Tschumi
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Oh boy do I hope you read the OP before you tell me my question makes no sense 
This is a thought exercise, I understand that it's possible we could have the best of both worlds (I doubt it, consoles are pretty awful for the environment, gawd bless 'em) but for the sake of this thread the options are mutually exclusive. Basically, obviously, it's asking if you want to make the life-changing sacrifices to have the 'Works' kinda world or if you wanna keep on barrelling towards a fun, dystopian cyberpunk'y future.
The poll is totally blind, you can't see the results, we won't be able to see your name, you can't change ur vote.
"Works" =
"Buzzes" =
This is a thought exercise, I understand that it's possible we could have the best of both worlds (I doubt it, consoles are pretty awful for the environment, gawd bless 'em) but for the sake of this thread the options are mutually exclusive. Basically, obviously, it's asking if you want to make the life-changing sacrifices to have the 'Works' kinda world or if you wanna keep on barrelling towards a fun, dystopian cyberpunk'y future.
The poll is totally blind, you can't see the results, we won't be able to see your name, you can't change ur vote.
"Works" =
The environment is clean; the world is stable; you are healthy, flexible and light on your feet until you die between the ages of 80 and 110; all the vehicles and machines run on sustainable energy; free medicine is slowly conquering all known diseases; we have tech but it comes secondary to a sustainable, enlightened life
pros: Perfected green tech; enlightened business and food practices, beautiful nature, a healthy life without obesity, a stable climate, no worries about having kids, costs nothing to drive your cars, societies work together effectively to maintian their resources, plastic's gone; the markets are regulated and prices are stable, affordable; the ability to compromise and come to agreements with people who have different beliefs to you.
cons: The organizing structures of the world need to spend a lot of money/resources on green tech, some of which comes from your bank account/resource pool; no mined crypto-currencies; less tasty food; non-badass architecture; no fossil fuels industry jobs; you have to exercise self restraint with what you eat, purchase, own, etc; you'll have to find a type of game that doesn't run on rare earths; you'll have to get vaccinated and wear masks when it's necessary; if you want obnixiously loud cars you need to pay for a speaker to broadcast the noises out of the ass of ur vehicle; you'll have to operate within societal structures more than you might want to in 2021; plastic's gone; you don't make shitloads of money off volatile stocks; you will have to compromise and come to agreements with people who have different beliefs to you.
pros: Perfected green tech; enlightened business and food practices, beautiful nature, a healthy life without obesity, a stable climate, no worries about having kids, costs nothing to drive your cars, societies work together effectively to maintian their resources, plastic's gone; the markets are regulated and prices are stable, affordable; the ability to compromise and come to agreements with people who have different beliefs to you.
cons: The organizing structures of the world need to spend a lot of money/resources on green tech, some of which comes from your bank account/resource pool; no mined crypto-currencies; less tasty food; non-badass architecture; no fossil fuels industry jobs; you have to exercise self restraint with what you eat, purchase, own, etc; you'll have to find a type of game that doesn't run on rare earths; you'll have to get vaccinated and wear masks when it's necessary; if you want obnixiously loud cars you need to pay for a speaker to broadcast the noises out of the ass of ur vehicle; you'll have to operate within societal structures more than you might want to in 2021; plastic's gone; you don't make shitloads of money off volatile stocks; you will have to compromise and come to agreements with people who have different beliefs to you.
"Buzzes" =
Gadgets upon gadgets; Cyberpunk style mods; the ultimate smartphone; the nextest gen PlayStation and xBox; constant remote acess to online forums via a display on your google lenses; typing right from your google braaain; flying google cars; mining and laser battles on Facebook Brings You The Meta Moon; google androids to... service you all day erry day.
pros: Ultimate convenience; scientifically perfected food flavours; huge, bladerunner intro'esque cities; lots of rain on neon signs; your apartment is fully of automated systems and an AI to manage it; pandemics affect someone else and you can purchase medicines that fix any sickness via brute force; truly do what you want with guns, drugs, personal decisions; anything else you can think that brings maximum joy to you; you can vote with reckless abandon on whatever you want.
cons: The food is made from nutritious cardboard; the buildings belch columns of fire into the air all the time; never see grass or sun, a tree or two when you walk past an impossibly rich person's bunker-like house; the high tech apartment is a hole in a vertical slum; the nextest gen consoles just distract you from the massive way your options have shrunk; super medicines will cost you an organ or two; die quickly from the epidemic that rips through your 1bn strong neighborhood; odds are 20% of your family has died before they hit the age of 10; items that give you maximum joy come at the cost of hideous waste; your votes mean nothing, you are incapable of knowing what you 'want' because you've been hard wired to consume the latest soundbyte of the politician facebook decided you were interested in when you were 3 years old; maximum life expectancy for the superrich is 55, you're not super rich.
pros: Ultimate convenience; scientifically perfected food flavours; huge, bladerunner intro'esque cities; lots of rain on neon signs; your apartment is fully of automated systems and an AI to manage it; pandemics affect someone else and you can purchase medicines that fix any sickness via brute force; truly do what you want with guns, drugs, personal decisions; anything else you can think that brings maximum joy to you; you can vote with reckless abandon on whatever you want.
cons: The food is made from nutritious cardboard; the buildings belch columns of fire into the air all the time; never see grass or sun, a tree or two when you walk past an impossibly rich person's bunker-like house; the high tech apartment is a hole in a vertical slum; the nextest gen consoles just distract you from the massive way your options have shrunk; super medicines will cost you an organ or two; die quickly from the epidemic that rips through your 1bn strong neighborhood; odds are 20% of your family has died before they hit the age of 10; items that give you maximum joy come at the cost of hideous waste; your votes mean nothing, you are incapable of knowing what you 'want' because you've been hard wired to consume the latest soundbyte of the politician facebook decided you were interested in when you were 3 years old; maximum life expectancy for the superrich is 55, you're not super rich.
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