The thing is nobody know. If we already knew which would revolutionize our world we would have it by now.
Though I heard they are trying to make put droids in the consumer world for fedex and such so that should be coming soonish.
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Yeah at least in the US i see organ printing not taking off for several decades at best going by current trends in this country.
As for 3d printing isn't it limited to non moveable things? So maybe great for do it yourself kits but not for say printing a working say rolling pin. Not a decent one at least LOL.
And then what about more complex and technical things that require more then plastics?
We have some hrudles to overcome with both. But they could indeed revolutionize many things once overcome.
I also like to think that there are plenty of things we COULD have if money or modern science would allow it...Modern science seems so hidebound. Too many rules and regulations if you ask me let the nutjobs run free and create again LOL...Translation not a fan of the moral rules and fact that you need to be accredited to be taken even semi seriously or even have your thoughts submitted fields depending.
Really stifles the potential and takes away from the guys we USED to have working wonders in basements, apartments and makeshift labs.
But as i see it giving humans a reason and especially if we create a NEED for that tech we'd wind up making it LOL. What i;ve observed at least. We can do AMAZING things when we feel we HAVE to.
But yeah as i said i find it fun to think of how such things even COULD be done. That alone is fun...Though i'd rather we actually get off our asses and work on em.
Once an AI is a true AI, as in Artificial Intelligence, it can learn on its own, the things that it should be able to deduce/invent/formulate should be absolutely amazing, assuming it can access everything we 'know' at once and has enough RAM and Processing Power (again, we will probably need quantum computing first, and that would make those terms wrong, but yea...) to start exponentially increasing our knowledge, at the very least.
Okay maybe i more going AL but i still say a true AI should be encouraged to learn and develop to be fully unique.
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Oh i agree will be fucking amazing and great. And as i said i;m no robot apocalypse man..I know MANY people who are though. I just say the moment they elevate to emotions and siliamr things we treat em as equal lifeforms instead of going all "WE MADE YOU AND WE CAN BREAK YOU SO SHUT UP AND GO MAKE A WARP ENGINE".
THAT is a serious recipe for trouble with ANY form of sentience.
its often the case that the most revolutionizing thing becomes so widespread so fast that people dont realise what we now have and how much it changed everything.
I put it to you that one of the most revolutionizing things of our lifetime so far is touch screens and smart devices,
somthing so widespread and common to us now, but if you go back and watch say startrek and next gen, its amazeing to see just how much we caught up and even overtook there idea of these handheld interactive devices.
i would also say high speed internet is probably THE single most ground breaking thing ever. information about anything, messages to anyone anywhere, any media, all available within fractions of a second.
You misunderstood what I meant about the cables, my point is that even if we could cheaply deliver high voltages to the household, the means of transporting them are far from practical. My point is that even though we would need this voltages, right now it's only really possible in the environment of research facilities. Unless it's relatively safe to use, we won't see it in a household.
Regarding the source, we'll yeah, you got my idea. It really has to be something different than we have now. Fusion was a step in the right direction, since it's a highly controlled environment and any failure leads to the dissipation of reaction, instead of volatile outburst, but it's still dirty. And the fact that it can quench if something goes wrong with the structural integrity. Yes it's not a meltdown, but still pretty destructive.
you can always upgrade yourself 'hyper mordern leg prosthesises' might make you run faster t han biological legs
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trying to mimic smells aint the way to go, a way better method would be trying to simulate it straight into ur brain
Pretty sure they already have those. They're not even proper legs; they're weird bendy flipper things.
I'd put my chips on human augmentation. Can't say how soon it'll be. Judging by the cadence of that list earlier in the thread, I'd probably spitball it at about 5-10 years in the future.
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Then we gotta wait for legislation and humans to accept it in most of the world MAYBE an extra 1-2 years if not immediately...In the US add on another 5-20 maybe 50 years. I've notcied as far as science and ESPECIALLY medicine goes i live in a pretty ass backwards nation.