Against the AI Sci-Fi Revolution: Physical World Inertia is Underestimated
dbasch · x · 2026-08-06
The author pushes back against the optimistic belief within the AI bubble that the world will undergo a sci-fi revolution within ten years. He argues that people severely underestimate the stubbornness of human processes and the inertia of the physical world.
By comparing daily life in 2016 with today, he notes that the world hasn't fundamentally changed. Therefore, he predicts that by 2036, everyday elements like reading paper books, wearing 1960s-style clothes, and seeing traffic lights and buses will remain the norm, rather than transforming into an unrecognizable cyberpunk society.
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