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Afrofuturism is basically the only meaningful futurism in the 100-150y horizon. The rest of the world will be retired with robot eldercare.
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Realistically I’d say we’re in for a global dark age of a few hundred years because Africa won’t be far enough along to catch the ball when the rest of the world inevitably drops it.
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Short history of future 2040: Japan, EU retire 2050: POTUS Ivanka tweets “climate solved” 2070: UN up for auction on eBay 2071: Musk buys UN for 100th birthday, tweets “fix coming” 2072: Musk tweets he’s checking ratio of working-age Africans to non-African bots I mean retirees
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Homo Zendiens is going to inherit a totally trashed planet with all the spice gone and only desert but they’ll deal
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The idea of the "prime working age" population being a metric of societal viability will be outdated in 50 years. With medTech advances and greater reliance on knowledge work, a 70yr old in the west could compete against a healthy 30yr old in the developing world