Future of our civilization

[TotallyHuman]

I don't want this thread to be locked, so try to avoid talking about ideologies or world politics and be not specific, if not vague in your answers.
I think it's an interesting thought experiment and it's useful to authors because it allows them to take a perspective that is rarely used in most webnovels, one of a great scale and not really event-focused/driven.
Now, to the prompt:
I believe that our current society is in an experimental stage, a limbo of sorts, between the previous century that enjoyed a far-too-rapid growth in terms of industrial and communicational capabilities and what is yet to come. We haven't quite figured our way around what we can do and what we are to do, and how to do it, so we are now stumbling around, feelings things out, and suffering from growing pains.
I want to see what you think will happen to our future and how we will get there.
Rules of the prompt:
1) the main character is the collective of humanity/its current civilization. No individuals allowed in the narrative
2) no references to political ideologies, opinions and individual countries/organisations (I don't want this thread locked)
3) time scale is rough (not precise), point of view looks at how things change in decades at a time
4) only states of society (how people's mentality changes and how the collective views the world, their goals and problems), technology etc. are described, no individual events however large are given any thorough attention (you can say, for example, that a war broke out or a country fell apart or such, but it is not to be seen or shown as a point to weave your narrative around. That would be against the spirit of the prompt)
It seems quite tough, so I am looking forward to what you people will come up with

 

[SailusGebel]

Fallout is the future, albeit it will be not as funny as Fallout.

 

[MR.DANTE]

difficult to do without ideologi as it shape society, still i see few different pats.
1. society doesnt resolve its problems and decide to restructure economy twords a centrally planned model and restructure of society based on identity, difficult to say the chance for this one (4 to 20 years).
2. technology advance more rapidly than society can change or adjust, first AI remove the need for most office and low level administrative jobs then robotics remove the need for most manual work only extremely high position in both fields remain followed by massive poverty or if a minimum is granted to everyone a massive problem of meaning is present since 99% of people lack the intelligence necessary to aquire the skills needed to work in the new society, this is the one i see as most likely to happen (10 and 100 years).
3 technology advance more twords space exploration and humanity has a new frontier to explore and is able to adjust itself in a more constructive way more viable for the challenges of space exploration and exploiting new resources, decent chance for this one (50 to 200 years).
4 tension between the forming ideological faction continue to rise and civil war coups and political instability dominate the landscape till everything is destroyed or one side prevail, difficult to say how likely this one is(frome now for an unknown amount of time).
5.1 society resolve its problems in and goes back to a model similar to the one in place during the last 70 years or so, we keep FIAT currency and hope for the best till next big crisis arise, decent chance for this one as well.
5.2 society resolve its problems and goes back to a model similar to the one in place during the last 70 years or so, we dismiss FIAT currency and go back to a gold standard or implement a new model with proof of work/stake utilized by crypto (it doesnt have to be bitcoin just utilize the same system of autentification and make monetary supply scarce), the most unlikely, modern monetary theory is too good for the institutions(4 to 20 years).

Something along those lines, I tried to not mention any ideology even tho tts difficult and are really important to have a serious discussion about this topic. Number 2 and 3 will surely overlap at list to some degree, the only mutually exclusive option are 1 and 5

 

[Ritz]

Personally, even with 2020 and its aftermath in the coming years, I'm still optimistic. We've faced worse hiccups before, usually localized, and have come out just fine. The current crisis (this might be political to say) to me has mostly been from fiat. And as you've said, we've had an unforeseen revolution of growth in the past century and now, and I don't believe something like that we face would end it. More than a 100 years later though, I'm leery to attempt to predict. That's all.

On what principle is it, that when we see nothing but improvement behind us, we are to expect nothing but deterioration before us?
-Review of Southey’s Colloquies on Society

 

[AriaJane]

Wording this is actually very difficult.
Assuming we don't keep hurling ourselves into the apocalypse, I think people will be quite surprised which types of jobs will be lost to machines and technology first. I don't think it will be the lower, 'unskilled' labour force who suffer the brunt, but the middle classes. Because of this, there is likely going to be a time where we need to rethink how we each run our economies, and also re-learning and re-evaluating the value of humanity. My hope is that people realise that the way we are currently doing things doesn't work for us as a species, nor does it work for the planet we live on. Basically, I hope for a growth in empathy and less of a "dog eat dog" mentality.
If advances in technology mean we need less human labour, humans shouldn't suffer for that.

 

[Nahrenne]

I don't want this thread to be locked, so try to avoid talking about ideologies or world politics and be not specific, if not vague in your answers.
I think it's an interesting thought experiment and it's useful to authors because it allows them to take a perspective that is rarely used in most webnovels, one of a great scale and not really event-focused/driven.
Now, to the prompt:
I believe that our current society is in an experimental stage, a limbo of sorts, between the previous century that enjoyed a far-too-rapid growth in terms of industrial and communicational capabilities and what is yet to come. We haven't quite figured our way around what we can do and what we are to do, and how to do it, so we are now stumbling around, feelings things out, and suffering from growing pains.
I want to see what you think will happen to our future and how we will get there.
Rules of the prompt:
1) the main character is the collective of humanity/its current civilization. No individuals allowed in the narrative
2) no references to political ideologies, opinions and individual countries/organisations (I don't want this thread locked)
3) time scale is rough (not precise), point of view looks at how things change in decades at a time
4) only states of society (how people's mentality changes and how the collective views the world, their goals and problems), technology etc. are described, no individual events however large are given any thorough attention (you can say, for example, that a war broke out or a country fell apart or such, but it is not to be seen or shown as a point to weave your narrative around. That would be against the spirit of the prompt)
It seems quite tough, so I am looking forward to what you people will come up with

Not sure if it breaks the rules or not...
Many places that humans live in are destroyed from increases in natural disasters: floods, droughts, hurricanes, heatwaves, fires, thunderstorms, snowstorms, volcanic eruptions, etc...
Humanity doesn't put enough measures in place thus many people die from lack of food, water, or from the disasters themselves.

