Fully automated luxury communism
this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2024
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First we sent small animals into space: a dog, then monkeys.
After that: people.
And then we stopped. I expected that we would have sent cows, horses, maybe even hippos or elephants by now.
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more international cooperation for global benefit. instead we have more profit taking from everyone
Laptops with good build quality, I mean the type of build quality Thinkpads used to have
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Honestly thought I'd see more phones, with desktop modes, replace laptops in day to day life.
I guess with the switch to Arm on laptops this can be possible real soon.
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The virtual reality you used to see in movies or on TV where you would put on a helmet and actually enter it and have full movement capabilities. Something like that one episode of Batman The Animated Series where Commissioner Gordon goes into the Riddler's computer and gets trapped or just about any other cliche, dumb way they portrayed VR back then.
We have some cool VR treadmills, one of them thats releasing soon will even only cost $1k (cheap in comparison to every other VR treadmil released previously). Combine that with full body tracking and a good high end headset like the Bigscreen Beyond or Immersed Visor.
I grew up in the '80s. I was expecting either nuclear annihilation or cities on the moon.
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One could certainly speed up the other
Providing for the needs of all.
Still waiting for my personal jetpack and/or flying car
ROCKETMAN
I really want to try a powered paraglider. Seems fairly accessible. Costs no more than a used car. Curious about the legality/feasibility of using it to get around..
Most people can't be trusted operating a ground-dwelling vehicle, I'm fine with not having flying ones yet.
I don't remember ever expecting much.
The utilization of global powers to collaborate and defeat climate change before the doom clock hits zero.
Not backsliding into feudalism?
You don't like the extra steps we added?
Something, anything in the freaking moon.
Why haven't we been back there in, like, 50 years? That mission was done with computers that were less powerful than my stupid phone.
Anything, a telescope, a transmitter of I-don't-know-what shit, a lunar farm, a Coca-Cola or Disney advertising, ANYTHING!
Yeah, there was a period in time where people were discussing Helium-3 as a source of fuel that we could very easily and efficiently farm on the moon, which was seen as a key step in becoming a space-faring species. Okay, so we know where the fuel is and we can get there, so companies can start using Earth fuel to send helium-3 extraction machines, which can then be used to collect fuel for them to use in further missions and eventually, a small amount of helium-3 will be used to fuel a mission that returns with massive amounts of it, so we have a fuel, and now we can start exploring space even further, with people. It was the clear direction to take.
It's a bit of a fantasy, I think. There is nothing profitable about space exploration. It's either science experiments or nationalist dick measuring.
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Antigravity looked like the clear favourite for scientists, but then they all went into astronomy and the age of the universe.
I'm more concerned with the things we had a few years ago that are now gone, and the new fascist hand me downs that are popping up everywhere.
A more civilized, earth friendly, peaceful world working for the common good.
From the perspective of a kid in the 70s, I thought for sure some level of space colonization, whether it be a Moon colony or O'Neill type settlements. Along with that would be moving industry into space to tap unlimited resources and allow the Earth to heal.
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High speed rail (USA)
#FUCKcars
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You're free to choose anything you want as long as the shareholders benefit.
- open source software that pays for contributions
- privacy laws that protect people against corporations
- living wage
- end of sexism and mysoginy
- global democracy
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Bluetooth that works. The ability to email large files. Low cost broadband. The right to repair. Not lose the ownership of digital media.
Also printers that work
Digital media just kills me. Back in the CD and DVD days I sent back a bunch of discs that were too scrarched to use and i would get coupons to replace them. Often times the publishers included an extra one just because they didn't want you to pirate stuff. Buying physical media meant you licensed it even when you physically couldn't so they were compelled to solve the problem.
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Not a particular technology, but I really had a little bit of hope that weβd be able to tackle climate change like we tackled ozone depletion due to CFCs/HCFCs/HFCs with the Montreal Protocol.
Yes what the fuck happened? As a planet, we came together to end CFCs but now everyone just shrugs and says, "nah"
One problem is a bit easier then the other. No one's economy is entirely based around CFCs and CFCs have excellent alternatives.
I thought surely by now autocorrect would not still be horribly wrong in its predictions
Duck you!
If AI is just autocorrect on steroids (it is), I wonder if actual good old autocorrect will see any improvements
All autocorrect now defaults to Reddit comment style