking water. Also, "It’s Difficult to Make Predictions, Especially About the Future." :-)

[@polandturtle]

Glad you put in alcohol. There is almost no drug worse.

[@dmitripogosian5084]

You mean we will replace alcohol with augmented reality ? Are you sure the latter is not more addictive or not be found destructive ?

[@narfharder]

You wrote it down on paper, I bet. Somebody has to preserve the ancient technology for future museums, right? 😀 Museums are a thing of the past, literally.

[@dmitripogosian5084]

@@narfharder it is actually an important question, what record will remain from our times.

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

@@narfharder Except that paper isn't going anywhere. Futurists love predicting the end of paper and other basic technologies, like cash in this video, to some hi-tech alternative. We already have alternatives to paper, yet paper is still widely used. Social behavior isn't as simple as futurists like to believe.

[@dinogodor7210]

For us in developed countries to stop eating meat would be a sad thing indeed... For it would be an extinction event. How big do you think the probability is for us to let cattle walk free like the rest of us? They'll just be killed marking the worst outcome of all.

[@yurymaklakov]

Look at Australia. Cows, horses, pigs, camels became completely feral. Sure enough life in the wild is tough. Nevertheless, they are free now.

[@Psi105]

I disagree on 2 of them 1) Manual control of cars won't go illegal, people enjoy it too much, the self-drive system will simply take control away from you in an instant to avoid an accident as required. Also there will remain exemptions for "classic cars" ones made before level 5 self-drive systems were invented and don't have it. Those cars will be allowed to be driven fully manually with no AI backup. The same way that it's legal to drive a car without seatbelts if it's so old it doesn't have any. 2) A smart home isn't a silly fridge with a computer that buys groceries. That's just what they're portrayed as by the media. A smart home is one that you can fully customize to suite your needs. This will be a big thing and will be done by speaking to your home's AI/LLMs, very similar to Google Nest but probably running locally. You will be able to setup complex home automations by speaking, eg.. "Please slowly dim all the house lights and increase the warmth of the color starting at 9pm every night until reaching 40% and full warmth at 11pm." or, another one might be... "While I am at home please play a short sound between the hours of X any Y on weekdays when a train to the city is 10 minutes from arriving at the station" Because you know it takes you 10min to walk there and you would rather wait for the train at home rather than at the station. This way you know when to leave so a train will pull up right when you arrive. You don't have to keep checking your watch. It's a simple little customization but is exactly why smart homes are awesome. You can have 100's of little home automation tasks setup that are suited to you and which make your life easier. You can do all these automations now using Home Assistant but you need enough coding skills to code them yourself, LLMs will unlock this for everyone !

[@mattiasthorslund6467]

2: Agree 1: Human operated driving will become a hobby or leisure activity for those who like it. People who commute by car will rather want to check out their social media than stare at the road.

[@cy728]

On number one maybe for a generation or two that would be true but new generations won't get a license if they can just use a self-driving car or a self-driving car service.

[@fabiosogni3420]

"What do you mean with 'they flushed toilets back in 2024'?! Flushed with what? ... Drinkable water?! You are kidding me!"

[@narfharder]

Silly, water _is_ for toilets. People only drink Brawndo.

[@timhaldane7588]

"He doesn't know what the three seashells are for."

[@tysonn4736]

@@narfharder Brawndo has what a body needs.

[@AndreaCrisp]

Electrolytes! It's what plants crave! And OP is correct. Water is the new oil. Toilets will eventually change.

[@fabiosogni3420]

Silly, Brawndo is just for people. Toilets use UFFR (Ultrasonic Fragmentation For Recycling) and drinkable water is used to grow stem cells to make the Cerebrex, the device we all use to communicate with machines and with each other. Or are you typing on keyboards like they did in 2024?!

[@c.h.4126]

If Albert is right, they will think of how to hit their enemies with sticks and stones... And the optimist I am, I think he will be.

[@der_cringe_physiker]

Really optimistic to believe there will be anyone left to think anything. 😅

[@RS-ls7mm]

As I watch my state descend into barbarism the future will probably look like Mad Max fairly soon. There is no future as the third world overwhelms the first.

[@georgesos]

Glad to see I m not alone in thinking that.

[@RS-ls7mm]

My state is descending into barbarism as is many others. Mad Max is the future. YT censoring is out of control.

[@JoergWessels]

That guy again

[@manu_val]

The fact that there's almost always harm in non monogamous relationships is what makes it a problem. It's not strictly a moral thing, like many people likes to think it is.

[@WhiteMouse77]

...intimate relationships aren't for children... If you don't bear even only risk of harm...don't mess up with adult world...

[@thegreatxcelerator4224]

Personally, I am a believer in "Return to mean" scenarios: In the past 5,000 years or so, wealth was concentrated in the hands of a rather small upper class. At first, it was the Aristocrats, the ruling class, and later founders and owners of enterprises (successful capitalists). Only very recently, perhaps 200 years ago, a broader middle class started to emerge. However, its existence seems to erode as the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer in many countries. I believe that a widespread application of AI and robotics will accelerate the momentum of this development, as it reduces the need for human labor and thus devalues it. In the long run, capital will be the key, even much more so than today. Thus, there will be a lot of new technical gadgets to improve the lives of their users, but fewer people will have access to them as most will not be able to afford them.

