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I'd like to see fusion power (or some other good power source) become a thing. It'd be nice to live in a society where energy usage was basically safe and free.
If we're being unrealistic, easy access to ftl spacecraft for everyone would be nice. Exploring the galaxy sounds fun.
The last time I checked fusion was ..check notes.. just about fifty years away.
For the last 40 years it's been down to 20 years away.
Well, that was mostly right— until we actually built one. Now we’ve built 3 fusion reactors. It’s no longer theoretical.
Now comes the phase of overcoming certain limitations wrt scaling up the tech to make commercially-viable reactors, and estimating that at about another 15-20 years (considering the rapid advances of the last few years) isn’t unrealistic.
Before it was a question of, “can we even do this?” We’re finally past that milestone. Now it just a matter of the very achievable goal of scaling up the reactors. The timeline for that is much more predictable.
Those scaling issues have always been the issues. We've had working reactors for over 65 years.
"The first experiment to achieve controlled thermonuclear fusion was accomplished using Scylla at LANL in 1958."
And don't think that the NIF ignition results are the kind of breakthrough that headlines make it out to be - that project is weapons research, and is not designed to produce power, nor is it anywhere close to doing so when the power to the lasers is measured and not just what the pellet absorbs.
However, what's new in the last few years is commercial investment in fusion, and I do think that it will make the difference that the last 65 years haven't. Maybe even in the next 20 years™
Cure for cancer
The problem is that there is not one cancer. But a myriad of cancers. That is the actual problem.
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Net zero carbon emissions worldwide
He said "technological" advancement, not "political". I think the greed and slow politics is what is holding us back here, not technology.
Evidence of life elsewhere in the universe. It would be so cool. I just hope its far enough we cant get there and fuck everything up for them (or that they cant do the same to us)
Perhaps we call them and it takes 400 years for them to get here and fuck things up.
Lab-grown meat that is both indistinguishable from animal-grown and is cheaper. Bonus points if they can make bacon have 100% of our daily vitamins and minerals.
Sustained fusion
Sustained net positiv fusion.
It's plausible that we'll see it in our lifetime.
Sending someone to mars and keeping an eye on how he lives his life and survives.
Would feel like a survival game let's play.
Sending someone to mars
...and it should be Elon himself.
Pretty please.
Naw, just send him out for a French haircut here. Much cheaper. Reserve space missions for people who are actually respectable.
Flexible, plug-n-play solar energy capture methods with more versatile applications than inside aluminum frames glued to huge hunks of glass.
Like, a paint. I could just paint the south side of my house with the stuff and it handles my electricity demand.
Room temperature superconductors. Not for any of the particular uses per se, but just because the world would go nuts and it would be interesting to see.
Defeating aging.
Read the book Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey...
Limitless Peace
Me too bro
Fusion reactors that produce all the (electrical) power we need.
This is the big one. With infinite energy you can basically do matter transmutation and end most forms of commodity scarcity.
That god is a chemically sustained illusion, and the dismantling of religion.
I want to see wide-spread adoption of organ transplants using decellularization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decellularization
A 3d printer in every home and a larger one in each neighbourhood. Design our own stuff instead of buying garbage that falls apart.
A self-hosted AI, which isn't controlled by any bigtech company, would be pretty sweet.
The end of surveillance capitalism.
Hyper compact batteries, that would change everything overnight
I want robot body parts.
I want to live forever, or at least until I get lazy and flash some shady firmware to my robotic heart...
Alzheimer/Dementia cure. That would be so nice.
Large scale terraforming. We're gonna need it here on Earth if we don't get climate change under control... and we're not gonna get climate change under control the easy way cuz it's not profitable.
But if we do get a hold on planet-scale, controlled climate manipulation here, that'll give us a gold mine of data for extraterrestrial use.
We're gonna need it here on Earth
But we are way too stupid for it.
Immortality or at least a usefully extended lifespan
So much I want to do!
-Discovering extraterrestrial life
-Phasing out of disposable plastics and gasoline vehicles
-Transferring to clean energy and clean industrial processes whenever applicable
-More widespread ethical and sustainable farming practices
-Lab grown organs and/or more efficient artificial body parts
-Improved healthcare system/healthcare research
-Better treatments and potentially cures for chronic and/or rare diseases
-Much longer lifespans ~~I just think we don't live long enough even with the current best case scenerios lol~~
Though some of this would be viable now, if it weren't for capitalism/politics holding it back so might not entirely count
Fully augmented reality. Travel anywhere you can read the signs, and understand the language through subtitles and or earbuds.
Non-fixed precision robotics. Basically give a pair of robot arms a piece of wood and a dremel and it can make whatever shape, but for any tool/material.
A decentralized currency that is actually useful as currency.
A rental car that picks me up at the airport, and that I can just abandon when I’m done. I don’t mind driving I just don’t want to bother with the shuttles and parking.
Food delivery drones owned by the restaurant.
Cellular data everywhere (like starlink is working on). Ability to order an air drop of like 10 kg of food/supplies anywhere within ~200 miles of a city.
Some sort of bacta tank-like device that can treat all known diseases, illnesses, conditions, etc.
I want a bigger penis.
First colony in space.
we've all got a finite time and my dream is that mankind figures out how to spread throughout the stars.
a first colony is that step
I'll try to keep it somewhat realistic:
Cure for psoriasis.
Large improvement in public transport. Currently it's just getting worse, at least where I live, because everything is centered around cars. Thus public transport gets less funding, which results in lower quality and less people using it. Which results in more investments into car-centric infrastructure. You get the idea. The more shit it gets, the more shit it gets.
Bicycle lanes and sidewalks. Building large roads is seemingly no problem, but bike lanes and sidewalks? Nah. I could get to school on a bike, but the only way to get there would be by a dangerous busy road, so a bus it is. I am not worried about getting killed by a truck or BMW driver, I am however worried about serious permanent injuries which are probably more likely.
A technology advance species invades hearth peacefully and solves all our bad problems.
devils advocate: if the technology is not [..or quickly become] affordable. then sometimes, some of these hopes, are unrealistic.
