Asklemmy

Addressing many common diseases such as cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, arthritis, PCOS, depression, anxiety, and ADHD. All of these are metabolic diseases that were rare in human populations around the world just 50 years ago.

Contrary to what the US's department of agriculture says (that we should eat mostly plants via the Food Pyramid/MyPlate) starting in the late '70s, it turns out that the human species has evolved over >2 million years to hunt animals. Of the three macronutrients (carbohydrates, proteins, and fats), we should be getting most of our calories from fats via fatty meats.

The growing popularity and success of ketogenic diets (especially the carnivore diet) in reversing many metabolic diseases once thought to be incurable and attributed to age is a sign that humans have finally rediscovered our species-appropriate diet.

In space sciences coming up are new manned Moon missions followed hopefully by some Mars missions. Also LISA is a huge interferometer that is planned to be deployed in orbit by ESA around 2035. Different size interferometers can measure different wavelengths of gravitational waves. LIGO (the interferometer observatory already in action measuring black hole collisions) has arms 4km long and can measure wavelengths in the range of 7Khz-30hz. LISA will have arms 2.5 million km long in orbit around the sun and is expected to be able to measure much much smaller waves.

I'll keep adding to this as I think of more.

Lemmy itself, hopefully. The Fediverse has the potential to take off because it's here and it can't really die.

3D printed construction could be huge if they can get it to actually work well. That's a big if, though.

Perovskite solar cells look like they're almost ready to commercialise.

Grid storage batteries, if a good chemistry is found, could answer a trillion-dollar question.

Whenever Apple gets the battery life on Vision Pros to a reasonable length, they'll probably take off.

AI ASICs, including those I assume such a headset would use. Some of them are actually analog, it's pretty neat.

Ocean mining looks set to be valuable, and is pretty much impossible to stop every country from doing.

LLMs taking your fast-food order, and similar.

On that note, support services to remotely unfuck LLM mistakes that 0.2% of the time they biff it.

De-novo cultivation has been pretty successful, so you might start seeing weird new crops derived from wild plants become available, and start getting used as a cheap ingredient in stuff.

Hydrogen-grown biomass is really interesting, and could take humanity another trophic level down. That's probably too far off to count as "next", though.

Xenotransplantation.

Cargo airships as an option somewhere in between ships and airplanes.

3D printed aerospace parts have already made a difference, but I get the sense it's not done. I don't know what that means for you or me, exactly, if anything.

I could totally see supersonic private jets happening. I really hope they won't, though.

On the note of technologies that kind of suck, postquantum cryptography will be a huge thing very soon.

The hydrogen economy, if fossil fuels continue to phase out. I've seen some neat stuff about metal refining with it, including a paper where they were able to use toxic aluminum mining waste as a raw material.

Probably more forest fires and other climate problems this summer.