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/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 (***)