Which of your favorite sci-fi tech seems achievable in a reasonable timeframe, say 100 years?
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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.
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The Oscilation Overthruster.
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Robocop Bell Riots suppression?
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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.
No
What we need is more bicycle roads, pedestrian walk ways and public transportation
Suffice to say that 1 bus is safer than 30 cars but it also generates a shit tonne less pollution, but also keep in mind that the vast majority of car rides are short distance, even in the US
In the Netherlands they changed everything to prefer bicycles and walking and it's noticable. It changed architecture. It's why in the Netherlands there are broad loads of small super markets. Wherever you are within a town you'll have a super market at walking distance
Many people there don't have a car, not because they can't afford it but because they don't want one. Cars are expensive, cumbersome, dangerous, and ugly. You won't see depressing towns there that are 70% concrete roads or parking lots. It's all beautiful because they got rid of all that, it isn't needed.
In before anyone starts about how this can't be done in the US: it can, and quite easily. Pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure costs a fraction of car infrastructure, it's easier and faster to build, no parking lots required, you can now make that a store and get taxes from it, it'll make your cities richer. People get more exercise, they'll be healthier and happier, there are no downsides. Inclines near mountainous areas? Electrical bikes to the rescue.
Please please do NOT push this car stuff, especially flying car stuff. It's not needed, it's a waste, it's polluting even when electric, and we have flying cars, they're called planes and there is a reason why pilots need to learn and train a LOT more than car drivers.
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No
What we need is more bicycle roads, pedestrian walk ways and public transportation
Suffice to say that 1 bus is safer than 30 cars but it also generates a shit tonne less pollution, but also keep in mind that the vast majority of car rides are short distance, even in the US
In the Netherlands they changed everything to prefer bicycles and walking and it's noticable. It changed architecture. It's why in the Netherlands there are broad loads of small super markets. Wherever you are within a town you'll have a super market at walking distance
Many people there don't have a car, not because they can't afford it but because they don't want one. Cars are expensive, cumbersome, dangerous, and ugly. You won't see depressing towns there that are 70% concrete roads or parking lots. It's all beautiful because they got rid of all that, it isn't needed.
In before anyone starts about how this can't be done in the US: it can, and quite easily. Pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure costs a fraction of car infrastructure, it's easier and faster to build, no parking lots required, you can now make that a store and get taxes from it, it'll make your cities richer. People get more exercise, they'll be healthier and happier, there are no downsides. Inclines near mountainous areas? Electrical bikes to the rescue.
Please please do NOT push this car stuff, especially flying car stuff. It's not needed, it's a waste, it's polluting even when electric, and we have flying cars, they're called planes and there is a reason why pilots need to learn and train a LOT more than car drivers.
Sure. I agree with all of that. But I live in a suburban sprawl of a US city that is just dense enough to have lots of cars, but nowhere near dense enough to have decent public transportation...unless we as a society decided to bulldoze this entire vast suburban landscape and start over with density as a goal. It's hot here too. Nobody is riding their bike 12 miles to work in 95⁰ weather (35⁰ for our metric homies).
Maybe within the next few years the Netherlands will let me and my family in as refugees so I can bike everywhere on a 72⁰ summer day.
But I like where your head's at. Hopefully you're young and can make a difference.
