Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better

World Economic Forum ^ | 11/11/16 | Ida Auken

[Baynative]

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.

[GoldenPup]

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

Lots of marble slabs standing around? Figures.

[equaviator]

Another useless “what if” scenario I can do without.

[Da Coyote]

Just saw the author’s note. Perhaps he is not silly after all, but I do wonder. When one has no work to stand behind, they will create “values” of their own to define their uniqueness.

[ifinnegan]

From the bottom:

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Author’s note: Some people have read this blog as my utopia or dream of the future. It is not. It is a scenario showing where we could be heading - for better and for worse. I wrote this piece to start a discussion about some of the pros and cons of the current technological development. When we are dealing with the future, it is not enough to work with reports. We should start discussions in many new ways. This is the intention with this piece.

Written by

Ida Auken, Member of Parliament, Parliament of Denmark (Folketinget)

The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not the World Economic Forum.

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[Polyxene]

Welcome to the Brave New World. Soma for everyone.

[laplata]

“Is this article supposed to be a Kafka-esque nightmare? Or has the author been watching too many episodes of Star Trek”?

If you look at the other articles on that website, you’ll no longer wonder.

[aquila48]

“I just hope that nobody will use it against me.”

Shows how delusional she is. Another utopian without a clue of human nature and reality.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Re the pyramid:

I’m with you, brother. Well put.

[Trillian]

I think freedom will win.

[Tench_Coxe]

"Who would be in the really nice houses? Who would run things? Who would tend the machines and create new types of things? Who would handle physical emergencies like earthquakes, hurricanes, or catastrophic power outages?"

The Morlocks.

[fireman15]

Ida Margrete Meier Auken (born 22 April 1978 in Frederiksberg) is a Danish politician and member of Parliament [1] from the Danish Social Liberal Party. She was Minister for the Environment of Denmark from 2011-14. Originally a member of the Socialist People's Party she switched parties in 2014.[2] Her mother is Margrete Auken and her late uncle was Svend Auken. Like her mother, she is a priest of the Church of Denmark by profession. She has been a member of the Danish parliament since 2007. Ida Auken is member of the Advisory Board of Vigga.us, a Danish company that produces organic children's clothing after the circular idea, so that the clothes be rented and reused. Ida Auken is also a member of Old Brick 's Advisory Board, which is a Danish company that cleans and recycles used bricks. Ida Auken is also member of the Advisory Board of EMG, an international CSR and sustainability consultancy founded in the Netherlands, which advises in sustainable development and Cradle to Cradle certified products.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Auken

Would she be one of the free blonde things the Muslim men in the city would be able to visit in her dream world?

[varyouga]

“Who would be in the really nice houses?”

You wouldnt need a permanent house. If you wanted to have a beachfront get together with your friends, you book for that date in advance when nobody else is using it. Free transportation takes you all there and machines cleanup and maintain the space after. You sleep in a room maintained by machines wherever you book. It can be far away since transportation would be free and nearly instant anywhere on earth.

“Who would run things?”

Elected officials via elections.

“Who would tend the machines and create new types of things?”

Machines would repair themselves, recycle and harvest the raw materials as needed.

AI machines and some people who volunteered would develop new tools for benefit of all.

“Who would handle physical emergencies like earthquakes, hurricanes, or catastrophic power outages?”

Machines capable of handling all these things. Everything would be powered by small distributed mass-to-energy power sources with no need for a grid.

We don’t have the answer to all things yet but an era of infinite energy, space mining for infinite resources and free labor for all via AI machines is coming. Assuming we dont kill ourselves with a dumb mistake first...

[Baynative]

RE: "My take: It’s an incomplete description of the society that would exist. Who would be in the really nice houses? Who would run things? Who would tend the machines and create new types of things? Who would handle physical emergencies like earthquakes, hurricanes, or catastrophic power outages?"

I read some of her other writings. Many of them talk of a circular economy. But I've yet to see anything about who actually does the work, or how all this stuff gets paid for.

In one part she says when she feels like cooking everything including utensils just comes to the door.

How can a mature person even dream such a fantasy?

[blueunicorn6]

That, is a good one.

[Robert DeLong]

So AI is doing all the work I take it. Then humans become wasted entities, and life becomes totally unnecessary. The sanctity of life is lost. I also take it that companionship is provided in the form of robots, that have interchangeable sex organ parts, though no offspring are created. Thus procreation will take a hit sooner rather than later, and the human species will become extinct.

Our own intelligence will become our ultimate demise then.

That being said this is nothing more than a dream, and while dreams can control every aspect, life & reality do not always work that way. In fact it seldom, if ever, does.

[Nifster]

Miserable life with no innovation, no discoveries...this is the blandness of Winston’s world

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thanks for the pointer to "The Machine Stops." The last lines of the very first paragraph got me!

"An armchair is in the centre, by its side a reading-desk-that is all the furniture. And in the armchair there sits a swaddled lump of flesh-a woman, about five feet high, with a face as white as a fungus. It is to her that the little room belongs."

LOL...Sounds like all of us FReepers FReeping away!

[Nifster]

That isn’t what was said

[Nifster]

Nicely played

[WatchungEagle]

The globalist elites are really pushing a rental society where non-wealthy people never own their homes, cars or anything of enduring value.