WWB Trainer
WWB Takeaways
Where human ideas, technology, and culture might be heading.
MODE:
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5 minutes
of takeaways.
10 takeaways. Ten complete ideas.
1.
From History: 2039 (+/- 6 years)
Rationally predicted based on current trends.
Humans will live in domes on Mars long before they ever walk outside without protection. For centuries, Mars would be a world of domes and tunnels, not open skies. Early Martian settlers would live inside pressurized habitats. These initial domes will lead to more permanent habitats. After a few initial Martian domes, the first long-term human presence on Mars will likely be in subsurface habitats carved into lava tubes.
2.
From History: 2090: 65 Years From Now (+/- 30 years)
Verified. Ratonally predicted. Timeline speculative.
By 2090, advances in AI, robotics, and social acceptance could bring humanity to a tipping point where androids rival humans in number, reshaping work, ethics, and what it means to be “alive.”
3.
From History: 2029 (+/- 2 years)
Rationally predicted based on current trends.
The big picture is simple: energy is energy. Right now, largely because of the incentives and excesses within big business, we are hooked on oil. But addictions are not destinies. We don’t have to stay here. For more than a century, our reliance on oil has increased year after year. Still, trends don’t run forever. A tipping point is approaching. Sometime near the end of this decade, around 2029, we are likely to see the first sustained decline in oil use, marking the moment when alternative energy begin to take the lead.
4.
Dreaming about Mars can inspire progress, but it can also distract from reality. If humanity ever develops the technology to terraform an entire planet, solving even catastrophic problems on Earth would be far easier by comparison. The wiser path is fixing the home we already know how to live on.
5.
Proposed by Nikolai Kardashev, the Kardashev Scale frames the future of intelligent life in terms of energy mastery. From planetary, to stellar, to galactic. It’s less a prediction than a thought experiment, inviting us to imagine how technology, abundance, and responsibility evolve as energy constraints fade.
6.
Social constructs are human made and do not exist in nature. While we could simply add AI to the mess of existing frameworks, we have the opportunity to forge a better tomorrow. AI has the power to reinforce our current biases and bad habits—or help us break free from them to create a more equitable society.
7.
Terraforming mars is likely a few thousand years away. We have to add an ozone layer, magnetic field, and thicken the current atmosphere and balance it with oxygen. Mars’ air is over 150 times thinner than Earth’s, and it’s about 95% carbon dioxide. A death sentence to humans. Breathing requires far higher pressure first, then oxygen enrichment above 21%.
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Writing and coding by Michael Alan Prestwood.
(c) 2025-2026 TouchstoneTruth.
Writing and coding by Michael Alan Prestwood.
