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What will replace digital era?
(infosec.pub)
Probably the collapse, at this rate.
Stone Age 2: Electric Boogaloo
I'm just learning that we think there were large civilizations before what we considered the birth of civilization.
Additionally our entire modern civilization would have basically no trace left after a couple hundred years, estimated.
Humans could have already had a technological civilization that collapsed back to the stone age and we are doing it again!
Additionally our entire modern civilization would have basically no trace left after a couple hundred years, estimated.
Oh yeah, Mount Rushmore is totally just gonna be weathered away in a couple hundred years, and the pyramids have had extensive preservation efforts over the millennia...
Please engage your critical thinking skills.
We don't build with stone anymore. Mt Rushmore is a good point, but I'd bet the pyramids last longer than our skyscrapers
This is a secondary source but apparently My Rushmore only has a few hundred years left.
Sure, we don't build with stone anymore, but there are an incredibly large amount of buildings and monuments built with stone that would last thousands of years, not merely hundreds. That's really good news about Mt Rushmore though, I'm glad that eyesore won't be around for many years to come.
If there had been a technological civilization before ours we would notice the depletion of natural resources, especially metal ore and fossil fuels.
The sad truth is we only have this one shot. If we collapse, there is no way another civilization reaches our technological level. All the easy to access fuel and resources have been pumped and used, so they wouldn't have the energy and materials required to start industrializing. They'd be stuck on a depleted planet with no realistic way to escape it.
The dark ages
Biological. Artificial organisms designed nucelotide by nucleotide.
The human brain is still more energy efficient than computers right now.
At this rate, Bronze Age 2: (non) Electric Boogaloo
WW3 will be fought with nukes. WW4 will be fought with rocks and sticks.
Probably not. Iron is way more abundant and better for a number of usages as well as being easier to work. Bronze requires sources of multiple metals for the alloy, but may win out in some limited applications
I'm hoping for a solarpunk anarchist future
quantum era?
If we survive it, the next step would be something biological - we'll probably bridge through something of a cyborgish before that.
stone age
in-person social interactions
I'm hoping for the duck era.
I like duck! Or was it soup? Which is the one that you shoot?
If you're shooting soup, better stick to bone broth. Anything chunkier will clog the needle.
A second sun.
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