Does any form of entertainment really die though? We still have stage plays and novels even though entertainment has evolved to films and television
Comment on Human civilization won't last forever; someday there will be a last movie ever made
ameancow@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
As with everything that changes, there is no clean “cut off” where a last thing is made and then no more. Entertainment more than anything evolves and changes. There might be a last “traditional” movie made with a studio and sets and cameras, but by that time we will hardly notice, or our grandkids will hardly notice, as they have moved on to new more immersive or entertaining forms of escapism.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
ameancow@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I don’t think so, there are plenty of hipsters dusting off old phonographs and vinyl records, hobbyists using old-fashioned cameras, modern musicians restoring old styles of instruments or tones.
When I was little I used to imagine the future was going to be either some kind of sleek Star Trek world of clean utopian skylines, OR it would be an apocalyptic wasteland with people remembering the Before Times as the sky is choked with ash and smoke.
The reality I have realized, is that the future is always just “more” of everything. We will have more poverty, more wealthy people, more hardships, more forms of entertainment, more wars and more peace. We will have more forms of entertainment and more ways to enjoy them.
AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I had a crazy dream about 8 years ago where I was born and lived a whole life into the future to an age of ~ 27 years old if I remember. It was pretty much just more of everything. All the new shit was slick as hell, old homes still were right wherethey were but new high rise buildings were hundreds of stories tall filled with technology we cant wrap our heads around currently ( no teleportation or anything like that). Poverty seemed to be non existent. Everyone was wealthy but not in a monetary sense ,it seemed like civilization moved beyond that , the ego was dead on a global scale. There was apparently some sort of “miracle” that happened when I was an infant so I wasn’t amazed by it; in the same way a child born today wouldn’t be amazed by a cell phone or computer.
Way less hardship everything was really chill (there was no war or even any reason to lie ). Entertainment was more in the form of symposiums/ live performances at various types of meeting places with interaction between the speakers and the public, they were an almost daily occurrence and a large part of every day life. They were everywhere from parks , amphitheaters, behind store fronts in ally ways etc. Lots of public transportation, full carbon bikes (or who knows what material but they were feather weight and cheap, everybody had one The porn was absolutely crazy.
It was clean utopian skylines and you didn’t need to wear a paper gown with your ass hanging out if you went to the hospital because there was no need for surgery.
Anyway it was just a dream I wish I never woke up from. Were probably going to get the ashes and smoke, some “Dinosauria We” shit
ameancow@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I had a very vivid dream of the future once myself and it made zero sense. It was weird lanes of color and metal and light and holographic abstractions moving across the sky and landscape, there were huge objects moving in the distance, so large they were shrouded by atmospheric haze and seemed like mountains, people were completely missing, there weren’t even visible homes, I couldn’t even tell if I was in a city or an industrial area or inside of some huge machine. It was a harsh and unfathomable world that looked nothing like anything we would recognize.
I think that is what our world will be like sometime before the last humans die off.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
In Star Trek the main form of entertainment is holoprograms, yet they also have stage plays
ameancow@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think we can all agree that their obsession with doing things the “human way” would be our modern equivalent of hipsters just performatively kneecapping themselves by like, pulling out a mechanical typewriter in a Starbucks.
Come on guys, you can have the Holodeck do ANYTHING and you all choose the same damn Sherlock Holmes novels and british sailboats? Lets just admit that kind of stuff is just cover for what they really get up to in there. It’s like the equivalent of quickly pulling over a Wikipedia window when Mom walks in.
yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Thats assuming that there won’t be an end to all creative output on this planet in the next million years.
Anything past 1000 years from now is beyond understanding, IMO.
ameancow@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think the post-human-creativity epoch is further down the road, our species has this habit of doing the same things over and over, so even in a world of technological miracles and Gods in bottles, we will still have plenty of poor communities, purists, “normal” people doing things the way their parents did for generations, working alongside mechanical wonders and partially submerged in some kind of information landscape we can barely imagine.
If we do stay on this current course, we will eventually be easily outpaced by AI, likely much further away than the tech cultists and AI-bros want to believe but it is inevitable at this pace. I personally think it will be further away than a thousand years, our species is a very slow-turning boat. It’s very possible that some segment of the population will in fact find some way to merge with machines in a way that lets them interact with larger systems and expand their consciousness in some way, which might be the only way we could ever say with even a little confidence that there is conscious, human creativity still in the universe, but like with the machine-born ideas and creations, they will be ideas and creations that will probably be outside of a normal human’s capability to understand or even perceive.