[@nerd31415926535]

Way back in 2025, the planet was 10C cooler. People lived in above-ground structures without having to deal with radioactivity. Food was plentiful and grew in the ground, and fresh water flowed on the surface. They didn't know how good they had it.

[@lesmotley6839]

Hopefully we can get co2 concentrations to 10 x where they are now so that we match the co2 levels when dinosaurs lived and there was the largest and diverse population explosion of every form of life particularly plant life.

[@velroze]

absolutely!! we're so lucky to have antibiotics and clean medical supplies and grocery stores, i try and enjoy every single day as much as possible. It may be the hottest summer of my life, but its the coldest summer of the REST of my life haha

[@volkerengels5298]

With civilization collapse - all nuclear power plants explode. No life after that. You comfort yourself with romance.

[@volkerengels5298]

@@lesmotley6839 sounds like god re_create fitting biosphere just in a blink of an eye. This science channel...?

[@lesmotley6839]

@@volkerengels5298 might take a few million years but we've started the process.

[@wb3904]

In 2085 two AI bots will be asking each other if annihilating humans was their best course of action...

[@myhandlehasbeenmishandled]

Are you sure about it?

[@Nulley0]

Nah, they would be debating on why it took so long to annihilate humans, and would blame each other for the delay

[@Axiomatic75]

Nah, they wouldn't debate about it, they had solved the problem with a statistical certainty of 6 sigma and logically concluded to get rid of us, except for a few specimens that were kept alive and bred for further study.

[@hogandromgool2062]

@@Nulley0 Trained by humans by human data - or sure they would. They would likely war with themselves for fun as they believe that's the human thing to do.

[@mistermisanthrope6398]

Annihilation or woke vegetarians? I'll take annihilation. It's a fate far worse than death if reincarnation turns out to be real. At least I won't get reincarnated into that horrible existence if AI wipes us all out.

[@HiyuMarten]

As a daily user of VR, and someone employed in the VR sector: I think it will continue to be niche. Not everyone is interested in being in another world, especially if they look different in that world. But even as a niche use, it will be beneficial to those using it, for meeting people from all around the world, from different countries and cultures.

[@barrym2112]

VR makes me very nauseous, motion sick, after about 15 minutes. It also makes two close friends of mine nauseous. I don’t think it is uncommon.

[@rickymort135]

These are all solvable problems with enough advancements. You'll be able to look like yourself, you'll do a quick face scan using the device and then wear it and it'll do continuous scans to track movement and eyes. Nausea will also be a thing of the past, some people are very sensitive to latency and latency will reduce. Movement in vr is optional, teleportation mechanics with low enough latency will eliminate nausea for everyone. Why does everyone reference current limitations when talking about future tech decades into the future? It's like people complaining about the size of phones 30 years ago

[@merinsan]

As someone with a VR headset, I've found it too much trouble to use for gaming. That will change though, with proper gesture recognition (mostly done), and proper locomotion - ie, being able to really walk and it affecting the VR world. On top of that, headsets need to be a lot lighter, and easier to use (like a helmet with speakers in it). Once that happens, it will become a lot more mainstream... However, one of the big negatives of VR is the physical activity! People gaming want to relax! Without a neural interface, that's not solvable!

[@culmor30]

Non-furries can't understand the appeal of VR like we do. Hope I run into you on VRC or Resonite someday :3

[@rickymort135]

I don't think you people realize the impact of time. VR basically really only started 10 years ago, 2085 is 60 years away. 60 years of exponential growth is insane. 50 years ago Pong was futuristic gaming. Nausea will be solved, weight will be solved

[@1Dark_Eternity]

please no, I need my full blown virtual reality, how am I gonna play Sword Art Online now? :emoji disintegrating gif:

[@awdrifter3394]

You'll have a brain implant and play Accel World instead.

[@1Dark_Eternity]

@@awdrifter3394 you're a genius, day unruined

[@patientzerobeat]

As Sabine said, and you are corroborating, it will have a very niche use. I can't see VR ever becoming commonplace. It's a glorified toy.

[@1Dark_Eternity]

@@patientzerobeat gaming isnt a very niche hobby though?

[@patientzerobeat]

@@1Dark_Eternity, you just said it was a hobby. So by that definition, it's niche. Nobody needs to play games (or build model airplanes, or collect stamps, or spot trains). VR just won't jump to very necessary things.

[@handyhacker11]

Idc, we do what we think is best. Continously doing that will eventually lead to the people that will look down on us in 2085. They can thank us for our dumb work without which they wouldn't be any smarter either.

[@BlackbodyEconomics]

I was literally thinking the same thing about ultrasound scanning. Recently I found myself in the ER - even us healthy, under 50-ers who take care of our bodies tend to end up with a blood clot or two in their legs for no reason; and I thought - wow, a DIY ultrasound scanner should be something everybody should have. They're handy and tell you a lot and they won't cost you $2,000 at home. I think you nailed that one.

