(2018-08-11) Rao Optimistic Future

Venkatesh Rao's Optimistic Near Future Vision: A world that’s 100% electrified, with airship/sea ships for long-distance travel, high-quality VR/telepresence, rent-over-own society, high mobility, hyperloops, rewilded (rewilding)/reforested (reforestation) countrysides, fake meat without factory farmed farting cows... as exciting a vision as colonizing Mars.

Interesting counter-arguments in the thread...