Flying Cars
I know many, many people want flying cars to be a real thing. But, what is always going to prevent us from having true flying cars is, look at how people normally are with the cars on the ground. Drunk driving is tenfold going to be worse with flying cars, people are going to totally fly their vehicles into buildings, for sure. I think the closest we’re going to get to flying cars, is the hover cars we see in Back to the Future II that are more ground level, but hover. Even then, I don’t know if we’re ever going to be ready for them.
True AI
What I mean with True AI is an AI that can actually be a little more sentient and living than what we got now. When AI first rolled out, it really put a damper on everyone in so many ways that I don’t think we’re ever going to see it. There’s just too much at stake to trust an AI with the capability to think on its own and do things on its own. We’re just going to be stuck with Semi-AI that only talk back to you in text form and maybe help you code. And that alone already has ruffled the feathers of millions who are hating AI which is another thing to consider.
In the United States, practically every advancement in medicine will be forbidden, as long as the current regime rules us.
Don’t worry, all the scientists moving to China will get back up to speed soon.
Affordable, effective, mass manufactured suicide devices.
I’m not saying that I personally want one right this minute, but society tends not to encourage making suicide easy.
The closest thing we have, in the US, is cheap handguns, and while these do get used a lot for suicide, but they’re not guaranteed death, and can lead to severe injury and disability instead.
You could argue that society doesn’t want its members to suicide because of economic, religious, or whatever reasons, but the outcome is the same:
Society doesn’t want you to suicide, in the face of personal emotional trauma, economic, or medical difficulties.
Watch me get downvoted for suggesting this.
Belgium and Switzerland are the only two countries where the process of medically assisted suicide is alarmingly simple.
flying cars do exist (they’re called helicopters) but they’re horribly expensive and energy-inefficient. that’s just due to a law of physics, not due to human society at all.
Also, planes. You can get a license to fly them and everything!
Cures to cancer, Complete transition to green enviormental friendly tech Products that are build to last and do well rather than quick throw away - my favorit was the glass from east germany that could not be destroyed
There wasn’t one, we’ll only restrict who gets to have it, how, when etc.
Flying cars would be the worst idea ever
Imagine drones flying all over the place,all the time. The noise, the visual pollution, the crashes where debris then falls down on other people
Now imagine these drones to be 2 tonnes
Flying cars are a bad idea because it’d cost hundreds of times as much for the fuel, and be ridiculously dangerous to drive. Drivers have a problem with the ~2 dimensions already. They are infeasible for at least another century.
They’d also need specialized takeoff and landing areas due to the amount of force it’d need to exert on the ground.
Legal easy access to high quality drugs. Too many people are unable to regulate their alcohol, let alone ket, mdma, speed, lsd, etc if it were sold under similar rules as booze.
Improved traffic infrastructure, particularly cycling. People would prefer to keep doing the wrong thing than change their habits.
If we found a way to make something like a truth serum, I can guarantee it’d be misused. I mean like a Divergent truth serum, which IIRC makes lying nearly impossible. Correct me if I’m wrong, though.
The elite would never take it and instead take a fake version that looks the exact same just so they can remain in control.
Trains in North America.
We had them at one point, built the nation with them, then so summarily decided that the automobile was better, that we built all of our infrastructure assuming that nobody would ever not want a car to go everywhere, making it doubly hard to convince people that public transit doesn’t have to suck.
The people didn’t decide, big oil did. They bribed politicians and destroyed their competition.
And the fruits of big oil’s labor are now ingrained within the fiber of American society. Go ask a few average Americans to give up their cars and let me know how it goes.
I live in a rural village that used to have a train stop. A train stop! Here! In the middle of nowhere. I think about it every day and it makes me angry.
Genuinely, adequate and extensive medical knowledge and technology for female bodies and people of color.
There is a colossal, glairing lack of medical knowledge and technology for female bodies and people of color. This is because of a millennium old issue of
- Patriarchy prioritizing the funding of medical research for men
- Racism excluding people of color from medical research, while downplaying the significance of their medical issues and their worth as people.
- Anti-science dipshits who oppose any and all sexual education among the masses and among experts because their magical sky fairy from an ancient text that’s been mistranslated century after century tells them vaginas are gross and evil.
Yeah! Vaginas are magical and delish! Magically delicious, if you will
Hard agree
This comments needs some downvotes.
How so?
And how should I trust your opinion since your account is 5 days old currently, as well as how your activity is that of a comment bot?
Troglodyte detected.
I know you are but what am I?
A self prophesying comment! You got your wish
Not true. It could be downvoted more. Needs more downvotes.
P. S. prophesizing*
I’ll grant it should be “a self fullfilling prophecy”.
But it never has a “z” in it.
That comes from incorrectly thinking it needs similar similar patterns to other verbs.
And this isn’t some “simplified English” Vs “English” scenario. It’s not even recognised as part of American English.I take pride in my English, so I mean it when I say thank you.
That said, seems we’re both wrong. I was wrong to correct you. You’re wrong in that “prophesize” is in fact a real word. “Prophesy” and “prophesize” mean the exact same thing. The former is the older classic spelling. The latter, while newer, seems to date back as far as the 19th century.
Please elaborate.
It’s largely bullshit. It has no relation to the post. And it’s clear that the commenter has a unrealistic view of the world.
I’d argue the “medical technology” makes it qualify, and that there is undeniable history of racial and gender inequality when it comes to ability to contribute to medical research, which may have resulted in similar disparity when it comes to handling medical issues (for example, mishandling of endometriosis).
