What would love and romance look like in a post scarcity genetically even world? (government, ancient)
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picture a world where technology has advanced to a point to where everyone's needs are met, everyone is smart and beautiful do to a combo of genetic engineering and we are all eating a fast growing nutritious algae that can be made to look, smell and taste like any food you like, and whole cities are powered by generators the size of a 2 car garage fueled by ocean water.
no more rich and poor, all menial work is done by robots.
in such a world how would love and romance be different?
Morpheus would offer Neo the red pill or the blue pill. If Neo takes the red pill, he meets Trinity and spends a lot of time doing battle with Agent smith. If he takes the blue pill he wakes up and forgets this conversation ever even happened.
picture a world where technology has advanced to a point to where everyone's needs are met, everyone is smart and beautiful do to a combo of genetic engineering and we are all eating a fast growing nutritious algae that can be made to look, smell and taste like any food you like, and whole cities are powered by generators the size of a 2 car garage fueled by ocean water.
no more rich and poor, all menial work is done by robots.
in such a world how would love and romance be different?
It would be obsolete. I imagine such a world would have advanced sex robot technologies, psych drugs that artificially induce the euphoria of infatuation, and reproductive technology that make pregnancy via sex unnecessary.
Love and romance would be ancient mythology and outdated.
They already have most of this stuff except the small power packs and free energy which is the only thing stopping the world from advancing properly. Once the government releases the technology, then we will see some real advances. Not much hope of that though.
Maybe the science forum would have a better understanding of this subject?
It would be obsolete. I imagine such a world would have advanced sex robot technologies, psych drugs that artificially induce the euphoria of infatuation, and reproductive technology that make pregnancy via sex unnecessary.
Love and romance would be ancient mythology and outdated.
But many people are still visual, plus masturbation get's you there quicker but most people still prefer another persons involvement. I'm thinking along the lines of how we choose our partners when everyone is on equal footing compared to how things are today.
picture a world where technology has advanced to a point to where everyone's needs are met, everyone is smart and beautiful do to a combo of genetic engineering and we are all eating a fast growing nutritious algae that can be made to look, smell and taste like any food you like, and whole cities are powered by generators the size of a 2 car garage fueled by ocean water.
no more rich and poor, all menial work is done by robots.
in such a world how would love and romance be different?
IDK why it would be any different. Humans are still bundles of emotion, no matter how far technology has been developed. They still have insecurities, or personality disorders, and all the other psychological variations that develop, depending on their growing-up experience at the hands of family and environment.
I don't see what this topic has to do with Mysteries & the Paranormal, though. Maybe we need a new sub-forum for Sci Fi, or something...
P.S. Sex robots---BO-ringggggg! Unless you're a guy. It doesn't take much to get guys off. A plastic doll will do, no expensive robotics necessary.
picture a world where technology has advanced to a point to where everyone's needs are met, everyone is smart and beautiful do to a combo of genetic engineering and we are all eating a fast growing nutritious algae that can be made to look, smell and taste like any food you like, and whole cities are powered by generators the size of a 2 car garage fueled by ocean water.
no more rich and poor, all menial work is done by robots.
in such a world how would love and romance be different?
I admire science fiction writers, with sufficient imagination to extrapolate social consequences (reasonably) to such a utopia.
For example, David Brin has a novel where surveillance is everywhere, cameras ubiquitous, causing most to truly behave or face consequences. The novel is 'Earth', released in 1990, about a 'fifty years in the future' set of circumstances and plot line beyond scope of this thread. He got the surveillance part right, it seems, as we're a good distance down that road already with smartphones and social media.
Hard to fully answer your question, other than it would be...disruptive...to our evolutionary imperatives. Social media is already causing problems of what it means to be fulfilled as a person, how vastly more information and peering into others' lives provides some sort of envious, but ultimately false, narrative how "their life is great and mine is not." Happiness becomes a matter of comparison and being what we are, we feel insecurity more often than not.
Heterosexuality, mating rituals, and breeding itself would almost certainly have vastly different meanings in such a situation. That will conflict with thousands of years of love of romance traditions. Already occurring, due to the Internet's explosion since c. 1994, and that will continue.
Last edited by Blondebaerde; 10-21-2020 at 10:45 AM..
The problem I have with a perfect world is that maybe we are not made for a perfect world? We went through thousands/millions of years of evolution to get to where we are now. We were hunter/gatherers for most of that time. We also currently have major problems with obesity.
Work gives us a reason to get up and move around. It is our paid exercise program as much as we hate it. I retired about 20 years ago, but I kept working at other jobs. I had many friends that retired at the same time and they told me I would work myself to death. When they retired they went home and sat in front of the computer or TV and they all died! One could argue that it is all genetics; but my feeling is that we were made to keep moving. If we stop moving then we will die. It doesn't have to be work that gives you that will to live and keeps your mind active, but it has to be something.
OP you are describing that world that my friends longed for. No boss, no demands, do whatever you feel like doing. I can easily see where that could turn into a death sentence. I am just saying to be careful of what you wish for.
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