That was an interesting vision of the future. A couple thoughts:
(1) It's a vision of hell. I prefer solitude and real experience to the social networking world. What about someone who wants off the grid because the grid is a plastic substitute for real experience?
(2) Bonus points to the writer for not claiming that social problems were non-existent. The freeways get hacked, there's been a nuclear war, the middle east is still trouble, and China still wants to control Europe.
It shies away from Utopian thinking enough that I can believe it, but it also shows an automated world that I don't think I want. In that, it's an excellent brain-stimulating piece of writing.
Unfortunately, I don't see much in this version of the future that isn't just as well handled by throwing a switch, or turning off an alarm clock or booting a computer. ZOMG! You mean people used to not have the Internets do like everything? How did they survive?
Driverless transport is going to be awesome until the first thousand car thousand death mega pileup. Probably make a mess all over my lawn, dammit!
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That was an interesting vision of the future. A couple thoughts:
(1) It's a vision of hell. I prefer solitude and real experience to the social networking world. What about someone who wants off the grid because the grid is a plastic substitute for real experience?
(2) Bonus points to the writer for not claiming that social problems were non-existent. The freeways get hacked, there's been a nuclear war, the middle east is still trouble, and China still wants to control Europe.
It shies away from Utopian thinking enough that I can believe it, but it also shows an automated world that I don't think I want. In that, it's an excellent brain-stimulating piece of writing.
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