Did you imagined it would be better, worse or the same?
Did you predicted something?
Let us all know how did you imagined the future as a child.

I always aim for a better future :3, and it did get way better~

I imagined dying at a early age, to put it bluntly.

I'm not where I hoped I'd be, but things could be much worse.

I was quite optimistic about the future as kid, but now I rather look back at the 1920 and think "Well, history will repeat itself"

What future?

Not exactly how I wanted it. Tech is good but could be much better. Was hoping for something along the lines of tech from Deus Ex. I just wish that more effort can be put into making better tech and solving problems rather than spur of the moment memes and loot boxes.

Though I am happy about the versatility of our own tech devices compared to the things people had to do before.

then as now I envisioned a future of wonders. Space travel, the curing of disease. bold new works to inspire. The older I get though it seems not many share my dreams and it seems I have to make do with the slow grind of now and "how it is" Day to day life is not anything like I imagined as a kid but I still have good dreams so there is that at least. Oh and all the other cool stuff in the world to provide distraction if not fulfillment.

felix_nermix said:
Did you imagined it would be better, worse or the same?
Did you predicted something?
Let us all know how did you imagined the future as a child.

I never thought future would would turn out to be like the novel "The forever war"

From wikipedia

Mandella, with fellow soldier and lover Marygay Potter, returns to civilian life, only to find humanity drastically changed. He and the other discharged soldiers have difficulty fitting into a society that has altered almost beyond their comprehension. The veterans learn that, to curb overpopulation, which led to worldwide class wars caused by inequitable rationing, homosexuality has become officially encouraged by many of the world's nations.

After briefly contemplating suicide, Mandella assumes the post of commanding officer of a "strike force", commanding soldiers who speak a language largely unrecognizable to him, whose ethnicity is now nearly uniform ('vaguely Polynesian' in appearance) and who are exclusively homosexual. He is disliked by his soldiers because they have to learn 21st century English to communicate with him and other senior staff and because he is heterosexual.

I thought I would be happy

I thought we would have robots,i would be happy and not in a crap job and that we would have found life on other planets.

When I was a child I wanted to become president so I could fuck up the country. Too bad <insert political party here> got to it before me.

I imagined there would be money. I was mistaken.

I went through the latter years of the cold war so I expected utter devastation at any time and what sort of future that would bring.

I didn't imagine I'd be as Gay as I am but sure am incredibly proud I am and wouldn't change it for nothing women don't turn me on like a Man does!

I imagined that I would end up homeless, which is still possible.

But instead, I'm just dependent and lethargic.

I sure as hell didn't imagine 2020.

Where are the flying cars?

Wait, you guys had imagined what the future looks like as a child!? :'(

I never really had any fantastical dreams about what the future would actually look like.
Right now, I imagine we'll have to deal with climate change induced famine, but we'll also get better VR systems, cool engineered nanomaterials, and talk about a mars mission that's always 30 years away.

I wanted to be a painter. Like, painting on canvas.

It was a slow start, and perhaps stumbled by frustration, procrastination, and art block.
I started painting with those mediums in late 2016.

Currently, I'm painting with watercolor and digitally.
The art block is still there, but at least I'm painting.

notuncommon said: imagine we'll have to deal with climate change induced famine,

There is already famine. I quote Q from Star Trek, "Oh, your species is always suffering and dying."

Flood is more accurate. Most of the consequences of climate change will be displacement. In other words: No, the world wont end.

leon_neon said:
There is already famine. I quote Q from Star Trek, "Oh, your species is always suffering and dying."

Flood is more accurate. Most of the consequences of climate change will be displacement. In other words: No, the world wont end.

Yeah, I never expected climate change to be a world-ending thing. It will be disastrous though. Extreme weather, famine, and scarcity of resources may prompt war, but not nuclear war I'd imagine. None of that would make us go extinct since the wealthy, who can afford bunkers and such, likely won't be bothered much by it at all, as per usual.

If you want to know what I think WILL actually end the world, there's a chance it could be vacuum decay, meteoric impact, rogue black holes, and other astronomical forces beyond control. But ultimately, I think its gonna be a rogue AGI that does us in. Everybody wants free labor, and AGI gets you that, but programming in a bug-free set of universally agreed upon ethics, first try and every time thereafter, just isn't gonna happen. Just imagine Baritone, but with the capacity to learn and predict real world events, as well as access to the internet and all the critical devices connected to it. You make one goal-specification error and suddenly the whole world is paperclips.

I wanted to be happy.

azero said:
I wanted to be happy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbTxfN8d2CI