Kids born today will see us like the Middle Ages: a vision of the 2030s AI civilization
Dr_Singularity · x · 2026-08-20
The author makes a bold historical analogy: children born today will look back at us the way we view people from the Middle Ages, because the gap between 2026 and the 2030s will be enormous. He lists current realities future generations will find primitive:
- Working most of our lives just to pay bills, treating tens of thousands in GDP per capita as "rich"
- Scarcity of housing, energy, healthcare and education; dying from cancer and Alzheimer's
- Accepting biological aging as inevitable, waiting months for specialists and years for new drugs
- One-size-fits-all medicine instead of personalized treatments
- Only a few million scientists exploring a universe of discoveries
- Treating human intelligence as scarce while life is spent on cleaning, driving and paperwork
His conclusion: the 2030s will feel like another civilization.
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