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[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 77 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same as it does now, just with slightly less effective money.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 43 points 1 year ago

Maybe a little sweatier and thirsty.

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Not much different. Foldable phones will be widespread, American cars will be bigger, shaving machines will have more blades, natural disasters will be more common. We will go through one or two more cycles of drought/forest fires and heavy rains/floodings. We will see one or two mass migrations from India, Pakistan and Africa resulting in first climate refuge camps on the borders of EU.

[–] gigachad@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

So you are telling me there still won't be flying cars in 10 years? smh

[–] chahk@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Flying cars are a terrible idea. We can barely keep them rolling on the ground. Do you really want several tones of metal floating above your head?

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We have flying cars right now they're called helicopters. You just don't have one because they're expensive.

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[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, as the pinnacle of human achievement, we need to bring traffic congestion to the skies.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

shaving machines will have more blades

I wish they'd just work out how many blades is the optimum number of blades, and then put that number of blades on. Why are we doing this iterative design approach.

[–] Moghul@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

It's one. I'd been annoyed with razor burn, nicks & cuts, spots, etc. I switched to a simple double sided safety razor and I'm really enjoying it. As far as I'm concerned all this 8 blade turbo fusion slice and dice is all marketing.

[–] fumanhoo@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Anecdotally, I've found that answer to be one.

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[–] starman@programming.dev 69 points 1 year ago (3 children)

2033 will finally be the year of linux desktop

[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

And you're right. 2032 is the last year that Win 10 gets updates.

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[–] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

My guess: Electric vehicles everywhere, protests, more linux users, and portless phones will be the norm

Edit: Oh yeah privacy is dead or at least much more harder to obtain

[–] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

2033 is the year of Linux on the desktop.

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[–] Ebsku@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The futuristic world of 2033 will be very different from our current primitive one. Humans will be seven foot tall with thumbs as long as fingers. Mars will have been fully terraformed, whilst there'll be hundreds of vast floating cities on Venus. A Dyson swarm will encircle the solar system just beyond Neptune's orbit. Humanity will communicate telepathically as one with AI. We still won't understand cats.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I honestly don't think they'll exist yet. Just trying to be realistic.

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[–] Melonpoly@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With the amount of accidents and deaths drivers cause on the ground I'd rather flying cars not exist.

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Helikopter helikopter

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[–] Nonameuser678@aussie.zone 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We will likely have hit 1.5 + degrees of warming in 10 years time so our society may look quite different. It's likely that our supply chains will be disrupted by this and become more localised as rising temperatures / intensifying weather events impact our capacity to grow / distribute as much food as we do now. There may potentially be Pacific Nations that no longer exist due to sea level rise. We will likely also see the beginning of a significant climate refugee crisis that nations in the global north will struggle to respond to.

[–] Pissnpink@feddit.uk 32 points 1 year ago

I grilled dinner tonight out on our deck wearing a painters mask because the smoke from the wildfires around here is so thick it looks like it's pissing rain outside. Only when I caught myself in the mirror with my plate, mask and tongs did I start to think, this seems a little odd.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I watched a documentary about this recently. The franchise wars should be coming up soon that allows all restaurants to become Taco Bell.

[–] jamesravey@lemmy.nopro.be 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think I watched the same one. I think the three seashells will revolutionise the bathroom experience.

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[–] bob_lemon@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Strange... I watched a similar documentary, but it was Pizza Hut that prevailed.

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[–] quixotic120@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The weather will probably be a lot worse

And maybe PlayStation 6

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[–] Bye@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

The developed world will run out of charity.

We’ve spent the last 300 years essentially looting resources and labor from poorer parts of the world. And when they finally decide that enough is enough, that they want a piece of the pie, they won’t be able to get it.

Climate refugees will be killed at closely guarded border crossings. Fishing boats will be torpedoed. Encampments will be burned.

In β€œrich” countries, the poor will be gradually cut off. Their labor value will decrease even further, and there won’t be anything left for them. In some places, public housing and healthcare will allow them to limp on, until many are killed by the next pandemic.

