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People in the early 1900s used to dream enthusiastically about the 21st century. They held ambitious world's fairs to celebrate humanity's ambitions, published glowing pop-sci articles, and wrote hopeful futuristic fiction.
Who does that anymore? Who gets positively excited about what the future holds for our great-great-grandchildren?
It feels like the 21st century, despite being just one average human lifespan away, already lies behind some inscrutable (and perhaps impassable) Great Filter caused by some combination of technological singularity, AI takeover, collapse of late-stage capitalism, demographic decline, societal rot, deadly pandemic, and/or climate catastrophe.
It's as if nobody dares being bullish about humanity's future due to a growing collective (and largely unspoken) unease 19 replies
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I dream enthusiastically, especially because of Ethereum, but I don't write it much. Or at least I don't give it to read publicly.
And I think I'm not the only one.
But what you will see today, in socials, news, movies, novels, whatever, is what sells. Not far away futuristic dreams but scarry present or close future. Think in terms of incentive and, that's my opinion, I have no proof at all, but earning is the reason and what earns now is either dumb present reality or futuristic catastrophy and even if people have futuristic dreams they prefer putting energy in what will sell. 1 reply
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Definitely different.
If we succeed in making Ethereum the settlement layer of everything in the world, from money to any contracts, I see a world where you can build things without any fear of others, where trust is the default. And with trust comes everything else that our current rotten society is not able to achieve: rescue climate (it will be late but not yet too late if we put as much effort in it as we put in wars), fight disease that we could fight but don't for financial reasons (and racism) greater good decisions, end of the political mafia, commons, commons, commons. But it's not communism, it's the opposite. Everyone will be able to participate as an entrepreneur. Everyone will benefit from progress, financially and maybe at a point where voting in daos will allow you to live and let machines and AI do the dirty work. So you can focus on making decisions and live your best life.
It's seems to be utopia but that's why I'm here not for some shitty casino chains for short term magic money and rugs. 1 reply
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