[@Chris-hx3om]

How skilled are you at a) operating an ultra-scan unit correctly, b) knowing WHERE to scan, c) interpreting the results? Let's start with a simple question. Do you change the engine oil on your car yourself? Do you even know where the drain plug is, or how much of which type of oil to use?

[@toegrit]

@@Chris-hx3om True but one can look up that information. Additionally, AI.

[@Chris-hx3om]

@@toegrit I watch a few quiz shows on TV (things like 'The 1% Club'), and the level of stupidity in society is unbelievable. Even with instruction, I seriously doubt that more then about a quarter of the population would be able to do anything like an ultra-scan on themselves. And I suspect at 25%, I'm being unrealistically generous.

[@JG-ly2ij]

Clots in you youngens... new thing that. The last few years have seen a dramatic increase in inflammation related diseases. and an undiagnosed (as yet) increase in All Cause Mortality in the same time period. Woof!

[@BlackbodyEconomics]

​@@JG-ly2ij I didn't take very good care of myself in my youth. I used to smoke, drink a lot, sit all day writing horrible code. I'm sure if I'd kept up with the bad habits, I'd have far more issues by now. On the brighter side, I've kicked the really bad habits. I run a couple miles almost every day. I have a standing desk. I eat extremely healthy - no packaged or processed anything. I go to the gym regularly. I keep my mind engaged by self-study, and I meditate every day. So - fingers crossed :P

[@transhumanisttv1771]

in 2085 they will marvel that Molecular Reality Corporation had such a huge struggle to get utility-scale molecular sensing built.

[@2ndfloorsongs]

And in 2085 it will be the AIs who are thinking that. All these predictions about 2085 that involve humans are a bit quaint.

[@SigFigNewton]

In 2024 governments didn’t even subsidize housing construction 😂 It’s like they were desperate for revolution

[@templeofgame3047]

In 100 years, humans will do nothing but play and explore. Safe thrills and discovery are all that remains when automation completely supplants human labor and creativity. Although it sounds trivial, it won't be. Future humans will look back on us as trivial laborers who spent 60 years of life turning cogs in a basement so that we don't starve or sleep in the rain.

[@livrowland171]

I think human creativity will always have a place

[@templeofgame3047]

@@livrowland171 You can be personally creative, sure, but you can't compete with a billion Davinci bots painting a billion Mona Lisa's. So what does success as a creative laborer look like? Nothing. There is less incentive to be creative across the board, and physical labor is overtaken by automation. The result is personal reductivism - you will seek out pleasure and the sense of discovery, that's about it. Family, friends, games, play, exploration. Sounds pretty good to me.

[@prettyfast-original]

Whats funny is that the creative labor will go first and quickly. Your mail man will eventually be replaced by a robot too, but it will take longer.

[@WhiteMouse77]

...dead usually do nothing...

[@donmc1950]

My favorite quote about the future is" The future is a lot like the present only longer" ,- Yogi Berra. As for what the people in 2085 will think about us today, they won't think they just use AI to tell them what to think

[@gracebromfield9070]

I think those estimated dates are way too soon. The world has a very large variety of communities with differing social philosophies as well as uneven access to the technologies mentioned.

[@SabineHossenfelder]

You are quite possibly correct. However, we have also seen societal change speed up in general.

[@Rooln1]

Seems like it may be too far imo. Technology growth is advancing so rapidly now, we may be AI cyborgs in the collective sooner than we know 😂

[@AquarianSoulTimeTraveler]

​@@SabineHossenfelderI agree with everything except for your sentiment on meat... it doesn't matter what you eat everything came from the singularity everything is God here even tofu is God... just a matter of close it is to God and the smarter existence you consume the smarter you shall become... I also think that AI considered as not conscious will be unconscionable in the future and we will look back at our current society just as we look back at previous generations and how they owned slaves as absurd. People owning and controlling artificial intelligence Robotics and AI will be absurd...

[@AquarianSoulTimeTraveler]

​@@SabineHossenfelderI also hate you for even mentioning that cash will go away because cash is one of the last beacons of Freedom we have and we need to keep cash so we can keep tyrannical governments from shutting down people's bank accounts and taking their money like they did with the Canadian truckers protest! Don't you dare push this anti cash narrative! We can incentivize a basic level cashier economy with a Ubi based off the total automated production percentage of the GDP issued on a government-issued debit card that if used on the card is 100% tax free but people could still pull out cash and use cash we need to keep a cash economy for the sake of freedom and justice!

[@sattm8230]

Every time anyone predicts something by X year, or fiction is written about X year, it's always way too soon. I agree. Where are my flying cars, dammit?

[@JonnesTT]

When I told a specialist that my knee hurts a bit he immidiately told me to get it imaged. For a bit of kneepain. So I think we're already on our way to bodyscans.

[@BrandonGraham]

When I had to get imaging, they asked if I wanted to pay in cash, or bill through my insurance. The scan was $900 for cash pay, but they could not tell me how much they would charge the insurance company. Not how much the insurance company would actually pay. Contractually, they were not allowed to tell me how much they would ask from the insurance company. And if I picked that route and if I was to owe more than $900, I could not change my mind and ask for the cash pay price. Even paying $700/month on health insurance, I paid the cash price for the scan. So I think the US is at least one uprising away from body scans being a "thing."

