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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
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Ironically, people from the year 1900 had every reason to be fearful β€” their own innovations would lead to two chemical and mechanized World Wars, and the threat of instant nuclear annihilation in the subsequent Cold War. Yet they were hopeful. You could argue that we are more prudent precisely because of those lessons from terrible usage of technology, but today's generation is far removed from the ones who suffered in the WWI or WWII trenches. We grew up with the coolest invention ever, the internet. And yet it feels like nobody dares to speak bullishly about the 21st century, as if it's common knowledge now that things might and likely will just take a terrible turn
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