You know that trope in simulated-world movies where character gets to the edge of the simulation and sees blankness or a computer grid? The future feels like that right now. Especially if you have a strong sense of history. I suspect people bored by in history don’t feel this.
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I have the sense that we are at the dawn of a new epoch. The Internet is a new solvent that humans are learning to live in, It's changed the landscape of human cooperation / society and so things are shifting. At the same time we have automation rising, and AI is a wildcard.
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Not really. I’m reading heavily about apparent precedents and none is a strong match. Black Death, Spanish flu, ww2... Weak rhymes at best.
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The future became unpredictable 4 million years ago when primate brain size began increasing exponentially. The singularity has already occurred.
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