For all intents and purposes we're now in "the future"

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>Things are getting better but everyone thinks things are getting worse
>The end result is we end up feeling actually worse due to self-inflicted thoughts

The tech gets smarter and the people get dumber

>>38947456
>they thought it'd get better
>post-2000s was just humans fucking around again
It won't get any better. Humans are flawed. We'll be extinct before too long, anyway. We'll be gone with almost no trace, and any life left on earth afterwards will be too stupid to care

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How did you guys feel when early-mid 2000s culture concluded in 2006? Sad? Bittersweet?

>>38947456
I'm still unironically disappointed that floating houses and cars didn't suddenly appear the morning of 2000.

>>38947516
Look. I really love Rick and Morty, but you need to shut up six-grader.

>tfw no psychedelic cyber-pill that tranqs me in a dirty alleyway.
>tfw I have to wake up before the sweeperdrone find me.

>>38947607
XDD GOOD IRONIC REFERENCE DUDE

>>38947529
I was 8, I didn't give a fuck. But I miss the time when the Simpsons were cool. I mean, even when I rewatch old Simpsons episodes I don't feel it the same way I felt it in childhood.

>>38947660
Well, sincerely, man, dude, man, I didn't get no reference.

Sure we've got some cool technology, but we've come so accustomed to it we don't notice it. I mean think about it. A large majority of the population has a device that can access nearly all of human creation and thought. Whatever that may entail. We regularly utilize machines that "think" in ways we don't comprehend even though we created them

>>38947529
It was pretty good until 2010.
Then shit hit the fan, hard.

>>38947716
I'll admit what I said was edgy BUT I really meant it when i said it. NO rick and Mort influence just general ... pessimism you fucko

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>>38947758
We can just, you know, freeze ourselves or go into the wild for a couple of years not to feel accustomed to the technology.

>>38947805
Okya. Have you considered optimistic nihilism? That's some good shit.

>>38947876
I mean we don't think it's cool because we watched it develop and have a basc understanding of why it and how works. We were so mystified by the future back then because the technology seemed like magic, we didn't know how it would work or be developed and it wasn't a part of our lives so we wouldn't get a close look at it. Imagine if you were in the 90s and someone handed you a smartphone. What would you think? We have these magical technologies and we don't bat an eye. We saw them go from brick phone with limited calling to actual computers in our pockets. We drive our computer guided mechanical beasts, communicate on our information portals and play our alternate reality stimulation activities and no one thinks, "oh this is so cool, it's the future!"

>>38947505
Things aren't getting better. We've just domesticated ourselves.
Look up Calhoun's behavioral sink and it will all make sense.

>>38947945
I prefer optimistic pragmatism

hope for the best expect the worst

>>38948070
I have knowledge that I couldn't even dream of getting when I was younger. When I was a kid if I wanted to look up facts I had to use a physical encyclopedia that was limited and probably already long outdated. The devices I program to make my money (smartphones) didn't even exist when I was in college.

From my point of view things are fucking getting better. If I were growing up today the massive knowledge available now alone would have made my adult life 10x times better.

>>38948069
I think that all the time man. I even speak to people and say: ''Come on! It's the future!"
But it happens when I see something new.
Like porn on VR on a smartphone. That time I definitely know it was the future.

>>38948402
I mean, *I knew.
Dumb non-Russian language.

It's all fucked, and it's only going to get worse. I can't believe I was once dumb enough to have hope for the future