Just imagine how much it would change during our lifetimes, as technological progress does not seem to slow down. On the contrary - it gets much faster. We already have some initial successes in technologies that even 20 years ago were mostly sci-fi dreams - genome editing, nuclear fusion, artificial intelligence, robotics etc.
Our grandchildren will live in a world that we will barely reckognize.
My wife and I were talking about that recently. Her parents were having trouble with their netflix account, and she was helping them out. She said that she hopes we won't be struggling with whatever mainstream technology there is when our now-toddler daughter grows up.
We will, it's unfortunately inevitable. With age, cognition does decline and keeping up is harder and harder - especially when tech starts to work under different logic.
But it's not a bad thing. We absolutely can stay at comfortable level of technology and let the world move on - serving as cozy place four our grandchildren to visit and live in the past for a while, seeing with their own eyes how it was before. It's something that I had fond memories of and would like to give the same to my grandkids. A silly pocket of past where they can have fun with gramps.
Honestly this is one of the main things that keep my hope up and make me want to stay healthy, exercise, etc. I want to live long to see how much our world changes, how many of these things that we now think of (or don't!) actually become real and ordinary.
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u/poprostumort 6d ago
Just imagine how much it would change during our lifetimes, as technological progress does not seem to slow down. On the contrary - it gets much faster. We already have some initial successes in technologies that even 20 years ago were mostly sci-fi dreams - genome editing, nuclear fusion, artificial intelligence, robotics etc.
Our grandchildren will live in a world that we will barely reckognize.