Which of your favorite sci-fi tech seems achievable in a reasonable timeframe, say 100 years?
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borg nanoprobes, or replicator nanites of sg1 and sga.
Pre-progammed viruses to set in motion whatever changes you want in the body.
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The only one I heard news about breaking even was that thing that shot a lot of lasers to a pellet. For a fraction of a second It broke even or produced slightly more than they poured in, but it was much less of what they spent.
There's been something else new?
I saw a talk on the subject about a year back. It was discussing tokamak reactors, from an engineer working on them. The small ones can't sustain a break even state, but they are affected by the inverse square law to a larger degree. I believe China is about to start/has started construction on a power station sized test reactor.
The pellet sort are a different type. They have different pros and cons.
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We currently carry tricorders in our pockets. I can see a medical tricorder being ubiquitous for field medics, ships, and the like within 100 years.
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Vaccines. Maybe in 100 years we'll even be able to eliminate measles...again.
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Ai and eeg can read brain waves generate images already kinda decent, maybe meet the robinsons memory viewer machine.
Can we get a dream recorder, please?!
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Asteroid mining. We've had the tech to get people to the asterodi for decades, just lack the will to do it.
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Underwater cities
With climate change and coastal flooding, it's coming, just not in the form you're thinking of.
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Artificial stem cells seem like the next thing to really revolutionize medicine.
Quantum computers for brute force hacks seems doable in 100.
Eye tracking pointer devices will likely be more convenient than mice within a dozen or two years. This will probably be widely available for people who are paralyzed first.
Diamond processors are always 10 years away, but I think we can do it in 100. This would revolutionize the amount of power we can put through a chip without worrying about cooling.
Quick charge capacitor replacements for standard rechargble batteries
Low yield fusion plants. I'd like to think of them as capable of high yield, but it's much harder than initially thought. Some ideas are quite promising for low yield.
The eye tracking stuff exists already. There are medical device companies that build and sell these things.
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Tricorders, cellphones are already partway there they just need more durable, small sensors like a handheld light spectrometer to tell what things are made of and a handheld interferometer to detect gravity
I can detect gravity without a device:
Jump off a roof. If you hit the ground, you've detected gravity.
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Suicide Machines on Street Corners.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]They already have them that you can carry in your pocket.
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Railguns, there already exist prototypes that destroy themselves. So close!
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I can detect gravity without a device:
Jump off a roof. If you hit the ground, you've detected gravity.
You could just raise your arm and let it loose...
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Can we get a dream recorder, please?!
I feel like wed learn everyone has cool dreams and pivot back to skill being a thing over just imaginstion and prompts lol
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This you?
I'm familiar with quantum entanglement. It doesn't work because you have no way of affecting which state you'll measure, and thus what state the other particle will be in.
That's exactly the part they DID get working.
No, they did not. Someone finding away to choose the state a wave function collapses into would break quantum physics at a fundamental level. It would literally be the biggest upset in science in human history.
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Railguns, there already exist prototypes that destroy themselves. So close!
I thought we already had rail guns on ships?
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I suspect we will see a human brain to digital interface. I don't think it will be "downloading minds" or anything, but I could see someone finding a way to plug a specialized camera or mic in to have a full functioning robotic replacement part.
I'm pretty sure they already have the beginning pieces to this, but its too specialized and expensive to do anything commercial with it yet.
This is so terrifying to me. I feel like it'll end up like the Black Mirror episode with the subscription model, getting more and more expensive with fewer features.
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With climate change and coastal flooding, it's coming, just not in the form you're thinking of.
You're implying venice ?
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They already have them that you can carry in your pocket.
Yeah but they make such a mess.
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living in a self-sustaining ecological-aware community that values freedom and diversity and everyone having their needs met
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Asteroid mining. We've had the tech to get people to the asterodi for decades, just lack the will to do it.
Okay I've had this astroid mining concept dining around my empty skull for a while now. The way I see it is that going up to space and mining an astroid for minerals and then bringing them back down to earth will never be a worthwhile endeavour. If you're mining them in space and using the material manufacturing in space then that seems more plausible. The only way I can think of planetary based astroid mining being worthwhile is if instead of mining the rock and sending it down in crafts, you just bump the astroid so it's on a collision course with earth and then mine whatever is left from impact. In anycase, I'd say we are far off being able to mine asteroids since imo, the only worthwhile way to do it is by having the entire process in space. And we're not even close to that level of infrastructure existing in space.
