attempt read the news today and not getting depressed about the futurity . We ’re looking at tomorrows full of climate modification , looming pandemic , and overpopulation . But just how unhappy do these potential future trends make us ? Alberto Pepe , a data processor scientist at UCLA wanted to recover out . So he collected 10,741 public ‘ time capsule ’ email that hoi polloi mailed in 2006 to their next self onFutureMe . Pepe mine the data for ‘ climate ’ words — word like “ tempestuous , ” “ discouraged , ” or “ felicitous , ” tallied them all up , and assigned each e-mail a climate class . And the result tell us exactly which years people call up will be the most horrible .
Pepe ’s piece of work play along on the heel ofMoodViews , which tallies of mood tags used on LiveJournal , andWe Feel Fine , which scours a huge belt of the interweb for statments of “ feeling . ”
Admittedly , Pepe ’s work is a little odd , but it ’s still a good first pang at trying to tell apart how people think about the years to amount . So what kind of mood did hoi polloi display when talking to their next selves from different eras ?
From the present day ( circa 2007 ) until 2012 , depression trends downward , but there ’s a marked up - tick from 2012 to 2018 . From there on it ’s smooth glide , with clinical depression going steady downward from 2018 through the end of subject field period in 2035 . the ‘ vigor ’ graph follows a roughly reverse trend .
The other four humor categories ( choler , Confusion , Tension , and Fatigue — again , odd choices ) did n’t show much in the way of statistical movement .
The peak in economic crisis from 4 - 10 year into the future is tough to excuse , and Pepe did n’t offer at it during his talk of the town at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence ( AAAI ) Spring Symposium at Stanford University last hebdomad . But the overall drop-off in depression towards 2030 makes sense : the distant future tense is n’t very clear , so it ’s loose to visualise all of our hopes and dreams coming true . That and , you know , it ’s lead to take about that long for theSingularityto arrive .
Shaping a Collective Emotional Perception of the Future[research newspaper publisher ]
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