The Occasionalists Protean Man Series: The Future

Here at The Occasionalists we like to think we're a collection of pretty smart people. Some might argue to the contrary but at the bare minimum I think we do an excellent job of keeping our weekly discourse above the facile yelling of your typical cable news program. That's something, right?

Every now and then we take a stab at sounding super-duper intelligent and thus far, I think it's worked out pretty well. Some recent examples:

• Wish Lists
• Human Timeline 1 & 2
• The Next World War 1 & 2

These episodes fit a particular profile that Chemma and I talk about off the air quite a bit and it can be summed up thusly: "where is humanity going and what is driving us there?"

I'm calling it The Protean Man Series. There's a deeper meaning to that which we will touch on in the next episode as it's a little too wieldy to unpack via text.

In the spirit of that idea we take a deep look at...THE FUTURE! (If you didn't say it with a 1950s tv announcer voice, I'm disappointed in you.)

Chemma and I venture into three separate times and make some predictions and have a discussion about what has changed and what has persisted.

First we travel to 2048, our near future and a time many of us will be living in. Then we discuss 2118, a near future for what currently constitutes humanity though us rascally millennials will likely have faded from history. Finally we end in 3018, far enough out that humanity might be unrecognizable.

Ready to get weird?