I’ve started asking people what behavior we engage in today will be seen as bizarre or possibly illegal in 100 years. The answers are intriguing so I will anonymously document them here.
When duplicates are found I add the individual reasoning as a sub-point.
- Sex
- people are more distracted by easy digital entertainment (more immersive than phones)
- sex is an act of violence and will slowly be removed from normal behavior. It might become regulated or controlled
- people become more and more germaphobic and intimate contact is seen as a high-risk act
- male sperm count is lowering so it is harder to reproduce
- people are tired and distracted
- less in-person socializing meaning the opportunities to find someone to have sex with are decreasing
- Personal liberty and freedom. Everything being watched or surveyed will become the norm and accepted.
- Suicide won’t be frowned upon. Reduced value of human life and this will be an available, easy opt out
- Buying and owning private cars
- Mechanised farming
- all meat will be lab grown
- the raising of animals for slaughter will be seen as shocking behavior
- Industrialized meat production/ factory farming
- Paying humans to do tasks. Money is used to shape behavior (like giving monkeys bananas). However, you wouldn’t give a monkey 1 million bananas to drive your car. Why would you give a human $ tokens to do something if AI was superior
- Traditional employment will be seen as equivalent to slave ownership
- Females giving birth in a natural way
- we lose months of productivity and incur damage to the body
- we will use ‘grow bags’ to incubate children which will also help us scale the population when needed
- American football will be seen as barbaric as fighters in the Colosseum. It’s pretty crazy it’s the most popular American sport and it consistently gives the majority of their players irreparable brain damage
- Individualism. With neural link, the world will become a hive mind. The entire planet becomes a single organism. Already can be seen today via social media and polarization. However social media is significantly lower in communication bandwidth than neural link
- Our abuse of natural resources