A 2030 Morning Routine(marginalia.nu)
80 points by LorenDB 6 hours ago | 18 comments
_fat_santa 5 hours ago
One thing that stuck out to me reading this was the constant reference to various AI agent's by a name.

It made me step back and think about how some of these AI products are named and I honestly prefer when a product isn't named like a person. Just to think of two: you have "Claude" and "Alexa" which gives the impression you are speaking to a person when you very very much are not.

I gotta say I kind of prefer the name "ChatGPT" that OpenAI went with. It doesn't try to pretend it's a human with it's naming and also describes what it is in it's name.

hoppp 5 hours ago
Yeah, I would also prefer to rename a smart house controlling agent to "robo butler 9000" just because its funny. I dont want a human slave. I want to feel like Im in a weirdly funny episode of Futurama
ginko 5 hours ago
I think Star Trek nailed how I would want to interact with a computer by voice. (maybe someone will figure out how to make AI agents do that, including Majel Barrett's voice)
renegat0x0 3 hours ago
To speak to your AI agent please drink verification can

https://rumca-js.github.io/quickstart/public/posts/2025-05-2...

roxolotl 6 hours ago
If anyone is interested in a longer form version of this sort of story I’d highly recommend Ken Liu’s The Perfect Match.

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-perfect-match...

hansmayer 6 hours ago
Wait, they are going to return to cubicles in 2030? Sounds awesome ;)
aerhardt 6 hours ago
Nah it’s going to be more like those standing seats that some low-cost airlines have been planning for a while. That’s more than enough for you and your headset. The very best workplaces will also provide a small elliptical bike at your feet.

There will be fewer and fewer of us in years to come, but real estate doesn’t grow on trees!

hoppp 5 hours ago
They can make electricity with your pedalling. Like a dystopic hamster wheel powered office. All bodily functions can be monetized
DrillShopper 3 hours ago
While I generally subscribe to the philosophy of "if you're good at doing something then never do it for free", but my company is welcome to my shit for free.
jjkaczor 1 hour ago
First they will run it through some sort of analytics to sell the results to biomedical information-tracking companies for aggregate data:

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/the-wild-story-of-how-gut-...

Next - they will take the resulting "output" physical mess and turn dump it into a methane fuel-generating waste-treatment plant.

If that still doesn't make enough $$$, and your measured productivity metrics are not good enough, don't worry - if you also end-up living in one of the "techbro sponsored corporate feudal city-states" you can always help the company by being turned into "biodiesel":

https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrif...

decimalenough 6 hours ago
Perfectly realistic except the ending: why would anybody pay humans to generate voiceovers in 2030s, when AI can already do the job?
mrtksn 5 hours ago
That's all organic artizan voiceover, not like the unhealthy garbage AI voiceover the lesser cool people use.
barryrandall 4 hours ago
Because enough people will pay $200 for a "premium" HDMI cable, that a market for premium HDMI cables exists.
someothherguyy 5 hours ago
likely boorishly contrived for this style of storytelling
nancyminusone 4 hours ago
The future is going to have a lot more speaker grilles with screwdriver stab marks in them.
randunel 6 hours ago
Not enough ads and push to spend, I'm afraid.
Jotalea 5 hours ago
Reminds me of the movie "Demolition Man", where everything was assisted by AIs.
keiferski 6 hours ago
I was hoping this was about FM-2030’s morning routine. Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be much information online about/if he did anything particularly unique.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-2030

nemo1618 5 hours ago
I wonder: if we get superintelligence before 2030, do you think we should revive him ASAP, or wait and do it in 2030?
keiferski 21 minutes ago
I don’t think he was super interested in AI, more trans humanism and biology related things.
explorigin 6 hours ago
I lost it at "shower buddy"
Yossarrian22 6 hours ago
> Real coffee costs more than your coffee maker nowadays, so it has to suffice.

That’s definitely the bad place

crims0n 5 hours ago
Neo-Luddism is going to be a popular term in the years to come.
tkiolp4 2 hours ago
No remote work?
nickdothutton 6 hours ago
Ballardian.
HenryBemis 6 hours ago
Did anyone else got a 15MM tingling feeling in the beginning of reading this or was it just me?
iamgopal 6 hours ago
H2G2
tacheiordache 5 hours ago
This is classified as satire but it's not much so, we're already halfway there.
6 hours ago