Niko LaamanenFounder, Publisher at Konsensus Network

The #Future of #Technology: #Predicting the Next 51 Years #storytelling #podcast

8 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief segment of a storytelling podcast, two speakers discuss the difficulty of forecasting technological and societal change. Speaker A posits that the next 51 years will likely bring more transformation than the previous 51, aiming for a broadly recognizable future scenario. Speaker B counters that predicting the future is increasingly hard, pointing out that early‑20th‑century sci‑fi attempts to envision life near the new millennium have largely missed the mark, and noting how rapidly conditions have shifted even over the past decade. The exchange highlights both optimism about accelerating change and skepticism about precise long‑term predictions.

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So I think the next 51 years we're going to see more change than we saw in the past 51 years. And so that was kind of, it wasn't ultra, ultra precise, but I just wanted something in that ballpark where I could have a somewhat recognizable world.
I mean, I think it's getting harder and harder to predict the future. You know, a lot of the typical, not typical, but classic, sorry, sci-fi of the Earlier 20th century was predicting, you know, what's it gonna, what's life gonna be like near the millennium, 50 years in the future. But, you know, things are drastically different to 10 years ago for us. And, and