we need teleportation frankly
Growing donor organs from patient’s own cells. So many people die because their bodies reject the transplants.
Bionics. In the show, The Expanse there’s a scene where a guy who had his arm cut off in a space accident is trying to get his company to not cheap out and to pay for a bionic arm replacement instead of regrowing him a new arm. The bionic arm being greatly more superior than a normal arm.
Lately, robotics and prostheses are becoming so advanced I can see this as happening to where people will eventually want artificial designer parts over their own.
We had quite the discussion at work about this very scene (I am loosely related to OSHA stuff), at some point people might think of deliberately having work “accidents” so the employer has to pay for superior replacement parts. And then have an advantage on the job market because of this. Same could go for sports.
I guess technologically, we are very close, but might need to work on the whole ethics part a bit more?
Having said that, I would not mind some advanced Kiroshis to replace my screwed up eyeballs.
Really doubt that. If nothing else it is going to mess with the bedroom. Sorry not sorry I want to feel their arm not a stainless steel.
This assumption is made based off of current prosthetics. What if future prosthetics are near-nonidentifiable from real ones? Maybe we’re even about to get our real skin to grow over the outside.
Yeah and if wishes were horses them beggars would ride.
The fuck are you doing in this thread? Did you not read the post title
This might be in the books but I remember iy being because it’s the Belter way to have a bionic arm. Regrowing is what Inners would do.
Actually that makes a lot of sense in context of that scene, considering all the genetic struggles belters have to deal with growing up in low G.
Fusion generator reactors are getting closer and closer with each breakthrough. Countries are routinely putting big money behind these projects, and it’s conceivable that we see this within our lifetime.
Experiments were recently successful in freezing a rat kidney, thawing it out after 100 days, and surgically re-implanting it. It worked. This breakthrough could be the thing needed to allow for human hibernation aboard long term spaceflights. (Powered by cold fusion, naturally)
Quantum computing is very interesting, and could be a gateway-breakthrough that leads to all sorts of miraculous inventions. The ability of a super computer to precisely model interactions between molecules and protein folding, reliably allowing for the continued improvement to, literally, every drug we use today.
CRISPR, Genetic screenings, and the ability to regrow autologous transplants from host tissue is fascinating. Having to donate organs may become a thing of the past.
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Flying cars. We have the tech already.
Yeah, they’re called helicopters and we rightfully regulate the shit out of them because flying without proper certifications and inspections is extremely dangerous for the public. Because when one idiot crashes, it won’t only be him going out, but he will cause destruction and carnage on the ground.
Star trek teleportation is a suicide booth, but wormholes can do the same thing. Just bend space to bring two points together, step through the hole and unbend. Teleportation without disassembly.
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Universal translator. Google buds basically do this already.
You might be interested in the pop-sci book Soonish: ten emerging technologies that’ll improve and/or ruin everything. I haven’t read it myself, but I’ve read the authors’ other book about space colonization, and it was excellent so I would expect this one to be as well.
Ah that’s Zach Weinersmith the author of SMBC, it has to be excellent. Haven’t read it but will put it on my list now
- Big uptick in the amount of human activity in space — tech there already, economy starting to manifest it. Like 10,000 humans in space at any given time, then 100,000, then 1,000,000, and so on
- If we can get a slightly lighter solar sail material, that’s the last missing tech piece needed to send probes to Alpha Centauri. We’d need massive laser arrays so tech alone would precede economic manifestation by a while. Human laser-accelerated probes can reach 0.3 c, and arrive at the star in about 15 years. The probe’s design is the size of a thumb drive
- AI is obviously making big strides
- honestly my thumbs are cramping up, but there’s lots more. drone-v-drone warfare, all semi-autonomous
- Growing perfect genetic match organs to implant
- mRNA delivered by microplasmids is incredible. There are easily a million life-enhancing distinct uses of it that involve temporarily building any protein we want in a patient’s cells, endogenously, with controlled expression. That is crazy powerful technology
- Fusion power’s like almost there. I think we’re at the “now scale it” phase
- Bombarding Earth by hurling containers full of rocks out of railgun launch tubes on the moon
- Sex robots
- Translating to and from animal languages
- Cloning, which has existed for decades now, is somehow totally invisible to media attention. Like, in the time since Dolly the sheep was in the headlines, someone could have theoretically produced an actual army of human clones and have them hidden somewhere
- Telepathy via neural implants
That’s some of the sci fi stuff we either have now and just are too harried and exhausted to contemplate, or that we’re just on the verge of creating.
