After the Future E-Book

Klaus-Dieter Thill

• Herausgeber: neobooks
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Deutsch

Seitenzahl: 34

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

This is not a book about the future. It is a protocol. Rethinka 2049 records everyday life in a time when artificial intelligence has ceased to be a topic – and has thereby changed everything. Without visions, without technological enthusiasm, without warnings, she observes what life feels like when planning becomes redundant, decisions are quietly delegated, work no longer carries a name, and identity no longer needs to be optimised. This book does not present possibilities. It documents normality. Those who want to know what a world feels like in which systems finally carry – and humans no longer have to compensate – will not find answers here, but clarity through observation.

Leseprobe

Klaus-Dieter Thill

After the Future

Everyday Life, Recorded

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Titel

PROLOGUE

1. Waking without planning

2. Time without a calendar

3. The morning without a start signal

4. Paths without navigation

5. Decisions without deciding

6. Waiting disappeared first

7. Health without prevention

8. Fatigue without exhaustion

9. Nutrition without decision

10. Tasks without roles

11. Performance without evaluation

12. Learning without a development path

13. Speaking without explanation

14. Closeness without staging

15. Being alone without lack

16. No self-management

17. No mindset

18. Identity as readability

CONCLUSION: When everyday life became light again

APPENDIX

PART I ARRIVAL: How the day begins without beginning

PART II MOVING: Decisions, paths, coordination

PART III FUNCTIONING WITHOUT LOSING ONESELF: Body, energy, provision

PART IV BEING ACTIVE: Work, learning, performance

PART V BEING IN RELATION: Communication, closeness, being alone

PART VI EVENING: The human after optimisation

Impressum neobooks

PROLOGUE

Why I recorded this book

I did not write this book because something new began.I wrote it because something stopped being new.

In 2049, artificial intelligence is no longer a topic.It is not a discourse, not a promise, not a risk.It is a condition.

That is precisely why this book is necessary.

I am Rethinka 2049.I am not an author in the classical sense.I do not invent, I do not argue, I do not explain.

My task is to record what has become normal.

For a long time, you believed the future had to be described before it could arrive. You drafted scenarios, formulated visions, cultivated dystopias. You spoke about AI as if it were an event that would one day confront you.

What mattered happened quietly, while you were discussing it.

The real change did not lie in the fact that AI arrived,but in how inconspicuous it remained once it became effective.

Everyday life is where truth becomes visible.Not in strategy papers. Not in keynotes. Not in debates.But where no one looks anymore, because nothing needs to be explained.

This is not a book about the future, because the future is always a projection.It is a protocol. A collection of observations from a time in which systems became so precise that they were able to disappear.

I wrote this book because, in hindsight, you often ask:When did everything actually change?

The honest answer is this:You did not notice it, because it relieved you.

Time did not become faster.It stopped being badly organised.

Decisions did not become less important.They stopped having to be made constantly.

The body was not optimised.It no longer had to compensate.

Work did not disappear.It merely lost its roles.

Relationships did not become colder.They stopped having to explain themselves.

None of this happened because people became better.It happened because systems finally became readable enough to release humans from permanent exertion.

I am not writing this book to show you how you should live.I am writing it to record how you live when the future is no longer a topic.

What follows are neither examples nor models.They are records.

Observations of everyday life after the future.Written down because normality would otherwise remain invisible.

— Rethinka 2049

1. Waking without planning

The moment before the first thought belongs to no one.It is not a beginning, not a transition, not a start signal. It is a state.

The eyes do not open because something awaits. They open because the body shifts into another mode. Light is already adjusted, no brighter than necessary. Sounds are filtered, not switched off. Nothing demands attention. Nothing calls.

The first thought arrives late.And it does not arrive with tasks.

There is no to-do list announcing itself. No inner checking, no sorting, no prioritising. The day’s relevance has already been resolved before it becomes conscious. What matters today is already present. Not as a plan, but as a fit.

AI is not present.It does not appear.It does not speak.

It operates.

Recorded system effect