The wealthy will enjoy what they have, their lives barely interrupted. The world will not look very different to them.

[–] LongPigFlavor@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

More climate refugees, more crop failures due to worsening climate change, more deaths due to climate change

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In the west and culturally, a post-boomer period will have begun. And I think there’ll be continued evaluation of what mistakes that era made especially as climate change looms as an increasingly damaging debt. In a similar vein, the relationship with capitalism and big corps is, I think, going to get messy and more polarised, in part because the mistakes we’ve made will be hard to disentangle for many.

Overall, I suspect that for many paying attention, the downfall of the west will seem more and more plausible and closer and that will create a contentious atmosphere.

[–] OnionQuest@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Downfall of the West relative to who? The whole world is impacted by climate change and the West is best positioned to manage its effects.

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[–] BitSound@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We're definitely going to see jobs affected by ChatGPT and the like. It's an open question of "Can LLMs do things as well as humans?" across the board, but when have you seen a company turn down a deal like "slightly shittier, but costs pennies on the dollar and doesn't have any pesky 'rights'"?

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Still waiting for that VR quantum blockchain technology to affect jobs

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[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Ten years is really a pretty small jump. It's not like things are wildly different today than in 2013.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

looks around, gestures vaguely

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Climate change is worse, US politics more polarized, phones are bigger, computers are faster, etc. But if someone went to sleep in 2013 and woke up in 2023, it might take them a little bit to notice the changes.

[–] huskypenguin@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Heat dome wasn't a word in 2013. Fire weather meant a dry day, not a tornado forming inside of a wild fire.

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[–] k5nn@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

With all the dystopian content I've been consuming lately I'd say we're heading to an age of

Mass surveilance
Regionalistic Economies in place of globalism
Widening wealth disparity
Intensified distrust of our governments

That is if the tensions in Asia Pacific don't turn into an all out conflict ( Live in PH )

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Let me be a bit more optimistic:

Mass surveillance

I think we're already there, and despite the fact you can see laws signed that would point to more surveillance, you can't ban encryption effectively. It's kinda hard to ban maths, much harder than weed or booze, and see how they went. Point is, these laws IMO drive awareness of the issue, and everyone can just encrypt their stuff easily, and enforcement of a ban on that is near impossible.

Regionalistic Economies in place of globalism

That's the geopolitical dream of some countries ... but I don't see the current world order in trade buckling. That said, let's say that the current world order changes by the USD losing the world's biggest reserve currency status, what then? Will some countries simply not trade with others because of that? Maybe some pecking orders will rearrange themselves, but no one is interested in destroying the system, people just want their country to dictate instead of the US.

Widening wealth disparity

I don't think it can widen much more, as the pendulum swings both ways. See how socio-economic woes destabilized the US. We either fix the billionaire problem in a legal orderly fashion, or it resolves itself in an uglier way. It can't get much worse than this without social order breaking down, and then it's all moot. The rich can move to their New Zealand bunkers or the Moon to escape the mob, it's not that much different from them dying or going to prison as far as the rest of the world is concerned.

Intensified distrust of our governments

Have we ever trusted them? And to be honest, should we trust them? I mean I think governments are less untrustworthy than corporations, but still, they have power, and thus should be scrutinized. And besides, the loonies who always vote for the biggest idiot already don't trust the government. If this growing distrust results in more participation in politics from decent people who just want to live their lives, that's a good thing.

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[–] kool_newt@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Depends whether we choose solarpunk or dystopia.

[–] LongPigFlavor@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

We're already in a dystopia, it's been that way for a while now, it'll just get even more dystopian.

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[–] iByteABit@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hopefully not a live action Cyberpunk 2077

[–] Wage_slave@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hopefully ~~not~~ a live action Cyberpunk 2077

While i know I wouldn't make it for very long, fuck yeah I wanna see a samurai show!

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[–] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

0.4C warmer globally

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