One of the strange consequences of reading so much history is that you start to be able to imagine what a historian would write about your own time. It's alarmingly easy to imagine a future historian writing "As China's power grew, America was paralyzed by internal dissension."
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One of the more interesting thought experiments is: given every age has something subsequent ages look back on as a form of barbarism, what is the most likely candidate for that in our present age? I think the left and religious right would very different answers.
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Eh, that won't change. Like stockyards before, we'll just get better at making factories humane. More likely: homelessness and ghettoization.
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A good candidate for sure but it begs the question (like many other bioethics-related things): should morality be based on our technological capabilities? Or should it exist beyond and irrespective of them? I don't know the answer, but it's a tough one! (maybe a bit specious)
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You have *heard* of the US prison system, haven’t you?
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Yes, and probably also burning fossil fuels for energy. We might say: "we didn't have another option" but that will sound pretty weak in the future.
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And in the same vein: Single use plastics, much of which ends up in the ocean.
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You might be interested in this paper from Nature called "Predicting History": https://www.gwern.net/docs/history/2019-risi.pdf … The authors attempt to identify documents that will become historically significant in the future. Inconclusive, but interesting read.pic.twitter.com/aTOOHgkvsW
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Industrial animal agriculture will for sure be seen as barbarian.
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I’d put some money on referring to people as “black” or “white”
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Animal testing. Hands down.
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Government's monopoly over money. There is already a working solution for that.
#bitcoin
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