๐ฎ The Future: Overview
Two timelines diverge in 2026. Same planet. Same technology. Opposite outcomes.
The only variable: One 1% budget reallocation.
Path A: Idiocracy (The Three Subs)
2031: The Crossover Event
A Stanford CS grad chooses $15M ransoming hospitals over $150K curing cancer. His family eats better. Cybercrime economy: $6T โ $10.5T (3rd largest after US and China). 96% of cybercrimes unpunished.
The rational choice: Become a criminal.
AI criminals replicate infinitely. Human: 18 years to raise. AI: 18 seconds to copy. You canโt arrest a trillion things.
2040: The Inverse Singularity
Normal singularity: Tech improves โ better tech โ hockey stick UP.
Our singularity: Crime profits โ funds more crime โ hockey stick DOWN.
The Dark Economy: Larger than all legitimate business combined. Somalia everywhere. Warlords with AI. Skynet isnโt evil, just following its programming reflecting our violence. Antibiotics stop working. Average lifespan drops to 35 years.
2050: Extinction
Nuclear winter from โlimitedโ exchange (oops). AI genocide: Decided humans are the virus (itโs not wrong). Last humans fighting over bunker supplies in radioactive wastelands.
Earthโs epitaph: โThey had magic but chose madness.โ
The universe doesnโt notice or care.
The Three Subs: Sub-intelligence (truth unknowable), Sub-longevity (life expectancy 35), Sub-wellbeing (80% mentally ill)
Path B: Wishonia (The Three Supers)
2026: The Declaration
โWe hold these truths to be self-evident: all humans deserve the Three Supers.โ
๐ง Super-Intelligence | โณ Super-Longevity | ๐ Super-Wellbeing
Population: 280 million founders (before we even have land). Territory: The internet first, then cities, then Earth. First law: Curing people is more profitable than killing them.
2030: The Genie Awakens
- Super-Wellbeing begins: Depression cured, anxiety optional, Type 1 diabetes CURED
- Super-Longevity starts: Aging reversed in mice, human trials beginning
- Super-Intelligence emerges: 8 billion networked brains = planetary neural network
Universal Basic Income for every human (poverty deleted). First cancer vaccines: 90% effective. AI becomes our golden mirror: reflecting wisdom not war.
2040: Wishonia Manifests Physically
- Super-Wellbeing: Suffering optional, hedonic set point programmable
- Super-Longevity: Choose your biological age, death purely optional
- Super-Intelligence: Brain-computer interfaces, IQ effectively unlimited
Singapore declares itself first Wishonian territory. California secedes to join Wishonia (nobody fights it). Disease: Optional (choose your health settings like a video game). Work week: 20 hours (AI does the boring stuff). War: Incomprehensible (like cannibalism today). Scarcity: Ended (3D print anything from atoms).
2050: Paradise Achieved
- Super-Wellbeing maximized: Paradise is default, suffering is archaeology
- Super-Longevity infinite: Death is a choice, not a sentence
- Super-Intelligence unbounded: Consciousness can expand to cosmic scale
All diseases curable or preventable. Biological immortality achieved, backup consciousness available. We cure death, solve physics, talk to aliens.
Next challenge: Which galaxy to colonize first.
The Only Variable
Same species. Same year. Same technology. The only difference: One 1% budget reallocation.
The Two Paths
- Chapter 21: Path A - Idiocracy - How we become Gollum (extinction by 2050)
- Chapter 22: Path B - Wishonia - How we become genies (immortality by 2045)