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Every day, we prepare for the future, either mentally or by taking direct action. We plan our careers, save for retirement, or upgrade our computers so that they can run a game set in the post-apocalyptic world we're hoping to avoid.
However, one new development can change everything — not just how we play, but also how we live and even think, rendering our preparations obsolete and forcing us to adapt to a reality we never saw coming.
Interested in such a scenario, Reddit user AndyTexas invited everyone to speculate and list the possible advancements that, if they came true, would radically redefine humanity. Here are some of the interesting answers they received.
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#1
Was just reading about advances in mRNA technology that could potentially reshape cancer treatment. The idea is doctors take a sample of a cancer patient’s cancer cells and tailor a custom “vaccine” to treat their specific form of cancer. It’s the beginning of real tailored medicine and it could be massively beneficial!
No-Employment2539:
It’s happening with my dad right now. He has merkel cell carcinoma. On Monday, they drew blood, concocted a “potion” of medicine tailored to his immune system, then he had an infusion. He’s gonna do this six times over 12 weeks, and the cancer should either be small enough to remove or gone completely.
Scott Rackley 8 months ago
Not available in America. We're looking into crystals and prune juice over here.
Foxglove🇮🇪 8 months ago
Amazing, incredible, and probably excruciatingly expensive - hard to see how it could become available to the majority
The Scout 8 months ago
Meanwhile the GOP of Minnesota is trying to get RNA vaccines branded as weapons of mass destruction, so anybody giving someone, e.g., a COVID shot, would face around 20 years in prison... Sounds like satire, but unfortunately: https://heartlandsignal.com/2025/04/29/minnesota-gop-introduces-second-bill-designating-mrna-vaccines-as-weapons-of-mass-destruction/
Sam Trudeau 8 months ago
I got much more nervous for a second. I read that as "Manitoba" instead of "Minnesota" (As in, province in Canada instead of US border province)
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Cheeky chicken 8 months ago
I learned a little bit about what's on the horizon for cancer treatments in my job....it's very exciting
ROSESARERED 8 months ago
My friend was part of a test group for this in Australia, sadly it didn't work for her, but that was just at the beginning of this treatment.
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#2
There’s a vaccine in the works for cats that prevents kidney failure/damage and cats who get it can live up to 30 years.
Gingersnap In Iowa 8 months ago
I'd happily sign up for 22+ more years with the Baby girl cat empress of the house.
Giles McArdell 8 months ago
My Dad "owned" (was owned by) multiple cats over his life, he reckoned about 60% died of Kidney disease, although it got lower after the advice not to give them cows milk!
Gen X Feral 8 months ago
Hurry faster!!!! My Purrrdita Chickeeloo is 17 and I'm shittin kittens because I can't live without her, I just can't 😭😭😭
Gen X Feral 8 months ago (edited)
You don't know that. Not every cat is the same and arthritis is treatable.
Load More Replies...Nobody has a crystal ball that gets it right 100 percent of the time, at least not that I know of. But in the mid-1980s, political scientist Philip Tetlock decided to see whose came the closest.
He recruited hundreds of academics and pundits who had dedicated their lives to thinking about politics, and signed them up for "forecasting tournaments," where they tackled questions such as how long the Soviet Union might last, or who would win the next presidential election, estimating the probability of each outcome.
For instance, someone might say that there was a 30% chance that the Soviet Union would collapse before 1990. Over time, these forecasts were put to the test against reality, and it turned out the experts just weren't that good at anticipating events.
In fact, many of them performed about as well as someone guessing completely randomly. Only a few managed to beat the metaphorical dart-throwing chimp, albeit only by a small margin.
#3
Lab grown organs, so no more needing to wait for a transplant. We’re on the edge of designing life like software.
Upstaged75 8 months ago
That's amazing! Think of all the people on dialysis waiting for kidneys. And scientists in Tel Aviv have been able to print a small scale functioning heart, with the plans to do a full size one. I'm so thankful for all the brilliant people in the world. One of whom I am not. ;)
A C 8 months ago
Why do you say you're not brilliant? You sound really kind and being kind is brilliant therefore you're brilliant! 🙌
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Doozle bug 8 months ago
Not going to be readily available in the US unless you sell your infants organs
#4
Idk i feel like the US needs to stop defunding research if we want lifesaving medical treatments and breakthroughs.
CP 8 months ago
MAGA doesn't like when people learn. It is one thing that didn't change from the previous Republican party.