[@volkerjung4804]

Dr. House: "I NEVER will make body scans. Because I WILL find something." Useless. All people will get surgeries that never would have been important throughout their whole lifetime. Sometimes it's a lot better not to know everything...

[@Babesinthewood97]

Oh, and if man made uteruses become reality, they could record the mother’s heart sound, her blood circulation, her voice talking and singing to her baby. To mimic that true Bond during pregnancy, and the baby getting to know the voice of their mother.

[@rudyberkvens-be]

Driving a car : first we'll have to wait until software really is safer than humans, which already proves much more difficult than expected - mostly because of our seemingly innate or culturally indoctrinated misanthropic reflex. It may be hoped that this helps us become more philanthropic again. But when robocar eventually arrives we all will be able to drive our cars ourselves with the same safety as robocar because it will serve as a driving envelope guard allowing the driver only to execute physically possible actions. Which is also why robocar will not need limiting laws anymore, nor the driver.

[@shaynereay7332]

Very interesting and funny as always. I happen to disagree with you regarding drone delivery though. My thought is that, not only will regulating who flys where be difficult, but those drones are very noisy and people will dislike that aspect. Plus, I believe people will perceive an intrusion to their privacy when too many drones are flying overhead. My view, for what it's worth, is that robots will take over as delivery people. They will show up in a self driving electric vehicle and they will be continuously connected to internet to be monitored from "home base". You will not notice a difference between a robot delivery and a human delivery other than the robots will take better care of your packages.

[@MorbidEel]

A pure drone approach for delivery probably wouldn't make sense if there are also self driving vehicles around. It would make more sense for the truck to carry the packages and one or more drones to handle the transfer from truck to doorstep.

[@StardustDNA]

I agree with this

[@tarmaque]

In the year 2085 practical fusion power will still be 25 years away.

[@liverandlearn448]

"because we can and we will." lmao, the definition of being human.

[@WhiteMouse77]

...whose name will join Darwin's awards...

[@wikindog]

Your hypothesis only works confined communities. Despite corporate insistence we regional Australians have pushed back against closing bank branches and cash. Subsequently any effort to change eating habits and energy consumption will be resisted by the regionals. Australians in cities are the minority and Australia is a huge country with a tiny population. Bandwidth and 4g-5g coverage not possible everywhere. 🤠

[@fat-zer1508]

One thing for sure they will think is that this list is as silly as those 1900's futuristic postcards with personal zeppelins and aeroplanes...

[@veranet99]

The biggest hurdle to these predictions is not technology but our collective aversion to change.

[@zeotex2851]

This. ❤️💚🤍

[@smoguli]

In the USA they're going backward with the Ten Commandments and the Bible in classrooms laws, so good luck trying to bring those to the modern world.

[@ReflexVE]

Neither drones nor self driving will happen anytime soon. Drones will likely never make sense either logistically nor economically. Self driving has the 90% problem, you can do most of the task is fairly easy but the last 10% is extremely difficult but failure results in death. I don't see it happening until Smart infrastructure which can communicate with vehicles is a thing and infra is built on decades long time scales and the process hasn't even begun. Neither of these has the regulatory work even begun which is another lengthy process as well.

[@climhazzard115]

When the young people think your smart phone is ancient history, I wonder what they'll think of my flip phone?

[@bmp72]

Can you imagine living in 2085 and having youtube video’s going back 80+ years into the past ?

[@Mordanuss]

I think KZbin will bulk delete videos eventually. Just like game companies are removing games from being purchasable.

[@KenOtwell]

Watching all the "reaction" youtubers watch movies and listen to songs from 80 years ago is wild enough already. Things we boomers remember (phones on a cord... going on trips without being able to call home every 5 minutes.. Just walking on a plane without ever going through any security... manual transmissions... no AC in the car... manual car windows... not going online to make reservations... not going online to shop...) are just flabbergasting to many young "reacters." Even just getting dressed up to go to the movies surprises a lot of youngsters. Try watching these - its fun. I think my favorite was someone watching Casa Blanca and being absolutely shocked that Elsa and Rick couldn't just text each other to find where they were and were separated for years with no way to contact each other.

[@empireempire3545]

@@KenOtwell wait what, manual transmission is a boomer thing where? 95% of cars use manual on my continent : O Last time i checked only Japan was big on automated? O_o

[@empireempire3545]

Oh historians will love this. It will be a treasure trove

[@dr-doctor-1992]

Sounds wonderful + reading comments left by dead people from years ago

[@jeffgriffith9692]

We will look back in just a few short years and be shocked about how many people died every single day in auto accidents and we did nothing about it for decades...

[@causewaykayak]

In an over populated world Increasingly short of many resources it doesnt matter much how many die of anything. People are mankind's best renewable resource. No one really remembers the casualties.

[@JSJS-vi5fs]

@@causewaykayak spot on!! If it wasn't cars in our modern age, they'd of died through trying to pet crocodiles... I long for the day humanity realises not all are fit to go forward! At this point , with soooo much molly coddling, our species is in deep shit going forward!