You’d have to be extremely deluded to think society today or in the future is holding back the proper treatment of, and research of illnessnesses in, people of color and women.
Editing cause I don’t think what you said even makes sense.
That’s why I said “history”, the consequences of which are still felt today.
Sounds like you’re saying a lot of bullshit with nothing to back it up.
Hell, you’re not even able to refute my statement directly. You’re making vague gestures to falsehoods you can’t even explain. Fucking pathetic
suck my fucking dick 🖕
Oh no, I hurt its fragile fee fees.
Kinda extra embarrassing to be a snowflake online, compared to IRL which I’m sure you are. Pathetic.
Do explain why.
I’d love to read what bullshit you can vomit on here
True all you can eat buffets.
“I ask the jury if this looks like a man who had all he could eat”
We stayed out all night looking for all you can eat fish restaurants.
Bottomless Pete: Nature’s Cruelest Mistake.
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I am one of the current generative “AI” naysayers. It’s not society holding it back, it’s the fact we don’t know how to make true AI.
Now a classless system where everyone can be equal, that will never happen because of society.
Fair and true justice for all not just the rich will never exist because of society.
I don’t see any tech not existing just because of “society”. Even flying cars, it’s the fact they’re so inefficient and hard to make is why we don’t have them, otherwise we could automate them.
Classless system could happen, but not in modern society. A small commune could probably manage it.
Pre-birth DNA editing to ensure a healthy and ideal child.
Eugenics is awful. It’s horrible. There is no question and there’s a million historical and fictional deep dives one can do to objectively prove that it is against any form of morality you could possibly come up with.
But, improving the human experience, ensuring no one is born with a disability, ensuring that everyone has the best possible chance to enjoy and experience life would be amazing. If society could get its collective shit together we could in fact make sure that every person gets the best possible experience of our species. We could pretty much entirely eliminate childhood cancers. We could make super heroes (relative to unmodified humans). We could eliminate genetic defects that have plagued families and entire populations since pre-history.
Correct me if this is naive, but wouldn’t this potentially also reduce the diversity of the gene pool?
Maybe that’s the eugenics issue. Correcting genetic damage might be small and rare. On the other hand if everyone wants a blond blue eyed baby that will grow up to be a 6’2” Adonis, genius, super athlete, then yeah
Only superficially. It’s really hard to tell what percentage of our DNA is actually useful, or could be useful under conditions we haven’t seen, or is actually a part of any given variation. What we do know, of the number of DNA combinations we have seen if we play out each possible version of those variations there’s around 4^2000 variations. Or in other words If a billion people were born every day since the start of the universe, there would not be a single duplicate person. And this is the extreme low end estimate based on limited data sets that generally don’t even include people of every major region, much less interesting micro-populations that have been breeding in isolation for a thousand years or more.
Now lets assume we remove all causes of congenital blindness. Generally speaking the number of genes making up most identified causes are less than 20 total. That would (simplified, yell at me later math nerds) knock that number down to around 4^1995.
That would still be more viable combinations than we could possibly run through from now until the heat death of the universe, assuming current population growth rates which we’ll have until we invent birthing pods.
In other words we’ll probably be fine, but if we need to, and it’s allowed to be researched more, we could just simply artifically introduce safe variation. i.e. people giving birth to people they aren’t genetically related to anymore.
No. Why? We could literally introduce diversity into the gene pool in a controlled manner.
Who wants their kid to be the one that gets the random mutation injection?
Who said anything about random?
What if you need to be a little crazy to stand out? No one wants a boring a artist, uninspired actor, musician that sounds like all the other ones…
“Oops, we reinvented downs syndrome”
Not adding a full chromosome seems to be easily doable on the basis of our hypothetical situation where we can easily do gene editing.
Is it possible yet? We already have genetic screening which is actively used in many countries. IIRC downs syndrome rates are lower because of it being screened for now. But not everything can be screened for and we don’t fully understand all DNA yet.
If you could cure these things with an acceptably low risk of negative effects I am pretty sure people would be in favour of it. The research for that sounds difficult though.
We can do it to living people (Gene Therapy is just editing DNA using an inert virus to deliver the payload and modify gene expressions), and there is a very good chance CRISPR allows it for in utero cells.
If we had zero ethical boards, we’d be at the active experimentation stage to discover what each nucleotide pair precisely does which would involve growing humans directly.
That being said we are doing things that are close to it. For example look up the term organoid. Then Brain organoid. Then realize pretty much every university is growing unique but stunted human brains and experimenting on them; and then realize these organoids dream. Anyway that existential horror aside, this also extends to almost every organ in the human body. We’re essentially brute forcing gene expression discovery at the individual component level; if we were to scale that up to a full human (or get much, much faster computers so we could simulate it) we’d have the totality of DNA fully understood.
From there it’s trivial to combine our current tech that allows free form editing of DNA with exactly what we would need to change.
Suicide booths
I would not bet on that. For some countries retirement systems are collapsing, so that could be seen as viable solution for retirees that cannot sustain themselves…
It’s awfully sad that in modern times, retirement isn’t so much focused on living your final years in complete comfort and do what you want. The system has forced old individuals back to work again and we’re not guaranteed anymore if these safety nets will be there for us.
we’re not guaranteed anymore if these safety nets will be there for us
Well, at least in Germany it has been guaranteed that it won’t be there. It is great to pay for a system I will most likely get way less money from than what I put in.
We have those in NL. A few other European countries as well.
