For the sake of the question, let’s just assume that no apocalyptic event happens that wipes out the human race.
You can imagine different dystopian scenarios:
- Elon builds a colony on mars. Once one million people get there, it starves to death by technical accidents and is left to its fate.
- Chinese hyper empire emerges, from Tibetan Plateu and conquers a weakened Russia. Trump is okay with it, since he is focused on “domestic issues” like removing gay rights. Later China buys Trumps advisors.
- Trump conquest of Greenland, Canada and the arctic create a new American Hyper-Empire that expands into the weakened Russian heartland and Europe.
Or to keep the status quo:
- Europe conquers Russia, and shows Trump and Xi their place.
A full retreat into the vestiges of our minds and fantasies.
Leave your cares behind,
come with us and find
The pleasures of a journey,
to the Center of the MindEveryone will become gay and artificial baby’s will produce. We will just work and no feelings. Ai and robot will be there also credit system
Empty acidic oceans and smaller mammals. Larger insects and more carnivorous plants. No human life.
That’s a big assumption but if not there may be a few of us that have adapted to the harsh air and live in holes in the Arctic and Antarctic poles where they can find land to protect from the super windstorms and acid rain. But I’m not sure what the food source will be. Maybe that shit they eat in the matix movies. Because you can’t grow anything due to the acid rain and contaminated soil from the above mentioned acid rain.
Massive wars will break out over climate refugees invading the least affected areas. Billions will die and those left will be trying desperately to rebuild society. Nuclear contamination will be a real problem after nukes are used by middle East countries completely out of fresh water that Western countries are hoarding. Corporations will be outlawed after Nestle attempted to create a water monopoly and massive revolt saw their board murdered in public by a mob. Humanity will be 1/10th the population of today.
Socialism or barbarism
Mad max, probably
I think Cyberpunk is more likely. Huge buildings, no plants, no animals, everything controlled by big corps and law is basically non-existent except if rich folk are affected
The way we begin 2025, both the Fallout and Judge Dredd universes come to mind.
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I think we are going to completely abstract from traditional ethics, entertainment, and communication, aside from a few niche communities akin to a 21st century Amish.
We are currently on track to reach +4.5°C average heat increase above pre-industrials levels in 2100. Which means famines all over the World, only 30% of current agricultural Land left for Farming, and wild fires being a common occurence up to the 50th latitude. And Not being able to Go outside in Summer for Most of the World, because our availability to sweat will be hindered by high humidity levels, leaving most people of the Population left for a high Chance to Heat strokes.
All of that assuming our current scientific Models are not lacking behind the reality, as with the recent sharp increase over +1,5°C in 2023-2024, we can not yet completely explain yet. So it could be worse than that, the chances of it being better are almost Zero.
For the sake of the question, let’s just assume that no apocalyptic event happens that wipes out the human race.
Come on man. Did you not understand the assignment?
I took ‘apocalyptic Event’ by its Definition, being a sudden Event that Brings about the Apocalypse. To that regard, the climate crisis is a somewhat slow dead.
The assignment is fundamentally flawed.
Maybe… when Biology booms similarly to LLM models like GPT… then we would see a bug fixed in the plants, which absorb CO2 pretty slowly with a protein building block and thus create an extreme amount of that protein instead of fixing the protein. Which means, if we fix the Protein and modify all plants to create and use it instead through DNA manipulation, then we could have a brighter future than we are now imagining (maybe only a bit less dystopical is what I mean)
I don’t think thats really possible. One of the reasons why we have a hard time figuring Out how to get CO2 Out of the atmosphere is because chemically its such non reaction Gas. This stuff interacts with almost nothing and if it reacts (as in being bound to Saccharose and Cellulose in Plants), its always requiring somewhat large amounts of external Energy. So neither technology Nor bilogy will save us
Higher global temperature and more drastic weather. Better medicine and medical equipment but with higher costs. Decreasing global population, but more homeless people due to ai software and physical bots. The continually profitting billionaires will control more of the media to influence those below them, ie to have them fight among themselves rather than them. Probably more in “goverments” for more control. Continuing wars just different countries for profit.
This won’t be that big of a difference within that timespan, but the trend will continue as more time passes.
I try to be an optimist, but unless the underclass revolts, it’s hard to see otherwise.
There will be a lunar spacestation, according to NASA, which I’ll be looking forward to seeing, at least.
Underground tribes living off of the mushrooms we can cultivate. Waging war on other tribes for ressources.
Basically ‘Metro 2033’, but less cool.
We’ll be a few decades into the new dark ages and a few centuries away from restoring any kind of democracy anywhere on earth. For reasons beyond my understanding, the vast majority of people will be perfectly happy with whatever happens so it’s not worth worrying about.
