The dystopian novel vibes.
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2024
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I have a magic little box sitting in my garage that allows me to dream up a weird little device, create it on a computer, convert it to a big pile of computer code automatically, hit "go" on the magic box, and come back in 4 hours to a hunk of plastic in the exact shape I dreamt up only a few hours before. A shape and functionality that had never before existed on the face of the earth.
Ya, 3d printing feels pretty futuristic.
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Ebikes have transformed where I live. It's mountainous so the only cyclists you'd see were skinny lycra-clad guys on 5 grand bikes.
Now virtually everyone has a bike, from kids to octogenarians, and the only difference between the lycra-clad cyclists and the shorts n t-shirt cyclists is the fact the ones on the ebikes are all smiling 😊
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Rode in a self driving taxi the other day. While it was very cool, it was much more cool to see the fellow passengers freak out and record the entire ride
Playing with my own AI models is interesting.
Home automation. I've only just get into relay but man, the ability to turn it on or off based on other devices status is just so futuristic for someone that love and still love simplicity and dumb device.
Also ebike. A motorized bicycle that use electric motor to run, doesn't smell, quiet, and can assist me so my journey isn't as exhausting? Where is this thing when i ride my bike 16km round trip to my school every day 20 years ago?
Technology that is so ubiquitous that younger gen’s don’t know how to troubleshoot them at all.
I grew up with many examples from mag tape media to 802.11b that was basically only useful within a clear line of site to the router.
Some of the job titles of people I know would sound insane to people in the 80s.
Yeah but one of my favourite things is when watching quiz shows, see who can come up with the most fucking pretentious phrase for "I'm a salesperson"
Hi my name's Lorna and I'm a client communications solutions engineer
Ya hi my name's Kyle and I'm like a future business outreach manager ya
When I was a kid, I had to reference several manuals and carefully assemble a double handful of parts in specific order to connect two computers to eachother. I'd have to fiddle with protocols and speeds and obscure features and traits to make the stars align. Transferring 200mb would be an overnight task. If I wanted to show pictures from my vacation on a big screen, I would have to have them printed on cellulose and insert them in tiny frames to project on a thick screen with a huge machine.
Yesterday, I went to a friend, pointed my phone at a ~~magic symbol~~qr code and sent a full movie to their PC in a few minutes. Then I pushed a button to make the photographs on my phone appear on their TV.
Nothing made me feel like the future was now as Orbitz and freeze dried pizza from the Challenger Space Museum.
They don't make Orbitz anymore tho :(
Arc Search. I’ve learned more this past year.
Relating to electric cars, Aptera – when they hit the streets everything changes.
when they hit the streets
I doubt that will be any time soon unless there’s multiple massive breakthroughs. Unless you drive 5 miles a day and park in pure sun there’s just not enough power to keep the batteries charged.
Honestly though I’d really like to see electric golf carts take over as city vehicles. They’re small, fairly light weight, go fast enough for a city, and if you really want you can fit some solar cells on the roof.
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I second aptera
It looks so cool, I hope it actually launches. They've already gone bankrupt once before. I was holding off on a new car for a while to hope to get one, but it doesn't look like they're coming out soon, so I got a bolt, which has been great.
Oh, nice, I hear good things about the bolt.
I think that last aptera bankruptcy happened about a decade ago under different leadership, before they had all the manufacturing partners, business plan of today and definitely before this round of pre-orders/investment.
As far as I understand, that was basically a couple guys building an awesome car that they didn't have the business infrastructure for. It seemed easier to source parts until they had to do it.
Ramping production is still slated for ~'24, which has been delayed before I believe from last year, which isn't great.
They've had mostly finished prototypes driving around for a while now and direct investment/partnerships, so I don't see them going bust too soon.
They have a lot of pretty regular updates with production status and media updates on their website and YouTube channel to check out.
I'm hopeful. I want the thousand miler.
Solar powered, self-reparable cars are where the future is.
Plus if electric cars become the norm, the streets will be quiet for the first time since the industrial revolution
Probably not due to concern of both animals and those with impaired vision, but things seem to go back and forth on that front from time to time.
One of my answers was that most fuel is no longer leaded (apparently some prop plane fuel is?)
Computers are also so fast and we can access just about anything at any time. This compared to my childhood in the '80s where my dad was online (BBS and later CompuServe) and I would sometimes play around a bit when things were much slower and more sparse (and generally far more local). Obviously, this didn't work out 100% in humanity's favor, in hindsight.
I have a GoPro sitting next to me and a 4k camera in the form of my handheld computer (smartphone) all of which still kinda feels like the future a bit.
Translation services are also super cool and open up so much more for idea and cultural exchange as well as opening up travel so much more. Likewise with language study online and the preservation of endangered languages.
Electric cars will certainly be quieter at low speed but they will still be noisy at higher speed due to tire noise dominating. Lower speed limits in cities would help here significantly.
Also, even ICE car can be very quiet in low speed, the insulation and exhaust muffle help a lot. I work with car a lot and often time the noise came from the radiator fan, without it running it's quite hard to tell if the engine is running or not. The only thing electric car ever gonna solve is the tailpipe emission, which is good, but not quite enough.