Peter Bear 8 months ago
This is true of all conservatives throughout all of human history. They have never once been on the correct side of history; the world grows and changes, and if we do not also grow and change, we stagnate and die. Balance, as in all things; if it's not broken, don't fix it, but if it is broken, fix it quickly.
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Upstaged75 8 months ago
Gee, there's a thought! The current administration would rather just see us all die instead.
Sam Trudeau 8 months ago
Canada has a lot going for it since Tr*mp came into power. Technically free healthcare (glad Carney won or we might have lost that) or neurodiversity/racial diversity/ religious diversity awareness and acceptance
Tetlock didn't recruit only experts for his study — he also placed adverts aimed simply at curious individuals interested in predicting the future.
In the first year, 3,200 people signed up. After the tournament had been running for a while, he introduced an algorithm designed to give the predictions of the most accurate forecasters extra "weight." He also "extremized" the forecasts, pushing the probabilities assigned closer to 100% or 0%.
Helped by the algorithm, the ordinary people who'd replied to the adverts ended up producing better forecasts than the intelligence analysts who had access to classified information, and much better ones than the academics and political pundits. The individuals with the best track records were anointed "superforecasters," and they continued to outdo others involved in the competition.
So, while you might look at a thread like this and think all of these guesses are just unqualified nonsense... In terms of predicting the future, it isn't that unreasonable.
#5
Vertical farming: As the cost of traditional farming increases and becomes less productive as weather becomes more warm and unpredictable, vertical farming’s advantages with controlling the light and temperature will outweigh the current high initial costs and energy requirements.
#6
We're this 🤏 close to finding the cause auf multiple sclerosis and might therefore be able to soon have a remedy. This might also be a huge step forward in research on other diseases in which the bowel amd the central nervous system relate to each other.
Anony Mouse 8 months ago
Not to rain on any parades, but the link between the “gut” and auto-immune disorders is very, very new science. There is nothing actionable yet. Or even in clinical trials. Ironically it’s mostly anti-science quacks that are pushing “heal the gut to heal _____” literally everything else. People read something like this, get excited, then start believing that probiotic soda will fix psoriasis. I hope we live to see the day when these diseases are better understood and treated, but sadly we are not this close.
#7
We’re seeing the end of global capitalism as we know it. Multiple bubbles are about to burst in quick succession causing economic devastation on a level not seen since 1929.
Millions of millennials and Gen Zers are over leveraged on debt they have no way of paying back - not just student loan and credit card debt, but Klarna, Affirm, After Pay - these “buy now, pay later” schemes approve loans the same way banks approved mortgages in 2008, and its fully unregulated and untraceable.
Combine that with wealth inequality and the idiotic tariff wars Trump is starting and you’re looking at a total collapse of our current economic system in ten years at the latest.
Roland Nijveld 8 months ago
It already should've collapsed in 2008 but they choose to keep it on life support
jasper 8 months ago
Well, sure, that's nice to say, but I don't see anyone coming up with any kind of viable solution.
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Peter Bear 8 months ago
This could all be solved by a Currency Reevaluation Act, the setting in place of a FUNCTIONAL minimum wage, and a flat tax program. All very easy things, none of which are going to happen peacefully.
DeoManus Argentem 8 months ago
It's pretty crazy - I've been seeing lots of ads for 1% down mortgages again already... I guess we've learned nothing.
Rich Black 7 months ago
Karl Marx predicted this too . . . in 1848. And it was such a success for lenin and stalin and mao
Tom De Paul 7 months ago
There's a huge ($trillions) transfer of wealth that will happen as the older generation dies off and leaves their wealth to their children. This will alleviate all these exogenous pressures on the survival of capitalism. Many have predicted the end of capitalism before, most notably the Communists. They were all wrong.
Lil be lil 8 months ago
I believe it! Stating today! Ordered a new tv April 29th. Got an email saying tv is Undeliverable on May 4th. I called asking Why!??? Told it was damaged and returning to Amazon! On my orders page it is still in transit!!!! Today received damaged package from Amazon left in Lobby of my apt. house!!! Completely open open all but one corner of package box!!! I think tv was stolen no-one wanted my cold brew coffee, bath soak and sleep shirt!! I now have no trust in Amazon! I was wanting to get the needed t.v. Before tariffs and the de minimus elimination!!!! I am not shopping for Anything anymore!! Especially online at Amazon I do not like surprises!!!! Not buying, hope that sends A message!! Not buying that should be great for the economy!!!! Will shop at the resale store or do some Dumpster diving!!!
