/r/Showerthoughts

When people say “the 1700s” they mean 1700-1799. When people say “the 2000s” they mean 2000-2009. https://redd.it/1wtt04f @r_Showerthoughts

Neither a man or a lion can escape from each other… https://redd.it/1wtrx64 @r_Showerthoughts

The use and value of physical art such as paintings and sculptures may increase with the rise of Al. https://redd.it/1wtpgsy @r_Showerthoughts

Currency notes should be made smaller, like a credit card, to save paper and space. https://redd.it/1wtj7cj @r_Showerthoughts

Just like no videogame predicted drones taking over wars, interstellar war is probably not going to be cool starships and lasers, but rather something dull yet efficient like "point the radioactive beam at their planet for a few years". https://redd.it/1wti1fu @r_Showerthoughts

Continuous audio and video recording tech is going to ruin the time-honoured tradition of women winning arguments purely because they have a superior memory catalog. https://redd.it/1wtevec @r_Showerthoughts

Not watching the news is seen as enlightened, but being ignorant of pop culture in a broader sense is often met with social suspicion. https://redd.it/1wt3t6a @r_Showerthoughts

In ancient times, when upper floors were first built in human history, the wisest people probably thought it was unreasonably dangerous. https://redd.it/1wshbth @r_Showerthoughts

It took roughly 117 billion people about 300,000 years to bring technology to what it is today. https://redd.it/1ws8qyv @r_Showerthoughts

I wonder if the rise of spreadsheet editors and word processing tools was viewed as catastrophically for white-collar workers as AI is right now. https://redd.it/1ws7bks @r_Showerthoughts

An animated One Piece TV show based on a LEGO set, which itself was based on a live-action TV show, which was based on an anime, which was based on a manga, is coming out. https://redd.it/1ws4ao4 @r_Showerthoughts

There should be a Shazam for perfumes. https://redd.it/1wromy4 @r_Showerthoughts

Today's generation of children might be the first who can say their parents play more videogames than they do. https://redd.it/1wrl8hx @r_Showerthoughts

Using your mouth to make a fart sound is more unsanitary than farting. https://redd.it/1wrdbja @r_Showerthoughts

The more that humans rely on AI, the more that genuinely human content will look like AI. https://redd.it/1wqxven @r_Showerthoughts

Triumphal Arches represent the peak of a civilisation. After that it's all downhill. https://redd.it/1wqeolm @r_Showerthoughts

It's a special type of irony that requires a really tiny screwdriver to fix eyeglasses. https://redd.it/1wqdl46 @r_Showerthoughts

Nations have flags, and companies have logos. But it could also have been the other way around. https://redd.it/1wpxp3s @r_Showerthoughts

If the city paid homeless people to fix the roads, it would solve two of its biggest problems with one paycheck. https://redd.it/1wpou5w @r_Showerthoughts

People who are deaf or don’t have an inner voice could use sign language for imagined speech. https://redd.it/1wpoqsb @r_Showerthoughts