is the present day becoming dystopian

Crestfallen · 23 Jul 2016 at 09:12

Personally I blame the Mesopotamian idiots who invented the wheel. Did they not stop, just for a moment, to consider what they were unleashing upon the world? :mad:

Dis86 · 23 Jul 2016 at 09:39

Crestfallen said:
Personally I blame the Mesopotamian idiots who invented the wheel. Did they not stop, just for a moment, to consider what they were unleashing upon the world?

It was revolutionary...

Mr Jack · 23 Jul 2016 at 09:45

Kosmiche said:
We now have vr headsets which put you INSIDE games this is too much.

We have a pr0n site which works with vr headsets and faps you automatically using a peripheral.

Drones that deliver booze to your doorstep when you blink in time to a advert when wearing google glass.

Given everything that is going in the world, you've picked a really odd set of things to think are dystopian.

Sliver · 23 Jul 2016 at 09:49

I don't think we've reached a dystopian future yet but I do think it's coming. There are over 7 billion of us on the planet now and resources are already strained. By the end of this century it could hit 12 billion. The planet can not sustain 12 billion people.

Arthur Hucksake · 23 Jul 2016 at 09:54

Sliver said:
I don't think we've reached a dystopian future yet but I do think it's coming. There are over 7 billion of us on the planet now and resources are already strained. By the end of this century it could hit 12 billion. The planet can not sustain 12 billion people.

And it won't. People will just die.

Arthur Hucksake · 23 Jul 2016 at 09:55

The first step towards it will be what Theresa May is doing tbh. Be ok if you tow the line.

Sliver · 23 Jul 2016 at 09:58

Arthur Hucksake said:
And it won't. People will just die.

Yes they will and that's a dystopian future that our grandkids will face. I've had my fun with the planet and I'll probably be dead inside 40 years but people born today have a gloomy future I think. We can't cull humans and China shows that birth control by limiting families to 1 child hasn't worked. I see no answer to exponential population growth.

G-MAN2004 · 23 Jul 2016 at 10:02

Why on earth is this "too much" or "frightening"? Man up you Luddite pansy. Tech is awesome.

dowie · 23 Jul 2016 at 10:07

Why are any of those things 'dystopian'? And what are you doing on a tech forum?

hyperseven · 23 Jul 2016 at 10:11

Rossi~ said:
We're on our way there.

I'm hoping it'll end up like Demolition Man, but with actually sex and all the Right-Wing can be forced to live underground eating rat-burgers.

But what about the three seashells?

Sliver · 23 Jul 2016 at 10:14

hyperseven said:
But what about the three seashells?

I prefer Andrex, I find the seashells too abrasive.

Raikiri · 23 Jul 2016 at 10:16

Mr Jack said:
Given everything that is going in the world, you've picked a really odd set of things to think are dystopian.

Seriously, VR is awesome. Delivery drones are awesome.

Nothing about them are frightening, OP must be trolling

RoboCod · 23 Jul 2016 at 10:27

Sliver said:
I don't think we've reached a dystopian future yet but I do think it's coming. There are over 7 billion of us on the planet now and resources are already strained. By the end of this century it could hit 12 billion. The planet can not sustain 12 billion people.

You can't predict that. Perhaps in the current setup we cannot sustain 12bn. A century ago we probably said it can't support 7bn. You don't know what technologies will come about.

Sliver · 23 Jul 2016 at 10:31

RoboCod said:
You can't predict that. Perhaps in the current setup we cannot sustain 12bn. A century ago we probably said it can't support 7bn. You don't know what technologies will come about.

Of course you can predict it based on the trend of population growth and the Earths land mass that is available for food production. How will tech curb population growth?

sanaxe1 · 23 Jul 2016 at 10:36

Probably some of the worst examples of a dystopian future I've ever read.

arc@css · 23 Jul 2016 at 11:08

randal said:
*sips glass of oily gin*

RoboCod · 23 Jul 2016 at 11:49

Sliver said:
Of course you can predict it based on the trend of population growth and the Earths land mass that is available for food production. How will tech curb population growth?

It won't, it will accommodate it, as it always has.

Destination · 23 Jul 2016 at 11:49

Sliver said:
Of course you can predict it based on the trend of population growth and the Earths land mass that is available for food production. How will tech curb population growth?

Oddly enough, the most technologically advanced societies are breeding less and less. Half of europe was moving towards a negative balance, prior to influx.
Chinese had decent population control for a long period.

Indian and Muslim expansion is inevitable, the rest of the world, probably not so much. Remains to be seen.

Sliver · 23 Jul 2016 at 11:52

RoboCod said:
It won't, it will accommodate it, as it always has.

Nonsense. There are clear limits on resources. Be honest and accept it. :rolleyes:

semi-pro waster · 23 Jul 2016 at 11:59

Mr Jack said:
Given everything that is going in the world, you've picked a really odd set of things to think are dystopian.

dowie said:
Why are any of those things 'dystopian'? And what are you doing on a tech forum?

It's more Brave New World than 1984 and arguably none of these advancements on their own would count as dystopian but the idea that we can have too much of a good thing and that we will be effectively neutered by too much pleasure from our own desires is dystopian. Although I'd agree there are almost certainly bigger things to be worrying about right now.