I don't know how sports are supposed to be a thing in a future full of transhumanist body modification and designer babies. I barely know how they're supposed to make people who are good at throwing a ball into a hole or slap a puck into a net with a stick into multimillionaires who will be more comfortable than a teacher or someone meaningfully improving the world. Anyway, society's values that I do understand aside, I don't know why rich parents would bother to try to design the best football player or whatever since that player would then have to pay income taxes. Unless they've gotten the legislators they donate to to create tax breaks for income from sports under the guise of helping poor people. Alternatively, we'll all be getting UBI and rich people will be a thing of the past because it's harder to argue that trust fund babies and people who get lucky, or just genuinely talented and hard-working people, deserve crazy amounts more wealth than everyone else when transhumanist body modification has made everyone smarter.
Video games seem more obviously something that will exist in the future, though probably eventually not played with a keyboard and mouse or a handheld controller. In the VR game worlds of the future, we will probably be met with a 3d Clippy asking us if we want to play chess or our favorite version of the Doom MMO, or through some Lord of the Rings fan fiction that an AI wrote and asked another AI to design a world and game for.
wonkalicious808 t1_j1goy0e wrote
Reply to Future of Games by stoneman217
I don't know how sports are supposed to be a thing in a future full of transhumanist body modification and designer babies. I barely know how they're supposed to make people who are good at throwing a ball into a hole or slap a puck into a net with a stick into multimillionaires who will be more comfortable than a teacher or someone meaningfully improving the world. Anyway, society's values that I do understand aside, I don't know why rich parents would bother to try to design the best football player or whatever since that player would then have to pay income taxes. Unless they've gotten the legislators they donate to to create tax breaks for income from sports under the guise of helping poor people. Alternatively, we'll all be getting UBI and rich people will be a thing of the past because it's harder to argue that trust fund babies and people who get lucky, or just genuinely talented and hard-working people, deserve crazy amounts more wealth than everyone else when transhumanist body modification has made everyone smarter.
Video games seem more obviously something that will exist in the future, though probably eventually not played with a keyboard and mouse or a handheld controller. In the VR game worlds of the future, we will probably be met with a 3d Clippy asking us if we want to play chess or our favorite version of the Doom MMO, or through some Lord of the Rings fan fiction that an AI wrote and asked another AI to design a world and game for.