Would a technology allowing 18 year olds to see their own potential future help them plan better?

“That will never happen to me.”

Not sure, I don’t think so, to be honest.
Already we have examples of all kinds of (bad) decisions, and their results.
Think of smoking; Google it, or visit a cancer ward in a hospital (or look around in your family circle) to see what that addiction can lead to.
Or, about diets, same thing.

No. People will do what they want, not what destiny dictates.

Tbh yes, it would be groundbreaking. At 18 how can you possibly know all the ramifications of your choices. I would love to see a VR that shows how marrying Joe the alcoholic turns out as opposed to Stan in college. Domestic abuse and staying versus leaving, how that affects the children, how Joe turns his lide around. Lots of possible scenarios.

Well, if the outcome isn’t pleasant they will say “I have forever. I’ll change it later.”

They don’t need technology to see that, all they have to do is research others who made those choices. Pros and Cons are everywhere to observe.

@Inspired Have you read studies on national ACT scores? We have to use new mediums they’ll actually use, like VR over books, reading.

Well that would be so depressing the suicide rate would skyrocket. Very few 18 year olds are able to handle the reality of life when one is fifty.

Can you imagine an 18 yr old facing the aches and pains of a forty year old, no matter how good of a shape they are in? And being told they really shouldn’t have that bacon cheeseburger?

Older people only gain the ability to deal with the reality of their age by living through the earlier years.

^^ Yet experiencing all that despair and pain and then waking up to the reality that they still are 18 and have 30 years to live life with a bit more “wisdom”....wouldn’t that be worth the exposure to emotional and psychological risks?

Same problem that every science fiction movies runs up against.

If you know the future, it will change events now (in the present), possibly in a way that will screw up the future.

You don’t want to know the future. This would be a bad idea.

actually for health DNA would give suggestions for better health fitted for you.

I really don’t think it would be all that beneficial.
I know that personally, I will have a much harder time and live with many more regrets knowing the outcomes of what I might do.
If I knew how my exams are about to play out, it would be 100 times more stressful. It would be super stressful being able to know that drinking that extra cup of tea could be my downfall…
There’s definitely benefits to, don’t get me wrong, but it would really mess with a lot of people in a very negative way, I think.