We’re watching the show and on episode three at the moment and we got a lot of discussion about the whole thing.
One of the discussions we had was … What would you do?
My wife and I were in agreement … if it were either of us, we would just ask for a big fancy mansion in some warm part of the world with access to a highway system. We ride motorcycles so we would order a garage with about a dozen motorcycles and ask to be placed in the Italian south near the ocean. We’d have a chef make us food all day and be served by three or four servants. We’d deal with the alien whatever that took over and ask them to leave us alone and not bother trying to assimilate us. We’d ask that if they don’t bother us, we will never bother them.
Then we’d spend every day just riding the Italian countryside … there would be no traffic! Then if we got bored of that, we’d ask for short holidays to another part of the world for a week or two. Otherwise, we’d spend our days watching every movie and TV show we ever wanted to see and ride every day and arrive home to the best food in the world.
I keep saying ‘we’ … but we both agreed … if it was just me, I’d do the same … and if it was just my wife, she’d do the same as well.
If we can’t do much about anything, might as well enjoy what is left.
So for everyone else reading this …
What would you do?
If they are highly efficient and basically do things mechanically without much care for any individual person … then they probably have key people permanently stationed at the water plant to keep the water running, operators at the sewer plant to keep the sewers working, farmers and harvesters at the farms to keep the food growing, technicians at their stations to keep the phones running, the networks working, etc.
Yes there would still be transport but the majority of major transportation of bulk items would probably go on train systems and some large trucks. The way transports work now is mostly on trucks to deliver things directly to individual people and companies. If you have a collective system, everything would mass transported in bulk to central major locations to be distributed by smaller vehicles on shorter runs.
There would also be far fewer vehicles on the road because they would probably ride share as efficiently as possible and pack as many people in each car or bus to move people around. The way we drive now as is highly inefficient … every car and truck on the road today basically only has one person going about their day for mostly personal use. In the Pluribus hive mind, every individual has a task for the collective and each task is coordinated with every other person. If 100 people have to travel outside the city … they’d get one bus to move those 100 people instead of getting 100 cars for each of them.
There would still be hundreds of people moving around but their coordinated system would efficient to the point where far fewer vehicles would be on the road.
On top of that … if they knew I was going to be on the road on my bike … they’d coordinate their activities and movements to clear the road for me to avoid disturbing me.