Which of your favorite sci-fi tech seems achievable in a reasonable timeframe, say 100 years?
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Where I grew up, there was a town that had been intentionally flooded to make a reservoir, or so my parents told me; they claimed that when the reservoir was low, you could see the top of the church steeple. At the time, I drove past the area nearly daily and would often survey the waters, but never found anything that was likely to be more than shadows or a trick of the eye. At the time, I had barely learned of climate change and so wasn't worried about it; I just liked the idea of a structurally intact, intentionally flooded city.
I just looked it up to make sure I was remembering the details correctly. It turns out that either I misremembered or my parents exaggerated. The town apparently existed and was flooded, but at the time of flooding consisted of foundations and one very tall flagpole. Apparently it's a common pastime of kayakers and the like to look for the top of the flagpole. This is probably what my parents were referring to.
Still pretty cool, though.
https://tnmuseum.org/junior-curators/posts/underwater-ghost-towns-of-tennessee
Apparently, back in the day the government decided that some places weren't worth saving, and the benefits of building dams and flooding the towns outweighed other considerations.
The movie 'Deliverance' has a plot about something like this happening.
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So the Flintstones was actually about the future?!
The Flintstones and Jetsons happened at the same time on the same planet.
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A lot of black mirror stuff.
Apologies for the blanket pessimism but the last decades darkened my view.
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Fast-refresh ePaper. I just want a laptop I can use outside, man!
Look up Daylight DC-1 might be what you are looking for
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Suicide Machines on Street Corners.
I read that as Sucide Marines and was confused for a bit
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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.
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Artificial wombs are something that's often presented as dystopian, but I would imagine would actually be a very good thing. Beyond the obvious help it would be to infertile couples that desired children, they would if commonly adopted eliminate the danger of birth and pregnancy complications, and discomfort associated with the process. Probably not everyone would want to use it, but I'd bet even having the option would mean a lot to a lot of people.
The real downside to artificial wombs is that we may rapidly become dependent on them. Half of pregnancies result in spontaneous abortion. With external gestation that assumedly wouldn't happen. That's a hell of a lot of evolutionary pressure which could have all kinds of consequences.
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I feel like the bottleneck will be with smooth continuous motions. It's very easy to move a cursor in that way with a mouse but you can't do that motion with your eyes unless you are looking at something else that's moving.
Fair. Check this out. The existing stuff is pretty cool
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Look up Daylight DC-1 might be what you are looking for
Oooohhh, thank you
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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
