Verse:Mwail/Lenǃir
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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 enables:
- 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. (*)
- Medical and life extension/anti-aging research is pursued instead, eventually bearing fruit. (***)
- Robotics automates menial jobs (*)
- 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 (**)
- Space is harvested for materials (*)