Verse:Mwail/Lenǃir

An optimistic timeline

(* = 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, foreign aid and free information/non-addictive social media enables:
  • 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. (****)
  • 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 (***)