Those that survived live in much harsher conditions as the economies around the world collapsed while many animals went extinct from sudden changes in habitat - resulting in lower source of livestock due to the costs of breeding, raising and slaughtering outweighing the profits.

Sea levels rise and a large mass of land becomes permanently submerged, leading to overpopulation in the inland cities and towns, as well as less cultivation land for crops.

Technology improves in leaps and bounds as efforts to mitigate these problems becomes a priority, resulting in much of humanity resorting to living in either underground bunkers with artificial sunlight, or overworld bunkers. With the loss of many forests and rainforests, as well as pollution in the water, oxygen is a lot lower and the protective layer of gases around the planet gets thinner. This results in higher levels of radiation from the sun, meaning everyone has to wear suits or very large amounts of sun cream whenever they go out.

Globalisation comes to a halt for a while as countries try to stabilise. Once it does resume, the gap between the rich and poor gets wider as the mindset of the strongest surviving outweighs the mindset of everyone having an equal opportunity at life. Wars happen a lot more often due to lack of resources which possibly leads to nuclear war that results in even less people surviving.

The planet becomes a wasteland of fallout as humanity struggles to survive while suffering in their day to day lives, losing much of the knowledge gained from millennia of study and research.




If this did break any of the rules, then I'll delete the post. This is just my personal take on things with how things are currently going atm.
'-'

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[Jesse.S.Pierce]

A decade from now I'll put on my jacket and I'll find inside it a mask in one of its pocket. "Oh man what a weird year that was," I'd think to myself and chuckle. Then I'll pick up my machete and continue across the wasteland, avoiding the roving gangs of cannibal raiders as I move onward in search for the dwindling and limited food and water still left in this world.

 

[Discount_Blade]

A decade from now I'll put on my jacket and I'll find inside it a mask in one of its pocket. "Oh man what a weird year that was," I'd think to myself and chuckle. Then I'll pick up my machete and continue across the wasteland, avoiding the roving gangs of cannibal raiders as I move onward in search for the dwindling and limited food and water still left in this world.

Ah yes. The good life no?

 

[Chaos_Sinner777]

All things will eventually return to the Primordial Chaos. Stories are the things we use to distract ourselves from that eventuality.

 

[K5Rakitan]

As more things become automated, I imagine that more people will get into creative work. The problem is that we have not figured out how to pay them yet. Therefore, I see a world where nearly everyone does ten hours of paid community service per week. The only people not doing community service will be the ones who design and make the machines that make our lives easier. Those will be the rich people, but they will also have a maximum wealth level as determined by popular vote.

 

[Anon_Y_Mousse]

Everyone here seems to be going post-apocalyptic so I may as well be optimistic and go sci-fi and give everyone an existential crisis.
Humanity has done it, we have conquered the stars, colonized every planet in our local galaxy cluster. Well, it's just one big galaxy now. Throughout billions of years, we sent generation ships across the vast void and settled on every habitable and unhabitable planet there is. And yet, we are trapped, we have reached our limit: This is the great filter. The other galaxy clusters have drifted too far out of our reach thanks to the ever-expanding universe. The humanity of the future looks towards the empty beyond, thinking that perhaps we were all that ever was, and ever will be.

 

[Ilikewaterkusa]

I don't want this thread to be locked, so try to avoid talking about ideologies or world politics and be not specific, if not vague in your answers.
I think it's an interesting thought experiment and it's useful to authors because it allows them to take a perspective that is rarely used in most webnovels, one of a great scale and not really event-focused/driven.
Now, to the prompt:
I believe that our current society is in an experimental stage, a limbo of sorts, between the previous century that enjoyed a far-too-rapid growth in terms of industrial and communicational capabilities and what is yet to come. We haven't quite figured our way around what we can do and what we are to do, and how to do it, so we are now stumbling around, feelings things out, and suffering from growing pains.
I want to see what you think will happen to our future and how we will get there.
Rules of the prompt:
1) the main character is the collective of humanity/its current civilization. No individuals allowed in the narrative
2) no references to political ideologies, opinions and individual countries/organisations (I don't want this thread locked)
3) time scale is rough (not precise), point of view looks at how things change in decades at a time
4) only states of society (how people's mentality changes and how the collective views the world, their goals and problems), technology etc. are described, no individual events however large are given any thorough attention (you can say, for example, that a war broke out or a country fell apart or such, but it is not to be seen or shown as a point to weave your narrative around. That would be against the spirit of the prompt)
It seems quite tough, so I am looking forward to what you people will come up with

Crisis of the 21st century, global economic downturn, governments panic and regulate stuff, fail it gets worse and the people revolt and establish a new order, and the crisis about that would be like 80 years or something after the ending of the crisis, and the restoring of normalcy. Governments after the crisis will probably be more financially stable, and will do a number of extensive reforms to prevent a crisis like that to ever happen again. The reforms will probably bite them in the but later.

Elon Musk or a similar figure will probably escort and set up services to transport indiviual s to Mars and stuff, to get a safer place, where the crisis won’t screw your over.

 

[Lloyd]

Insert "Industrial Society and its Future' here.

 

[lehur]

Future Civilzation strated when;

1. We can get internet at Mbps in WC
2. We can get video call without problem in entire Gobi and Amazon
3. We can using electronics without charging months or decades

, Fin