Our 22nd prompt comes from Great daughter of Zimbabwe. She asks:
Will we all have blogs by the year 2047?
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Great daughter of Zimbabwe,
Welcome to my humble blog. 😀 When you said 2047, I immediately calculated how old I’ll be then. I’ll be in my 50s (I’m not saying exactly how old, we have to retain an air of mystery even on this blog).
I just hope that I won’t be one of those old people who spend all their time saying things like “When I was your age, we had real music! We ate real food! We had jobs, and we worked hard! We got married and stayed together!” I’m grateful for the internet because we are great at documenting the minutiae of our lives, and the kids then will be able to see the madness that was/is cement Twitter: you know, the guys that say that if you stop eating pizza/avocado toast/buying iPhones/going out, you will be able to afford a down payment on a house, or buy a plot.
And then, if you keep not eating avocado toast/pizza/buying iPhones/going out, you will be able to make your monthly payments/buy cement to build your house. And you can stop renting. Because paying rent is for fools. Just like having a job is for fools. Ideally, everyone should be an entrepreneur and have a robot army working for them. Or, you could be part of the gig economy and work yourself to near death with nothing to show for it because at least you get to control your own hours. Who cares that not everyone wants this, or that this is unreasonable? Definitely not us.
By 2047, driving will be a thing of the past. Or, it will be for the poor. Human driven vehicles will be so 2020. Vehicles will be electric, and recharged using solar power. Almost everything will be solar powered. Instead of buying items like refrigerators, TVs, cookers, beds, seats and tables, we will just buy “matter” and use our virtual reality glasses/lenses to make it whatever we need it to be at that moment. It will be regular to go to someone’s house and say “Eew, you still have green matter? That is so 2030. Upgrade to the black stuff, so much better!”
Flying will also be for the poor, everyone else will be hyperlooping and teleporting all over the place. If you’re really rich, you will travel at warp speed in a replica of the USS Enterprise (live long and prosper). In fact, because we will have colonized the rest of the galaxy, living on earth will be for the lower classes. They will still be here, on this planet that we should have managed to ruin irreparably by then. There will be no need to spend 10+ years in school because anything you need to know will be instantly available for download, and instantly applicable as soon as you receive it. We will have revived extinct species, sometimes with terrible consequences.
We will be very close to “curing” death, and we will have extended the average human being’s lifespan to at least 150 years, unless of course the person in question is poor and can’t pay for it, in which case he/she will probably die like the ancient fools from the early 2000s. Differences between AI and human beings will reduce, perhaps even disappear. We will be able to record everything that happens to us and around us through implantable wearables, which is when things will get really interesting.
You think we share a lot now on blogs/vlogs/podcasts? Wait until 2047. Your average oversharer will be able to automatically share with her fanbase the minute by minute happenings in her life. What she’s eating for breakfast, how long she brushed her teeth, the colour of her stool and urine, when she got to work, her body temperature, what she ate for lunch, how many dates she has planned and so on. The best part is that she won’t write this herself. Her wearable(s) will send data to some AI based lord knows where that will have such a good grasp of language and context that it will be able to spin every single mundane data point into a masterful story. The best-est part? Even your cat, dog or pet rabbit can keep a blog detailing their daily lives!
2047 will be a great year for blogging, Great daughter of Zimbabwe. Or perhaps the worst. Hehehe. Depends on how you look at it. 😀
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[P.S – this post is tongue in cheek guys]
This post is part of a daily writing experiment that I’m running for a year. I’d love it if you took part! ?