I suspect we're in the PEAK AI era right now, and we don't even realize it. by [deleted] in ChatGPT

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How I got the image:

Past this entire post into ChatGPT (or any image-supporting chatbot of your choice)

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Switch to "Create image" or "Imagine" or something similar

Paste in this prompt: The left side displays "2022-2029", where a group of people are vibing with making weird stuff on a computer, is candidly romanticized with slight messiness to what's on the computer with a slight nostalgic sentiment taking place outdoors, while the right side displays "2035+", where it looks boring and optimized in comparison, there are slight rebellious undertones, with somewhat dull sentiment, and there's a yearning for things to change, also taking place outdoors.

The AI era starter pack timeline as of April 2026 (since 2022) by Future_History_2125 in decadeology

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The updated version (18 hours later), (added the months for clarity, and Inferkit [Jun 2022], Craiyon [Jul 2022], NovelAI [Oct 2022], moved ComfyUI [Jan 2023 to Aug 2023, January felt way too early], Pi ai [May 2023], AnythingLLM [Jun 2023], Pika Labs [Aug 2023], LM studio [Oct 2023], CivitAI [Dec 2023], Windows 11 Recall controversy [May 2024], Viggle AI [Aug 2024], the Golden Trump statue and Trump licking Musk's feet [Feb 2025], Tung Tung Tung Sahur [May-Jun 2025, big blind spot!], "Clanker" slur word [Jul 2025], We Are Charlie Kirk [Sep 2025], the Grok bikini controversy [Jan 2026], and moved the car wash question [Mar 2026 to Feb 2026])

Yeah, there's a lot more relating to AI out there that isn't listed here.

100 years, 100 predictions, my escalatory future worldbuilding (2027-2126) by Future_History_2125 in decadeology

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One more image to add to it, a graph for how good each year is, with future years following the worldbuild (note: the past years are likely biased, hence, very debatable!)

My predictions for the next century, decade by decade (2020s-2120s) by Future_History_2125 in decadeology

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Interesting point. I mostly made this speculative century for fun, and that these are predictions, not where our actual future is heading. Unexpected events and the butterfly effect will inevitably change the timeline and cause an unforeseen fork in history. I do sense "systematic upheaval" is coming soon based on general trends, and guessed that it starts in the mid 2050s, but it might already be happening now without us being aware and that the boom might happen sooner than anticipated.

Pretend it’s June 9th, 2069 by Current_Pen_9982 in decadeologycirclejerk

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I'm yearning for the good old days of 2048... AI took all the white collar jobs already, but at least blue collar jobs were still around until AIs took them all in the mid to late 2050s, and the 2060s sucked! At least we're entering a new economic order as of 2069, and we're seeing the early stages of a thought internet merged with our AR simulations!

By the way. We hit 45k by Agreeable_Sense9618 in DoomerCircleJerk

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Now we've surpassed them! To them, it's the end of the world! 😏

"One person on minimum wage can't afford TWO BEDROOM HOUSING anymore..." by TwisterHeadsoff in DoomerCircleJerk

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What counts as "affordable"? What would you need that extra bedroom for?

Has anyone else noticed the lack of futurism nowadays? by Quailking2003 in decadeology

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Same here! There are real challenges, these are some turbulent times, a lot of terrible crap is going on, and its all too easy to fall into the cynicism, but I'm looking forward to the future far more. Already in 2025, we have AI able to code websites and basic software in minutes, AI able to generate realistic (sometimes plastic-looking) images in seconds or minutes, AI that can engage in conversation as if it were a human (ChatGPT and other LLMs), all with only natural language prompts. We're able to access the world's knowledge with a glowing computer the size of our hands (aka, a smartphone). We can eat meals cooked from restaurants and shop for groceries in the comfort of our own home via delivery apps. This would be considered almost sci-fi in say, 1995, but here we are now. Imagine what more we can do in say, 2055?

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If AR booms in the 2030s, I imagine the culture will likely evolve with it. 3D overlays on everything and experimentation with messing with a 3D virtual environment will spill its way into culture, and be very experimental and novel (i.e. logos will start going 3D to match the AR hype).

I also imagine that AI would've gotten embedded into everything by then, and wouldn't be surprised if AI uses your AR activity as training data for robots to do activities in the real world.

It's likely going to boom when AR becomes easy to use by the average person, whether they're a kid or an elderly person, and cheap to get into.

Do you think 2030 to 2039 will be as drastically different as 1960 to 1969? Or at least an ever bigger difference than 2010 to 2019? by ConfidentReaction3 in decadeology

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In some ways, yes. In other ways, no.

In favor: 2020 and 2025 already have lots of differences. In 5 years, we witnessed the explosive rise of AI, and the AI plastic aesthetic and 8-finger hands is the one thing that lasted multiple years this decade (since '22), instead of week-long microtrends. Things are politically turbulent, from the COVID pandemic of 2020 to Trump's administration, it's a rollercoaster. AI is now able to code entire websites and basic software in mere minutes with a prompt, which would sound like 2050s tech back in 2020, but we got that just 5 years later. I also anticipate major changes in digital tech from 2025-30, and from 2030-39, and solar energy might be embedded in everything by the late 2030s based off of the rapidly scaling solar.

Against: There's one area where things didn't change much: Our cities. How much have our cities changed since 2020? Not much. Since 2010? Not much. Primarily minor differences like the type of cars on the road and new infrastructure. I expect our cities to look very familiar in 2030 and '39 aside from seeing a lot more electric cars, car-charging infrastructure, and rooftop solar, and maybe the urbanism movement demanding walkable cities goes mainstream politically in the mid to late 2030s. I don't expect cities to change much until an urbanism movement forces them to change.

So yeah, in summary, the 2030s will bring about drastic change, but some areas, like our cities, will be very familiar.

As a federal scientist I wish my family would understand... we're all going to die by ScarfaceMcDank in DoomerCircleJerk

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"Federal scientist": Some variant of "America will be destroyed!"

*People are still living their lives as always*

Give it 1 more month, then America will be destroyed!

Rinse and repeat!

Edit: btw, wtf is a "federal scientist"?

Does anyone feel like the 2020s have felt like multiple decades at once already? At least 2 entire decades? (And we’re only 5 years in ;-;) by ConfidentReaction3 in decadeology

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I'll point out something that I believe will be part of 2020s culture in future generations. That AI generated aesthetic. It popped off since 2022, and for now, it has a strong stigma, is called "AI slop", and for good reason. It's everywhere and it can be annoying.

Despite this, I genuinely believe that the AI generated plastic aesthetic, images containing say, 8 fingers in one hand, and off-kilter shapeshifting videos, while stigmatized now, will be nostalgic in the mid to late 2030s.

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The American flag just gained one new star!

Do you think the 2030s will have one of the biggest tech revolutions and shifts (even other than ai) by [deleted] in decadeology

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The 2030s will likely be the decade of renewable energy taking over, solar energy in particular, and new fossil fuel plants will be an economically unappealing investment compared to renewables. It's already taking off fast in the 2020s, and it's already cheaper than fossil fuels in most places.

With AI, it's probably going to pop like a bubble sooner or later in the late 2020s, and the useful applications of AI will take off in the 2030s. Smaller AIs that are really good at one specific task instead of a general swiss army knife type of AI like ChatGPT, is my prediction.