We are heading towards a new have/have-not society. This one will be about augmentation. Very quickly, some jobs, perhaps a majority, will require some form of augmentation. Those who can afford it or get it will be employed and those who can’t, won’t. Also, there will be physical augmentation, bigger muscles, faster moves, a porn-class penis you can buy.
There will probably be outliers who get both sets of genitalia, or worse, have specially designed babies programmed to satisfy who-knows what fetish...perhaps in the name of “art.”
Brave new world is not how I’d class these events.
My sister, now 71, refuses to adapt to technology. She won’t use a bank machine or a self-checkout. I can see how she is losing her ability to get along in society. I can only picture how those who fail to move along with the augmentation wave will be viewed and how they’ll become second class citizens. What will my sister do when you can’t go into a bank and talk to a real person? What about when there are no more checkers?
“What about when there are no more checkers?”
She’ll have to quit refusing.
My sister is the same age as yours. She refuses to have Internet and dreads the day when the only way you can pay bills is online.
I can easily envision the day when anyone who does not take the mark of the beast is ridiculed as a dinosaur or a “religious fanatic,” and life will be made very difficult for them.
“What will my sister do when you can’t go into a bank and talk to a real person? What about when there are no more checkers?”
She’ll pay someone to act as her proxy. He’ll take care of those things and she’ll pay him a fee. It’s already happening.
Your sister and I are somewhat alike. I will use an ATM machine. But I won’t use self checkout as it always takes longer than having a “professional” do it.
I don’t have/want a cell phone, don’t have/want/watch TV. I avoid social networking like the plague.
But I do use online banking; tremendous time and postage saver.
And, of course, I’m addicted to FR. Spend way too much time here. But it’s better than watching mindless TV.
Death panels will solve the issue for anyone unwilling to succumb to the New World Order.