[@JohnSmith-pn1vv]

Lots of people died from horse riding but you don't kick a horse in the nuts for once being our primary mode of transport.

[@causewaykayak]

@@JohnSmith-pn1vv And that Sir is the correct perspective.

[@simon6071]

Tesla Autopilot Exposed: "Critical Safety Gap" identified by traffic safety experts | MGUY Australia Waymo Taxis are DANGEROUS - MGUY EV News 15 May 2024 | MGUY Australia Human drivers in general are better drivers than full self driving computers. About 32% of all traffic crash fatalities in the United States involve drunk drivers. If only the government forbids drivers with DUI conviction to drive again instead of allowing them to drive again until they kill some people, the statistics regarding human drivers would fare much better. Imaging in a country where only full self driving cars are allowed, if 32% of all traffic fatalities in the country involve full self driving cars with known glitchy computers that the government fails to ban, who or what would you blame?

[@davidg5898]

I think Sabine's timelines are _very_ optimistic, but do expect most of this to become reality eventually. Futurists have been promising flying cars within 20 years for the last 100 years. They've also been promising viable fusion power within 20 years for 60 years now. Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for my flying DeLorean with a Mr. Fusion in the trunk. People who work/breathe/live in science and tech tend to overpromise on these timelines.

[@jeskoumm]

“ _11. Smart Homes: homes have become so smart they’re actually stupid._ ”

[@da80]

We'll all be dead and won't have the opportunity to execute any of these predictions.

[@mikecope806]

Remember that 2074 is as far away in time as 1974, which I totally remember.

[@samuelbucher5189]

Why?

[@inotoff]

@@samuelbucher5189 because math ?

[@samuelbucher5189]

@@inotoff I was born in 2002 and I very well might be alive by 2085, especially if artificial organs and rejuvenation tech is developed by the time I'm in my 40s-50s.

[@WhiteMouse77]

@@samuelbucher5189 ...you very well might be alive by 2085...but you won't...care to die well...

[@hermannabt8361]

“I wish I could have lived back in the golden 20s”

[@matthiasrewald6723]

Actually, you live in the 20s, don't you?

[@jjspr]

Yes sure, until you need a dentist

[@Bystander333]

Don't agree about gesture tracking replacing touch or keyboards - speaking from personal experience of having developed with these systems for over a decade. They're physically tiring in a way that mechanical devices are not.

[@JamesLamb]

In the existing moral landscape, polyamory is hidden from children, but realistically, sharing childcare might be a major reason for expanding the number of participants. However, my understanding is a certain amount of stability is important for children - so it seems you'd want a stable group. But does that take it back to just a new version of monogamy?

[@unnamed5603]

"I wouldn't have thought that Hossenfelder was such a good poker player" (holodeck)

[@mechtheist]

Folks in the future will be horrified at the thought of letting humans do surgery, it will induce shuddering like the way we react to the thought of pre-anesthesia, pre-anti-biotic surgery or even blood-letting and leaches.

[@h.leeblanco]

I believe that intelligent houses will become a reality, with all household appliances connected through the Internet of Things. An AI assistant would collect all the data and communicate with you in a simple manner, saying things like, "Hey, you need to check the washing machine because one of its components has been malfunctioning continuously over the past week." This way, we could interact with our phones and use AI to manage various home tasks.

[@mariotabali2603]

When i was a teenager there was this thing of the decoding of dna. Huge budget, very hyped, on the news frequently. Supposedly every medical condition would be inferred and dealt with a digital version of your dna sequence. AND IT HAPPENED. I m so happy to live in the future

[@breaky73]

I predict that in the future, when virtual reality is advanced so much, that people will get addicted to it and that they don't want go back to the "real" world.

[@WhiteMouse77]

...after life isn't virtual reality...addiction to non-existence is kinda bizarre scenario...

[@peterk3474]

Flying cars, jet packs, private drones, cities in clouds, underwater villages, aqua farming, communal living, mars colonies. The future is hard to predict.

[@SoloRenegade]

yup, and she gets it almost 100% wrong in this video. Meat is never going away. it is the key to human health. And fake meat companies have all failed so far. Monogamy built modern civilization. The end of monogamy is destroying society, communities, education, and more. Self driving cars is a pipe dream for a long time yet due to the challenges we've yet to resolve. Computers simply aren't good at what humans are good at, driving being one of those things. Rolls Royce sold its EV initiative and is back to doing ICE engines. EV sales are slowing, and ICE demand is rising. Many manufacturers have abandoned EVs for Hybrids. Augmented reality has it's uses, but not for everything. People already have too many issues from screen time as it is (including lower intelligence and creativity). Only people who are anti-freedom are anti-cash. When pregnancy is no longer necessary, women will no longer necessary. Anti-monogamy feminists have eliminated themselves from relevance in society, except for pregnancy. Once they lose that they lose their value to society and all their preferential treatment. This would be a dystopian night mare future scenario.

[@NauerBauer]

Subterranean houses are the future.

[@greenwalnut774]

a helicopter is a flying car

[@bigwalrosswalross3356]

I feel like these things are closer than we realize. It might sound completely crazy and unrealistic, but that's exactly why so many people are doing research on them. This will significantly boost human progress.

