Your Thoughts on the Future

[Noclevername]

The question that arises is how much of this drama will be real and how much self-generated. 

Sadly, our worst and most destructive drama as a species has always been self generated. World War Two basically happened because of nationalism and racism and religions and lines on a map, all factors that are imaginary, political, and/or supernatural. 


Never underestimate what OA calls Memetic factors. We literally live and die for them.

Drashner1

Or people may stop feeling as great of a desire for privacy. I'm not entirely sure how much the idea of privacy owes to human nature and how much is actually just a cultural artifact of Western civilization. Certainly there are plenty of cultures (past and present) where people live(d) in much closer quarters than what people in the US consider the norm. They still manage(d) reasonably well.

In most places, people still have opportunities to be by themselves or in small groups. Historically, most farming villages were closely surrounded by wilderness that one could always go off into. I don't really know if non-Western cultures have and value privacy the way our individualist society does, but I'd bet there's some analogous concepts in most of them, even if it's not a specific word in all languages.