Which of your favorite sci-fi tech seems achievable in a reasonable timeframe, say 100 years?
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I thought we already had rail guns on ships?
No. Well kinda.
The Ford class uses what is basically a rail gun to launch planes but big navy decided against continuing development on railguns as a weapon.
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Suicide Machines on Street Corners.
That'd be pretty expensive to run if you think anout it. And who'd do the cleanup?
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I'd really like to at least see humanity fully switch to clean energy in my lifetime but I'm losing hope.
I should already be able to take a self-driving flying taxi to work. I should already be able to vacation on the moon. We shouldn't be burning stuff to power all our modern tech.
I grew up on 80s/90s scifi. I hope humanity can get it's shit together and that the current anti-intellectualism phase we're in is just part of a larger cycle.
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Fast-refresh ePaper. I just want a laptop I can use outside, man!
They exist as monitors. In videos they kind of look like really early crappy LCD screens.
I'd just sit in the shade.
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That'd be pretty expensive to run if you think anout it. And who'd do the cleanup?
Blend them up and flush them into the sewage system.
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Sex robots!
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Most of the stuff in Jules Verne's books, even Paris in the Twentieth Century.
(Well, the moon gun would need to be a very long railgun, not a gunpowder cannon, if you want crewed capsules, but still.)
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living in a self-sustaining ecological-aware community that values freedom and diversity and everyone having their needs met
I saw something about a city in India being super eco-friendly. I'm not sure what was the name of the city, but it looks like they have a few.
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I'd really like to at least see humanity fully switch to clean energy in my lifetime but I'm losing hope.
I should already be able to take a self-driving flying taxi to work. I should already be able to vacation on the moon. We shouldn't be burning stuff to power all our modern tech.
I grew up on 80s/90s scifi. I hope humanity can get it's shit together and that the current anti-intellectualism phase we're in is just part of a larger cycle.
Flying taxis won't happen, way too many risks, even in the future, never mind the horrors of having your skies full of that crap.
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Exoskeletons like Ripley's in Alien. We've got smaller ones, but I want to pilot a walking fork lift.
Pipe dream - battlemechs aka mechwarrior (not pacific rim). Very impractical but I want one anyway. Yes, I saw the robot fighting league by Megabots. I have their poster.
I've seen prototypes of these that were very impressive since like a decade ago, so I'm fully expecting those to be here soon. Power supply usually is the biggest issue
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They just released a story about removing the gene that causes down syndrome. Pretty huge
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Flying taxis won't happen, way too many risks, even in the future, never mind the horrors of having your skies full of that crap.
We have auto-pilots for planes, those are mostly fine. People are the problem. I dont trust humans to operate motor vehicles in 2 dimensions, let alone 3...
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We have auto-pilots for planes, those are mostly fine. People are the problem. I dont trust humans to operate motor vehicles in 2 dimensions, let alone 3...
I don't think auto pilot works how you seem to think it does...
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I don't think auto pilot works how you seem to think it does...
Obviously I know how they work, I saw it in a documentary about Airplanes. The Otto pilot inflates at the press of a button (or is inflated manually) and they fly the plane.
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That'd be pretty expensive to run if you think anout it. And who'd do the cleanup?
The cleanup is part of it.
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I read that as Sucide Marines and was confused for a bit
The military mental health epidemic. That's the future I want.
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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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I think genetic engineering is the most high-potential tech right now. They're already using it to cure sickle cell, and my (total non-expert, probably way too hopeful) pipe dream is that we could basically treat it like we can open a terminal on the body some day and change whatever we want.
Edit: I just want to point out that I'm imagining curing cancer, reversing aging, etc. Not like, additional orifices or anything.
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We have auto-pilots for planes, those are mostly fine. People are the problem. I dont trust humans to operate motor vehicles in 2 dimensions, let alone 3...
To be fair, you have a 1 in 95 chance of dying in an automobile accident.
Based on modern safety standards for everything else, that's unacceptable.
If I offered you a job and said you have a 1 in 95 chance of dying from working this job, you would refuse. The most dangerous job in the USA is logging, with about a 1 in 1000 chance of dying. More lumberjacks die driving home than die working their extremely dangerous job.
Not only should we have self-driving flying taxis by now, but we should also at least have level 5 self-driving cars so people aren't constantly dying driving to get groceries or pick up their kids.
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I'm hoping we'll get a couple of big medical breakthroughs on nuerodegenerative diseases and cancer in the same way HIV is now much more manageable than it once was.