Breadlines except for meal replacement drinks. We have meal replacement drinks we have breadlines. Eventually this will make sense.
I hope so, because you’re not making sense. Could you rephrase?
There are plenty of parts of the world where governments/aid groups have to distribute food. Most of it is staples like bread and rice. We also have these protein drink things now that brag they can replace any meal. At some point the cost of those drinks will fall to making it worth giving out meal replacement drinks to people instead of bags of rice.
I’m not sure any of those are full diet replacements though. They serve as a good breakfast or lunch, but I don’t think it’s recommended you replace all meals with them. At least not in more ideal circumstances.
We’re hardly in ideal circumstances. Now, some of these meal replacements are true, well-rounded meal replacements that are full of nutrients. Huel comes to mind.
Thank you, I had no clue what breadline meant, this clears up everything.
Yes, but where will the protein come from? My guess is bugs. It’s already a staple of the Cyberpunk franchise both videogame and tabletop, where most of the world eats something called scop, or single celled organic protein. A megacorp called All Foods produces a beef substitute made from genetically modified flatworms called EEZYBEEF. Or how’d you like a pizza with vegan cheese and pepperoni made from locusts?
…will? The powders exist now, and they’re…not bugs…they’re plant based mostly.
Yeah but with climate change affecting the world so drastically, how much soil is going to be suitable for plant growth?
I imagine soybeans.
How often does this happen?
Soybean based protein drinks? Umm fairly often, I had one yesterday.
A bread line, but with a nutritious drink provided. Pretty clear?
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AGI lead government that is written like a constitution and bill of rights. The infinite persistence factor without human needs or motivations is a major improvement over anything that has ever existed.
Asimov wrote a story about super machines that governed the world out of environmental collapse and human extinction.
Do you remember the name of the story?
After looking through a bunch of synopses of Asimov’s stuff, I wonder if it might be this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Troubles_of_the_World?useskin=vector
It’s one of the Multivac stories, can’t remember which one though.
The idea of AGI lead government sounds quite interesting. However, there are many concerns that would need to be addressed and prevented in the structuring of such a system. Safeguards of physical assets, hardware, and software entry points. Does the AGI have any access to the internet or networks of any kind? How do we interact with such a system by state/providence? What do you do when bad actors get a hold of it or are feeding it incorrect information?
AGI is orders of magnitude more advanced than what we currently have available. It is a self aware system. Most of the issues must be addressed internally, but ultimately it is self regulating in every respect. There would be redundancy, and an element of design trust built in. It would not be corruptible like humans where we must be skeptical of our governments. In some respects, it is the hacker, it is the internet, and it is Orwellian in scope, but it is not authoritarian, or ideological. It would be direct and openly available for everyone to consult at any time. It would be capable of explaining anything in easily understood language according to the capabilities of the end user. The primary way it shapes policy and changes for the betterment of the majority is through rewards and amenable compromise. Ultimately, I think this is the only way to manage a real post scarcity society.
Honestly I would vote for chatgpt now if it ran. It can’t be any worse.
Self-annihilation by greedy religious lunatics.
If it makes you feel any better, I can assure you the people behind the control of the nukes are only just greedy lunatics.
Clarke’s 3001 had a whole post script about all the sci-fi elements that had actually been realised since he wrote 2001 (back in 1968). It’s rather an interesting list, but unfortunately my copy of the book is buried deep in a moving box atm. so I’m not going to quote it.
…not teleportation.
Space colonization , I could see a colony on the moon being feasible in the next 20 years probably more akin to an oil field where it’s mainly people extracting minerals and not recreational.
There’s not much value to mine from the moon. Even if there was, It would cost way too much to transport to be worth mining for.
However, it is likely that a small moon base could replace the ISS in the next couple decades.
Brain Machine Interface
Hopefully not from Elon Musk but he might well get there first
I’m good on things tied into the brain. Now things tied near the brain like sub vocalisation or little eye twitches or even somehow passive brain wave scans or something maybe. But actual hardware tied into my brain I’m gonna take a pass on.
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