The Future

[herr_oberst]

Giant corporations are taking a hard look at what's happening with regards to the percentage of the workforce who are now quite capably working from home; in the future this will become commonplace, and the ripple effect will be incredible. Less traffic, fewer parking spots needed, less commercial office space needed, support businesses like lunch restaurants and fast food, coffee shops, dare I say pubs, will evolve to meet a different consumer demand, neighborhoods will evolve - more shops and businesses within walking distance to meet the needs of a workforce that telecommutes but still needs to buy things like pet supplies and hardware


Who knows, the population as a whole might just become fitter and healthier?

[911boost]

^ Fitter from sitting at home and not walking to the office from the parking lot, walking to mass transit, etc....

I see the potential for the other to happen.

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Long ago when Christ was a kid in the 60's I thought about what the future would look like...

1. The Internal Combustion engine would be being phased out in favor of an alternative fuel vehicle by 2020 or so...as in not being produced anymore....chalk that up as being only partially true AT BEST.

2. That after a decimating economic calamity and resurrection that people would be working in a more cottage industry like capacity from their homes in a world with far more trees and plants.

3. That the world would be Green..trees and plants instead of steel and concrete. That there would be less pollution as the Global Industrial Economy Of Scale would be defunct. That in this world there would be far less people either due to war, famine or disease. That this would be man kinds rebirth of civilization. One where secular materialism is not the highest and best use of the planet we call home.

4. That bio luminescence would be used as a energy source.

5. That by 2004 or so that two small nations with nuclear weapons would have a go at each other with them...WRONG DIDN"T HAPPEN...but the potentiality is still there. India/Pakistan

6. In 1980 I had the epiphany that the US government in particular was going to keep spending money until they could nit beg, borrow, print, steal nor tax another dime...THAT HAS COME TRUE..

This is in effect what I see happening after the death of the Global Economy Of Scale and the attendant turmoil and chaos. That after reaching the nadir of a Dark Age that in several hundred years that what I have laid out would be the face of future civilization.

[RWebb]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

Read all about 'em, from the CDC:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/basics/past-pandemics.html

Really good website.

Yes.

There are also books on the 1918 flu (and I'm sure there will be more with comparisons to this outbreak).


I suspect that the move to more robotics will increase - food delivery, manf., meat packing, fast food 'making' or prep. etc.

We may see changes to nursing homes (very poorly regulated in Oregon).

The 1918 flu epidemic led to changes in architecture - relating to bathroom design. We may see something like that now for commercial bldgs. esp. ERs, and medical clinics.

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Originally Posted by RWebb

Yes.

There are also books on the 1918 flu (and I'm sure there will be more with comparisons to this outbreak).


I suspect that the move to more robotics will increase - food delivery, manf., meat packing, fast food 'making' or prep. etc.

We may see changes to nursing homes (very poorly regulated in Oregon).

The 1918 flu epidemic led to changes in architecture - relating to bathroom design. We may see something like that now for commercial bldgs. esp. ERs, and medical clinics.

More robotics is a high tech and thus costly endeavor to develope and maintain. You make the assumption that economy and society will still have the the where with all to spend that kind of money. This fallacy in your thinking indicates that you still think that things will once again be swell. A belief in the secular God of science that is going to save you.

We have just seen once again that Centralized government and or complex bureaucratic hierarchy's have failed to be competent. The first time in this era and or incarnation it failed was during Katrina and it has been one SNAFU after another. Further science and tech is not the panacea..a refuge of faith that reassures you as you fall asleep that all will be well.

Instead there is the reversion to the mean of human history of barbarity, cruelty sloth, greed and one might add compassion, empathy and love. Mankind has not Progressed one iota in 2000 years, he remains a barbaric little monkey in a tree. Once bound by a spiritual faith which has now fallen away to a secular faith. The admonishment here is that you can not legislate morality. Once that veneer of secular civilization falls away then the monkey comes out as there is no moral hazard.

What most people see when they look at themselves in the mirror is DR Jekyll while remaining in denial that Mr Hyde exists with in and is staring them in the face as well.