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themistergraves t1_j1q0go8 wrote

It is very likely that whatever the world looks like in 300 years will look very alien to us so much so that it is almost useless trying to predict it.

Imagine your average European city in 1722. No electricity. No plumbing. Horses were the fastest form of transportation. People, on average, died at age 35.

Taking a person from a city in 1722 and putting them in the same city in 1822 would have shocked them, but things would still look pretty familiar to them. Put that same person in that city in 1922 and they would be freaking out. And the pace of change has only gotten quicker over the past 100 years.

100 years ago we didn't have automatic washing machines, films were still music-only, and atomic bomb had not yet been invented. The next 100 years could go in both great and terrible directions that we can hardly imagine.

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Amazing_Library_5045 t1_j1q58zd wrote

People died at 35 on average - > that's one of the fallacy of using averages. There was a LOT more infant mortality. It's pulling the average down so much its no longer representative of reality.

It wasn't rare for people to live to 60yo.

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Khutuck t1_j1qckd5 wrote

Ask anyone around you if they ever had a serious illness that required hospitalization or strong antibiotics. If they did, they would not survive that illness a hundred years ago.

I think more than half of the people I know would already be dead if it was a century ago, including me.

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Vaiiki t1_j1qcxgh wrote

The ol strep throat got little Jimmy.

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Chemical_Doughnut248 t1_j1rn70u wrote

Lol are you high, you’re talking about 1922. Plenty of people survived illnesses and injuries. A large number of vaccines were already in use

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MisterBilau t1_j1q5b9d wrote

It’s far worse than that. You could pick that person from 1700 (or even earlier, any time, really, as long as they’re human), and of course they would be shocked by todays world, but with time they would eventually learn and be able to understand it. Knowledge is not the same as intelligence - we have much more knowledge now, but there were always intelligent people. They would be able to learn.

In 300 years I doubt that will be the case, due to AI. We will be unable to understand it, no matter how much we tried. Like teaching an animal to write.

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LonelyGamer1337 t1_j1qabql wrote

>Knowledge is not the same as intelligence

I wish more people understood this but alas they are all too busy trying to "pass" their Mensa IQ tests.

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WEDGiE_pANTILLES t1_j1qqj8n wrote

I imagine most infrastructure will look similar, but creature comforts like a/c and heating will have seamless integration into buildings that couldn’t previously support them. We can already do this but it will be a lot easier via new devices. Also on that time scale, there’s potential we will figure out molecular rearrangers thus ending world hunger and with fusion power, we will be able to get it to the people that need it

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MisterBilau t1_j1q5c8c wrote

It’s far worse than that. You could pick that person from 1700 (or even earlier, any time, really, as long as they’re human), and of course they would be shocked by todays world, but with time they would eventually learn and be able to understand it. Knowledge is not the same as intelligence - we have much more knowledge now, but there were always intelligent people. They would be able to learn.

In 300 years I doubt that will be the case, due to AI. We will be unable to understand it, no matter how much we tried. Like teaching an animal to write.

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