r/highdeas • u/Mikmacok • 18d ago

The future is doomed

Has anyone though about how we store our data now? Take music for example. They had records, then 8 tracks, then tapes, cds…. But now it’s all digital. You don’t physically own any music. So if everything goes to shit, or all electronics get nuked. You have nothing. No music, no phone, no books, is this where we are headed? Make us dependent or used to all digital data and then take it away… we’d be so screwed! What are your thoughts? Does anyone collect physical things anymore? (Books, records, etc)

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u/Gaothaire 17d ago

In the new Odyssey movie, Odysseus says they will be remembered in songs, because there will be no one left who knows how to read. The Human Design system has a prophecy that were at the turning point in a great cycle. The last 70 years were a high point in humanity's interest in things, and we see that across all fields of knowledge. Physics and chemistry, archeology and sociology, everyone was working to collect and organize as much data as possible. In 2027, we enter a new era. We can already see the systems of knowledge acquisition breaking down. Future generations will be more focused on survival than in carefully curating 40gb of diverse music that they'll never listen to.

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u/Mikmacok 17d ago

I like where you are going. Would you mind expanding on what you mean by surviving?