How will dealers sell in 60 years from now?

I am writing a sci fi thriller with the main character being a drug dealer. I am trying to get information on how buying and selling drugs work at the present time however since the story will be based in the future I am trying to imagine what people will use for anonymity. Any ideas on what technological advancements will be around in 60 years that would help dealers and buyers to be more anonymous? I apologize for my earlier post on Becoming a Vendor. This could be seen as being misleading but this seems like one of the best places to do research on the topic.


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[79 Points] None:

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[28 Points] thenine9:

on Silk Road 62


[12 Points] pinkprincess1:

There will be some type of star trek style machine where they will beam them to you....'beam me up some meth scottie' . You get the idea.


[9 Points] Moonpiles:

Dealers put their drugs into bullets that can track a certain signal. They fire them through an electromagnetic mortar that seeks cellphone signals. The mortar shoots the drugs as soon as a customers credit card info is accepted. The drug dealer then pilots the drugs directly to the roof of their customers building, voila! Maybe your drug dealer guy is testing this method out, and he accidentally kills a woman with a pound of coke.


[12 Points] obsidianchao:

People are still gonna be slingin' by hand... it's been done for hundreds of years. As far as online, though, I think drone systems will begin to get use, like the one Amazon is developing. That'd be awesome. Drug drones.


[5 Points] sharpshooter789:

Maybe most drugs will be legal in ~60 years or maybe we will be cyborgs and drugs will be useless.

60 years is a very long time especially now when technology is evolving exponentially. Just look how much different things are today than they were just 10 years ago. We didn't have smart phones or social media ( well MySpace ). Didn't have hidden services or bitcoins either. That said, people still did trade drugs on the internet 10 years ago. It just wasn't nearly as common as it is today. Hell it was actually pretty easy to get decent priced PKs online in those days.


[6 Points] None:

In sixty years we'll be printing our own pharmaceuticals on a 3d printer.


[5 Points] slowcookin:

I believe the elimination of paper/coin currency in the future is going to effect the market. I'm guessing this will lead to most transactions having to be complete through internet currency it strange to think about the drug market without real cash being transacted this also coming from someone who has yet to actually use the internet for buying goodies.


[6 Points] galaxyandspace:

I don't think anyone can really say...

Who knows what drugs will be legal in the future? What sort of delivery tech will be invented by then? Drones? Large pneumatic networks? Or things we can't predict? 60 years is a long time.

As we move towards a less anonymous society, some point, we will all say enough is enough. Our government is too invasive. And shit will go down.

Then again, everything future wise is speculation.


[4 Points] OilyButt:

A guy will walk to the local convenience store and say "Hey, I'll take a Belmont Kingsize, and a gram of 'insert drug here'."


[3 Points] 13tom13:

regulated, branded, legal pharmaceutical. Organic materials may still have real dark markets for example some people may grow weed for a group of friends but mostly the regulation legalization and all that will stop that unless its for another reason like going after connesseur quality


[3 Points] I_Slay_Puss_666:

3D printers. make your own. fuck the police.


[2 Points] idefiler6:

Fucking hoverbike messengers. I heard about empty pipes.


[2 Points] TheTreeShop:

Your character should be selling something more like an app, predicated on an interface that everyone has into their brain; your guys app is contraband.

Either that or he's getting robots really fucked up.


[2 Points] codysexton:

personal automated/ai quadrocopters were something I was looking into. I would say larger scale AI robots or something but that wouldn't have the anonymity or disposability of a 50$ device that could easily separate the buyer from the seller and travel the needed distances without arising suspicion


[1 Points] awesometacos900:

I think the first question you should ask is, what drugs will be around and popular in 60 years. Will have a lot to do with how they are peddled.


[1 Points] dnm_ash:

in 60 years you'll probably have to get a hacked rom for a replicator ala star trek that will make whatever you want as long as it is "allowed".


[1 Points] drkbrns:

Layer Cake offers the best explaination


[1 Points] chapparelli:

they'll be dealing with unemployment because it'll be regulated, taxed, and drugs will be available over the counter. better make it a compilation of short stories, or how about a mysterious pharmacologist at the cutting edge of recreational drug r&d played by nick cage becomes embroiled in an extraordinary series of events that lead him to question his use of facial expression when taking super mdma lsd and crack. you like that? i got more...


[1 Points] PopeZen:

I would predict drugs of all types will be administered via some type of biomimetic implant and made available for immediate download.

In essence, we will have a small implant in the body capable of interpreting complex biological information and either replicating the desired drug for delivery or again, downloading/porting with the drugs and directly administering it.

So, if you have high blood pressure, you interface with your implant, and have it administer the meds directly to your system.

They are already working on "smart pills" and "remote doctors" which can provide a basic overview of health issues. There might be a system in place where you log on to Internet v4.0, and are immediately evaluated by a virtual doctor who directs your implant to administer the correct dose.

Similarly, if you want to experience an opiate high, you just download the correct amount and off you go. Hopefully, as someone else posted, prohibition will have ended by then and this will be something people can do freely. But if not, I'm sure there will be a virtual DarkNet where people can log in and download their cocaine or MDMA high.

Of course, we'll probably have to a bunch of holomessages posted to this board saying things like, "Is Virtual SilkRoad down for everyone or just me?".


[1 Points] Red_Skare:

Yeast, they will use cultures to grow the active component in any drug you want


[-1 Points] None:

On silkroad 47


[-1 Points] TheGardenSnake:

Teleportation