About Futuristic Worldbuilding

Hi, I have been working on four separate worlds that have a relation to each other. [be] Currently, only this world (which will be nearby in the future) is active. We begin our journey on the oldest world, as that is how time seems to progress chronologically.

Old World (Atlantis)

The Oldest World is about the Empire Atlantis, and the time period is way before humanity existed on this planet. Questions that I have are "What is it," "Origins," and "Progression." The most predominant outcome is that we, the Homo Habilis, are now living on this blue marble we call Earth.

Medieval World (Dinas Emrys)

Then we have the medieval world, called Dinas Emrys. Time is set in medieval England. It is here where we bring dimensions into play and describe something similar to King Arthur and his Knights. It should feel more like a DND world with magical properties that come into play after the collision of the dimensions.
Time progresses into what we would call the modern world with Cafe Noir in the 1920's[be]

Roaring 20's (Café Noir)

Café Noir began in the Roaring Twenties and contains significant discoveries, new inventions, and famous people. The focus here is on breaches in dimensions -obsession with the Occult and mysticism. Discoveries like the Great Pyramids, Pharaos, and Egyptology. We also see the first connection with the Presidents of the United States of America.

the nearby future (Equilibrium)

We move on to the future. Where Café Noir established proof that there are multiple dimensions and collisions and tells stories of people learning and dealing with these new elements, Equilibrium adds the ecological and environmental problems that will be affecting the face of the Earth. We will not talk about the current world, but the world in the nearby future based on assumptions, technological progress, dimensional interference and finally magic.
Welcome to Equilibrium, the future past Earth's dimensional and ecological disasters.

The problem with the future

When I write about the future, I imagine what technology would accomplish. If we are able to improve VR, AR, AI, and communications and, say, connect your brain to the technology (something already happening for blind people or artificial limbs), what would happen with things we know?

for example:

I created a gambling paradise on the moon. And people traveling to and from the moon is like taking the train to another city. this raises the question: travel, why do we do it? to feel and experience? hypothesis: what if you can have that 100% reality (to you as an individual), but without actually leaving your home? and... while we are at it, how would you define a home? Do you really need it? What if your brain is stored in a computer and you would virtually live in a large house? You can imagine living in a sim... virtually no limits here.
Back to the gambling paradise:
The gambling paradise obviously has no rules or laws. That's why they built it on the moon. Gambling is unlimited, so what about betting on your own life? allowed? Well... yes. But your life, it ain't worth shit. Literally, the shit you produce over time is more valuable than your body. (Your body has only a few materials that are useful, including a quantity of blood and/or water). The services you can deliver are worth more. Yes, even eating cheap food to produce shit can be a service. But keeping the thought trained on the future: there is no need to do physical labor. what services would we be able to give or need? How do we gamble? Are we physically pulling a lever? Or are we hooked up, like in the matrix? (your body thinks it's real, so why pretend it isn't?)

This is not my best description of why the future is a problem when you go down the technological road.

Every time I think of how improvements would help... i end up finding the need for a human to go somewhere, to do something meaningless. Maybe that's why we won't see aliens. There is no need to travel or be there in physical form.

I don't even think you need to gamble if you live in a make-belief world where you can have it any way you want. To experience things you have never before? travel? Send a probe with sophisticated quantum mechanical connections (my Sci-Fi solution for "unlimited distance - instant communication." Hardwired into your brain, and presto. Or worse, your brain is inside the mainframe. You could feel like you are there. The drone can accelerate much faster, and when it gets destroyed.. send another one. Send 2 at once. Lay down and connect. (if you have a body)
The more I think about the future, technology, and progress, the more it looks like humanity needs to have an ascendancy kind of thing.

or... technological progress is not possible... we are in the everlasting cycle of peace and war. what do you think will happen, and on what timescale?

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