For me it’s quantum computing - especially considering its impact on most current encryption methods
I tried the Meta Quest 2 and felt it was pretty awesome but I felt sick within minutes of using it.
So something like that without the sick would be revolutionary.
I feel that, my barf bro!
I always find stories about carbon emissions exciting. The reason why a Malthusian view of things hasn’t panned out in recent centuries is because of technology. I am always interested in if humans can find a breakthrough technology that basically does something with carbon emissions that could eventually be done on a scale to reduce climate change. Unlikely, but fun to imagine.
Here’s an example: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/01/240111113214.htm.
I believe I have also seen efforts to convert carbon emissions to hydrogen.
Stuff around making clean water from bad water sources is also pretty cool.
Nuclear power reactors built after the 1970’s. New generation (5?, 6?) for baseload. Mox, msr, lead moderated… Renewables can bicker over the transient loads while reactors provide the ‘always on, always needed’ bulk of power load.
Fuel reprocessing to close the loop would be the grail at this point.
Not sure if anyone here would say AI regardless of the title, but for me it would have to be nuclear fusion
Zero knowledge and multi-party computation, and technologies that allow, like TLS Notary and proof of email
Regrowing teeth
Good news, there’s a trial starting soon.
Although they can’t guarantee the number and location of teeth regrown.
Growing extra teeth
Cause why not right haha
lab meat will be the norm for future generations
honestly, just give me a sumptuous bean burger. I only eat kebabs because they’re cheap and available, not because I crave meat like a vampire
I crave meat like a vampire.
then you gotta problem there, bud
my teeth shake only if it’s there in front of me, otherwise I’m good
At that point, scientists might as well invent a way to produce concentrated nutrients.
Eat your pills Morty
How would that work? Surely one periodic table chemical couldn’t singlehandedly convert itself into all the nutrients the body needs.
You’re right, you can’t. You need some additional stuff. Plants takes both CO2 from the air but they also need for instance nitrogen from the ground. Now, of course 80% of air is nitrogen but it’s bound up in an extremely stable state that plants can’t really use. It takes too much energy to break the bond. If we could find some way to extract nitrogen cheaply from air though, it would be a real game changer.
Why not just eat the plants?
Well plants do other stuff than only produce food, so I guess the idea is that it might be possible to produce food more efficiently than a plant does, which isn’t that far-fetched.
So it’s not “don’t eat plants” as much as “look, we made this bacteria that can produce a vegetable-soup with slightly more calories per energy input than a carrot”.
Nature already did this. It’s called plants.
But then I want those drip-on perfect-emulation flavor drops from Shadowrun with my Nutrisoy!
more single use plastics and pesticides, personally
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EVTOL
3D printed homes
I used to be pretty excited about 3d printed homes, but an argument I’ve seen, that’s made me a lot more skeptical of them, is that much of the work of building isn’t putting up the actual walls, it’s all the wiring, plumbing, installing windows and climate control and insulation and roofing and whatever else like that that turns a building from essentially an artificial cave into a more livable space. A 3d printer that prints you walls out of concrete or whatever is only doing the easy part for you in that case, and not necessarily even in the most efficient or desirable manner. Not to say that the idea of more efficient ways to build housing cheaply isn’t interesting to me, I just think that it’d be something more boring, like a a bunch of improvement to modular prefab construction. 3d printing is an awesome technology, but it’s not a good option for everything
Aren’t there lego-like blocks one can use that allow for simultaneous cavity space and holes for wiring/plumbing and other infrastructure?
In my naive mind, it’s just a matter of being able to make a reliable brick set that one can snap together and then fill.
I agree, I used to work for a company that made mobile homes in a an assembly line fashion. Two of us could cut and assemble all of the interior and exterior walls in under two days for an 80 foot home. It’s all the other stuff that took time and a lot more people to piece together.
Unlocking any energy conversion techniques for gravitons (not virtual gravitons, but those associated with gravitational waves). If we could produce them artificially, it would be a whole new ball game.
whatever linux + rust + unified architecture chips is going to be in 10 years
COSMIC desktop environment.
Maybe not as spectacular as quantum computing or things like that, but personally I can’t wait for it.
Hey, Desktop environments can make or break. I remember when GNOME 4 first came out, before any improvements, and there was a lot of unhappiness.
Will be cool to see a Linux Desktop environment designed by a company like System76
Longevity research, it has really taken off in the last ten years, hopefully we’re on some cusp for multiple breakthrough in the next ten years.
Atomically Precise Manufacturing but it’s hard to find information about it.
personally, I have no desire to live longer than I’m intended to. living to that age with more vitality, however, that sounds great!
Well that’s the idea, repair the damage and be youthful instead of aging and becoming an old crippled person.
Anything decentralized and open source.
I’m really excited at the improvements made to gnome-mobile.
self hosted services that automatically and safely scale to global p2p services is about to happen
Any information about any of those things? I’m quite interested!
I’m the creator of a network protocol (and working implementation :-) that is based on self hosted nodes, that let’s you share/link to whatever data, say a html page, a video etc. Encrypted, overshared (so your node doesn’t need to be up for your data to be accessible), and decentralised. Based on reciprocal sharing so no money or luck involved.
I’m being bad at promoting it would be an understatement, I would love just contributing to all this obviously coming decentralised sharing.
Cheers
There has been a few attempts; zeronet and one from bittorent themselves that was dropped (I wonder what happened to that).
None of them have been used to create the killer app that has inspired the required network effect for mainstream usage. I guess finding the magic architecture that works and becomes sticky is the key. There are so many ways to do it!
What about FOSS decentralised webpages, would that pick your interest?
Very much
What do you think about tenfingers.org ?
Never heard of it and it seems shady
🥲 It’s my protocol I have been working on for years.
Mind telling why it feels shady?
Nuclear fusion. The Starship rockets. If they ever cure cancer.
