A 2030 Morning Routine

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_120_morning_routine_2030/

80•LorenDB•6h ago

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hansmayer•6h ago

Wait, they are going to return to cubicles in 2030? Sounds awesome ;)

aerhardt•6h ago

Nah it’s going to be more like those standing seats that some low-cost airlines have been planning for a while. That’s more than enough for you and your headset. The very best workplaces will also provide a small elliptical bike at your feet.

There will be fewer and fewer of us in years to come, but real estate doesn’t grow on trees!

hoppp•5h ago

They can make electricity with your pedalling. Like a dystopic hamster wheel powered office. All bodily functions can be monetized

DrillShopper•3h ago

While I generally subscribe to the philosophy of "if you're good at doing something then never do it for free", but my company is welcome to my shit for free.

jjkaczor•1h ago

First they will run it through some sort of analytics to sell the results to biomedical information-tracking companies for aggregate data:

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/the-wild-story-of-how-gut-...

Next - they will take the resulting "output" physical mess and turn dump it into a methane fuel-generating waste-treatment plant.

If that still doesn't make enough $$$, and your measured productivity metrics are not good enough, don't worry - if you also end-up living in one of the "techbro sponsored corporate feudal city-states" you can always help the company by being turned into "biodiesel":

https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrif...

nickdothutton•6h ago

Ballardian.

keiferski•6h ago

I was hoping this was about FM-2030’s morning routine. Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be much information online about/if he did anything particularly unique.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-2030

nemo1618•5h ago

I wonder: if we get superintelligence before 2030, do you think we should revive him ASAP, or wait and do it in 2030?

keiferski•17m ago

I don’t think he was super interested in AI, more trans humanism and biology related things.

randunel•6h ago

Not enough ads and push to spend, I'm afraid.

HenryBemis•6h ago

Did anyone else got a 15MM tingling feeling in the beginning of reading this or was it just me?

iamgopal•6h ago

H2G2

decimalenough•6h ago

Perfectly realistic except the ending: why would anybody pay humans to generate voiceovers in 2030s, when AI can already do the job?

someothherguyy•5h ago

likely boorishly contrived for this style of storytelling

mrtksn•5h ago

That's all organic artizan voiceover, not like the unhealthy garbage AI voiceover the lesser cool people use.

barryrandall•4h ago

Because enough people will pay $200 for a "premium" HDMI cable, that a market for premium HDMI cables exists.

explorigin•6h ago

I lost it at "shower buddy"

Yossarrian22•6h ago

> Real coffee costs more than your coffee maker nowadays, so it has to suffice.

That’s definitely the bad place

roxolotl•6h ago

If anyone is interested in a longer form version of this sort of story I’d highly recommend Ken Liu’s The Perfect Match.

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-perfect-match...

tacheiordache•5h ago

This is classified as satire but it's not much so, we're already halfway there.

_fat_santa•5h ago

One thing that stuck out to me reading this was the constant reference to various AI agent's by a name.

It made me step back and think about how some of these AI products are named and I honestly prefer when a product isn't named like a person. Just to think of two: you have "Claude" and "Alexa" which gives the impression you are speaking to a person when you very very much are not.

I gotta say I kind of prefer the name "ChatGPT" that OpenAI went with. It doesn't try to pretend it's a human with it's naming and also describes what it is in it's name.

ginko•5h ago

I think Star Trek nailed how I would want to interact with a computer by voice. (maybe someone will figure out how to make AI agents do that, including Majel Barrett's voice)

hoppp•5h ago

Yeah, I would also prefer to rename a smart house controlling agent to "robo butler 9000" just because its funny. I dont want a human slave. I want to feel like Im in a weirdly funny episode of Futurama

crims0n•5h ago

Neo-Luddism is going to be a popular term in the years to come.

Jotalea•5h ago

Reminds me of the movie "Demolition Man", where everything was assisted by AIs.

nancyminusone•4h ago

The future is going to have a lot more speaker grilles with screwdriver stab marks in them.

renegat0x0•3h ago

To speak to your AI agent please drink verification can

https://rumca-js.github.io/quickstart/public/posts/2025-05-2...

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