Michelle C 8 months ago
I suppose I got lucky because I don’t use any of the said services and never had any interest in them, anyway.
One of the ways in which Tetlock's superforecasters were different from the rest was that they seemed more immune to various biases.
An example of such biases is the so-called “scope insensitivity,” made famous by the Nobel prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman. Imagine you have to predict how likely it is that Hungary's Viktor Orban remains in power for one more year. What seems like a reasonable forecast to you? Is there an 85% chance? 90%, maybe?
Now imagine that you’d been asked about two years instead of one. Would your answer have been any different? If not, you’re probably guilty of scope insensitivity, which is to say that you tend to give the same answers to questions that are superficially similar, but actually require quite different calculations.
Most people aren't very “scope sensitive,” but superforecasters are: they also seem less prone to other cognitive distortions such as confirmation bias and overconfidence, which allows them to make better predictions.
#8
Neuralink just implanted a successful chip into someone with ALS who's nonverbal. He's communicating now. So, in the next 10-15 years I think we're going to see a boom in communication with lots of people who are nonverbal. And I predict we're going to be able to cure or fix a lot of issues we could only guess about simply because the people suffering can't express what they're feeling or thinking.
Luke Branwen 8 months ago
TBH I'd rather die than have anything made by Elongated Muskrat implanted in my brain. Imagine it, you say "Elon sucks" and suddenly you're locked in a prison inside your own mind with no way to wake up.
Scott Rackley 8 months ago
Don't forget the subscriptions. It's $4.99 a month to be able to move each finger.
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Sam Trudeau 8 months ago
So if it's Musk's company making this, will it say "Canada is a state" and "Buy the freaking cyberturds" with your mouth? (I'm kidding, this could help some people)
#9
Algae based products will help cut down on plastic waste. They're already making edible water bottles using algae. Not to mention algae farming is going to revolutionize climate control.
#10
I think it will take longer than 10 to 15 years, but in the never ending source for cheap labor, the world will turn its attention to Africa. Huge population, very low wages, rich in natural resources and close to developed nations etc. The Chinese have been investing heavily in African infrastructure (Rails/Roads/Ports). You will see Africa become much more important on the global stage in the future.
sock man 8 months ago
Ummmm.....that already happened. Sad citizen of the USA here
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Melissa Childers 8 months ago
Uh... it's already happened and been happening... diamonds? Cobalt? Lithium? Precious stones and metals? Where do you think all that came from, hmmm?
William Teach 8 months ago
This is already happening. Consider all the metals being mined in Africa for EVs and smartphones
Forrest Grump 8 months ago
I bless the rains down in Africa. Gonna take some time to do the things we never had.
iseefractals 8 months ago
Yes....because aside from being cheap, it's unregulated and lags far behind most of the world in industrialization. The population of africa was 227 million in the mid-60's, by 2000 they were at 830 million people, by 2020 it was 1.38 billion, and today it's 1.544 billion. They're already making the same environmental mistakes as the rest of the western world, as industrialization builds out, population will only continue to rise and the consensus of most people seems to be that "no one else has the right to dictate, or prevent how and what they do" Despite the fact that we better understand the consequences. So the rest of the world is left in the position of either sitting idle as environmental progress is negated by the expansion of the largest population on the planet, or being tasked with investing countless trillions into that expansion so as to avoid mistakes being repeated. The former is a terrible option, the latter is untenable.
In the end, Tetlock proved that prediction isn't a hopeless enterprise—some of the tournament's participants did considerably better than blind chance.
Think about a prediction with two possible outcomes, like who will win the Super Bowl. If you pick at random, you'll be wrong half the time. But the best forecasters were consistently able to cut that error rate by more than 50 percent. As Tetlock put it, "the best forecasters are hovering between the chimp and God."
Who knows, maybe some of the entries on this list will also prove to be Nostradamian.
#11
Magnetic cooling is an emerging technology that uses the magnetocaloric effect to transfer heat, eliminating the need for compressors and harmful gases like CFCs and HFCs. It has the potential to be more energy-efficient—lab tests suggest up to 20–30% efficiency gains over traditional systems. While still in development, commercial applications could appear in the next 5–10 years. Replacing CFCs and HFCs would significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as these refrigerants have global warming potentials thousands of times higher than CO₂.
Here's a video talking about this tech.
https://youtu.be/qcscUoP8FNk.
