So, it's 2067.
1)MUSIC
First of all, many artists from the 1960s are now at the same level as Bach, Mozart, and Debussy are today. In fact, rather than "Fur Elise," young piano students are learning Billy Joel's "My Life," Blondie's "Sunday Girl," Carrie Underwood's "Renegade Runaway," and Carole King's "It's Too Late," et cetera. Bonus if they are able to sing the words as well as play them.
Young artists then are just like the young artists now.
Movie theaters still exist.
2)Visual Art
There are few art museums. No one really cares any more.
3)CLOTHING
Clothing can change color with the sun.
4)FOOD
75-100% of food is created with chemicals, built in labs. Chefs and kitchens are no more
5)BEHAVIORAL/SOCIAL NORMS
A) Male and female "roles" are indistinguishable. This has good and bad results.
The GOOD
-Stay at home dads are just as common as stay at home moms (Which is very few to begin with).
-All careers and trades are virtually at 50-50 capacity
-#MeToo is finally the norm
The BAD
-People constantly forget that socially equal and biologically equal are two different things. Some people relentlessly believe that women can always run as fast or hit a ball as hard as a man can, despite constant evidence to the contrary.
-Government constantly tries to ENFORCE all trades being at 50-50 capacity, even though it nearly is the case without government intervention anyway. This always backfires. Men and women know they might have been hired just to "even the employee gender gap" and not on merit. This has the negative effect of some workers- male and female- losing a sense of self worth, feeling they were hired based hired for being WHAT they are, rather than WHO they are, leading to constant depression epidemics which governments and equalist departments do not understand.
-Social media has made us so stupider. Many believe they can have 15 minutes of fame without putting any work into it at all, even though smart bloggers and vloggers
know that being a YouTuber (will it still exist then?) takes work. Hard work.
B) Religion still has not gone away. Beliefs in God or gods, while less common than ever, is still a thing. Many claim to be "(insert religion here) in name only." However, they are still a shrinking lot as well. Atheism and agnosticism are the norm.
6)MILITARY
7)ROMANCE/RELATIONSHIPS/SEX
-What we have today is outdated. Men and women are buying sex robots. Very few humans do it "the traditional way," as it is known by then. All children are grown in test tubes. Speaking of these children...
8)EDUCATION
-It is all government run, and no parent has any say in how to discipline or reward their children at all. Child abuse laws are in place, which is a good thing, of course, but that is only the beginning. If a child misbehaves, the parent needs to punish "the right way" (whatever that is) under the supervision of a government inspector. The inspector is like a judge. If Bobby or Jenny come back late, the child shall face consequences from the parent via the inspector. At 14, the government takes the child away by force and puts them into a special boarding school where the teenagers can learn to follow the government's rules. History class is more like "dead people shaming/praising" class.
-College has become an elite norm again, not a common norm for all.
9)LAW, ORDER, DISCIPLINE
-Public shaming is back in place. The death penalty is abolished; rather, complete stripping of any citizenship rights is the punishment. Chain gangs return. The harshest punishment is the whipping post. (Actually, I hope not).
10)WORK
-Just about everything is done by a robot. For example, a person learns how to supervise a robot waiter, rather than be a waiter him/herself. There is only one "head waiter" per restaurant. Robots do people's taxes for them, accountants are gone. Police departments are, on average, 65% robot.
-Exceptions are at hospitals and schools. There are still traditional schools where humans still teach, as angry students can easily smash a robot teacher and walk out the room.
11)THE FAMILY
-While "traditional" families still exist, it is not at all odd for people to be in polygamous relationships. Most people have half-siblings and people shrug at that fact.
12)TRANSPORTATION
-The U.S. still does not have high-speed rail.
-Self-driving cars have gotten better.
-No flying cars yet!
13)POLITICS
-There have been "mini-civil wars" in the Americas and even Western Europe. The United States is more polarized than ever and there are separatist groups from various states all over, even within some states themselves. Meanwhile, the E.U. is in its biggest crisis since Brexit. There are separatist movements in many European countries. Many well-known pseudo-intellectuals endlessly publish blogs about "the death of democracy" even though such a thing is just not likely. People are as dramatic then as they are now. The utopian idea of "one world government"? It just ain't happening!
And that's the future! See you then!
