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An optimistic timeline
'''{{SUBPAGENAME}}''' is a click language belonging to the Hirbic branch of the Irenesian language family.
 
(* = less speculative/hopeful to **** = more speculative/hopeful)
* Aqqaüqüququq continues to innovate good ideas
* After decades of political and economic turmoil, the Alliance becomes a fully social democratic (eventually democratic socialist?) country. (**)
* There is a global treaty to halt AI capabilities research and similar research (e.g. synthetic pathogens and mirror life) that may endanger humanity. (***)
* A combination of good industrial policy and foreign aid enables:
** Applied memetics becomes a field of study, leading first to a ban on addictive social media (**)
** Clean electricity eventually becomes too cheap to meter (*)
** Aqqaüqüququq invents and scales up efficient carbon dioxide removal. The world successfully deploys CDR in addition to achieving net zero emissions, bringing temperatures back down to <1.5°C in 80 years after 1.5°C is first reached. Eco-fascism loses power. (**)
** Medical and life extension/anti-aging research is pursued instead, eventually bearing fruit. This accelerates collective human learning, as humans can now learn and achieve more in their lifetimes as the prerequisite material needed for each new discovery keeps increasing. (****)
** Robotics automates menial jobs (*)
** Religious fundamentalism and right-wing populism both lose appeal (***)
** Space is harvested for materials (*)
** Convincing vegan equivalents are available for most animal products, including gelatin (**)
* Human settlements eventually reach a state where some people choose to live in cities and others closer to undeveloped nature, and neither interfere with one another (***)

Latest revision as of 02:04, 26 June 2025

Lenǃir is a click language belonging to the Hirbic branch of the Irenesian language family.