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ihateshadylandlords t1_iy1d9jj wrote

I was a middle schooler in 2002, and it was pretty different. I remember collect calls since cell phones were just starting to proliferate with my classmates. VR aka Virtual Boy had flopped a couple of years earlier. DVDs will still a thing, and so was Blockbuster.

I remember my dad had to use map quest to take me to baseball games and I was listeneinf to music on my CD player while he was cussing because he missed his exit. Porn wasn’t free and you had to rely on playboy mags or wait a while for a single pic to download.

What’s funny is that 2012 to me was drastically different than 2002. But 2012 doesn’t really feel different than 2022. I mean I have an air fryer now, but I can’t really think of much that’s changed from then to now.

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Cr4zko t1_iy1ktpe wrote

I was 11 in 2012 and comparing it to today? Feels like an entirely different world. Some things were better... some worse. Feels like the stuff you buy at the supermarket today tastes weird. I can't quite put my finger on it.

Internet changed a lot. I remember back then you were hot shit if you had a PSP or a DS. Let alone a Vita/3DS! Never saw one of those in the wild.

Anime, remember that? Haruhi Suzumiya was the thing to be in the know and these days people don't care much...

Besides, back then people wouldn't lash out for the smallest little slights like today. Although by that point internet culture was reaching the point of assimilation by Reddit, Facebook & YouTube. Gone were the days of pre-youtube monoliths like YTMND and forum culture.

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Sieventer t1_iy1pvdm wrote

I am from 2000 and I lived the internet since 2008. People are not aware of how much the internet has changed since then...
The humor has changed so much in just 10 years! In addition to humor, there is also what is considered 'scary'. In the past, creppypastas were scary, nowadays, it's impossible to create anything scary fictional. People are more insensitive. Also, everything was more 'decentralized', it was a more 'atomic' internet, sometimes it felt warmer than today even if there were less people.
We have gone from everyone having Windows XP, to everyone having Windows Vista, to everyone having Windows 7, and finally most of us having Windows 10. It is much more exponential the changes in the technological environments than in the real ones (which are also noticeable in the streets, of course).
Honestly, I find it impossible to predict the internet of 2032... I was writing a letter for 2060 in 'futureme', and I find it impossible to predict what it will be like by then. In fact, I think they won't even use physical screens or keyboards. Anyway, I'm getting long winded!

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modestLife1 t1_iy20srw wrote

lol u ppl are young xD

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Sieventer t1_iy2l8hl wrote

How old are you? I'm technically young, but then I think about future generations... and I feel like an old man. I'm afraid of being on the brink of immortality and not making it, because by the time transhumanism and aging cures come along, I will be at a dangerous age. In the meantime, others will be in their twenties and will have plenty to spare...

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Chop1n t1_iy3fsgn wrote

I'm pretty sure we're well within the range of time where we'll see either civilizational collapse or singularity, provided you can tough it out for another few decades.

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ThoughtSafe9928 t1_iy71sg2 wrote

Excited for either. I either live out my dystopian fantasies or utopian.

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modestLife1 t1_iy3g1yg wrote

i'm 33 (born in '89), so 13 years older than you. to be completely honest, even though i subscribe and like the general optimism of this sub, i feel exactly the same as you. i don't think world changing technology like anti-ageing therapies and such will be available for another hundred years at minimum. but hey, i'm only here to periodically see if i'm wrong... so here's hoping 🍻

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[deleted] t1_iy2siaf wrote

Back in 2002, VHS was still a thing.
We had no DVD player until 2005 or maybe later.

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Talkat t1_iy2ujl9 wrote

The next decade will be the biggest jump in your life.

You will likely eat mostly 'fake' meat grown in bioreactors.

Your power will be very cheap and powered by renewables (mostly solar)

Your driving will be done for you with autonomous vehicles

Humanoid robots will do the strenuous manual labour

You will have an AI assistant that will be every specialist in one (a phycologist, personal trainer, personal coach, medical specialist, engineer, coder, etc) accessible for a few bucks per month.

There will be far more higher quality content (movies, TV shows, music, etc) that are created by AI

People will have BMI's installed. These are implants into your brain that help you remember things better, access the internet, control emotions easier, etc. This will be like the introduction of the first smart phone.

Am I missing anything?

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davorg t1_iy38bls wrote

> The next decade will be the biggest jump in your life.

Until the one after that (and so on...)

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Ctrlguy t1_iy3trbf wrote

You're missing the perspective of age. None of the things you mentioned here will predominate in the next decade. I was born in 1954. Things have changed a lot less than you believe even since then.

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AsuhoChinami t1_iy6wbxl wrote

Uh... I can't speak for the 1950s since I wasn't alive then, but I remember the 90s and 2000s and I feel as though my life and the world was very different. It's pretty subjective. You can hyperfixate on the way things have remained stable if that's what you want to do (we still drive cars, we still shop at stores, whatever) for whatever reason you might have, but your perspective is not the only valid one. Like my day-to-day life was dramatically different in the 90s because I didn't have the internet for most of the decade, but I'm supposed to discount my own experiences and say that that's totally wrong because... reasons? Because some guy on reddit tells me to? None of my hobbies and interests and defining elements of daily life even existed in 1954.

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NefariousNaz t1_iye4lf5 wrote

eeeh I grew up in 80s-90s and looking back life is pretty much drastically different. Between 1950s vs today the difference between no computers at all, let alone internet is pretty massive.

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ihateshadylandlords t1_iy3ei7q wrote

I hope those things are all in production and available for the masses by then.

!RemindMe 17 years

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Chop1n t1_iy3g450 wrote

I think anything that can compete with human creative writing is necessarily going to be strong AI/AGI, by which point the world as we know it would have ended anyway.

That is to say: you'd have to be able to pass the Turing Test. Language itself is the ultimate and final domain of human intelligence, and storytelling is arguably the subtlest expression of it.

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Chop1n t1_iy3fhgj wrote

I'm not sure what kind of internet you were on, but there was definitely loads of free porn circa 2002.

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AsuhoChinami t1_iy6x9qm wrote

It's true that the difference between 2002 and 2012 was very night-and-day whereas 2012 vs. 2022 is more subtle, but you're somewhat overstating the point; I was 24/25 in 2012 and can think of multiple ways in which my life has changed since then due to technology. At any rate, the 10s were largely a preparation decade for various technologies that would proliferate during the 20s, so 2022 vs 2032 will be more akin to 2002 vs 2012, except with a much greater impact on quality-of-life since medical tech will be one of the things that benefits this time.

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