I think by the year 3000 most people will be autistic

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With all the autism research money being spent on pre-natal detection, it is likely we will go the path of the down syndromes babies. Aborted off the face of the earth.

I'm not saying I like it or agree with it. But look at the down syndrome rates since they have figured out how to detect it pre-nataly.

Not true. I was quite the juvenile delinquint.

I'd love to see that happen. I'd also love it if someone developed a way for a person to prolong their life, even if it costs thousands of dollars.

I don't think you will be able to see the computers of theyear 3000, because they will be very small and integrated into organic lifeforms duch as humans. That would make us cyborgs (cybernetic organisms).

I just read a short interview with Simon Baron Cohen and right at the end he got this question :

Wired : "If you can't be drawn to speculate about that, how about this: Computers make some parts of the world more rules-driven; does that mean the world is becoming a better place in which to have an autistic disorder?"

Baron-Cohen : "Yes. There's a niche now for people with that sort of profile. There always was a niche, otherwise the genes would have died out, but maybe that niche is now much more accessible."

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12 ... cohen.html

That is an unsound conclusion (on Baron-Cohen's part).

I agree with you. Although if humanity still existed it wouldn't be a very enjoyable place. Imagine the heat waves, water shortages, natural disasters, unstable economy, etc.

I find it hilarious that people still think we'll be this advanced computerised society. People have been thinking we'd be flying cars and visiting the Moon in 2000 and that never happened, and won't ever happen.
Humanity will destroy Earth. Or a meteorite will hit or the Sun's fuel will run out and it'll explode and consume us all.

I also agree with Francis about the detecting autism early thing. We might turn into a Gattica society and design our own perfect children. I think autism will be wiped right out, which would be horrible.

Sincerly, I think tthat this does not make any sense.

First, it is not clear that a technological world wil be more Aspie-friendly - usually, tehnological advance made things more easy to use, then more NT-friendley (look to programming languages - the modern programming languages requeires less attention to detail than at decades ago, when the programs where made in binary code).

And, even if technology creates an Aspie-friendly world, so what? What is relevant is not if in the future technology will be aspie-friendly, but if:

a) the woman will prefer to mate with aspie man to NT man

and

b) the man will prefer to mate with aspie woman to NT woman (I think this point is less relevant than the first)

Attending that our prefereces in sexual partners is largely genetic and hardwired since paleolitic times, I doubt that will be changed by technological progress.

Perhpas to avoid that, the autism rights "movement" should make common cause with the people who think that autism is a "scam"...

Well, "Life finds a way." No one can say for sure we'll be dead in the next 3k years, and no one can say autistics will be the dominant form of humanity. The way i see it, we'll enter another war that will just humble us (and set tech back another 800 years or so). We'll start again and hopefully keep some of the past mistakes out of our equations (long shot, but always a possibility). If that isnt the case, we'll continue developing at our pace (slow, but will allow time to understand what we've made and discovered). The main issue would be governments and which of them have yet evolved the concept of keep peace, but avoid war (because weapons will be too horrific to actually want to use).

As for Autistics, some groups may actually create a caste system so as to better apply our varied skills (granted, the idea of a caste system would have to be psychologically modified to understand that all are needed and that none are high and mighty). Sounds like an idea for a good book . . . >.>

I wholeheartedly agree with you Hector. I think the most exciting thing about the future, is that with all the technological advances we will finally be able to understand Autism in a biological sense for the first time.

But CDs sound better than MP3s. What are audiophiles supposed to do if they can't buy CDs anymore?

They'll buy things on vinyl.

The number hasn't grown (much more than NTs,) it's just that there is much more diagnosis and understanding today.

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." A. Einstein

It`s too far in the future to make any good guess really. If anything we`ll probably destroy majority of the population one way or the other by then.

how do you know that it hasn't grown?

Oh yeah everybody REMEMBER don''t take this seriously like I stated in the start of the thread it's just a weird thought I wanted to share. It doesn't mean that im right and it doesn't mean that im wrong because nobody can predict the future.