2019-04-12 at 8:32 PM UTC
Or at least the United States
it's already dying and unless a miracle happens and Jesus saves our precious capitalist lives then we're headed for another dark age
In total I give it no more than 40 years
people might get a taste of the technocracy as advertised by The Verge
but that society will ultimately die out as well
2019-04-12 at 8:47 PM UTC
When it's time to upgrade the server running our virtual reality universe.
2019-04-12 at 8:53 PM UTC
Civilization has long since collapsed in this country. The untamed corporate animal roams the landscape unchecked, it feeds on the population when and where it pleases. This is the state of nature, a war of every being against every other. Life is nasty and brutish but it is not short, that would be a mercy we've not earned.
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2019-04-12 at 8:54 PM UTC
I want the Muslims to declare war on Israel. This would make me very happy.
2019-04-12 at 8:55 PM UTC
It used to be that any nation was only ever 3 meals away from collapse...now in Fat America that's only 2hrs.
2019-04-12 at 10:20 PM UTC
-SpectraL
coward
[the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
Two events must happen first: first, they will try and rid the world of all religion, and, secondly, they will cry peace and security, and then "instant destruction will be upon them", like the pangs of a woman suddenly thrust into labor. The end of this wicked system of things can't come until those two things occur.
2019-04-13 at 1:47 AM UTC
WRT to OP, technology won't just go away, it will evolve. Just like the collapse of Rome didn't lead to the loss of bronze or iron or anything like that. In fact most people who lived through the collapse of Rome just seen it as a devolution, like Brexit, there was now a local king in charge instead of some far away emperor, and life continued (though there was surely a lowering of living standards and a collapse of trade).
We could easily transfer to a renewable economy right now - making our own wind turbines, micro-hydroelectric, reconditioning our own batteries, re-purposing our cars as generators fueled by bio-diesel. We could return to horses (horses are a form of technology - just like cars, they used to be too small even to ride before selective breeding took over) and grow our own food (same thing with crops - modern crops and meat animals are amazingly productive compared to pre-industrial ones - selective breeding again).
We could use waste glass to build greenhouses and use electrical machines to till the soil. A collapse would not necessarily be a bad thing. We have so much fluff on our civilisation, we're like a fat man, we have a lot we could bear to lose.
Many areas wouldn't even notice, except that there is less air traffic, and antibiotics are harder to get.
