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Tweet screenshot “me at 13: wow i can’t wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek me at 30: wow i can’t wait until we destroy all computers like in dune”
Tweet screenshot “me at 13: wow i can’t wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek me at 30: wow i can’t wait until we destroy all computers like in dune”
To be fair, Star Trek is pushing the idea of utopian society. Prime directive. Evolved past money. Spending time people and resources on exploration. To seek out new life, not to exploit or destroy it. Tech in those hands is going to be far different than the same tech in our society’s hands.
We’re more or less on track for the star trek universe right now. WW3 begins in 2026/2027 and continues with nuclear exchange into 2053.
WW3 is already here, just with seasonal updates instead of the full product at launch.
Is that also the timeline where Q put the crew on trials for the fascist phase of the human population?
Also holy shit didn’t realize how long that war was for
I figure we’re well down the path of the Ferengi. Rules of acquisition #18.
We definitely will achieve Ferenginar if the EU succeeds at becoming the world government. The thing everyone forgets about the Ferengi is that they don’t have unbridled laissez-faire capitalism. They have one societal government with a vast bureaucracy, with one branch highlighted prominently in the show: the Ferengi Commerce Authority.
The FCA is so powerful within Ferengi society that their best comparison in historical human society is probably the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
We get a lot of shit, as we should, 1/3 of our population voted for Trump, but I’m not seeing much moral high ground from the EU. A lot of the same oligarch fueled themes to control and demoralize humanity as a whole apply.