OK today’s #blogjune post is thanks to @libsmatter who will make all these into a Storify
- If you could go back and tell your 20 year old self one thing that was going to happen to you between then and today, what would that be?
Oh this is so easy. You’re gay, you’re gay, you are GAY! Sigh. The opportunities I missed not coming out at University.
I’m going back in time with Dr.Who, the TARDIS and Bill right?
Although as my friends who told me I was gay then would say
– I wouldn’t believe myself.
Maybe I would say “you are going to have a job, wonderful friends and your own house sometime in the future. Relax, enjoy the ride and stop worrying”.
I look at 20 year olds today (I work at a University, there are a lot around) and I wish I had a way to give this advice without sounding patronising. I wasted so much time worrying about the future, and it never led to anything changing; it just leads to time wasted on stress. Live every minute of the present if you can.
- In 20 years time (presuming the world gets better, not worse) what do you think will be the biggest technological difference between your life now and your life then ?
Hmmm. Well I want the difference to be that capitalism is dead and the world revolves around people, the environment and supporting both of these.
However I know that 20 years goes faster than expected, so I think the real difference will be Artificial Intelligence. I assume we will be able to access larger and larger data sets more easily, that transactional jobs will have been handed over to AI and that work as we know it will have ballooned into creation of new things based on reusing information.
Perhaps if this happens society will be heading towards my dream anyway, as social and intellectual capital becomes more important than physical manufacturing.
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