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by cyanydeez 68 days ago
Curious, in this world, what are the people doing? Is it like that WallE floating bed thing? I just find it fascinating people could survive by dissassociating real effort for...
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Imagine going back 50 years, and without your knowledge of computers, offices and more. Being exposed to the world today with the knowledge and experience from 50 years ago, surely just a typical corporate office would look weird, inefficient and strange. "What do you mean you just write electronic letters all day, how is that work?" someone might ask.

Now imagine doing that but instead jumping 50 years into the future. Surely most of the "highly valuable knowledge work" at that point will look just as alien to us today as today would look to someone from 50 years ago.

Also, imagine waking up from the matrix.

The dissassociation is the same confusing/confounding thing.