What would you tell someone in 2024 to completely change their life for the better?
Probably the best answer in this thread, still a bit if a gamble. I certainly would have a hard time answering that for a person from 1024.
“wash your hands”
Don’t forget to specify with soap and to do it after bathroom visits and before meals, otherwise they’ll just wash their hands once per month and use dirt to wash with.
And specifically before they try any “surgery”
did they have soap back then?
According to Wikipedia
Humans have used soap for millennia; evidence exists for the production of soap-like materials in ancient Babylon around 2800 BC.
So I think they did.
Don’t let anyone explore overseas to the west (if talking to a white person).
Don’t trust white people (if talking to just about anyone else).
Telling them how a steam engine works. That would start the industrial revolution earlier and it would end up speeding us up to a more advanced and better future… or to an early extinction by global warming… hmmmm
Maybe explaining an electricity generator would be a better gamble, but it may be very hard to make one back then…
The Romans had steam engines. But they couldn’t be used for anything but opening temple doors to impress people because they didn’t have the manufacturing tolerances to seal the steam chamber properly, nor the metallurgy needed to pressurize it without bursting.
That tech only became available much later during the industrial revolution.AFAIK even that wouldn’t have been unsolvable problems for Greeks and Romans.
However why put all the effort into this machinery when you can simply put more slaves to work? One driving factor for the Industrial Revolution was the issue of having to pay people actual wages instead of being able to force them to work. This added incentives to reduce manual labor and replace them with something owners can force to work without paying it: Machines.
The answer would probably be something sensible, within our ability and something we would be capable of.
We already know how to do this … we as a collective global civilization just actively refuse to do any of it unless we were forced to, either by war or by the realization that it will mean our extinction.
It’s not that we are a thousand years dumber than our descendants … we are just as intelligent and insightful as our ancestors a thousand years ago … it’s just that our short sightedness and greed gets the best of us.
In many ways we are still a lot like our prehistoric ancestors from 100,000 years ago who believed that our family should control all the unlimited amount of bananas in the jungle.
The fact there is a human person to ask anything to is answer enough for me.
Who said the person was human?
Then I guess I do have a question : To your knowledge, how many sapient beings currently exist ?
A researcher in animal cognition said at a lecture I saw once: every time we look closer, we see more and more evidence of intelligent behavior in tinier and tinier creatures, behaviors we once assumed were limited to humans. He studied insects: bacteria have been shown to display “learning” behaviors.
How many beings are sapient? Wouldn’t be shocked if Future Being told me it was all of them
I hope the being from the future answers with a number, because “all of them” could mean “one” and that’s the actual thing I’m worried about 😆
To my knowledge, the sapient population is the human population of Earth.
However, there are numerous sentient species that could conceivably be “uplifted” in the next thousand years. Plus, I consider it more likely than not that extraterrestrials do exist and that there’s likely another sapient species out there, though they are unlikely to be in our general volume of space
Is 3024 the year of Linux on desktop?
What would you tell a direct ancestor of yourself, living in the year 2024?
This is it. You don’t always know what you need to to know.
How long did it take to overthrow humanity, dear robot overlord?
Hold up, it’s getting mighty undemocratic here
DEMOCRACY IS NON-NEGOTIABLE
I was thinking about this yesterday… the kinda already have.
I mean bots online have humans so addled we can’t decide whether to have a vaccination, or whether to elect a dictator.
I don’t think we’re in fit shape to read Facebook and order from Amazon, and we’re going to have a real actual shooting war with robots?
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Ass, all day.
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I came back from the future to warn you, boobies are setting up a boobie trap. Save the ass!
What dangerous substances were unknowingly used by people in the past millennium?
(Like radium, lead, asbestos, etc. seems for us now)
Plastics
“Unknowingly”
Most plastic that we use shows evidence of endocrine disruption activity and it isnt just BPA as a byproduct of the manufacture of certain plastics. We know it is bad for the environment too. Microplastics are pervasive and also known to have negative health and environmental consequences.
I agree with all of that, but as a society, I would not say we “know” it until we remove it from our food supply in a significant way. Today, still in most countries much of our food is stored, sold, and prepared in substantial plastics. We rightfully “know” better with lead and asbestos, but societally were still ignorant of the real concerns of plastics.
We knew Lead was poisonous back in roman times. That didnt stop us from using its derivatives in paint, gasoline, solders (still used today), bullets and other common products. The disaster in Flint for example, was the result of the use of Lead and its alloys in the water pipes used there combined with poor decisions made in the name of cost cutting. Dont assume that people individually or as a society do dumb things only because they dont know any better. People do dumb things they know full well they shouldnt be doing all the time.
“Dude, it was wood. Stay the fuck away from wood!”
But it’s pretty. :(
How many thousands, or millions, survived the 21st century’s Great Filter?
( I’d want to know the proper expectations )
great filter?
The universe is as far as we can tell so far, devoid of intelligent life other than ourselves. The “great filter” is a collection of hazards that life must avoid. For us an example would be nuclear war or hostile AI.
“Which one?” – Time traveler
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Who from our time do people remember?
Do we survive our current nonsense, or does it just get worse from here?
define ‘we’
Your question might be more useful if you added a “how” to the beginning of it, “How do we survive our current nonsense?”
HL3 when ?
Send noods plz?
okay but honestly it would be super interesting to see how humans have changed over those thousand years
1000 years is too little for big evolutionary changes in a species that reproduces as slowly as us. So unless they went full cyborg or generic engineering the changes won’t be very big.
I mean not even from evolution, but like style and what not. 500 years ago things like tattoos as a fashion thing would be unheard of outside like tribal stuff (I think at least I’m no expert). would be interesting to see what they come up with
video tattoos, split tongues, robotic sidekicks
I recall reading our evolutionary trend is headed towards making toes obsolete, so they might be down to only three or four by then.
1000 years is long enough for us to get a lot more comfortable with things like eugenics, cloning, or other genetic fuckery.
What do your history books say happened around 2030?
How do you exist, considering the current state of our world?
