Hacker News with Generative AI: Future

The Future of Flatpak (lwn.net)
At the Linux Application Summit (LAS) in April, Sebastian Wick said that, by many metrics, Flatpak is doing great.
Linux, Software, Open Source, Operating Systems, Future
256 points by dxs 12 hours ago | 172 comments
The "AI 2027" Scenario: How realistic is it? (garymarcus.substack.com)
Everybody’s talking about a scary and vivid manifesto called AI 2027; even Vice President Vance claims to have read it.
Artificial Intelligence, Future, Technology, Speculation
119 points by NotInOurNames 18 hours ago | 192 comments
The Future of Customer Support Is Lies, I Guess (aphyr.com)
The Future of Customer Support is Lies, I Guess
Customer Support, Technology, Future, Opinion
26 points by mplanchard 2 days ago | 4 comments
"You Will Own Nothing" [video] (youtube.com)
Future, Ownership, Technology, Social Commentary, Video
5 points by inatreecrown2 4 days ago | 0 comments
The Future Is Too Expensive – A New Theory on Collapsing Birth Rates (medium.com)
Birth rates are falling across the world, and no one seems to know why. But maybe the answer is simpler than we think: people don’t trust the future anymore. This essay introduces the idea of temporal inflation — a hidden force that could be reshaping civilization itself.
Demographics, Economics, Social Trends, Future
74 points by hectorchu 9 days ago | 220 comments
Timeline of the Far Future (wikipedia.org)
While the future cannot be predicted with certainty, present understanding in various scientific fields allows for the prediction of some far-future events, if only in the broadest outline.
Future, Science, Predictions, Timelines, Wikipedia
15 points by Bluestein 11 days ago | 3 comments
Silicon Valley billionaires literally want the impossible (arstechnica.com)
It's long been the stuff of science fiction: humans achieving immortality by uploading their consciousness into a silicon virtual paradise, ruled over by a benevolent super-intelligent AI. Or maybe one dreams of leaving a dying Earth to colonize Mars or other distant planets. It's a tantalizing visionary future that has been embraced by tech billionaires in particular. But is that future truly the utopian ideal, or something potentially darker? And are those goals even scientifically feasible?
Artificial Intelligence, Science, Technology, Ethics, Future
7 points by zzzeek 13 days ago | 0 comments
Pope Leo XIV lays out his vision, identifies AI as a main challenge for humanity (apnews.com)
Pope, Religion, Artificial Intelligence, Humanity, Future
5 points by layer8 13 days ago | 0 comments
Creativity came to pass (vale.rocks)
This is written of a future. Not the future, but a future – one of many possibilities.
Future, Creativity, Speculative Fiction
33 points by clacker-o-matic 16 days ago | 19 comments
America's Slide into Authoritarianism, as seen from Ted 2025 (washingtonspectator.org)
Historians (if they exist in the future and any records of this period survive) will note this month as one where the United States slipped fully into authoritarianism. Incompetence, luck, and real leadership may yet intervene, but we have already crossed several “red lines” warned about by experts.
Politics, United States, Authoritarianism, Future
14 points by stefap2 17 days ago | 1 comments
2081: A Hopeful View of the Human Future (wikipedia.org)
2081: A Hopeful View of the Human Future is a 1981 book by Princeton physicist Gerard K. O'Neill. The book is an attempt to predict the social and technological state of humanity 100 years in the future.
Future, Technology, Society, Books
3 points by zeristor 21 days ago | 0 comments
The AI Apocalypse Happened–We Just Didn't Notice (substack.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Society, Technology, Future
4 points by MitiaHiers 24 days ago | 0 comments
It's Too Late: The Changes Are Coming (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Social Media, Change, Future
13 points by unflaggable 24 days ago | 3 comments
We need more optimistic science fiction (craig-russell.co.uk)
As a genre, science fiction has a proud heritage of shaping the future. We find it entertaining to imagine what the world could be like. Science fiction enables us to explore possible futures, and through exploring them, decide for ourselves what future we want to create.
Science Fiction, Future, Optimism
141 points by craig552uk 26 days ago | 199 comments
Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? (newyorker.com)
You can want different things from a university—superlative basketball, an arts center, competent instruction in philosophy or physics, even a cure for cancer. No wonder these institutions struggle to keep everyone happy.
