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		joules77 50 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits dif... Go deeper. Why does society needs parents at the current rate of change? The ants discovered hundreds of millions of years before even the chimps got social, that parents are not required for functioning society. We will get there soon with artificial wombs on the near horizon.

positron26 50 days ago | [–]

We don't need a next generation either, but I have a feeling there will be some strong selection pressure that takes over.

losvedir 49 days ago | [–]

I, too, always found Brave New World more prescient than 1984.

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