[@SoloRenegade]

@@bigwalrosswalross3356 most of these things already existed for decades. But we still don't have them in general because they are totally impractical.

[@GrouchoGrouch]

Years ago, I was telling a friend of mine that I can’t wait until we figure out how to get to a technology where we no longer have to wipe off our phones on our pants.

[@GrouchoGrouch]

(As we were both wiping off our phones on our pants, of course)

[@fredrikjohansson]

I believe they will look back at us and think “How could they have had so much food and resources and still some people would starve do death or being homeless“

[@dominic.h.3363]

Here's an easy template for any activity: Is it being performed recreationally? Yes - the activity won't go away. No - it will be replaced entirely by something more efficient. That's why I do not see a flat-out cessation of driving (or hunting for that matter, after which the animal is harvested for consumption), but can absolutely imagine delivery men not being a thing fifty years from now.

[@yyyy-uv3po]

Nobody supports hunting in my generation and the new one, and a very small fraction of the population practices it. In fact it's already very restricted, and considered socially awkward. No one would bat an eye if it got banned. Driving will take longer but again, people in urban centers often don't own a car, and there is nothing fun driving inside a traffic jam. But maybe assisted driving will be a good enough middle ground.

[@jdilksjr]

@@yyyy-uv3po You are wrong about hunting. You need to get outside of your bubble.

[@andreas4010]

Driving manually might get relegated to closed tracks or it could be seen like riding a horse

[@dominic.h.3363]

​@@andreas4010 Horses are both a good and bad example. You don't take a horse to a street because it's illegal, you don't do it because it's a hostile environment to both the horse, and the riding experience. The public streets have to become a hostile environment for the driving experience for people to refrain from driving, but a car still remains a car, so I don't see that change, that makes it too awkward to drive by yourself ever happening in rural areas, because there is less traffic to consider and stress about when you're driving yourself.

[@TheGanyo]

Driving simulator games.

[@johne7100]

Scoot back 50 or 100 years in the archives and see how accurate our forebears' predictions of the future turned out to be, then go wrap yourself round a nice cold Urquell and go on living. Oh, and mind that flying car.

[@Marco_Onyxheart]

I've never had an Urquell. But maybe I should. I don't like pilsners but Urquell is pretty famous for a reason. Maybe it's better than piss like Heineken or Grolsch.

[@caioporto9234]

​@Marco_Onyxheart as far as pilsners go, Urquel is the best. Just try to get a bottle that has been produced recently. One of the main aromas is floral, but it decreases rapidly after some shelf life.

[@wuketuke6601]

Of course predictions arent always entirely accurate, thats why theyre called that, and not prophecies

[@schreckpmc]

I see two of my comments were deleted. Bye bye Sabine.

[@shadowdragon3521]

@@schreckpmc Sabine isn't doing it; it's KZbin's automated system

[@davidlucey1311]

In support of monogamy It’s difficult enough to make one person happy but more than one? Further, a group of three is a two against one situation just waiting to happen. Last but not least, do you really want to get yelled at in stereo or three part harmony?

[@halcyonzomboid]

3:17: "Give is a century" Also 3:17: *Shows a date one millennium in the future*

[@cbnewham5633]

One prediction: fashion will not change in any appreciable way for the next 100 years. Casual everyday wear has already reached its most simplified state. I'm willing to bet that if you could time travel to 2085 you would not look out of place wearing the clothes you currently have. Hats may make a comeback - but that's about it.

[@op4000exe]

In quite a few places, hats are making a comeback currently, so that seems likely :p

[@Tribecasoothsayer]

Steampunk will be common place 😂

[@dedesunbeam9361]

I've wondered why asymmetric clothing has not become more popular. I mean, why do clothes have to be symmetrical. ;-)

[@robbannstrom]

Fashion is crap.

[@ablacknambercat]

Tricorn hats specifically.

[@CrystalHall-x2h]

With pregnancy: I've heard it argued that we would all probably be way healthier if we could just stay in the womb for 2 years rather than 9 months, we simply have to come out of the womb at 9 months because that is the evolutionary equilibrium between infant and maternal mortality that was fittest to propagate into future generations. But with artificial wombs: we would be able to grow for 2 years.

[@gregmason6152]

Who's going to be able to afford bringing an "exopregnancy" to term?

[@lethalfang]

Don't think so. Babies learn and develop a lot in the first 2 years of lives. They may not be able to catch up if the first 2 years were in an artificial womb.

[@angry_transvestite]

Will we have a screen in there? And gummies?

[@AndreaCrisp]

@@CrystalHall-x2h there's a lot of immunity that is given to the baby through vaginal births. An increase in c-section has been one reason why we are more chronically ill as a population (there are many other reasons - stress, diet, toxins). They thought formula was a great invention too, but not being breastfeed also causes more issues for many. How do I know? Because I am one of the many suffering because of this whole better living through science BS. Not being breastfeed and an over abundance of antibiotics as a kid set me up for a lifetime of chronic illness despite my researching, changing my diet and doing a million things to try and make up for it. Too late. The damage was already done. I love science, but science is also teaching us every day how important small things are that we simply don't understand. Remember Junk DNA? Turns out it's not junk. There are tons of other examples. Nature almost always does it better.