Bored Seagull 8 months ago
Magnetic cooling is interesting due to the increased energy efficiency. It doesn't eliminate the need for HFC and CFC refrigerants, as this need has already been eliminated with alternative refrigerants which are free of CFCs and HFCs, like Isobutane.
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
Even now, I don't burn myself cooking. Yes, I cook. Yes, I use a gas stove.
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BeKind&Rewind 8 months ago
There's probably some other detrimental affect from it though. We all thought EV's were the way to go until we realized small children are slaves for the materials and we don't know what to do with all of the batteries. Never a win-win.
#12
Massive population decline in western countries. This will begin to seriously increase by around 2030. It will lead to massive geopolitical changes over the next 50 years. The Accidental Superpower is a great book on this topic.
Marnie 8 months ago
OP is hilarious thinking this will matter in 50 years, given the impacts of climate change, and the destabilization of the entire world due to Trump's antics.
Earonn - 8 months ago
Cute, you can write that under basically every item in this list.You must be such a fun at parties.
Load More Replies... Tom De Paul 7 months ago
You're not going to like what this does to the solvency of the US Social Security system. Better ramp up immigration . . . .
#13
Millions of people will lose their jobs to AI, and we have no clear plan to replace what’s being lost.
Nils Skirnir 8 months ago
It will be the same as every other major human revolution. Billions will be impoverished and many will die until it stabilizes. Industrial revolution is the most recent example
Tom De Paul 8 months ago
Except that we have a large and very complex system of universities, colleges, and training programs that will be able to retrain displace individuals.
Load More Replies... Peter Bear 8 months ago
Ironically, this used to be the 'happy vision' of the future. Machines would do all our work for us and lead us to a life of luxury where people didn't have to work to earn their basic needs. Weird how that future sounds an awful lot like social democracy, isn't it?
El Dee 8 months ago
I'm old enough to remember when computerisation did this. They swore blind it wouldn't and that we would only have 'more leisure time' and shorter working weeks and work doing creative things instead of repetitive things. Well, that was all BS and they're saying much the same about AI. NB if it benefited the workers then there's NO WAY the bosses would bring it in..
Rich Black 7 months ago
this happened with the tractor, automobile, steamship, trains, ATMs, computers . . .
roepi 7 months ago
They won't. They aren't AI systems to begin with and are utterly incapable of producing anything new. They are useful tools that can help people in their job but are completely incapable of replacing humans. Someone at least one company found out after firing all its engineers.
Tom De Paul 7 months ago
Internal combustion engine, assembly line, integrated circuit. The prediction, "the sky is falling" has been made before. Each time we adapted and triumphed.
WubiDubi 8 months ago
Eventually. Curent AI can summarise and predict a little ahead that's about it. Meteorologists may now just present rather than study the weather.
Charles McChristy 8 months ago
Most do that now. They just watch the Weather Channel.
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As AI automation eliminates most high-paying jobs and the cost of food and urban real estate becomes unaffordable for most people, we will see a new back-to-nature movement. Turnkey fully-automated off-the-grid compounds in remote locations will explode in popularity. Micro-farming, water collection, and structure maintenance systems will be completely self-sustaining and will run entirely on integrated solar power. People will have much more free time and will get back to living social lives in small rural communities.
Nils Skirnir 8 months ago
There isn’t enough productive land or water for that to work with the current population. They only way you’ll achieve that is via a calamitous d*****f of 6 billion
Lou Cam 8 months ago
Yep I live in the UK and our country hasn't been able to produce enough food for its population for nearly 200 years. That's back when more of the land was arable before it was paved over and the population quadrupled. Most of Western Europe would be the same.
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Rich Black 7 months ago
real estate is very affordable, unless you insist on living within 10 miles the coast
#15
Not enough people are talking about climate change.
Little Bit 8 months ago
Plenty of people talk about it but don't actually DO anything about it.
Scott Rackley 8 months ago
At this point it will take drastic government intervention, which means it won't happen. The rich are in control of governments and they are definitely not taking a pay cut voluntarily.
