What do you think human civilization will look like in 10 years?

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My guess: Electric vehicles everywhere, protests, more linux users, and portless phones will be the norm
Edit: Oh yeah privacy is dead or at least much more harder to obtain
- 2033 is the year of Linux on the desktop.
  
  "This year for sure" :^)
- 1984
  
  1984 is wayyy too exaggerated. We don't need to force people to have a "telescreen" if everyone just voluntarily spend their own resources to obtain them. (Eg: Smart Home Assistants) We don't need to have a "ministry of truth" when people voluntarily believe in lies spread on news and social media. (Eg: Various Facebook groups, "QAnon", Fox News)
  
  This is something that I feel like Brave New World got a lot more right. In that book, people’s pleasures are their prisons.
  
  Huxley even pointed out why his vision of the future was more likely than Orwell's
- More Linux users is really a coin flip in my mind. It feels like Linux had more users in 2016 than now. Linux had more games natively support it than today and proton for be had been really hit or miss. We'll see if steam os ever comes to the desktop because I could see that being a major benefit to the Linux market but I don't see it significantly growing before then on desktops.
  
  You can install Proton (the game compatibility layer) on desktop Linux now, can’t you?
  
  Yes, you always could. That's not my point at all. Linux in general has been less stable through updates than Windows in my expense and in a lot of people's experience. Steam os preserves root and wipes all packages that aren't supported in the base install every update. So it forces stability. This is the length Valve has gone to in order to make Linux stable. Android is also stable in that same way. By making root fs essentially read only.
  To make Linux more stable you have to reduce user choice and a lot of users are okay with this.
  
  FUD.

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