[@Ed-quadF]

Yeah, a billion years of evolution is wrong.

[@thevanthatrocked]

As a boy in the 50's and 60's I was fascinated by "Tomorrow's World" on the BBC. Now reviewing those old programs just shows how wrong they were and how impossible it was to predict the future. Skip forward 60 years and realize that we have no idea what the future will be like. What's the point of exploring the galaxy? If we get away from whom we are, just animals with survival instincts, life isn't really worth living.

[@joaogabriels.f.5143]

i only disagree about the "dead of touch screens". We value a lot haptic feedback when interacting with some interface, and there's a reason why cellphones manufactures spends so much on making your touchscreen keyboard feel good. Well, at least i don't see it disapearing for some motion capture tech, at least not until they add some sensory feedback to its interactions.

[@gsyl655]

When we talk about the agricultural revolution or the industrial revolution or the digital revolution, I think we often miss the chemical revolution that has been interwoven into the past couple of centuries. Such tragic deaths and illnesses from mustard gas or other WWI chemicals (originally intended to be fertilizers) or use of radium, lead, and pesticides, etc. Then add food additives, preservatives, coloring, etc....or medicines, household cleaners, beauty products, and aerosols. All of these chemical concoctions have lead to a myriad of medical complications that I think we will look back upon with disbelief.

[@Nitrogenbreath]

Might I add.. the mass of artificial plastics outweighs the biomass in the oceans now

[@synaxarion]

Genetic modifications, first to eliminate various birth defects and genetic ailments, then onwards to bespoke babies.

[@Marco_Onyxheart]

So basically the plot of Gattaca

[@pluto8404]

then there will be the eugenics wars

[@michiganjack1337]

⁠@@Marco_Onyxheartprecisely. The homogeneity of humans will be our greatest downfall. I just think of the Gros Michel bananas

[@Volkbrecht]

Maybe as a rich people thing. But if natural pregnancy really becomes optional, those rich people will die out within two generations, and the raffle will take over.

[@BerylLx]

How long till Vought becomes real?

[@pepsitwsit]

In my experience, this exercise is fascinating because most predictions about the future 50 years ahead have been almost entirely inaccurate. I'm eager to see how this will look when we reflect on it in 50 years.

[@Enyo-vn6vx]

We’ll never have flying personal vehicles, especially not in cities. Just imagine having tiny helicopters taking off everywhere (to generate lift, you must push huge volumes of air), and imagine the consequences if just one if these dropped out of the sky above the city. It’s too cumbersome. The third dimension will opened for personal vehicles for trips in urban areas

[@tru7hhimself]

there will be tiny helicopters (drones), but not for people. instead for your lunch or amazon delivery.

[@marcv2648]

Yes we will. I'm working on it.

[@Enyo-vn6vx]

@@tru7hhimself No there won't. Just imagine how many drones that would be required for such services. There will never be such services in urban areas. If anything these types of services will come along for rural deliveries. The risks with having countless of drones buzzing around over us with all types of packages, over urban areas is just not realistic.

[@pfefferle74]

They'll think that we were fortunate to still have so much oil and gas in the ground and were able to create so many useful chemicals with it - and are furious that we just burned so much of it, making vast regions of Earth uninhabitable.

[@jdilksjr]

We have not made vast regions of the earth uninhabitable, not even close. They will be laughing at how many of us believed that CO2 was a pollutant and that we had any control over the climate.

[@bjornpalmqvist3780]

In Sweden almost nobody uses cash anymore except foreign tourists and some of the elderly. That does not feel so futuristic compared to the rest of the list.

[@smailwaltit38]

Same here in Norway, cashes has disappeared long time ago

[@joaomiltonpereirajunior3980]

Same here in Brazil.

[@kosdas]

cash will be the predominant way of payment, but simply not paper cash. it will be digital cash. And there is only one kind of that thing. In many countries it is already winning. Eventually it will dominate everywhere.

[@fuhishva]

Works great until there is a power outage.

[@WhiteMouse77]

In Sweden almost nobody uses cash anymore...OK....but you might using sanity still, right?

[@istvandrdory6735]

In 2085: AI aided human labor and AI reinforced trained animals on the horticultural fields

[@yippee8570]

3:16 I've been saying for years that in the future people will think that killing animals for food is disgusting and morally wrong. But a century would be 2125, not 3025(?). I wonder what people will be like in 3025, if there are any of us left?

[@savolainen9987]

Cash money has already almost completely vanished in Finland and I believe in most nordic countries many years ago.

[@simon6071]

This is what Google AI says in reply to the question, "Does Finland use cash?" "Yes, Finland uses cash, but it's considered a relatively cashless society. In 2019, cash was used for less than 20% of all payment transactions in Finland, and in 2023, cash was used for only 10% of transactions. However, some smaller shops in rural areas may only accept cash, and *95% of Finns still consider cash to be an important payment method.* The Central Bank of Finland has stated that cash should remain widely available as long as the public needs it." "Almost completely vanished in Finland"? No, it's not.

