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Anonymous

March 19, 2025

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In 2040 I will be 70 years old I will have a career behind me I hope to be healthy and have an adequate pension , that's what everyone hopes humanity is facing a huge change, there is artificial intelligence nature is not doing well and there is also the shadow of a major war in the air. There is great fear for the future, by 2040 the glaciers will have melted massively and many areas will be submerged, I remember my trip to the Maldives and I am sorry that the place where I used to holiday no longer exists. Humans have become stupid, I think about how things that used to be so simple cause so much headache for people today, home cooking is impossible to do without AI instructions, no food is real anymore, Christmas ham has turned into a soy cricket tofu mix manipulated by the ham flavour sex gene, thankfully I can remember how it used to be and I feel sorry for my children's children when they don't experience the same. My picture of the future is bleak because human memory is short and does not learn from its mistakes everyone knows what to do but the world has been taken over by a new religion and its holy trinity is power, markets and money.

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