Welcome to the 2060s: Why the Future is Analog, Egalitarian, and Happening Today

Listen. The rationalists—the ones who stare at algorithmic charts, doom-scrolling graphs, and the flashing lights of impending collapse—predict a rather dreadful finish for mankind. They see nuclear war, they see the great dissolution of the United States, and they see widespread civil unrest. They assume that because our systems are complicated and crumbling, humanity is simply going to tip over the edge.

But it turns out the rationalists are missing the point, because they’re looking in the wrong places.

If you talk to the highly trained remote viewers—people whose brains are quiet enough to see past the immediate, screeching anxiety of our current decade—they report seeing something infinitely more positive. They do not see the end of the world. Instead, they see the great re-sorting. They see a highly egalitarian, deeply eco-conscious America.

It’s a country that looks remarkably like a patchwork quilt. People aren't huddled in terrified, sprawling urban monstrosities. They are living in small, food-secure, resilient communities, generally clustering into regions and states that closely reflect their own shared belief systems and values. It is a world where human beings have finally remembered what is actually important: dirt, food, neighbors, and keeping the machinery of life small enough to understand.

So it goes.

But how do we get from our present mess—where we are chained to glowing rectangles, endlessly swiping, and drowning in the optimization of human disconnection—to this peaceful, green, 2060s utopia?

The answer is painfully simple. We stop trying to fix the algorithms, and we start using analog online tools to meet each other in real life.

We need spaces that are designed to do just one thing: facilitate genuine, old-school romance, deep friendships, and a true sense of community. You don’t need a fancy app to curate your entire life. You need a platform that simply asks you to say hello to the person sitting next to you.

Tools like chickenlist—which strip away the endless scrolling, the cookies, and the fake perfection in favor of raw, authentic, paper-drawing classifieds—are exactly what we need to start building our future. They aren't trying to make the internet a replacement for reality; they are the digital front door to the physical world. They are how you find a buddy to build a tiny house in Montana, how you meet an adventure partner who will actually go outside with you, or how you find people who are just tired of the noise and want to feel human again.

Transitioning from a digital screen to a physical sidewalk, however, requires a deliberate act of bravery. To build this future, we must master the delicate art of moving from online chat to real-world connection.

First, keep the digital courtship brief; aim to propose an in-person meeting within a few days of making contact to prevent an idealized, fictional version of each other from taking root. Second, choose a low-pressure, neutral third space—like a local coffee shop, a community garden, or a bustling farmers' market—where the environment provides natural conversation starters and an easy exit if needed. Finally, ground the invitation in a specific, shared micro-activity rather than a vague hangout; asking someone to browse a vintage bookstore, help plant community saplings, or grab a slice of pie turns a potentially awkward meetup into a shared mission.

Do it tomorrow, or perhaps even today, because the future is a place where we actually have to look each other in the eye, and we might as well get used to the glare.

Wondering how anyone actually "sees" into the 2060s without a time machine or a supercomputer? Tomorrow, we look into the bizarre, military-funded history of the psychic Cold War - The Men Who Stared at Coordinates: A Brief History of Remote Viewing.