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Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ha ha, no. In a million years, mankind would have paved the entire planet’s surface, including the oceans. Our numbers would be in the hundred billions and most will live underground. The few elites would live on the uppermost levels and even have real gardens and plants. Wildlife would be extinct, save for a few robotic simulacra in the Imperial Zoo. Ironically, you would have to go to the Outer Colonies to see some animals that are extinct on Terra.
SOB_Van_Owen@lemm.ee 9 months ago
lanolinoil@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s like rain on your wedding day
V0lD@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The fact that you mixed elements of utopia and dystopia together makes it rather difficult to infer what opinion on the comic you’re trying to convey
Blyfh@lemmy.world 9 months ago
What part of that was utopian?
BrockSampson@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Maybe from the perspective of the few rich elites its utopian? Lmao
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
In a million years we’d have had a Dyson sphere for nearly a million years and colonized almost the entirety of the galaxy already.
We unfortunately wouldn’t have colonized Andromeda quite yet though.
Any utopia first requires the basis of free energy. Dyson spheres are the start and the logical first outcome for any sufficiently advanced civilization. Fusion reactors being used as needed where we can’t donate from the former.
The rest is all politics. The vast majority of people are good. When everyone isn’t fighting for the same resources, the population stabilizes in 2100 to about 11 billion people.
The growing pains until then through space colonies and terraformers will be admittedly rough though. Space radiation and the classism in that vacuum will be terrible for the poor and disenfranchised.
Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com 9 months ago
Yeah this could easily mean that humanity left Earth.
objectionist@lemmy.world 9 months ago
the cyberpunk 2077 universe just keeps looking more and more plausible every day, down to the corporate decisions and design
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 months ago
But that’s just a few decades away