Thanks very much. This is funny. Is that a Texas accent?

By the way, I have an excellent analysis of Star Trek here. (see link below). I really didn’t realize how Gene Roddenberry had planned the Stark Trek episodes with a specific purpose: It was very important to Roddenberry that the Star Trek narrative in his episodes reflected his own left-wing, liberal visions of the future of mankind. This is often highlighted in these reviews.

Star Trek The Original Series Retrospective / Review – Star Trek Retrospective, Part 1- (11?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0nUOPq31Ug

https://futurism.com/space-colonists-resort-cannibalism

Time to concentrate on the perfecting of the food replicator.

https://youtu.be/8kw9_O10Fh8 1:40

What IMO is essential for successful long term space exploration?

1. The food replicator, 2. Artificial gravity, 3. Electromagnetic shielding. And I will throw in #4. The space toilet.

When these issues are mastered and perfected then man (And woman) can go confidently into space. Can anyone here seriously imagine women in any significant numbers being willing to venture into an environment like space without some hope of having a proper bathroom / toilet in their future? Not me.

This could give people the life expectancy of essentially their brain. As long as that part still works fine almost everything else could be replaced.

All to save us of course.

Robots are great as long as they don’t take your job.

Asimov wrote a couple of series of books (the foundation series and the robot stories) that explored different aspects of robots in society. Almost none turned out good for man or mankind.
Robots as in anthropomorphic designs and not just computer controlled machines designed to help the worker do his job.
In almost every scenario robots just made mankind fat and lazy. Especially mentally and intellectually lazy.

A real futurist would see both the bad and the good in their own ideas of the future. And present both sides.

We already use prosthetic parts and have various implants, such as corneas and teeth. Plugging into the hive mind can’t be too far away.

On the other hand, from the first article: “Only self-cleaning homes got an enthusiastic response, with 63 percent in favor of the idea.” It seems that a self cleaning house (and automated kitchen) has long been a popular idea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El1adh7H3dU (3 minutes, “Glass Bottom Boat,” 1967)

Samsung predicts that it will be more efficient to grow our own food rather than have it grown by experts by the biological equivalent of mass production. In at least one story in the 1940s or 1950s, Azimov had us eating foods made up of yeast, by now. That hasn’t happened either.

The first article also pointed out that we don’t have many of the things that earlier predictions thought we would have by now, “in a society that hasn’t changed much since 1960, except it’s a bit nicer.”

But these are technological changes. We have had several sociological changes that have not turned out so well. The “self esteem” movement has produced millions of people who cannot tolerate disagreement, sometimes with violent result. Science is demoted, and now each of us can force others to treat him as though he is what he says that he is. We must — literally — cater to other people’s desires, otherwise we face outrageous fines and penalties, making only a small portion of the population truly free and the rest of us their servants. Even the government of the “last best hope of Earth” now believes that it has the right to tell us what to purchase, what to do, what to say, and who to be, just so long as there is a tax associated with it — and that government increasingly sees its people (possessive) as its servants rather than itself as the servant to the people (the government was meant to belong to the people).

So, on the course that we are on, it seems that rather than We the People choosing the efficiencies that we want (the definition of liberty), government will impose upon us the efficiencies that it wants (the definition of tyranny). It looks like Samsung predicts this kind of future for humanity.

Have not watched this recently, but disturbingly on point:
Logan’s Run trailer
(1976)
https://youtu.be/USADM5Gk9Gs
2:56

“It’s a Jetsons World”
(Chapter 1: It’s a Jetsons World)
Jeffrey A. Tucker
https://youtu.be/IKegyzb4yF8
9:05

Of course not, they think that they, “the elite”, will be the ones doing the monitoring and supervising of the “deplorables”

1) Which illuminates their towering hubris

2) They may think they’re well educated, but they know nothing of history. That teaches us that the people who think they will be running things by right of their natural superiority are among the first to get sent to the camps.

“was how much consensus there seems to be”

Naturally, it’s a little clique that forms an echo chamber endlessly repeating the party line and punishing thoe who dare to question the orthodoxy

And who in the world is going to grow most of their own groceries? Do they understand exactly how diverse the modern diet is today. Who knows how to grow those wonderfully white cauliflowers? How about rhubarb? How about compost?

As for most people working out of their home. Who will work the restaurants and theaters? Police the streets? Operate the prisons?
As for robots taking over most manual labor jobs, what will and I am sorry to say it “stupid”people do? Are we just going to let 50% of the nation live off welfare and doing drugs? We all know that for most people if you let someone live fat and lazy they will choose to live fat and lazy.

This is turning out as bad as the Matrix concept of using people for batteries as a limitless source of electricity.

A highly mature and principled adult might say no. Are there any of those left?

“Pre-World War II futuristic utopian thinking, as envisioned by General Motors. Documents the “Futurama” exhibit in GM’s “Highways and Horizons” pavilion at the World’s Fair, which looks ahead to the “wonder world of 1960.”