| ▲ | silvestrov 5 hours ago | |
> plastic everywhere. plastic will still be everywhere. The major catastrophe that could happen is for evolution of plastic eating bacteria like the creation of (dead) wood eating bacteria. Look at all the plastic containers etc you have in your kitchen and imagine it's just gone. > social media as news Mainstream news isn't going to get any better. > teflon teflon has gotten a lot better since it was introduced. It will stick around. > fossil fuel cars will be seen like rotary phones: they will not understand why they are so cumbersome or why so many people had resistance against electric cars. It's like electric lights versus living with only oil/candle lights. I think a near term would be: "you had to go to a cinema to watch a movie?" | ||
| ▲ | everdrive 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
>Look at all the plastic containers etc you have in your kitchen and imagine it's just gone. This is not a catastrophe by any stretch of the imagination. | ||
| ▲ | phs318u 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> Mainstream news isn't going to get any better. Perhaps. But “social media as news” is definitely going to get a lot worse. > Teflon ... It will stick around. Please tell me that was a deliberate choice of words :) | ||