Why Millennials Will be Remembered as Savages

The year is 2057

Life is good. The marginal cost of all technology plummetted to near Zero 25 years ago and since then your want for anything was eradicated. Everything except travel. But what’s the point in traveling when you can inhabit a Bot anywhere in the world through virtual reality and explore that region as if you were physically present. You’re no longer tethered to the surface either, those new amphibious bots allow your exploration of anywhere on the planet. The Mariana Trench is the most popular tourist destination on earth, though it’s so busy nobody goes there anymore.

Note ‘most popular destination on earth’ we’ve left the blue marble. Those bots allow us to achieve the unimaginable. Want to recreate the first moonwalk? You can, and many have, but there is a 13-month wait.

Which is unlucky because the destruction of blue collar jobs fantasized by so many academics came after white collar jobs. And you had the whitest of collars. Exploration of space would certainly occupy 5 minutes of your new found time. Pity you’ve already taken your allocated trip this decade.

Which is funny because you were so certain that your job would be almost impossible to replace. You could write a whole laundry list of reasons why you were irreplaceable, but along came General Artifical…