(Note: I am assuming no strong AI, and no super-nanotech, though some very advanced bioengineering, Immortality is a given.)
Economic: There’s a kind of an odd relationship between massive, faceless companies which mass produce stuff, and every citizen making his own stuff, some very expertly. Higher education over long lifespans and various advances and just higher supply of everything means that even things like design of VLSI integrated circuits and whole infrastructures is within the capability of unfunded individuals. There’s a lot of market decision and also government control of the mass producers, which have no identity at all. They basically make the right amounts of what people want. There is a hugely politicized and romanticized process of getting one’s own designs adopted by the big manufacturer.
Goverment: The head of the government is a brutal, ruthless individual tyrant who last did anything brutal or ruthless thousands of years ago during the Transitioning. This is actually a very good system.
Sex: Sex actually conforms much more closely to many current norms than it does today, although deviation is much more socially acceptable. Meanwhile, other norms have changed, mainly to eliminate the Cult of Shitty Relationships. However, there is some amount of structure to matchmaking and relationship criticism. There are real-world spaces that are so designated that anyone in them is specifically looking to meet lovers. Arranged marriage is sort of common, comes with decades-long less-committed test relationship, and is pretty stable since you have more-objective friends and family judging critically.
Science: Most citizens are not doing fundamental research or neccesarily knowledgeable about it. Fundamental research is often done by cabals. These do stand on the shoulders of giants, but they never publish anything harmful.
(Note: I am assuming no strong AI, and no super-nanotech, though some very advanced bioengineering, Immortality is a given.)
Economic: There’s a kind of an odd relationship between massive, faceless companies which mass produce stuff, and every citizen making his own stuff, some very expertly. Higher education over long lifespans and various advances and just higher supply of everything means that even things like design of VLSI integrated circuits and whole infrastructures is within the capability of unfunded individuals. There’s a lot of market decision and also government control of the mass producers, which have no identity at all. They basically make the right amounts of what people want. There is a hugely politicized and romanticized process of getting one’s own designs adopted by the big manufacturer.
Goverment: The head of the government is a brutal, ruthless individual tyrant who last did anything brutal or ruthless thousands of years ago during the Transitioning. This is actually a very good system.
Sex: Sex actually conforms much more closely to many current norms than it does today, although deviation is much more socially acceptable. Meanwhile, other norms have changed, mainly to eliminate the Cult of Shitty Relationships. However, there is some amount of structure to matchmaking and relationship criticism. There are real-world spaces that are so designated that anyone in them is specifically looking to meet lovers. Arranged marriage is sort of common, comes with decades-long less-committed test relationship, and is pretty stable since you have more-objective friends and family judging critically.
Science: Most citizens are not doing fundamental research or neccesarily knowledgeable about it. Fundamental research is often done by cabals. These do stand on the shoulders of giants, but they never publish anything harmful.