What things that are legal today could become illegal in 50 years?
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Liberty and privacy. And it will take way less than 50 years.
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I would hope being rich, but I'm not counting on it.
Being poor is already pretty illegal with no signs of changing
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A lot of activity on the Internet
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The right to read.
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Dissent against the government.
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Driving your own car.
But not in a good way. You’re expected to just die.
Disagree on the last part. They want to erode ownership. Driving will be a subscription of some sort.
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Unlocking your bootloader
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Modifying most things (cars, android ROMs, PCs, etc.) It is right now to an extent but it will probably get worse.
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Positive: ecocide universally accepted as criminal and backed up with meaningfully disincentivising penalties
Negative: being remotely off grid in any way. Probably a symptom of me being British, but I fully expect there to be a point where we're required to be constantly tracked (location, what you consume, what you see, etc) in real time and it'll become a crime to evade it.
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All the above, but probably in 5 years.
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Encryption. For the poors, that is.
Well okay then, use steganography.
Secure Space Encryptor (https://paranoiaworks.mobi/) is one that I know and they have source code published, although I personally don't understand coding so I can't guarantee how secure it is, but its been out for like a decade and I haven't heard anything bad about it, and its on F-Droid.
They won't know you are secretly sending an encoded "ATTACK AT DAWN" message hidden inside the cute cat photo. (I mean unless they just shut down the entire communications infrastructure and even ban mailing stuff, which is unfeasible because of the economy)
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Civillian use of Drones.
I'm very certain there's gonna be a 9/11-like terrorist attack involving drones and then governments all around the world are gonna get extremely paranoid and just ban it unless you get a special permit that only big corporations can get.
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Disagree on the last part. They want to erode ownership. Driving will be a subscription of some sort.
Poors will be priced out by insurance companies. A large auto manufacturer, probably Tesla will buy one of the enormous insurers and start by offering lower rates for self-driving. Many will sign up and the standard startup playbook will follow. Personal vehicles will become luxury items and then you will be required to subscribe.
I wonder what the poor right will say when they don't own their car anymore?maybe they will have f350 self-driving trucks too and it'll be ok.
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Civillian use of Drones.
I'm very certain there's gonna be a 9/11-like terrorist attack involving drones and then governments all around the world are gonna get extremely paranoid and just ban it unless you get a special permit that only big corporations can get.
I'm honestly surprised we haven't seen an assassination by drone from a nonstate actor yet. It's cheap, would subvert many of the protections aimed at stopping shooters, and security likely wouldn't react in time or have the equipment to effectively stop it.
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Literally anything given that time period
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Thinking.
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Encryption. For the poors, that is.
It still sounds so insane. Imagine it being illegal for us two to share some public keys. It's like banning fundamental maths
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Dissent against the government.
Already illegal here in the uk to protest climate change.
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Literally anything given that time period
"The year is 2075. Yesterday was the day the last legal thing became illegal. And what was the last legal thing, you ask? The answer is obvious in retrospect. It was law itself."
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Poors will be priced out by insurance companies. A large auto manufacturer, probably Tesla will buy one of the enormous insurers and start by offering lower rates for self-driving. Many will sign up and the standard startup playbook will follow. Personal vehicles will become luxury items and then you will be required to subscribe.
I wonder what the poor right will say when they don't own their car anymore?maybe they will have f350 self-driving trucks too and it'll be ok.
I'm hesitant to call what they are doing owning anyway, re: their trucks. Most people who drive those idiotic money pits are so far underwater on their loans I only have pity for them. I know people who have taken out 8 year loans on 70-80 thousand dollar trucks. Loans so high in interest and so long that they probably will never pay it off - to me the bank owns it 100%. I think most of them will gladly hand over their ownership if they can still feel "manly" by pretending their huge truck makes up for their own masculinity issues.