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Hassel Davidhoff 8 months ago (edited)
If you want to help stop climate change you're probably too late. However, if you want to do better to not contrubute to the problem as much there are things you can do. Stop eating meat and all packaged foods. Instead switch to a whole foods, plant based diet and buy your organic fruits and veggies from the closest ethical farm you can find. Set up a subscription service with them for your food. Drive an electric car. Stop buying useless junk all the time. Work on your addictions to corporate stuff and try to minimize your interactions with corps. Don't have kids. Plant trees. Plant wildflowers for the bees. Install solar panels on your house. You are not powerless.This is exactly how my wife and I live and I know it's probably only having a small impact but at least it is an impact. If more people lived this way we'd be a LOT better off.
iseefractals 8 months ago
Um....bull$hit, and stop using the terminology that was chosen through focus group testing with the express purpose of sounding less foreboding. It's global warming, and it's been talked about with increasing desperation for 40 odd years. But as william teach said below, the problem is that half the population doesn't think it's an issue, and those who acknowledge the issue, desperately try to absolve themselves of responsibility, believing that it's up to "the others" The US accounts for 4% of the human population, yet 15% of global emissions, 29% of those emissions (4.5% global) are from individuals driving their cars. Easy to verify, yet the mob has spent years screaming about private jets. Globally, private jets represent 10 million metric tons of emissions, per year. Which sounds like a lot....until you realize that the US alone accounts for 6.343 BILLION, meaning private jets account for 0.0015% of US emissions. Well fine they'll say, then it's the 1%
iseefractals 8 months ago
they have 10x the emissions output of average people. Ok that means the 1% is a pool of 3.35 million people, average individual output is 18.93 tons per year that would put the 1% at 189.3 tons apiece, or 634,155,000 tons overall. 509 million metric tons, 9.9% of the emission share. Which is a lot....just not compared to the 29% generated by individuals driving their cars, everywhere. Americans consume 60 billion plastic water bottles per year, 10% of global production, the US also accounts for 18% of global plastic consumption, and 50% of every piece of plastic produced is single use and unrecyclable. Ok then it's China! China accounts for the largest share of global emissions in the world! Yup, they do 31%, or 11.89 billion tons....they also have 4.2 times the population of the US. Meaning the 335 million Americans produce 53% as much emissions as China's 1.411 billion people....
Load More Replies... William Teach 8 months ago
Au contraire, plenty of people talk about it. But, the same people who say we need to Do Something mostly refuse to make any changes in their own lives to match what they're talking about. They just expect Other People to be forced to change their lives.
Rich Black 7 months ago
i'm taking a jet to the next climate conference to make my voice heard!
#16
The legalization, decriminalization, and
destigmatization of our ancient medicines specifically Pscilocybin Mushrooms.
So less reliance on pharmaceuticals and a happier more connected populace.
Fingers crossed.
Rich Black 7 months ago
i doubt if people wandering around day and night having hallucinations is going to mean "a happier and more connected populace". if that was really possible, beer and whiskey would already have us halfway there.
Earonn - 8 months ago
Those mushrooms are a form of pharmaceuticals, aren't they? That's like saying "nothing of this terrible heart medication, just good, natural foxglove". And how would a d**g be able to create "connection"? Sounds like the latest "this will do the work for you so you don't have to bother" spiel.
Lil be lil 7 months ago
I guess people will also have their own labs too? Where they can extract and measure the proper doses for a child or for an elderly person? Just because something is 'Natural' doesn't mean it's safe.
#17
In Western/developed countries, insufficient working age population. This is an imminent problem which will sharply affect the economies of major countries like S Korea, Japan, Italy.
The obvious answer is immigration but that's being handled very poorly in most places.
Earonn - 8 months ago
But we're being told that AI will reduce jobs. So, less jobs and less people. Totally agree with OP on immigration. But if millions want to fall for every c**t that uses immigrants as scapegoats, after all that happened in the last 80 years, then go ahead. Such societies deserve what is coming for them.
CP 8 months ago
People need to think beyond the traditional idea of work. If people could work 20 hours a week and get everything needed to be done done, that would be a good thing. We as a society should be striving for less work not more. Unfortunately capitalism doesn't work if we make the world better.
Load More Replies... Scott Rackley 8 months ago
We could get rid of the marketing industry altogether, lots of people freed up there.
Sam Trudeau 8 months ago
Is Elon planning on boosting AI to try getting around the poor way they do immigration?
Ben Aziza 8 months ago (edited)
Immigration and kids. And being an immigrants myself yeh... poorly handled is the word. Importing refugeed and immigrants withs cultures that are radically different... Segregating them for years and even with today events... Yeh that is not a good idea came to europe and found more radical islamic groups than i would see in my country of birth. Immigration is a good tool. But it just that a tool. Can be used by evil fks who get rich with using it as slavery and not caring what negative effects it has. As for reproduction. Ask yourself why it is harder to have money for kids as both sexes work. Then look at the magically bigger yachts and burgs halifas etc... yeh. That is why ppl cant afford kids and need to think unfettered Immigration is the solution. The big replacement they call it... dystopian... get your money back and maybe then the slavers wont win.
