System V, ultimate politics, economics, philosophy, ethics, systems theory

Yeah, that sounds great. Of course we’ll have to decide where to fit it.

I think that system V would probably emerge in the late 2090s and rise to prominence in the first years of the 22nd century.

Now, who would be the first ones to adopt it? Probably EISHEC or EISHEC 2 and the societies under their influence, or maybe the cloud-lords.
In my opinion Earth societies will be the last ones to transition to V, since most of the X-nations will probably resist the new system.

We also might want to think what other ideas could make sense in a posthuman future in order to come up with concepts for anti-V factions. After all, what we want is to create an increasingly diverse world.

Yes, the ideas seem natural, but, as we are talking about a system to be designed and implemente by posthuman entities, they are also speculative.

We don’t know how posthuman minds will work, so, there is no way of telling if these ideas will make sense to them.

Yes, I totally agree with that, and I think perfectly OK to speculate to that end.

If Hollywood and 80% of the science-fiction writers can assume that posthuman minds will want to anihalate us to promote their technophobic vision, we can also assume those minds will have a positive and rational philosophy.

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