The next world changing event has already begun.
It’s called Donald Trump.
Sex robots
I will take 1950’s if I keep my Smart Phone, the Internet and my Wife Rita....and a dog.
We don’t need technology advances. We need a population that refuses to be lied to by the media. One that does not-rush blindly after every silly-a$$ fad invented by morons. A people who appreciates contact with other humans, and does not bury its faces in an electronic device so that it doesn’t have to look at the people around it.
Technology won’t save us.
1. Cheap access to space. (SpaceX, Blue Origin).
2. Vertical Farming. (Malthusian’s lose forever)
3. Cheap, Clean Energy.
4. DNA Hacking. We can’t even begin to understand the implications.
ROPE!
Musk has Starlink internet with first launches next year.
It’s low altitude satellites so the lousy ping from other satellite providers is gone.
You’ll have fast internet anywhere in the world so you’re not stuck living/working in an urban area.
And fembots so you don’t have to worry about the real thing hauling you to family court and decimating your savings and income.
Basic reading, writing, arithmetic, and critical thinking. That’s like magic to the illiterate masses.
Directly linking neurons with digital electronics.
Robot-produced and drone-delivered pizza.
We’ll need an electronic turbo guillotine when CW2 ends.
3D Printing will be the third industrial revolution.
Our cars, airplanes, and houses will all be “printed”.
Human labor will be largely replaced by robots and 3D printers.
Medically, joints, limbs and organs will also be printed.
Being able to go to the lab and giving a tissue sample and having a new heart or whatever grown and installed a month or two later. No rejection or immunosupression drugs.
The transistor,late 40s,really was the jumping off spot for much of it.
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AI: and not this crap they have now.
Cancer mostly cured with genetic manipulation.
Energy from Thorium.
Warfare
Warp Drive.
EMP
Automated farming machinery reduces the need for unskilled agricultural labor, while automated indoor airponic farming provides an abundance of high quality produce without the use of pesticides.
A new class of supersonic passenger aircraft dramatically reduces travel times without generating disruptive supersonic booms. Space tourism becomes commonplace, reasonably safe, and affordable for the wealthy. The first commercial bases are established on the Moon. Asteroid mining begins. Driverless pods on tracks and dedicated roadways begin to alleviate urban traffic woes.
New therapies, technologies, and better treatment strategies make cancer a mostly nonlethal disease and cure diabetes. Lab grown organs and structures dramatically diminish death and disability from organ failure and injury. Stem cells and new drugs appear that promise to arrest and then reverse aging and its diseases.
Nuclear technology undergoes a renaissance that yields relatively small, cheap, and safe reactor designs. Although initially limited in application, this technology in time becomes widespread as the primary source of industrial and urban electric power.
In the US and Europe, police and security functions are enhanced by AI and surveillance technologies, leading to reductions in terrorism and crime and yielding better immigration enforcement. Comprehensive, high quality recording of police-citizen interactions leads to improvements in police conduct and stronger public support for the police.
Military innovation comes to center around artificial intelligence, unmanned combat vehicles, lasers, and hypersonic weapons. The prophecy from those old covers and stories of robot warriors in Astounding magazine begin to look ominously real.
Education becomes increasingly focused on skills acquisition, testing, and certification. Charter schools and voucher programs prosper based on better meeting individual student needs and choices. Traditional urban public education systems becomes hollowed out and widely discredited by pension funding gaps.
Whether man-made global warming is real or not, carbon capture technologies and ocean fertilization methods mature to the degree that a direct reduction in our current atmospheric carbon dioxide becomes economically viable and begins to be undertaken globally.
Made to measure clothing and custom household furnishings become increasingly common, with Third World seamstresses and craftsmen fulfilling orders from customers in developed countries.
An increasingly strong and confident Trump administration and our European allies propose development and reform partnerships in Central America and Africa to combat illegal immigration. Although criticized as a new form of colonialism, the terms are generous if binding, conditioning substantial new financial aid and technology transfers on economic and governmental reforms based on UN standards.
2020 to 2030:
Androids, powered by artificial intelligence. They will be crude robots at first, but by mid century, will be indistinguishable from real humans.
A permanent human presence on the moon, and the start of commercial exploration of the asteroid belt.
A watershed breakthrough in propulsion technology that enables faster, easier travel throughout our solar system. Such a technology has likely been in the R&D phase within ‘black projects’ for decades.
Disruptive Counter Forces:
1. Breakdown of social cohesion between the political left and right in the Western countries - particularly in the U.S.
2. The onset of a probable mini ice age, which has been predicted using ice core data from the last 200,000 years.
3. Possible civil wars and sectarian violence in Europe, due to the exploding muslim invasion there.
Mrs. Batangas would be happy for a toilet seat that puts itself back down after 45 seconds or so.