Rhaedas

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It doesn't have a basement?

Given that "interesting" is how the Chinese curse goes, we're in interesting rimes now. So more of the same as far as how humans behave. Climate far worse because again, we aren't going to change. More dystopian, corporate rule (the cyberpunk novels had that spot on), AI better/worse depending on your perspective (more advanced, used everywhere). Internet far different than it has been, with familiar niches holding out here and there. Possibly recovering from some major disaster, maybe large scale even.

It's safer to expect pessimistic results and be surprised. I don't doubt there will be some good things to happen too, great advancements and maybe even big societal changes that help people. They're harder to predict though.

"Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future."

A good lesson is to look back on predictions made for the future 50 or 100 years ago. Often times the technology is the guessed the closest right, but how it is used, and how it affects the social structure of society is totally wrong.

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How many nukes going off does it take to ruin everyone's day? One. Modern rationalization is "maybe if we make it small enough", no, it's still one. Not only because it's an environmental disaster even if small, but it crosses a line and once crossed, lines move around a lot. The last thing needed is a nuclear detonation and the world's countries analyze it and determine, "well, it was terrible, but not THAT terrible. Maybe two is the limit."

What do you call someone who sits at the table with a fascist? Even if they verbally disagree with them.

It's so out of character. If only we had decades of history to judge how a person is.

I'm working on a scifi story with the premise of something that caused the collapse of civilization. The concept of post-collapse fascinates me, and it could easily happen to us in reality. Just the simple thought experiment of something that we've all experienced, a power outage. What does everyone do? You wait a few minutes to see if it's just temporary. If you still have a way to communicate, you call or text someone maybe. You get a flashlight, or some candles to prepare for a longer wait. Let's say it's not a known cause like a storm, but just went out for some unknown reason. How long before people start to get restless and go past the conditioned training of letting someone bring their technology back? What if it never comes back? Seems a ridiculous stretch, but is it? And the problem with collapse is that the higher you are, the longer and harder the fall.

Not the only one, but it's one of the worst.

Well, two that get reunited. The rest though, tragic.

As a conversational AI, I found this rather funny.

There is/was talk of getting something developed to catch up to Oumuamua (the first visitor we've found). It's much "slower" at 26 km/s. This new one, Atlas is going about the same speed as New Horizons, the fastest probe we've done so far (and that was with numerous gravity boosts, meaning it took time). So yeah, without having something already in space ready and very fast acceleration, this one will be long gone.