I predict an age of abundance where dark factories powered by the near infinite energy produced by artificial sun generators and advanced geothermal plants will manufacture everything and anything. This will leave people with lots of free time and they will gravitate towards social media and their own individual siloed realities; this is where the arms race for the best prompt engineers will begin. I don't believe that AI will ever reach the stage of AGI or ASI; as I explain in my thesis the human brain will take the place of AGI and humanity itself will augment AI and the two will become so intertwined that they will be inseparable. Humans will live through their avatars in the digital space as the world around them slowly decays, interpersonal relationships will erode, birthrates will plummet, and our species will simply die out because not enough people are having sex.

This technology will be so cheap and available, internet access so ubiquitous, limitless clean water and energy, even in the most remote villages in Africa will there be those who are born, live out their lives through a screen, and then die.

https://youtu.be/MCBdcNA_FsI

Advanced drilling techniques that allow humans to drill deeper than ever thought possible are already a reality and in use today.

https://youtu.be/gO_LLqZfNdY

This combined with the gains in efficiency in AI will together create a world where simple answers to complex questions become part of every day life. It will be no less transformative if not more so than the invention of the search engine and the internet itself.

This would be a world where making an AI Avatar of your choosing in all its perfection or perfect imperfection is as easy as swiping on Tiktok - a world so hyper competitive, where the most popular avatars are the "celebrities" and "stars" of our day - where every action and reaction and thought and word is chosen by AI ahead of time - where the only competitive edge one has is their ability to produce the most valuable of prompts. Imagine this stagnant soma-enriched world that is enabled through the altering of reality itself; through robots and synthetics that when combined with enough prescription drugs and AR glasses and brain chips and whatever else becomes not only a facade on top of reality but usurps reality itself. The unstable nature of the human psyche itself will crack under the weight of perfection, it will freeze, humanity will enter into a while(true) loop, the people will retreat inward unable to muster the courage to make mistakes, and without mistakes the species will cease to progress and evolve and will simply stagnate and die out a slow pitiful death.

https://youtu.be/QxkMzn4et2U