What will people in 50 years think when they look back at our era? What about 100 years...

I think personal communication and media devices might become:
Flexible and thin enough to the point they'll be like a stiff sheet of paper.
Some sort of ring or wrist jewelry that projects the screen an inch from your hand.
An implant that is controlled by thought or eye movements that feeds data straight to your brain.

Half Slave and Half Free.

They'll better appreciate the effects of cannibal capitalism.

The internet is still in its infancy. Undoubtedly, this vast unrestricted information paradise will not last forever. It will mature into something unprecedented, for better or for worse.

Or I could be wrong, it may just become irrelevant.

>this is what we'll be considering

we really do fucking suck when you think about it. Everyone now likes to look back on people in history for being retarded assholes, but they were doing shit like discovering the sun is the center of the universe, or gravity, or building the pyramids, or navigating unknown seas with ropes and shadows on pieces of wood and shit, while "smart" people now need fucking military grade GPS tracking devices to find a starbucks in a city they live in. The """"""intellectuals""""" of today are more concerned with gay unimportant issues like a guy in a dress pissing in a female bathroom than anything important

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>this

It's hard to tell, the internet has only been around for about two decades and we're already archiving certain point of our digital history as certain points of subculture (ie. the whole "selfie culture" thing hasn't really grown in prevalence until probably 2010)

pre-internet 20th century history will probably be shoved together in most people's minds. I think the rise of the internet will mark the division of two periods in the future, so we're probably living in the very early years of a new period.

I image we'll be living in a post capitalist society. Works that place during our time will often depict the harshness of living under the final stages of late-capitalism.

Depends what you mean by social media. At its loosest its definitely here to stay.

Millennials will be looked down upon as lazy spoiled queens and the commercial culture (all movies being capeshit and remakes) will be the butt of jokes in the future.

hello my enlightened friend.

While you were out, arguing on the internets, incredible stuff happened, such as the measurement of gravity waves, discovery of the higgs field particles, detection of third generation neutrinos and the acceleration of the universe.

get fucked

Memes

Millennials didn't do any of those things. How many wymyn stydies majors are working at CERN?

2000's up to the present is just a poor man's 80's, and the 80's sucked

we'll just be forgotten, like how no one really mentions the 1410's because not much happened of large importance.

ahahahaha, i think you need to put down the /pol/AID a bit

Humanity won't be around in 100 years

t. starcucks latte artist doing his mba in marxist philosophy

They will talk about NEETs and Pokemon Go, as the madness and void intellectual pursuit that came before WW3.

The fall of the Middle East.

The whole 'Progressives' vs 'Reactionaries' thing will likely be remembered vaguely as something similar to the Mods and Rockers, and no one will actually remember much about either side.

>why didn't they stop it

Doesn't seem that harsh to me. Especially considering what early capitalism was like.

I don't see the more people than jobs thing going away however.

And I hope you don't mean we're going to get a shitty communist society.

We probably won't be forgotten in 50 or a 100 years.

Off the top of my head I can imagine the Arab spring, islamic terrorism and the general rise of populists in the west leaving a print.

Pokemon go won't be remembered. That's a fad if there ever was one.

>implying you can wreck a shithole

I disagree, i think far more intresting things will happen in the next 10 years, meaning that the things you have mentioned will be only used as a quick explanation to explain the things that followed, akin to how the 1910's and 1930's are remembered as starting points to other more interesting decades.

Nice meme

The periods before the world wars are pretty widely studied though.

What do you imagine would happen in the next ten years that would be clearly distinguished from current events?

Genius physicists and retarded hummanities majors existed in every generation for as long as those two things have been around.

yeah well, your mother is so fat her Ricci scalar is negative

I believe it likely that niantic will leave an impression in the future, considering its the first widescale augmented reality game, and its built off of user data.

Well naturally our history will be heavily recorded provided theirs no cataclysm meaning we lose valuable recorded history.

However future public knowledge of are time will be much less focused on our day to day exsistence and more intrest will be in our conflicts, which i think will be a large scale, convetional war that will in someway revolve around america, with ultimately a small nuclear exchange which will mean we seriously disarm the following years which will lead to a period of long standing peace (100+ years?) then who knows.

Imagine it, a large scale, conventional war between competent western nations. I theories it would only last 2-3 years but the overall casualties and destruction would dwarf ww2, I'm talking at least a billion dead by the end.

It'll be remembered for its effects on the outside world more than the shithole itself. You know like the terrorist attacks (It'll likely become a common history mistake to say 9:11 was done by ISIS) and the migration crisis

How is the internet not history changing? It's changed how we do everything in just a few decades. It's importance can hardly be overstated.

Most people aren't viewed as smart. Our prime intellectuals are not shouting over each other on something called the comedy channel. Most people where insignificant then and they still are now. You seem very immature but I'm sure you're actually an enlightened patrician among the sheeple. Good for you buddy.

Social media will probably evolve into something else, more advanced. But it's definitely here to stay. Social media fills the exact need of attention in combination with easy, shallow socialising that appeals to many people. I predict that social media will turn or attempt to turn into something comparable to real life social interaction. Getting a beer in a pub with friends might become just as easy as grabbing a virtual pint with someone on the other side of the world.
But I'm just speculating.

fucking death fetishists

Just being realistic bro.

Your being overly optimistic if you think its gonna be peace everlasting on this fucking rock.

It'll probably be a resource war actually.

The idea that the current social unit will exist into the future seems ridiculous. Future generations will be socializing with people from all over the world.

Of course this will also probably lead to a change of government and economy

The future will be interesting

>"Why were white people such self-hating pseudointellectual faggots Grandpa?"
>"Leftists little Billy. That was of course before Trump had them all sent off to death camps and made America great again!"

Cringe

Applaud

>what will they fixate about our period?

We're on the edge of finding out how to live eternally as of now, so I'm pretty sure we'll just have to wait.

Our generation can be summed up with this picture

I wish. Mortality is my greatest fear.

>on the edge
Says who? The aging process isn't even fully understood.

Im glad you selfish hedonistic fucks will have to die just like im going to.

If immortality does happen, I hope its for people deserving of it, like they survive the hardest lifetime imaginable, akin to a medieval peasant and are still humble and good.

*teleports behind you*
*judges you for being a hedonistic degenerate*
*gives you a righteouss look*

nothing personnel millenial

I think you're woefully misinformed.

Immortality will either be outlawed or available only for the rich.

Some dumbfuck from Veeky Forums won't be afforded eternal life.

I dunno but in 1000's of years scholars will debate endlessly whether the fall of the American empire and ensuing dark age was caused by increased social tensions and instability, decaying political infrastructure, or the conversion of Donald Trump to Scientology.

We are the post 9/11 era.

they will wonder why we never went full natsoc