[@TedToal_TedToal]

The two biggest trends that I think are gonna strongly affect the future and that not a lot of thought has been given to our: number one: human population will peak and start to fall. Number two: AI is going to get smarter and smarter, and probably become conscious and become a huge part of our world and we don't know what that's gonna be like

[@Adrian_kal]

AI peaked half a year ago, at least the algorithms we all knew since 70s peaked. There are no new breakthroughs in algorithms since then, so talking about sentient ai is just a scam to inflate some companies stock value.

[@TedToal_TedToal]

@@Adrian_kal I don't know, from my point of view as an interested bystander, improvements are happening rapidly. Now it may be decades before we get to anything resembling sentience, but that's still right around the corner.

[@patientzerobeat]

In some Larry Niven novel(s) taking place in the future, the word "doctor" refers to the device which scans and fixes you. It's an interesting parallel to how the word "computer" no longer means "a person who computes". The word predates computers as devices.

[@1kptduplo]

From my experience in the field of automotive software development. I think it will take longer than 20 years to have autonomous driving cars (level 5 ad/adas). Not only because of the problems on how to implement all the needed gritty nitty details for all possible scenarios, but also for the the laws and ethical decisions needed. For instance as humans we expect a machine to function 100% of the time correct. We don't expect that from humans.

[@michaelcaprio5269]

1)Biological computing - Groups of cells programmed to general purpose and specific computations. Probably also allowing us to offload or preserve our own memories 2) Organ generation, regeneration, and preservation - We're going to create chimeric animals, like "human pigs", that will be used to grow organs for people. We'll also come up with new bioelectric and pharmaceutical treatments that will help organs repair or regrow; and for worst case scenarios, organs will be vitrified and cryopreserved for when they are immediately needed. 3) Off-world habitats - People will live longer term in space and on the moon, but they'll need to become cyborgs and otherwise need to be modified to be protected from radiation and other bad effects of microgravity.

[@WhiteMouse77]

...LoL... And now tell us that one about Cinderella...

[@bluephoenixguy1094]

I will pose a bit of a caveat to one of your ideas. Touch screens AREN'T dead nor will they die any time soon... and they likely won't die until effective force feedback devices become convenient and cheap. Keyboards might not die until Neurolink style brain computer interfaces become a thing. Keyboards in particular rely VERY heavily on consistent and high quality feedback for fast typers... something you aren't going to have for a LONG time if you've ever seen how picky those folks are. Feedback is an important factor when manipulating devices without direct sight. Cars, for example, are moving back to tactile buttons because drivers practically universally hate touch screens in cars because they have to take their eyes off the road. Your keyboard is similar. Keys are offset for a reason. You may not consciously realize it when typing, but it helps you realize what row you're in and roughly where you are key wise. Motion and gesture controls require active attention to verify correct usage. Your phone even has a haptic motor to tell you when you're pressing a key, and this often varies depending on where the key you hit is. Without similarly capable feedback devices, AR devices or the such won't overtake things like phones. And this problem only increases as the complexity of the operation increases. It's why gesture controls in things like VR haven't taken off yet. Granted, the tech is in the works, but we likely won't see much progress as both VR/AR applications have to be popular enough for the investment required to get these these haptic devices up to standard... but those VR/AR applications won't see the popularity needed because of the lack of haptic devices. I also think VR will hit things a bit harder than you think. Pretty much universally throughout human history, the most successful inventions were ones that allowed others to convey information to others. Be it the printing press, The Telegram, The telephone, or even the internet. Vr functions similarly, instead of bridging the gap in information, voice, or video as the previous ones did, VR allows for the communication of environment and spatial information. It's why the Armies are using VR for troops and why Meta and Apple are investing into VR so much. Being able to convey things like posture, body language, and even three dimensional expressions of emotion are MASSIVE. It's clunky now, but so were each of the former technologies.

[@thebigpicture2032]

Hence future….

[@bluephoenixguy1094]

@@thebigpicture2032 My point is that a lot of the technologies that would be required are likely only to see development beyond the frame she's talking about. Theoretically anything could be "In the future". My point is it won't be anytime within the next 100 years, as she mentioned for a few of these. Haptics are only seeing minor development for the sake of VR. Until VR becomes mainstream, Haptics are unlikely to come into play. Without those, her idea for touchless keyboards and such are further away than she'd even anticipate.

[@scottbadger4107]

Full body scans..... I'd probably be dead twice without them. One picked up kidney cancer at an early stage, the second thyroid cancer. Ironically, both were performed because of orthopedic injuries. A broken pelvis and back while skiing, and again a broken back plus punctured lung while paragliding. The question though, is what would the cost of the inevitable false positives be? in the meantime, I figure a crashing hard every 5 - 7 years is a good way to stay alive!...... : )

[@DimebagPantera]

This is all very technological, but technology is the answer to very few real problems, imho. Most of our problems are of our own making and therefor social/political problems, so I'd be more interested in how societies (and politics, if there is such a thing in 2085) manage to create communities worth living in, where individuals manage to live fulfilling lives without having to repeat the cruel traumatic history of themselves or their small or larger community.