Predictions for life 100 years from now

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HKCAVALIER

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 1:14 AM

It's so funny that stuff like this keeps popping up around me these days as I'm working on a novel set in 2109. What I'm wrestling with lately is how post-literate the society is. With everything going to voice-activation in the next thirty years or less, typing, writing and finally reading will become highly optional skills for the "average American."

I'm thinking in 100 years, reading and writing would be part of a basic college course of study along with computer languages and programming. Professors will be clucking about reading Shakespeare for one's self, etc. and "Joe Sixpack" would chuckle at the idea of some schmoe with his nose in a book ignoring the real world. Curiously, the very poor, who don't have access to the many voice-activated apps and gizmos would hang onto the written word longer than the more affluent.

Labels will have icons, everything will act like a touch screen, etc. It's a little hard to contemplate and weird to write a novel about such a culture. So, I'm falling back on the idea that society in 100 years in TRANSITIONING into a post-literate world. Signs are "bilingual" written and iconogued. Of course, it would prolly be a major politicized wedge issue. Some radical types would want to do away teaching math in school as well. You know how it is...

HKCavalier

Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 1:17 AM

Let's hope we're not back to carving pictures on stone.

HKCAVALIER

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 1:28 AM

That's the funny thing, Bint Magon, it wouldn't really be de-evolution like that. It would simply be a doubling down on our astounding dependence on technology. Technology is about reducing our work load and speeding up gratification and if machines could reliably do all our reading and image making for us, why would the average person cling to such obsolete practices? Sure, we find it kinda horrifying, but future generations would necessarily think differently, no?

HKCavalier

Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

HKCAVALIER

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 1:30 AM

Oh, and Riona,

To my knowledge, handfasting is for a year and a day. That's all it ever is.

HKCavalier

Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 1:46 AM

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Originally posted by HKCavalier:
That's the funny thing, Bint Magon, it wouldn't really be de-evolution like that. It would simply be a doubling down on our astounding dependence on technology. Technology is about reducing our work load and speeding up gratification and if machines could reliably do all our reading and image making for us, why would the average person cling to such obsolete practices? Sure, we find it kinda horrifying, but future generations would necessarily think differently, no?

HKCavalier

Did you mean to call me a bint?

RIONAEIRE

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 1:48 AM

From what I know, handfasting is for the length of time you describe, but then after that's over a couple will choose to marry more perminantly or will choose to break apart. I don't think you can handfast with the same person over and over keeping the agreement to a year each time.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

HKCAVALIER

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 2:50 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
Did you mean to call me a bint?

Aw shoot, is it always lower case? I'm sorry, my Arabic doesn't even exist, just going for "daughter of." It does sound like some kinda nasty when you ask like that! I din't mean anything by it.

HKCavalier

Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

WISHIMAY

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 3:43 AM

I never subscribe to the theory that people will definitely be this or that...One of the truly great things about humanity is it's diversity. There will always be brainiacs, workaholics, slobs, ect. I hope there will always be people who break the mold, who delight in the obscure, and people who choose to live a different path.

I got rid of my cell phone last month, btw... I'm FREEEEEEE!

OONJERAH

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KWICKO

Wednesday, April 25, 2012 10:57 PM

I predict that in 100 years I'll still be dead.

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

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