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A 2030 Morning Routine

by LorenDB on 5/23/25, 12:09 PM with 33 comments

  • by _fat_santa on 5/23/25, 1:12 PM

    One thing that stuck out to me reading this was the constant reference to various AI agent's by a name.

    It made me step back and think about how some of these AI products are named and I honestly prefer when a product isn't named like a person. Just to think of two: you have "Claude" and "Alexa" which gives the impression you are speaking to a person when you very very much are not.

    I gotta say I kind of prefer the name "ChatGPT" that OpenAI went with. It doesn't try to pretend it's a human with it's naming and also describes what it is in it's name.

  • by renegat0x0 on 5/23/25, 3:26 PM

    To speak to your AI agent please drink verification can

    https://rumca-js.github.io/quickstart/public/posts/2025-05-2...

  • by roxolotl on 5/23/25, 12:57 PM

    If anyone is interested in a longer form version of this sort of story I’d highly recommend Ken Liu’s The Perfect Match.

    https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-perfect-match...

  • by hansmayer on 5/23/25, 12:14 PM

    Wait, they are going to return to cubicles in 2030? Sounds awesome ;)

  • by decimalenough on 5/23/25, 12:36 PM

    Perfectly realistic except the ending: why would anybody pay humans to generate voiceovers in 2030s, when AI can already do the job?

  • by roywiggins on 5/23/25, 8:08 PM

    “All the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.”

    As the door closed behind them it became apparent that it did indeed have a satisfied sigh-like quality to it. “Hummmmmmmyummmmmmm ah!” it said.

    http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=135

  • by keiferski on 5/23/25, 12:30 PM

    I was hoping this was about FM-2030’s morning routine. Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be much information online about/if he did anything particularly unique.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-2030

  • by nancyminusone on 5/23/25, 2:45 PM

    The future is going to have a lot more speaker grilles with screwdriver stab marks in them.

  • by Jotalea on 5/23/25, 1:47 PM

    Reminds me of the movie "Demolition Man", where everything was assisted by AIs.

  • by randunel on 5/23/25, 12:33 PM

    Not enough ads and push to spend, I'm afraid.

  • by HenryBemis on 5/23/25, 12:35 PM

    Did anyone else got a 15MM tingling feeling in the beginning of reading this or was it just me?

  • by crims0n on 5/23/25, 1:21 PM

    Neo-Luddism is going to be a popular term in the years to come.

  • by explorigin on 5/23/25, 12:42 PM

    I lost it at "shower buddy"

  • by Yossarrian22 on 5/23/25, 12:42 PM

    > Real coffee costs more than your coffee maker nowadays, so it has to suffice.

    That’s definitely the bad place

  • by nickdothutton on 5/23/25, 12:29 PM

    Ballardian.

  • by tkiolp4 on 5/23/25, 4:07 PM

    No remote work?

  • by iamgopal on 5/23/25, 12:35 PM

    H2G2

  • by tacheiordache on 5/23/25, 1:06 PM

    This is classified as satire but it's not much so, we're already halfway there.