alt.hn

5/23/2025 at 12:09:33 PM

A 2030 Morning Routine

 https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_120_morning_routine_2030/

by LorenDB

5/23/2025 at 8:08:07 PM

“All the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.”

As the door closed behind them it became apparent that it did indeed have a satisfied sigh-like quality to it. “Hummmmmmmyummmmmmm ah!” it said.

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=135

by roywiggins

5/23/2025 at 1:12:18 PM

One thing that stuck out to me reading this was the constant reference to various AI agent's by a name.

It made me step back and think about how some of these AI products are named and I honestly prefer when a product isn't named like a person. Just to think of two: you have "Claude" and "Alexa" which gives the impression you are speaking to a person when you very very much are not.

I gotta say I kind of prefer the name "ChatGPT" that OpenAI went with. It doesn't try to pretend it's a human with it's naming and also describes what it is in it's name.

by _fat_santa

5/23/2025 at 1:30:18 PM

Yeah, I would also prefer to rename a smart house controlling agent to "robo butler 9000" just because its funny. I dont want a human slave. I want to feel like Im in a weirdly funny episode of Futurama

by hoppp

5/23/2025 at 1:28:45 PM

I think Star Trek nailed how I would want to interact with a computer by voice. (maybe someone will figure out how to make AI agents do that, including Majel Barrett's voice)

by ginko

5/23/2025 at 12:14:33 PM

Wait, they are going to return to cubicles in 2030? Sounds awesome ;)

by hansmayer

5/23/2025 at 12:40:41 PM

Nah it’s going to be more like those standing seats that some low-cost airlines have been planning for a while. That’s more than enough for you and your headset. The very best workplaces will also provide a small elliptical bike at your feet.

There will be fewer and fewer of us in years to come, but real estate doesn’t grow on trees!

by aerhardt

5/23/2025 at 1:34:24 PM

They can make electricity with your pedalling. Like a dystopic hamster wheel powered office. All bodily functions can be monetized

by hoppp

5/23/2025 at 3:51:10 PM

While I generally subscribe to the philosophy of "if you're good at doing something then never do it for free", but my company is welcome to my shit for free.

by DrillShopper

5/23/2025 at 5:51:13 PM

First they will run it through some sort of analytics to sell the results to biomedical information-tracking companies for aggregate data:

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/the-wild-story-of-how-gut-...

Next - they will take the resulting "output" physical mess and turn dump it into a methane fuel-generating waste-treatment plant.

If that still doesn't make enough $$$, and your measured productivity metrics are not good enough, don't worry - if you also end-up living in one of the "techbro sponsored corporate feudal city-states" you can always help the company by being turned into "biodiesel":

https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrif...

by jjkaczor

5/23/2025 at 12:36:23 PM

Perfectly realistic except the ending: why would anybody pay humans to generate voiceovers in 2030s, when AI can already do the job?

by decimalenough

5/23/2025 at 1:12:26 PM

That's all organic artizan voiceover, not like the unhealthy garbage AI voiceover the lesser cool people use.

by mrtksn

5/23/2025 at 2:44:27 PM

Because enough people will pay $200 for a "premium" HDMI cable, that a market for premium HDMI cables exists.

by barryrandall

5/23/2025 at 1:09:34 PM

likely boorishly contrived for this style of storytelling

by someothherguyy

5/23/2025 at 2:45:41 PM

The future is going to have a lot more speaker grilles with screwdriver stab marks in them.

by nancyminusone

5/23/2025 at 1:47:51 PM

Reminds me of the movie "Demolition Man", where everything was assisted by AIs.

by Jotalea

5/23/2025 at 12:33:10 PM

Not enough ads and push to spend, I'm afraid.

by randunel

5/23/2025 at 12:30:19 PM

I was hoping this was about FM-2030’s morning routine. Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be much information online about/if he did anything particularly unique.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-2030

by keiferski

5/23/2025 at 1:08:08 PM

I wonder: if we get superintelligence before 2030, do you think we should revive him ASAP, or wait and do it in 2030?

by nemo1618

5/23/2025 at 6:43:22 PM

I don’t think he was super interested in AI, more trans humanism and biology related things.

by keiferski

5/23/2025 at 12:42:32 PM

I lost it at "shower buddy"

by explorigin

5/23/2025 at 12:42:59 PM

> Real coffee costs more than your coffee maker nowadays, so it has to suffice.

That’s definitely the bad place

by Yossarrian22

5/23/2025 at 1:21:49 PM

Neo-Luddism is going to be a popular term in the years to come.

by crims0n

5/23/2025 at 4:07:55 PM

No remote work?

by tkiolp4

5/23/2025 at 12:29:22 PM

Ballardian.

by nickdothutton

5/23/2025 at 12:35:03 PM

Did anyone else got a 15MM tingling feeling in the beginning of reading this or was it just me?

by HenryBemis

5/23/2025 at 12:35:12 PM

H2G2

by iamgopal

5/23/2025 at 1:06:46 PM

This is classified as satire but it's not much so, we're already halfway there.

by tacheiordache