Page Comparison

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• Year
  • I need to decide what year I'm going to be showing.
  • If it's going to be a trilogy, it might be cool to predict 100, then 200, then 300 years from now.
    • Or 30, 60, 90 years from now. Although things won't be nearly as different.
  • A lot of the more-exciting differences that I'm showing seem like they may be more realistic in ~300 years.
• People
  • People won't know the details of how the technology they use works.
    • On the other hand, people will be more educated.
  • People's mental abilities
    • I think people's brains do create a hard limit on how good they'll be able to get good at things. It seems like people like Tiger Woods / Mozart who spend all of their time working on something are probably close to the limit of what existing human brains can achieve. Future people who are taller and equally-talented could probably do better (eg a 7' Tiger Woods).
  • Age
    • The traveler notices that everyone looks young, but there's some variation, from ages 13 to 30. He asks about it and the couple of people he's with explain that people can choose what physical age they'd like to stay at.
    • At some point the traveler asks the couple of people he's with how old they are, and one of them says, "I'm 32, I think he's 40, (etc.)" And they all look like they're 15-20 years younger than the age they say. And the traveler says something like, "Wow, you look great for your age! But if you're 32, how do you handle 20-year spaceflights?" And the person he's with looks at him funny like she can't understand what he's confused about, and then her eyelids open like she's figured it out and she laughs and explains they're really 32,000 or 40,000 years old, and they just leave off the thousand when referring to their age. So that'll be something that makes the audience pop their eyes out.
  • Bodies
    • Faces
      • People will all have beautiful faces
        
        • Examples
          • Just look at the teenagers in the richest counties in the world.
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      • People will all have beautiful profiles
        • Examples
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      • People will have perfect skin.
        • Examples
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            • She's obviously wearing make-up and it looks heavily photoshopped, but it gives an idea of what people might look like in the future without makeup (just using genetic engineering etc.)
  • Fashion
    • There will be an incredible variety of appearance.
      • There will be inequality of appearance. Everyone will look better than people do today, but some people will look way better (nicer stuff).
    • People will have lots more jewelry:
      • Examples
        • Delakeyz - How You Love (Official Music Video)
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    • People will have cleaner / more-varied / more-colorful clothing.
      • Examples
        
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        •  The color of her beads are extremely rich and really "pop" (to use a term I got from a fashion-savvy guy) because the rest of her body is muted in color.
    • People will have bright, rich-colored clothing.
    • People will be painted a lot more often.
      • Examples
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          • People won't look like her (her decorations are honestly unpleasant), but they'll have painted faces like she does.
          • Paint will take the place of tattoos once it is cheap and fast to have it done with robots.
          • The problem with tattoos is that they fade.
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          • The colors are right, but I think the designs aren't as intricate as they will end up being in the future.
        • Sports Illustrated painted swimsuits
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            • I think the level of intricacy is right, but IMO they show a lack of imagination; they're too close to real bathing suits. There are a lot of interesting things that you can do once you shift to painted outfits.
        • Other outlandish painted bodies
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          •  I think the vividness of the color in this one is right on point. I think paintings will have colors like this.
          •  Google 'Chadwick Spector' for some really imaginative body paintings. They're really doing some clever things with the medium.
            
            • I think their idea of having the content of the painting interact with the part of the body it's near is clever.
              • Example: Having a face painted on the guy's face, so that one of the guy's eyes is used for one of the face's eye.
            • ...but the paint they're using isn't rich in color.
            • ...and the 'visual jokes' they're using are fairly intellectual (eg putting a Pablo Picasso painting on a guy).
          • Tribal body painting
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    • There may be microorganisms / micromachines that can dynamically change a person's appearance.
      • Examples
        • Moving tattoos.
        • Clothing that changes shape.
• Daily schedule
  • The pace of life will be far beyond our current pace of life, continuing the trend seen by the people who lived in the woods in England for a year.
    • It'll be like the pace of events we see in movies nowadays.
    • There'll be a constant stream of new things to do, new people to meet, 
• Business
  • When top businesspeople don't die, their firms are going to stay on top for much, much longer.
    • There may need to be something like a draft for new talent to keep things even between companies, in the way it's done in sports.
• Population
  • Earth has 100x the number of people it has now, but it's a tiny, tiny fraction of the human population. Most people are out in space, on Mars, or headed to other solar systems.
• Music
  • There will be crazy new instruments.
    • Instruments will explore the possible space of instruments.
      • Loudness
        • Maybe a huge cannon/bass the size/shape of a pyramid that makes explosively-loud sounds.
          • It'd be analogous to those really loud fireworks that people love.
        • Fireworks music!
          • The fireworks would be timed to the music.
          • It'd be an awesome audio-visual experience.
      • Pitch
• People
• Social norms
  • People will be more physically intimate / comfortable / affectionate with each other
    • Explanation
      • I suspect this is the natural way of things for humans.
      • I suspect that the standoffishness we see in modern western society is caused by:
        • Social norms getting passed down from generation to generation (like neck-ties).
        • Societies in which people move around a lot more, as opposed to villages you see in Africa / the Amazon.
    • Examples
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