This market strategy would then go on until one day, among the world-wide ruins of derelict factories and warehouses and office buildings, there stood only a single, shining, windowless structure with no entrance and no exit. Inside would be – will be – only a dense network of computers calculating profits. Outside will be tribes of savage vagrants with no comprehension of the nature or purpose of the shining, windowless structure. Perhaps they will worship it as a god. Perhaps they will try to destroy it, their primitive armory proving wholly ineffectual against the smooth and impervious walls of the structure, upon which not even a scratch can be inflicted.
I know you’re talking about the far flung future here, but I do like to imagine that you’re talking about 2050, just 25 years from now the US will be exactly like this.
I am talking about 2050
Its like that joke about two economist on an island. The computers are simply performing a series of automatic contract agreements, executing their terms for the same cost that they charge the other. Millions of contractual business to business transactions making the spire the largest and only holder of rising GDP on earth.
Florida is mostly underwater,
The Internet is abandoned except for things like mobile banking. Old Millenials are the only people still on social media, exchanging pirated video games on the open source neocities v14.9.FINAL
A company tries to do asteroid mining and fucks it up, destroying half of Paraguay in the process. Nobody is held responsible.
America goes through its Falkland Islands arc trying to hold onto control of South America as BRICS makes more inroads into the continent following China bankrolling the Paraguayan rebuild in RMB. This is a total and utter failure and signals the final collapse of the American Empire.
Half of Africa is explicitly communist, and the other half are Social Democrats. African Christians have by and large broken with Western denominations. Gaddafi and Sankara are venerated as saints. Westerners are still surprised when they visit this continent and learn that it has, like, normal looking cities.
A series of accidents involving aging nuclear weapons stockpiles occur across the US. President Thiel announces a plan to modernize the stockpile by paying entrepreneurs to enrich their own uranium and build their own open-source ICBM parts and sell them to the government on a gig-app-like basis.
The world writ large generates 70% of its power from wind and solar. This number is 95% if you exclude Europe and the United States.
2049 is the year!
TRUST THE PLAN. TANKIES ARE IN CONTROL.
Like now, except hotter and worse
The year is 2050, you work 16 hour days at the Amazon AI training foundry. At the foundry, you are hooked up to the latest Meta Quest (sponsored by Taco Bell) and plugged into the catheter valve port (the valve is preinstalled at birth for every American citizen) as to avoid the inefficiencies of toilet breaks. Lunch breaks don’t exist, instead they feed you the latest Coca-Cola Green™ nutrient shake via a tube.
When you return to your pod from work, the pre-installed Tesla RoboOven 69™ is your only source of sustinence. It prints food for you in the shape of memes from the '20s. Those were the good years, at least according your parents, who now live in a TikTok-Google Retirement home for Gen Z. Tonight you are having roast duck coloured and shaped like a Shiba inu. You look forward to your shift tomorrow, because at least you aren’t like those evil North Koreans, you have Freedom™ (sponsored by Blackrock).
The most unlikely thing about all of this is the idea that the US will build pods for people to live in, no way they’d ever invest in that much infrastructure in only a few decades.
Pod save amerikkka? Idk
Nah, China will have long surpassed the US economically and forced dedollarization. The west will either crumble slowly and silently, or go away in a big bang by starting an unwinnable war against China to try and prevent it from dethroning the empire, the fascists will take over the west in order to force the exploitation of western workers needed to sustain the war machine and the lack of colonialism due to China-fueled industrialization of former colonies, and hopefully western communists will manage to organize revolutions with the help of China.
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People waving red flags dance in front of a burning White House, much is unknown but for now we celebrate.
Bad ending, its the other red flag
Heartaches by the Number starts playing while the Fallout New: Vegas logo slowly fades in
I’ll be dead. Good luck to everyone!
Please leave your hexbear username to me in your will
Elections were suspended in 2028 and Trump enacted the 100 year MAGA Empire. In 2050 Barron Trump is set to take the throne. Cyborg Chuck Schumer is urging democrats to write to their senator a strongly worded letter.
writeneural-link cyberbrain upload to their senator a strongly wordedletterAi generated horny letter
Washington DC has been tragically struck by a Category 7 hurricane, viewed as a a sign in the newly renamed American Empire that God has lost favor on the country. Although relations are tense, the Western countries have been forced to acknowledge China as the world’s dominant superpower and its landmark climate refugee programs have transformed global politics.
Mass death, forced migration in the hundreds of millions as many regions of the world become uninhabitable, staple foods increasing massively in price. Political instability everywhere, most states are in some kind of civil war with constant terrorist attacks (US-style mass shootings and the like).
everything looks like the parts of atlantic city nj that aren’t on the boardwalk and there are toll booths every few hundred feet to pay sidewalk rent to the corporations who own the ground you need to walk on to get to work. you work at an Amazon owned healthy dog food subscription delivery service that makes salads for dogs. you eat a bugbar on your lunch break.
As predicted by his holiness st. bhagavan shree Matt christman (SAW), most of the human race has died due to climate change and ecological collapse. Small pockets of survivors eeke out a perilous existence in proto-socialist communities or far right western cults.
Ideally? The communists have won, and while it isn’t the good ending to the first Cold War we lament not having gotten, China is doing a wonderful job filling the USSR’s massive shoes (or, the Soviet Union has been reformed, and a second Sino-Soviet Split prevented), and the world is healing.
Likely? The world is burning, America is fascist, all of the West is engaging in old fashioned explicit colonialism, the Second or even Third Cold War is in high gear, what’s left of the old Second World is on track to lose, and there are far less neutrals than last time.
Pretty cool tbh
