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Dec 5th, 2024 at 11:27am
 
Let's balance out the other thread if anyone is in the mood for talking.

What upcoming changes in technology do you see being huge potential positives in the future?

For me, I want to go right to the heart of the matter and get fusion going. Fusion seems to be becoming more and more likely as we continue. If we could find some type of battery that was less harmful to the environment in it's collection and use than lithium, suddenly fusion + electric vehicles make the world's pollution problem a thing of the past.

Bioengineering may be another. I saw a post yesterday how through bioengineering scientists could make trees that glow in the dark and these trees could then be planted in cities to give more light naturally without the use of wires and power plants. Sounds like science fiction but the science to back it up seems to be there. Who knows.

The article also had an artists rendering of the idea and all I can say is yes. Looks amazing.
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Reply #1 - Dec 5th, 2024 at 8:21pm
 
I'm pretty worried about the future with all this new tech coming. I hate bioengineering especially.

But since this is supposed to be a positive thread, I guess I can say I'm looking forward to some new video games coming out soon.
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Reply #2 - Dec 5th, 2024 at 11:22pm
 
Yfir wrote on Dec 5th, 2024 at 8:21pm:
I'm pretty worried about the future with all this new tech coming. I hate bioengineering especially.

But since this is supposed to be a positive thread, I guess I can say I'm looking forward to some new video games coming out soon.



As with all technology it can be used for good or evil. I share your concerns. Especially about the unforseen consequences of bioengineering. Definitely get it. But yeah as you said this is perhaps naively focusing on just the positive. Its a good balance to the other thread although StaffSlingers latest post over there was about as hopeful as anything we are likely to see in this thread.
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Reply #3 - Dec 12th, 2024 at 8:04am
 
Sorry.  I know this is supposed to be an optimistic thread.  My grandmother used to say "It's good we don't live forever, Gary.  There are things I don't want to see."   I probably won't live to see the worst  of it but The Great Culling is inevitable.  An infinitely expanding human population consuming finite resources can only have one conclusion.  Again, sorry.
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Reply #4 - Dec 12th, 2024 at 9:03am
 
Yeah brother. Totally... Well, anyways about to go take a bath with my new toaster. See ya guys.  Grin
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Reply #5 - Dec 12th, 2024 at 10:11am
 
Morphy wrote on Dec 12th, 2024 at 9:03am:
Well, anyways about to go take a bath with my new toaster.

It's not very clever. You'll ruin the toaster.   Sad
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Reply #6 - Dec 13th, 2024 at 7:55pm
 
Well Nikola tesla put it well
You will live to see manmade horrors beyond your comprehension


That being said machining and stuff is improving
Like wire edm machining working in insanely low tolerances
I'm personally a fan of tungsten carbide
I'm also interested to see breakthroughs in super alloys and such for super durable tools
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Reply #7 - Dec 14th, 2024 at 4:19pm
 
TOMBELAINE wrote on Dec 12th, 2024 at 10:11am:
Morphy wrote on Dec 12th, 2024 at 9:03am:
Well, anyways about to go take a bath with my new toaster.

It's not very clever. You'll ruin the toaster.   Sad


Tombelaine let it never be said of you that you are not a man of great compassion. The fact that you are compassionate towards my toaster is a little concerning.

But don't worry my friend. I decided to forgo my early demise and instead used it to make a bagel.
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Reply #8 - Dec 14th, 2024 at 4:36pm
 
Ok so one more question for you fine people:

This thread is sort of like an interesting social experiment. Even in a thread devoted to hope we seem to find the negative. And I'm as guilty as anyone. Anyone who knows me knows I usually, right or wrong, will have an answer for you before you finish the question. But this thread was my own question and I *struggled* to find something hopeful lol.

Why is that? Specficially is that human nature or is it a subconscious acknowledgment of how crazy the world is at the moment. And for those of you afflicted with terminal positivity may I remind you we have an army of unidentified drones flying over America at the moment while the world creeps ever closer to what really looks like the opposing sides of a world war.
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Reply #9 - Dec 14th, 2024 at 6:39pm
 
I'd say it's mainly the world's situation which makes things look grim. Of course, people probably would have been despairing for the future in history too, but it's only gotten worse and less predictable.
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Reply #10 - Dec 19th, 2024 at 3:59am
 
Yfir wrote on Dec 14th, 2024 at 6:39pm:
I'd say it's mainly the world's situation which makes things look grim. Of course, people probably would have been despairing for the future in history too, but it's only gotten worse and less predictable.


I agree. If nothing else the world seems to be becoming more chaotic at a faster rate.
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Reply #11 - Dec 19th, 2024 at 5:13am
 
How do you know the world is becoming more chaotic at a faster rate ?

What has actually changed in your life.

Yes, I know but you actually have a choice to remove most of those things from your life.

Especially "the media' -  use it more selectively and suddenly, your world changes.
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Reply #12 - Dec 19th, 2024 at 9:35am
 
Case in point Zud. Yesterday for the first time ever I tried a Big Mac.

Not only was it not big, I'm not even sure what I ate had any meat in it. Certainly it had the vague pretext of meat, but no 4 legged mammal produces a patty looking like what I saw.

Now... I will admit, being a man who to my shame has done more than my fair share of illicit substances in a previous life, I did sit and ponder it for awhile. "What am I eating?, I pondered ponderously.

And do you know what I came up with? "No idea, screw it, I'm just going to shove it down my gullet like a starving seagull at an unmanned hotdog stand and see what happens."

To be honest with you................I have no point to any of this. You asked a serious question to a man entirely incapable of giving a serious answer. So this whole debacle of a reply is kind of on you as much as it is on me.

You should know better by now Zud. But I forgive you for forcing me to give such a ludicrous reply.
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Reply #13 - Dec 19th, 2024 at 11:44pm
 
xud9a - call me zud 👍 wrote on Dec 19th, 2024 at 5:13am:
How do you know the world is becoming more chaotic at a faster rate ?


One of the answers to that questions is:

xud9a - call me zud 👍 wrote on Dec 19th, 2024 at 5:13am:
Especially "the media' -  use it more selectively and suddenly, your world changes.

Emphasis on 'your world changes'.


The world is more chaotic because people are able to access information more quickly and easily than ever before.  That could be a good thing.  But the majority of information floating about out there is garbage.  Even if someone is looking for information and their intentions are good (or pure, or legitimate, or innocent), it can be difficult to find accurate and unbiased information on any topic.  One of the problems is the the bulk of the information providers don't put correctness at a high priority (if any priority at all).  They only care that you keep watching, clicking, and scrolling through what they're feeding you.
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Reply #14 - Dec 20th, 2024 at 7:32am
 
joe_meadmaker wrote on Dec 19th, 2024 at 11:44pm:
One of the problems is the the bulk of the information providers don't put correctness at a high priority (if any priority at all).  They only care that you keep watching, clicking, and scrolling through what they're feeding you


But you live in what world in the USA ? Sorry but I am surprised ! True information is one of the pillars of democracy !
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