Nah, the past was filled with peasants dying of infections and dysentery. The future will just be the Pony Express crew from Mouthwashing. Honestly, I don’t even know what member I’d choose to be since they all went out horrifically.
Now replace the future with how Night City in Cyberpunk 2077 looks like.
Born too late to be killed in a siege for a castle I work around.
Too early to die in a fire accident aboard my transport ship to my corporate slave workplace.
Just in time to be a corporate slave.
The future represented in this image has little chance of actually happening: it is the mythology of fossil fuel powered capitalist society, which has expanded past the planet’s environmental limits but needs to expand somewhere, or admit it is at the end of its useful life.
Do we think that’s actually true, though? Life, all life, has a tendency to spread out when a niche is open in a new environment which it can fill, and there’s nothing shown there that isn’t technically within the bounds of humanity. Before capitalism, before humans were even Homo sapiens, we were already migrating out of Africa and into Eurasia. The drive to explore is, in my opinion, deeply human, and nothing says that the model of that exploration or expansion needs to be capitalistic. We wouldn’t have colonized the world in prehistory if it did.
The first and second images are fantasy.
How come everyone wants to imagine the future is great and the past was great (it wasn’t, it’s literally just now but worse), but nobody wants to imagine what they could do to make now better?
Last image from 2nd line is cyberpunk, that’s what a techno-fascist country is becoming. OP might be able to live it, he just have to move to the US (or wait if he already lives there)
Kinda hard to build FTL tech on imagination instead of billions/trillions of dollars of research, insane skills in math, physics, etc.
The first and second images are fantasy.
Even if you concede “Knights exist” and “Astronauts exist”, the idea that you’re going to be a knight much less a fucking astronaut relative to being a subsistence farmer or a digital desk jockey…
How come everyone wants to imagine the future is great and the past was great
That’s the other joke, though. Both these images are of people marching off to war. Presumably, these knights are going to the Holy Land to bake in the hot sun and shit themselves to death from cholera. Meanwhile, the interstellar colony ships are going to be rationing everything from calories to moles of oxygen.
The modern era guy doing a simple 9-5 desk job, getting more wealth in return in a week than an knight errant or an astronaut earns in a month, then going home to fuck his hot wife and play catch with his adorable kids has it pretty great by comparison.
The middle ain’t ever comin’ my guy
And the fist one we’d still be the peasants not knights.
Still think it would be more fulfilling to plant crops rather than “keeping the KPI up”, “limiting the exceptions rate” or “moving a button 3px to the left”…
Give it a try using ancient tech and get back to me after you come back to the city because your back is completely fucked.
Also, add in the drastically higher incidence of parasites and plague!
“Baby, you’ve got a stew goin’!”
Plus, probably still required to do military service, only you get no armor and face knights in full plate who have trained their whole lives to kill you.
You can go do that now, no one’s stopping you.
Something something Enrico fermi
I dunno, middle right looks to me like a cyberpunk dystopia with heavy smog. We can pretty much do that right now!
And the first never existed in the way imagined.
Nothing that is heavier than air could ever fly.
Bold of you to assume the guys crewing that spaceship aren’t just doing some job they hate to pay the bills
While being forced to travel literal lightyears away from everyone they ever knew, and potentially outliving everyone they care about due to relativity shenanigans.
I’m glad to live in a time when full plate armor is no longer necessary to approach a woman safely.
Why noy 2 and 3? Enter Starsector, the future we are slowly headed towards.
We had EVE Online, which i never bothered with so my info here is 2nd hand, but in that game you could fly space ships and engage in a fantasy sci-fi MMO universe.
People were working in banks there. Full on 9-5 jobs in a game about space.
I paid $15 a month to haul bulk cargo in a freighter.
How do you imagine space exploration would be?
"Now you can also help discover space
~by working as a minimum wage welder in the bottom of this ship~"
The bankers will just have a per solar system stock market the way we are heading
What kind of slop is the second image!
