{"id":246,"date":"2025-09-27T20:45:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianermisch.com\/cms\/?p=246"},"modified":"2026-02-16T01:30:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:30:56","slug":"builders-of-your-own-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianermisch.com\/cms\/en\/builders-of-your-own-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Builders of Your Own Future?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is for everyone born in the 2000s:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Statistically, you\u2019ve already reached the peak of your private contacts \u2013 from now on, they will only decline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By 2050, 10 billion people will live on this planet, two-thirds in cities. Yet cities make people more anonymous, not more connected. And in ever faster-changing work environments, there\u2019s little time left for real bonds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of your friends and relatives will no longer be around, long-term business contacts will remain the exception \u2013 and much of what you can do today will be obsolete by 2050 \u2013 only then you won\u2019t be 25 anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Already today, carelessly commissioned AI content is flooding the net, making you feel even lonelier \u2013 even if right now you may be too distracted to notice its full extent. Don\u2019t worry: sooner or later, distractions will fade, and loneliness will hit you harder and sooner than you\u2019d like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to take action, my video essay \u201cArchitects of Loneliness\u201d will support you. The link is below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is for everyone born in the 2000s: Statistically, you\u2019ve already reached the peak of your private contacts \u2013 from now on, they will only decline. By 2050, 10 billion people will live on this planet, two-thirds in cities. Yet cities make people more anonymous, not more connected. And in ever faster-changing work environments, there\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,45],"tags":[],"hf_cat_post":[54],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-shorts-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianermisch.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianermisch.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianermisch.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianermisch.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianermisch.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianermisch.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianermisch.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianermisch.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianermisch.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"hf_cat_post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianermisch.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hf_cat_post?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}