#18
The application of deep machine learning to atomic simulations. Essentially we have had this program called density functional theory which can solve multi atomic quantum mechanic problems (uses approximations as without there literally isn’t enough time that has passed in the universe to solve even just 100 atom systems with current computers) with high enough accuracy to back out real materials properties with very high accuracy. The issue is that even a few thousand atoms becomes extremely expensive (talking weeks to months on a super computer), and a lot of practical use cases, like how doping in semiconductors leads to different electric properties, can require more like 100,000s of atoms to be realistically modeled. ML allow for fast enough simulations to go to millions of atoms to even hundreds of millions of atoms, allowing for even biological processes to be simulated on the atomic scale at near quantum mechanic accuracy.
This will revolutionize all materials R&D and lead to huge discoveries in many fields like computing hardware and d**g discovery. Microsoft, meta, ibm and others have all invested heavily in this area, developing huge atomic simulation datasets (if only we could get them to make them public). Some of the other answers put here like algae based products (really better plastic alternatives in general as algae will always have a throughput problem when considered on a global scale), nanotech and so on will all be heavily impacted by the ability to simulate these technology enabling materials on a computer in a high throughput manner and then go after only the most promising candidates in the lab.
Very biased though as this is literally one of the focuses on my PhD lol.
Rich Black 7 months ago
i anticipate all these new AI miracle d***s will cause an explosion in the geriatric population and consumption of medical services, food, and shelter
iseefractals 8 months ago
I'm surprised no one mentioned robotics. In the span of literally a couple of years, we've gone from humanoid robots that can barely shuffle around, to humanoid robots being able to to run, transverse ladders and stairs, dance and perform standing and running flips in every direction, also thanks to machine learning. Instead of trying to build these robots in the real world and than figure out how to account for physics to get them to move around effectively, they instead generate 3D models, accounting for the size and weight of the machine and the physics of the real world, and drop thousands of these models into a virtual world while including rudimentary movement programming. They are directed to solve specific tasks, and the simulation just runs. Thousands of avatars all working towards the same problem, with every individual failure being accounted for by all the rest. Once the digital models solve a specific task, that code can than be uploaded into the physical manifestation.
#19
Smart toilets that perform medical monitoring and tests on your excrements.
Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
These are already in use. I thought this was about what we DON'T have yet.
Charles McChristy 8 months ago
Having them and them being available universally are not the same thing RME
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and they will be able to track your location/itinerary with public toilets.
Jallamedalla 8 months ago
Would you rather be examening the excrements yourself?
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Molten salt thorium reactors.
However they will be in China and the only way we will get any for ourselves is if we buy them from China. We are so far behind on this technology that it would be a major effort to catch up. So sad as we had the ability to build test msr's in the 50's.
Rich Black 7 months ago
the state sponsored media in china says "it will be so. you are doomed. and we are invading taiwan next week. resistance is futile"
Michael Largey 8 months ago
At first I thought it said "Morton salt", which was always a pretty good brand.
Upstaged75 8 months ago
Or here's a thought....just shut up. You're not required to comment. Or even read this list if it annoys you so much.
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#21
Generic semaglutide. Once the patent expires and this d**g becomes cheaper it will be used more. This has shown to be a treatment for obesity and a*******n, as well as reducing risk of liver disease and neurodegenerative diseases.
Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
Can BP PLEASE use asterisks for the vowels? We're adults, censoring the vowels would work WITHOUT that aggravation.
Betsy S 8 months ago
No kidding. Sometimes I spend more time trying to figure out a word than I do reading the whole comment. And the words they choose to censor are WEIRD!
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A D D I C T I O N is a word, not a slur, not a curse, not a naughty. Use the bedeviled word!
Niamh Gallagher Kerr 8 months ago
Thank you. I just couldn't get my head around that one. None of the other words I was coming up with made sense for obvious reasons 🙈
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fly on the wall 8 months ago
It does not work for all (or possibly most) . I will not speculate on expertise your post originates from
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2 main technologies I can see making huge leaps and if they take off they will change everything.
