What gives you that "Holy shit we're living in the future!" feeling?

[Jasper]

Oh dude

You could stage an "alien" encounter, then show up as MIB agents and use your "neuralizer" on the witnesses.

[Triple Zero]

tons of stuff. I get that feeling several times a day. Most recently, my girlfriend's band mate was complaining about how expensive music software is. It would take him months to save up for a copy of Logic. I suggested he pirate it. He didn't know how to do that. 1 minute and 45 seconds later, he was downloading a free copy all by himself.

Don't you love that you can just DO that? It almost overwhelms me sometimes, how much potential each of us have. And it just keeps climbing.

Yep.  I just stunned the fuck out of myself after only a few weeks' work, and now I'm planning to share it with hundreds of holiday shoppers!

A few weeks? I thought you've been working on it for months now? Or maybe you meant cumulative time working on it. Anyway, it WORKS and that is AWESOME!



you said you were gonna post videos, right?

[Requia ☣]

Cops following people with GPS trackers is pretty damned future.

[Doktor Howl]

tons of stuff. I get that feeling several times a day. Most recently, my girlfriend's band mate was complaining about how expensive music software is. It would take him months to save up for a copy of Logic. I suggested he pirate it. He didn't know how to do that. 1 minute and 45 seconds later, he was downloading a free copy all by himself.

Don't you love that you can just DO that? It almost overwhelms me sometimes, how much potential each of us have. And it just keeps climbing.

Yep.  I just stunned the fuck out of myself after only a few weeks' work, and now I'm planning to share it with hundreds of holiday shoppers!

A few weeks? I thought you've been working on it for months now? Or maybe you meant cumulative time working on it. Anyway, it WORKS and that is AWESOME!



you said you were gonna post videos, right?

Yep.  Just as soon as it's portable.

[Doktor Howl]

Cops following people with GPS trackers is pretty damned future.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I get that "living in the future feeling" from massive environmental disasters seemingly too numerous to count, coupled with global plutocracy masquerading as free enterprise.

So, 1880.

Well, yeah, but the sheer scope of our ability to destroy our environment has increased exponentially since then.

Only due to a larger population, and that's still debatable.  The 1880s were the worst time for pollution in history, at least in the USA.  LOL coal-powered industry.

Well, I'll admit that in general our attitudes have evolved a little bit since then. We're not wantonly firing into herds of buffalo from the sides of coal-powered trains, none-the-less the general increase of the human population itself is taxing on our environment. Its hard for me to imagine a future scenario where that growth over-taxes at least one of the resources we need to survive, and when a species expands beyond its ability to support itself... well,

On the other hand, I have to admit that I'm a fan of global communication and information sharing. Although, some have expressed fear that the shift from the micro to the macro will inevitably limit personal freedom, reducing the role of the individual from an independent thinking body to merely another cog in the machine, or perhaps another synapse in the macro-neural network of humanity 2.0.

I guess I find it hard to imagine a future without horror, but that same horror has always been with us, something hardwired into mankind itself. On an individual level, our empathy and our morality serves us very well, but when I try to envision our species on a macro level... it honestly terrifies me.

"overpopulation" is bullshit. the earth could easily sustain a human population of 100 billion. we're not in the least big "taxing the environment." we're careless with it and we're bad at distributing goods, but it isn't the planet's fault that our politics and economics are bottlenecking our population.

By what measure are you calling overpopulation "bullshit"? Are you taking standard of living and biodiversity into consideration? You know what happens when you increase density and decrease biodiversity, right?

Also, a lot of people make the mistake of thinking that the planet's land is mostly arable. It's not. Very little of it is.

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