Welcome to 2030. I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy, and Life Has Never Been Better
“Welcome to the year 2030. Welcome to my city – or should I say, “our city”. I don’t own anything. I don’t own a car. I don’t own a house. I don’t own any appliances or any clothes.
It might seem odd to you, but it makes perfect sense for us in this city. Everything you considered a product, has now become a service. We have access to transportation, accommodation, food and all the things we need in our daily lives. One by one all these things became free, so it ended up not making sense for us to own much.
First communication became digitized and free to everyone. Then, when clean energy became free, things started to move quickly. Transportation dropped dramatically in price. It made no sense for us to own cars anymore, because we could call a driverless vehicle or a flying car for longer journeys within minutes. We started transporting ourselves in a much more organized and coordinated way when public transport became easier, quicker and more convenient than the car. Now I can hardly believe that we accepted congestion and traffic jams, not to mention the air pollution from combustion engines. What were we thinking?…”
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No way!!
Information is power, handing over all your information is in my opinion pretty close to handing away your freedom.
In the era of AI all your information can be used to build advanced behavioural models that can used to predict your actions or to simply manipulate you.
Also long as there is a divide between wealthy and poor this would be a dystopia not utopia.
What I recommend for the future is cooperative social model called a Resource Based Economy. Here is a quick intro video by the Venus Project one of the main proponents of this future direction :
youtube.com – The Venus Project – Introduction to a Resource-Based Economy
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Peter Zsurka I’m not so sure you read the piece all the way through. Elements of this are exactly what they’re talking about…from the democratization of manufacturing to the democratization of food to the democratization of resources to where being ‘rich’ doesn’t matter anymore. I’m familiar with the Venus Project and am a big proponent of many elements of the resource based economy as well, but while we begin to design our future, I hesitate to stick by one marketed paradigm and instead think cherry-picking the better parts of each emerging idea would do us better in the long run – again…democratization. Regarding the privacy aspect, I agree with you to a certain extent, but, well, on the other hand, if vulnerability means an eventual movement toward universal and global consciousness, then I’m ok with that. They’re not talking about ‘handing away our information,’ to a central ‘power’ or entity or anything like that – that’s one thing and I would be vigorously opposed to that – but if it’s democratized along with every other aspect of this future ‘utopian’ design – perhaps by putting it all on the blockchain or the tangle or something like that – I can roll with that.
Jon Wayne Huh?
Better to have it: Welcome to 2030. What I own fits into a footlocker, I have absolute control over my privacy, I don’t need money, I can live in whatever city in the world I like, as I like. I don’t eat at the fanciest of restaurants and markets, but I have full access to most. I don’t wear Armani, but can readily acquire most brands.
Wasim Muklashy I totally agree with the world illustrated in this article, the part about the no privacy really gave me a bad vibe. I had heard something similar, as a way to pay for Universal Basic Income. So my comment was less about the article and more about the privacy idea, sorry about not expressing the context of my comment better.
Looking at the current rate of technological progress there is only so much longer that a scarcity / market based social system will remain functional. This will become an existential threat to the extremely wealthy, who will likely not want to give up their wealth or power. Rather the lose all their wealth I am sure they’s pay to support the people in order to pacify them. But the epic inequality remains as the technology remains in the hand of the few.
Considering the current state of the ecosystem and environment is it pretty clear that those in our society that do hold power have little interest in the well being of the rest of humanity. On a long enough timeline what started off as a utopia could end up a dystopia.
I agree with not stick to a single brand of good future. I just dropped a link to the Venus Project because its one of the better proposals.
By your comment I think we have the same general ideas. I too hope to see humanity unite as one, its the only acceptable road into the future. Imagine what could be accomplished if we all truly worked together.
By the way, thanks for sharing all the interesting news. I really enjoy your posts.
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Synoptic 1 Huh?
Peter Zsurka Oh no worries, that’s what I assumed, just wanted to be sure.
Yes, the privacy thing is a strange paradigm to wrap our head around, but truth be told, I think we’re already there anyway, and all the conveniences we now enjoy are becoming more and more at the expense of that.
“Looking at the current rate of technological progress there is only so much longer that a scarcity / market based social system will remain functional. This will become an existential threat to the extremely wealthy…”
NO doubt about it. We’re seeing it with how they’re struggling to figure out how to handle cryptocurrencies and peer to peer direct networks. More and more we’re bypassing their ‘authorities’ and figuring things out ourselves, and the beauty of it is, they really can’t do much about it short of turning off the internet… and if they did that, well, ironically, all the major tech companies will put a kabash on that, as their very business models rely on us being connected. So we’re coming to an existential generational and technological head with it all.
As far as the tech remaining in the hands of the few, that’s where I disagree. I think that we’ve turned the corner to where ‘the few’ are having trouble paying attention to the tech that we, as a collective species, are incubating, creating, developing, and putting into real world use…tech that will make everything more abundant and therefore cheaper. We’re already seeing it with 3d printing of everything from replacement parts to full scale homes, we’re seeing it with bitcoin, ethereum, IOTA cutting deep into the market shares of the dollar, yen and euro. We’re seeing it with peer to peer and open source science and medical training, methods, and practices. We’re seeing it with vertical farms and robot-assisted sustainable agriculture, we’re seeing it in the insanely amazing renewable resource and energy revolution that we’re on the cusp of…
“Considering the current state of the ecosystem and environment is it pretty clear that those in our society that do hold power have little interest in the well being of the rest of humanity.” Absolutely correct. But the difference now is that we know it, and we have the tools to not have to really take them into account anymore. All the major advances are bypassing those traditional paradigms, and, for lack of a better term, ‘we’re starting to see through their bullshit.’ They won’t go out without a fight, but the louder they get, the more irrational they get, the more obvious it becomes how desperate they are getting.
And to take away their power, you take away the value of their power…money. As the blockchain and the DAG become more mature, and more and more are using crypto and alternate methods of trade, they can hoard every dollar they want and that makes them feel better about themselves, for to those that have exited that ancient paradigm of a centralized economy, it won’t matter a damn. So long as I’m getting what I need in return, what do I care if I’m not using a dollar and using a bitcoin, IOTA, or ether instead? I don’t. And that’s what’s happening. Between those three alone, we’re looking at near trillion dollar market cap and a whole economy built around them. So yeah…the old guard will shudder…
“I too hope to see humanity unite as one, its the only acceptable road into the future. Imagine what could be accomplished if we all truly worked together.”
We’re in the same boat for sure! And we’re closer than ever with each passing day…
Thanks for reading and following along Peter. It’s always inspiring to cross paths with like-minded future-forward thinkers…
Wasim Muklashy you present some excellent points.
The current accessibility to knowledge and technology can empower individuals with the control of their own tech. At least anyone that is willing to learn and is not scared of a little hard work.
Your point on alternative currencies and trade undermining historical power is also very interesting. Seems like a good way to phase out the imbalance of power and potentially minimise the conflict that such a transition can cause.
I am very interested in seeing how the 2020’s will unfold.