In prison today talk of "ai" and the times to come.
We have no idea.
Migration, challenges, responses that call for novel thinking.
Consider Troy and its nine layers:
Troy (Ancient Greek: Τροία, romanized: Troíā; Latin: Trōia; Hittite: 𒆳𒌷𒋫𒊒𒄿𒊭, romanized: Truwiša/Taruiša) or Ilion (Ancient Greek: Ίλιον, romanized: Ī́lion, Hittite: 𒌷𒃾𒇻𒊭, romanized: Wiluša)[1][2][3][4] was an ancient city located in present-day Hisarlık, Turkey. The place was first settled around 3600 BC and grew into a small fortified city around 3000 BC. During its four thousand years of existence, Troy was repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt. As a result, the archeological site that has been left is divided into nine layers, each corresponding to a city built on the ruins of the previous. Archaeologists refer to these layers using Roman numerals. Among the early layers, Troy II is notable for its wealth and imposing architecture. During the Late Bronze Age, Troy was called Wilusa and was a vassal of the Hittite Empire. The final layers (Troy VIII-IX) were Greek and Roman cities which in their days served as tourist attractions and religious centers because of their link to mythic tradition. (--wikipedia)
In 5000 years from now, how many levels of Manhattan or Boston will be excavated? What will they find?
In the Iliad, the Achaeans set up their camp near the mouth of the Scamander river,[100] where they beached their ships. The city itself stood on a hill across the plain of Scamander, where much of the fighting takes place.
Besides the Iliad, there are references to Troy in the other major work attributed to Homer, the Odyssey, as well as in other ancient Greek literature (such as Aeschylus's Oresteia). The Homeric legend of Troy was elaborated by the Roman poet Virgil in his Aeneid. The fall of Troy with the story of the Trojan Horse and the sacrifice of Polyxena, Priam's youngest daughter, is the subject of a later Greek epic by Quintus Smyrnaeus ("Quintus of Smyrna").
The Greeks and Romans took for a fact the historicity of the Trojan War and the identity of Homeric Troy with a site in Anatolia on a peninsula called the Troad (Biga Peninsula). Alexander the Great, for example, visited the site in 334 BC and there made sacrifices at tombs associated with the Homeric heroes Achilles and Patroclus.[6](pp158, 191)[5](p724) (ibid)
The challenges of climate crisis, of migrations from inhospitable terrain, of politically chaotic systems thinking, of technological developments that give over to artificial intelligence the reins replacing human ingenuity and any measured progress.
I'm uncertain as to the aspect of measured progress being able to be held in check. We seem to be enamored with going forward without restraint or thoughtful consideration.
“Success is man’s god.”
― Aeschylus, Oresteia
“Human happiness never remains long in the same place.”
― Herodotus, The Histories
“Hate is a bottomless cup.”
― Euripides, Medea
“This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.”
― Herodotus, The Histories
Things will happen. We will suffer our ignorance.
Someone will write about it. It will be considered mythic fiction.
