The Next Five Centuries

Event · era

The Unshared World

2050s–2120s

Personalised assistants and companions, alongside feeds where legal, dissolve shared facts.

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The Unshared World (2050s–2120s). People live with perfectly personalised tutors, lovers and confessors, and feeds wherever they remain legal. Shared facts dissolve; each person lives in a slightly different reality. Democratic deliberation fails not through censorship but through lack of common ground. Cults form around particular models; some people formally marry agents.

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