I reject ownership of land [...] |
WTF?! I like Zhwazi, but I gotta say... FSP is being overrun by commies! Statements like that are precisely what I'm trying to escape from!
That's a learned behavior though, and the better solution in the long run would be for this learned behavior to be unlearned than for people to be psychologically damaged and offended by seeing other people without clothes. No other animal has the same reaction to nudity of any species except humans, and not even all humans do, it appears to be a problem completely developed by humans.
I agree that people will eventually become desensitized to nudity, but clothing has many practical benefits. And no, I don't mean pockets - pretty soon all things people typically carry in their pockets (currency, keys, ID's, cell phones, medicine, etc) will be done by tiny implantable electronic devices, including
augmented reality contact lenses, etc.
And yet, as civilization progresses, I see people wearing more clothing, not less - thin (possibly transparent) protective layers that cover their bodies entirely to protect from uncontrollable exposure to environmental hazards. As people gradually become less religious and more rational, they will want to do everything they can to increase their odds of "
living long enough to live forever", which means getting less germs, free radicals, and other things that accelerate the aging process.
And then there's the issue of medical privacy - many diseases can be predicted by just looking closely at the person's skin or analyzing movement patterns, which computers can do very effectively. And of course there's the risk of serious contagious diseases, bio-terrorism, etc. There might even eventually be thought-reading technologies that people will want to protect themselves against, and we might need something a whole lot better than tin foil.