Artificial Intelligence, Humanities, Education, University, Future
45 points by tkgally 27 days ago | 68 comments
US Steel Portfolio of Possibilities - the future through the eyes of the 60s (flickr.com)
A look at the future through the eyes of the 1960s.
History, Design, Photography, Future, Industry
4 points by keepamovin 31 days ago | 2 comments
An Age of Extinction Is Coming (nytimes.com)
Every great technological change has a destructive shadow, whose depths swallow ways of life the new order renders obsolete.
Technology, Society, Future, Extinction
8 points by martialg 32 days ago | 1 comments
Ask HN: I feel pessimistic about the future – advice? (ycombinator.com)
I’m having a hard time moving with the new pace and developments in the world.
Ask HN, Future, Technology, Personal Development, Advice
43 points by hnuu3 36 days ago | 33 comments
Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Sci-Fi They Grew Up on Real (scientificamerican.com)
Science fiction (SF) influences everything in this day and age, from the design of everyday artifacts to how we—including the current crop of 50-something Silicon Valley billionaires—work. And that’s a bad thing: it leaves us facing a future we were all warned about, courtesy of dystopian novels mistaken for instruction manuals.
Science Fiction, Technology, Silicon Valley, Dystopia, Future
7 points by gladwindos 37 days ago | 2 comments
Veritasium: How Will AI Change Education? [video] (youtube.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Education, Video, Future
7 points by rom1v 40 days ago | 1 comments
Black Mirror's pessimism porn won't lead us to a better future (theguardian.com)
Black Mirror is more than science fiction – its stories about modernity have become akin to science folklore, shaping our collective view of technology and the future.
Science Fiction, Television, Technology, Future, Society
176 points by magoghm 43 days ago | 174 comments
Captured: How Silicon Valley is building a future we never chose (codastory.com)
AI’s prophets speak of the technology with religious fervor. And they expect us all to become believers.
Silicon Valley, Artificial Intelligence, Future, Society, Technology
6 points by defrost 50 days ago | 2 comments
AI 2027 (ai-2027.com)
We predict that the impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding that of the Industrial Revolution.
Artificial Intelligence, Predictions, Future, Technology
949 points by Tenoke 50 days ago | 620 comments
I just saw the future. It was not in America (nytimes.com)
I had a choice the other day in Shanghai: Which Tomorrowland to visit? Should I check out the fake, American-designed Tomorrowland at Shanghai Disneyland, or should I visit the real Tomorrowland — the massive new research center, roughly the size of 225 football fields, built by the Chinese technology giant Huawei? I went to Huawei’s.
China, Technology, Future, Research
14 points by jimnotgym 50 days ago | 9 comments
Interview with Vibe Coder in 2025 [video] (youtube.com)
Interviews, Future, Technology, Video
4 points by mempko 52 days ago | 0 comments
The Heat Death Company: Solving humanity's ultimate challenge (theheatdeathcompany.com)
Philosophy, Technology, Future
16 points by 1ewish 52 days ago | 1 comments
The tech fantasy that powers AI is running on fumes (nytimes.com)
Behold the decade of mid tech!
Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Future, Criticism
9 points by abelanger 55 days ago | 2 comments
Post Apocalyptic Computing (thomashunter.name)
In a world increasingly dominated by planned obsolescence and disposable technology, the idea of a general-purpose computing machine designed to last a century feels both radical and necessary.
Computing, Technology, Sustainability, Future
28 points by tlhunter 59 days ago | 12 comments
Wind turbine remains may be 'most surprising' fossils for far future generations (phys.org)
Many of today's everyday items are destined to become fossils after millions of years, but scientists have suggested that some of the most surprising of them might be wind turbine blades.
Science, Environment, Fossils, Future
5 points by PaulHoule 64 days ago | 0 comments
"I need to rethink my future": Tech workers on coping with shifting immigration (restofworld.org)
Tech professionals around the world are on the edge as President Donald Trump and his administration impose a series of radical immigration measures.
Tech, Immigration, Politics, Employment, Future
33 points by impish9208 64 days ago | 4 comments