Ask A Genius 161 – High Tide Weirdness at 2100
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/04/27
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Rick Rosner: We’ve talked about some disruptive effects, which are already happening. One is increased gender fluidity. There is economic disruption due to AI. The increasing pain in the ass that social media is in all of its different aspects. It is empowering, but often to the detriment of long established standards. This election was at least partially the consequence of dickheads being empowered via fake news and social media and feeling that they are justified in voting selfishly.
You have people driving and texting and walking and texting, and everything and texting. Those are already future effects. I have a rough rule of thumb that the percent weirdness in the world compared to some baseline based on the 20th century as some kind of normal. The percent weird that the world has gotten is just the last 2 digits of the year. 2017, the world is 17% weird. In 2027, it will be 27% weird.
By the year 2100, it will be 100% weird, which – I don’t know – maybe it will only be 80% weird in the year 2100.
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