1) nuclear fusion energy generation. Test reactors have already been built and fired, china have sustained over 5 minutes so far and other nations are building test facilities. Safe, cheap, clean energy with minimal dangerous waste.
2) battery technology like graphene. Once battery technologies advance and the costs come down, I can see local power storage for renewable technologies, home power packs, EVs etc becoming much more cost effective. They would also be able to charge in half the time or less.
Put the 2 together and you have clean, cheap energy which can be stored for peak shaving, later use, cars and all sorts.
WubiDubi 8 months ago
The last year has been record breaking most weeks. UK and China went energy positive and currently over a minute run time.
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#23
China as the dominant world power, AI making most jobs obsolete.
Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago (edited)
Only because we (US) can no longer be relied on to give some folks hope. This is what happens when 'someone' decides we don't need anyone else and can do it ourselves. Someone ELSE will fill that vacuum, and it won't go well.
Rich Black 7 months ago
"we will bury you" (nikita Khruschev of the USSR, at the United Nations, 1964"
#24
The collapse and restructuring of the world economy as we transition to a world where supply of and demand for workers diverges indefinitely.
#25
I think one is definitely autonomous cars. Future generations will look back at car crashes and won't be able to understand how dangerous they were.
norabest321 8 months ago
And then we can link the cars going the same way along major highways, electronically and physically. Then we can make them bigger and roomier and then just to be safe we can put some kind of conducting program in the mix to make sure things run smoothly. It'll revolutionize travel! This is groundbreaking and something this world has never seen before!!
Rich Black 7 months ago
get back to me when they figure out how to use computers to prevent train crashes, first.
Lil be lil 8 months ago
Why can't they have small local communities and good public transportation out for work,/ business, ebikes everywhere and e-taxis.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
If we get autonomous cars, yes future generations will look back at car crashes - and notice that they have increased and become more deadly.
#26
AI scammers. They won’t sound like Indians and they’ll be able to target thousands of people simultaneously.
#27
Ai use cases have drastically shifted from technical help to emotional and personal support.
This is going to be so dangerous for generations born into these LLM companies being their best friend and confidant. If you think advertising is too "good" now, imagine telling your best friend that you're struggling with something and they start nudging you towards a product they couldn't have possibly used.
I'm not worried about SkyNet. I'm worried about people being able to interact in person. Socialization and social structure is literally how we conquered the planet.
Tom De Paul 8 months ago
Once Telehealth proved you could provide healthcare over a video/telephone line, the future of employment for therapists became limited. Combine telehealth with an empathy-generating AI program and you've replace a therapist. With a sophisticated assessment instrument built in, it could prescribe, thus eliminated psychiatrists. Discourage your children from going into mental health. There will only be direct patient-care jobs (low wages) left.
Betsy S 8 months ago
Like that new one they're advertising. Is it "Gemini"? It's there for you to just talk to, have a discussion with, without the nasty interference of actually hearing a human opinion. Using AI for industrial functions is one thing. Making artificial "friends" is quite another.
Brettargh 8 months ago
This is why data privacy laws are so important. Aside from being illegal, it's also not that easy to link up data for a single person/individual across multiple sources. Each source needs an identifier, like your email address to know it's the same person, and this can only be used if you consent. It cannot be shared with other parties, so Google may know you and Facebook may know you, and they will both group you into various different audience buckets for advertising, but no one can match those two 'you's together. It may feel like ads are highly personal, but really they are targeted at 'anyone who displays 'X' behaviour' eg. show my ad for party dresses to people that search for party dresses and visit multiple fashion websites. If you visit a website and accept cookies, they can retarget you with ads showing products you viewed or added to basket, but unless you are logged into that site they don't know who you are and can't target you at all once the cookie expires.
Brettargh 8 months ago
I think what's more likely and scary is brands optimising content on the web, like SEO but instead of search engine optimisation it's ChatGPT optimisation. Meaning they manipulate their content to make it more likely to be recommended by something like ChatGPT. That's one of the reasons why it's so dangerous to use AI tools on the open web - there is a lot of misinformation and biased data. For an AI therapist application though, one would hope that the dataset it's modelled on is restricted. The laws will absolutely need to evolve though with technology, to safeguard this kind of thing.
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Mary August 8 months ago
The decision to actually use your money is still yours. Marketing sure is clever in creating nonexistent needs, but the final decision is still yours to make.
#28
Brain computer interfaces
In 15 years, we might think a thought and send a message, learn skills instantly, or back up out memories 🙂.
