What Will U.s. Capitalism Look Like in 50 Years? Seven Experts Weigh In

This prediction is insane. Pong was invented 53 years ago. The Apple II isn't even 50 years old. Nor is Space Invaders.

I'm perennially reminded of the Slate Star Codex quote,

> Madden was an Anglican clergyman in 18th-century Ireland, and maybe the first futurist. In 1733, he published Memoirs of the Twentieth Century, a novel about people in 1999 sending letters back through time to tell their 18th-century predecessors what the future would hold.

> How did the prognosticators of 1733 imagine the future? Was it utopian? Decadent? Miserable? Beautiful? Incomprehensible?

> Actually, it was none of those things. It was exactly like 1733 in every way, and the future people were just writing back to remind everyone how much Catholics sucked.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/09/in-favor-of-futurism-b...

Whatever your prediction of the future, let it be less bad than that.

What if the notion of work and the whole society built around working changes? What if?

50 years. How myopic do you have to be to even try to answer that question, especially framed thus? Six years ago, someone trying to predict how the world is today would have been deemed completely crazy.