Posted on 06/23/2018 11:02:03 AM PDT by MNDude
It seems that we have a few new technologies that becomes commonplace everywhere, and completely changes the world.
Here is roughly what I understand they have been call:
Late 50s to late 60s: television, rocketry
Late 60s to late 70s: (not sure, handheld calculators and digital watches? Cassette players?)
80s: the use of electronics everywhere, home PCS
90s: internet, pagers, cell phones appear
2000s fast internet, flip phones, digital photography, digital music
2010's: smartphones, social media, digital movies
I know those dates are not exact, but pretty close.
So what do you think the big technology trends that will change the world we live in the 2020s will be?
EMP
That's beyond disgusting!
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.
The ultimate wet dream of commies, central planners, big government, nanny staters, and anti-freedom leftists everywhere.
What a joyless concept. A fembot can't have your baby.
Despite all the attendant difficulties with "the real thing", I'd rather have one of them, than a robot, any day.
I'd like to test that. I'll take all the losses through time.
Revelation says something different. The devil was bound, then unbound for a thousand years. Why?
What about when the amount of fuel you put into a reactor is all used up? When the first element is all fused, what happens next?
If we get Hussein Obama 2.0 or the advanced 4.0, you may have been found to be 'Obsolete' before then.
Twilight Zone reference
Soon, Solid State Batteries 2.5X were we are 2025 slated for use in Autos.
AAAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAH HE DOESN'T KNOW ABOUT THE THREE SEA SHELLS!!!!
YEP.
Now, if drone tech continues to increase I can see it becoming "flying cars" as that would be much easier to control en mass that cars driving on the surface.
With the extra dimension of vertical elevation controlled "lanes" would be much more direct to various parts of town and lower level "feeder" air lanes would get you to a controlled grid of lanes that would set you down into parking lot sized group landing pads where you "park" and walk to your work or store.
Longer range travel time would be cut into about half as a car like drone would probably do about 80-100 mph and take direct routes to a destination.
Battery powered vehicles would only be for surface use, the airborne drones would probably use a jet turbine generator to power the four vertical lift electric motor props and perhaps CNG for a pusher engine to provide faster horizontal speed.
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One thing to say that autonavigated vehicles are not now, and perhaps may never be, perfectly safe. But the true issue is, “Compared to what? The “what” is like ten 9/11s worth of deaths - and a similar toll of injuries - yearly. What, we accept that because we’re used to it - and we don’t dare risk a change of paradigm? Never??? Not buying it.That change of paradigm might include additional electronic traffic control infrastructure to augment the “driver” electronics we think of now. Think about it this way: airline passenger fatalities used to be pretty horrific, but with black boxes and voice recorders and relentless investigations by safety officials airline fatalities are pretty rare these days. It would be child’s play to put black boxes in all new automobiles which would - especially in self-driving cars - result in rapid advances in safety.
At some point in the next five years or so, the correct decision will be to bite the bullet and promote that approach, and hope that fatalities initially stay level or even drop. But even if they go up, you relentlessly pursue enhancements in safety which can be implemented (especially but not necessarily exclusively in self-driving vehicles) and stay the course. The fatalities drop below what initially existed without self-drivers, and keep on dropping thereafter. And traffic fatalities finally start to drop down the list of causes of injuries/deaths.
Making the transition will save other (unpredictable and unknowable even after the fact) lives. It will also cost certain (unpredictable a priori but painfully concrete after the fact) lives. Is that a reason to continue to accept ten 9/11s on our roads annually into the indefinite future when we have a choice?
The real breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence comes when AI explains AI.The problem seen today is that “AI learning produces capability to do a function (better than a human can) but nobody knows how that capability is being effected. Thus, humans find themselves out of the loop.
What’s needed is “meta AI” which can explain in English what was learned by the AI system. AI which not only can learn but can teach.
Don't forget current assets and taking your children away.
Not sure thats thermodynamically possible (not claiming that I know).Obviously, the post WWII dream of “nuclear power too cheap to meter” is still a chimera. Fusion power could conceivably come close to that. Maybe AI could help accelerate that endeavor.
That is my dream. My cut at how it has to be explained is here.
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