#29
In 1970, it was fine to get a degree, and your knowledge would be relevant until the moment you retired. This is changing and changing fast. The myth that a degree is something that guarantees you a job will soon become obvious, and the only thing employers will look for is the skill of self-learning.
This will make degrees even less relevant. Even now, people question whether they should pursue a degree or study on their own. In the future, this trend is expected to skyrocket, and we will see a generation of entirely self-taught people.
Nils Skirnir 8 months ago (edited)
One was never supposed to stop learning. In fact the ‘one degree for life’ is a myth. All degrees did was get you in the door so your real learning could begin. Degrees are important for teaching one how to learn and to continue doing so. Self-study is great, but when done w/o standards and guidance leads to lots of errors and misinformation.
Hassel Davidhoff 8 months ago
Four year degrees are largely there to show employers that the young person in front of them at the job interview can commit to something serious for an extended while. There are many ways to show a prospective employer this and it was complete BS to spread the concept that everyone needed a 4 year degree 'cuz guess what? Once everyone has one then it becomes the new High School diploma. Back to school you go for that Masters.
Pittsburgh rare 8 months ago
I see that as a positive change, being as it is that many universities have become just businesses, pushing masters because degrees won't take you anywhere anymore
Earonn - 8 months ago
It's only good if these self-taught people also have to undergo tests. You don't get a degree for studying, you get it for proving that you learned that what you studied. What "self-taught" people without testing means is currently shown by all the self-declared vaccination experts...
Load More Replies... Tom De Paul 7 months ago
You completely misunderstand the purpose of higher education. Do you think a lawyer or doctor knows EVERYTHING they need to know for their whole career upon graduation? Of course not. Higher education develops your ability to think critically and find the answer to unique and novel questions. That prepares you for a career.
KC Lancaster 8 months ago
In the US Trade Schools are the way to go. AI can help hard workers like plumbers, but many of the senior workers are starting to retire and now is the time for new students to get involved. As an example: The union pays for your education with an agreement you work for them for 4 years at pretty good wages, then upward of $90 per hour afterward. D**n good!
Tom De Paul 8 months ago
Very few degrees (dental hygienist, paralegal, engineer) actually prepare you do the job. A degree prepares you to think like a person that does that job (i.e. lawyer) so that you can ask the right questions and learn what do do.
#30
The Bad: Food shortages due to climate change (unless we speed up vertical farming)
The Good: Nuclear Fusion reactions and Thorium salt reactors.
Rich Black 7 months ago
what if verticle farming uses MORE water and electricity, than the natural way of farming
#31
The Artemis moon missions! The first planned moon walks since 1972, putting the first woman and first person of colour on the moon.
The missions are designed to explore the feasibility of putting a human base on the moon, to act as a mid way point for further exploration to Mars.
Lil be lil 8 months ago
No it is not a "mid" point, just a jumping off point as there will be moon bases. There will also be bases on Mars.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 8 months ago
Such diversity certainly won't happen under Trump. He's removed all mention of past such progress at NASA exhibits.
Rich Black 7 months ago
yes . .. manned missions to mars will improve our lives at least as much as the apollo missions did!
Tom De Paul 8 months ago
How does diversity, by itself, get us to Mars safely and more quickly?
Tom De Paul 8 months ago
Shouldn't we hire the most qualified candidate, regardless of demographics?
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Perfect AI video generation on your phone. Generate a perfect video of anything your mind can come up with using prompts AND/OR you record a video of something with your camera then use prompts to alter it. Eg. you take a video of a car driving past then use say “make car start flying, do a flip, then catch fire”. Personal Hollywood studio in everyone’s pockets. There will be all kinds of pushback/copyright/protecting ‘truth’ issues/legislation etc in the early days but eventually the technology will mainstream to a point of massive cultural shift. It’s both scary and exciting.
Tom De Paul 8 months ago
Remember the ultra-realistic video of Trump kissing Putin's boots? Now imagine video proof of rapes, burglaries, assaults. Might be problematic in determining guilt or innocence.
KC Lancaster 8 months ago
At the moment we can still prove/disprove authenticity via the metadata.
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Seedy Vine 8 months ago (edited)
We'll probably go extinct once we k!ll off all our insects and wildlife, which we're doing at an alarming rate. No pollinators equal no food.
Seedy Vine 8 months ago (edited)
We'll probably go extinct once we k!ll off all our insects and wildlife, which we're doing at an alarming rate. No pollinators equal no food.
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