Futurists have their heads in the clouds

Re:Futurists have their heads in the clouds by basedgod on Thursday November 18, 2021 @05:26PM (#29271427)

I really doubt there will be a rise of the throuple in any meaningful sense. The entire point of the authors essay is how unchanging society is, but suddenly it's going to become not uncommon for inherently complicated (more dynamics than dyads) relationships to exist?

It hasn't been the case at any point in human history (other than extremely small minorities). This is not going to change now. Humans don't work that way on a mass scale.

The same with education. Education does not exist to educate, it exists to babysit children (parents have to go to work! look at the last election in Virginia), and be a hoop to jump through for accreditation. Online learning will be hugely inconvenient for these purposes, and traditional in person education will remain the most common form well into the end of the 21st century

Nothing ever changes

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Re:Futurists have their heads in the clouds by pempem on Thursday November 18, 2021 @05:35PM (#29271500)

I'm here for the cynicism but here's the thing: we went from no weekends to weekends; we went from random schools to mandatory school; we went from child labor to almost no child labor with noted exceptions

things do change. we can change them more.

i agree that throuple is an unlikely emergence from those efforts :D

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