2047...
Think ahead to the year 2047... World 1: identity This is a world where people place a lot of value on identity. ICT, called "Explore the Unknown", helps people who are meeting each other for the first time to identify the characteristics of their self-identity, such as their political views, their sense of belonging, their art of expressing themselves, and so on, instead of traditional social constructions such as gender, sexual orientation, nationality, and age. Later, people use this ICT to build their communities and the world becomes a decentralized tribe. Francis Fukuyama argues that the need for recognition acts as a significant historical driver. The recognition of self-identity plays the most important role in human relationships. Fukuyama asserted that there is a component of the soul that longs to be treated with respect, a concept from Plato called thymos. This might be seen as a call for equality (or "isothymia"), the yearning for superiority (megalot...