Utopian or Dystopian? By 2030 We Don't Own Anything, AI Decides What We Eat, Our Jobs Are Just Creative Activities. Everything's Delivered On Demand. All Communication & Energy Is Free of Cost.  episode artwork

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Utopian or Dystopian? By 2030 We Don't Own Anything, AI Decides What We Eat, Our Jobs Are Just Creative Activities. Everything's Delivered On Demand. All Communication & Energy Is Free of Cost.

from The Best Paragraph I've Read... · host Zac & Don

The Best Paragraph I've Read: Welcome to the year 2030. Welcome to my city - or should I say, "our city." I don't own anything. I don't own a car. I don't own a house. I don't own any appliances or any clothes. It might seem odd to you, but it makes perfect sense for us in this city. Everything you considered a product, has now become a service. We have access to transportation, accommodation, food and all the things we need in our daily lives. One by one all these things became free, so it ended up not making sense for us to own much. This paragraph comes from an essay written on Forbes.com.  The title is "Welcome to 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy And Life Has Never Been Better."  The essay is written by Ida Auken.  You can read the full essay here: Welcome To 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy And Life Has Never Been Better (forbes.com) Zac and Don discuss this vision of the future.  They try and decide if this is a positive or negative future and how realistic of a vision it is.  

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