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You likely read the newspaper in the morning, watched the news at night, and consumed a trickle of information in between by going to Yahoo News
Sex dolls will be walking around 140 per person on every street with credit card slots in their asses
I believe the future of local, public transportation won't be buses, but self-driving electric cars where you pay a monthly fee to get access to them whenever you want. Because the cost to operate will be so low, owning cars will slowly decline.
And so forth.
The only one I can see coming in a decade is decent (not great) sex robots, since nothing drives humanity like libido.
The only one I can see coming in a decade is decent (not great) sex robots, since nothing drives humanity like libido.
No FB, no social media, no Google, no smartphones, Apple was an irrelevant corner of the computer industry, China was a developing nation, etc, etc....
The number of atheists and unaffiliated continues to decline worldwide, as it has been for several years.
China was a developing nation, that grew very powerful because Neoliberals aggressively transferred jobs and technology there
China was a developing nation, that grew very powerful because Neoliberals aggressively transferred jobs and technology there
Nice narrative if you can sell it.
It's basic economics, that if the markets are global and items can be produced elsewhere for much less that they will be.
That we think it's "basic economics" is a bizarre heresy that's been instilled into us by people who happen to profit from it.
To be clear, the total number of religiously unaffiliated people (which includes atheists, agnostics and those who do not identify with any religion in particular) is expected to rise in absolute terms, from 1.17 billion in 2015 to 1.20 billion in 2060. But this growth is projected to occur at the same time that other religious groups – and the global population overall – are growing even faster.
These projections, which take into account demographic factors such as fertility, age composition and life expectancy, forecast that people with no religion will make up about 13% of the world’s population in 2060, down from roughly 16% as of 2015.
This relative decline is largely attributable to the fact that religious “nones” are, on average, older and have fewer children than people who are affiliated with a religion. In 2015, for instance, the median age of people who belong to any of the world’s religions was 29, compared with 36 among the unaffiliated. And between 2010 and 2015, adherents of religions are estimated to have given birth to an average of 2.45 children per woman, compared with an average of 1.65 children among the unaffiliated.
This time a decade ago, there was no such thing as an iPad. There were no food delivery meal kits. You didn’t speak to a machine called Alexa or Siri, or get laid with an app called Tinder. You stayed in hotels, not Airbnbs. You telephoned a cab company, rather than pressing a button and waiting for an Uber or a Lyft. You didn’t waste hours of your day on Instagram, scrolling from one box to the next like a gerbil running on a wheel as an algorithm watches and takes notes. Jobs that are now performed by hundreds of thousands of people—Uber driver, gif-maker, social media influencer—didn’t exist. You likely read the newspaper in the morning, watched the news at night, and consumed a trickle of information in between by going to Yahoo News or through the RSS feed you’d painstakingly constructed, rather than drinking from the fire hose that is Twitter. Things felt slower. Now, this whirlwind of a past decade could be just a taste of what’s to come.