Post-pandemic before/after speculative prediction/forecasting thread. Will try to capture ideas that occur to me in a non-valuative way (ie, avoid tagging as dark age/return to light)
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Public health administration will be heavily deregulated and we'll move from a mainframe to PC era of "personal health management" with a lot more of the care and risk management happening at the level of non-professionals. Amateurization in all its good+bad embodiments.
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Political ideologies will swing towards greater openness to euthanasia and quality-of-life utilitarianism. Managing societies to acknowledge not just capacity for survival/adaptive fit, but desire and quality of the survival. Opt-in administrative darwinism basically.
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Societal futures will start to resemble Asimov's Spacer civilization in allegorical form. A longevity/self-segregation based mansion elite with low evolutionary viability, high QoL + a declining life-span/dense living mass population with high evolutionary viability but low QoL
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We will come to see brute force societal microbial barrier enforcement via mass sanitization as unsustainable. Castle-and-moat perimeter defense of “civilization” will give way to a zero-trust networking approach to managing the microbial interface.https://stratechery.com/2020/zero-trust-information/ …
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do you see in your scenarios 3D-printing as a key technology? things like artisanal deep learning, raspberry pis and arduinos could also push for automation at the edges
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Yes, but it might take longer than people hope. That stuff seems to find it tough to break out of hobby zone.
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Positive value judging the shit out of this
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