https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFsZWIJ2lq0
Painting a picture of 2000, ~25 years in past
Imagine a world without internet. Imagine your phone doesn't have wifi button, there are no social media apps, no instagram, no reddit, no facebook, no discord, and no search engine.
If you wanted to learn something, you would have to go to your nearest library and manually browse through books.
That was the world just 25 years ago.
For people living in 1990s, that was the reality.
Our world has changed a lot in just 25 years.
World Today; 2024
Today it has become so easy to connect with someone sitting anywhere on the globe.
You can publish your work and everyone has access to it. (though it's not that simple)
Not just that, we also have access to intelligent tools like chatGPT/ smart recommendation algorithms that automatically pick the best thing for you, and personalises your experience on internet.
Because of that lot of us feel that we live in the best time.
Most of us (though not all—relatively poor people in Africa and South Asia still live extremely difficult lives. This came out wrong in video.) have access to unlimited opportunities. We can do whatever we like.
we have resources and help available.
Well, it's kinda true too. I feel it.
but
Think about how the world will look to our next generation.
World in 2050
How would today's most fancy tools like chatGPT, evolve by 2050?
How much will medical science have progressed in 25 years?
The next generation will probably be able to live perfectly healthy lives for 100 years or more, with certainty, which is a luxury we don't have today.
We might even have spaceships like the ones we see in Marvel movies, and smart, powerful suits like Iron Man's.
Those are the good things, things could go wrong as well.
What if we have another pandemic?
What if people in power launch nuclear weapons against others?
What if there is another world war?
That could be disastrous.
Is there any way we can ensure that we move towards good future and not the bad one.
The first step to solving that problem is to understand it better.
This book, the extreme future discusses exactly that.
It lists down the fanciest trends of today.
and tries to see what their state would be 50 years from now in a systematic and structured way.
If you're interested, check the description for more on these trends
and give this book a read.
In the next video, we'll talk about a book that helps us understand the current world better. See you then!