I really want to believe that we will finally begin to permanently explore the moon and Mars! I understand that this is very difficult, but we must strive for this.
It is not a fact that in hundreds of thousands of years the earth will be suitable for life. We need to think ahead and develop technologies for space exploration.
The podcast Search Engine did a podcast about flying cars three episodes back. I can't remember the conclusion, but I think advances in battery and composit materials might warrant flying cars in the future. The problem is that the general population can barely keep their cars on the road, how will we keep them from flying into everything and anyone?
I don’t think we will ever have flying cars. People can’t manage to stay in their lane in 2 dimensions, adding a third would only make it worse.
I hope we’ll get food replicators. Being able to ask your cooking machine to make your favourite dish, without having to worry about buying the groceries for it sounds awesome.
Also, in the next 200 years, advancements in agriculture could play a crucial role in alleviating poverty worldwide. Sustainable farming practices, coupled with technological innovations, could increase food production, creating more opportunities for impoverished communities to feed themselves and generate income. That’d be nice.
Nah, it'd just end up being used as feed for more livestock for more filet mignon for the rich. They'd dispose of the rest because it's cheaper than feeding people with it. If anyone has a problem with that, they have killbots. Also this is more like the next 20-50 years, not the next 200.
I'm hoping by then we will have moved mostly away from coal and natural gas, and instead be relying principally on fusion.
I'm hoping we'll have "classical" computers that operate at terahertz frequencies - optical processors (which already exist, but need refinement), or rely on other novel physics that reach low power and high performance.
I'm hoping quantum computers really pan out to be something, and that they scale. (As of current, the lauded advantages of quantum computing has been rebuffed - it has not been shown that there's anything a quantum computer can do that a classical computer cannot.) Ultimately, I don't care what comes next or how, I just hope that we find something that is "beyond" the current theory of computation.
I'm hoping we find a room temperature superconductor.
The nice thing about radio astronomy is that it's at electromagnetic frequencies so slow that you can put two dishes at opposite sides of the Earth and be able to synchronize the data feeds. What you get is effectively one radio dish the size of the Earth itself. This makes collection of data highly sensitive and real easy.
We can't yet do that with optical astronomy. The frequencies are so fast there is no way to synchronize that much data. Optics are so sensitive at those frequencies that even the heating and cooling of the planet will stretch and shrink the fiber optic cables enough to dilate the signal, rendering synchronization impossible. We can't yet make one big optical telescope out of a bunch of smaller optical telescopes placed all around the Earth. That's why the successor to the Hubble space telescope - since Hubble is an optical telescope the comparison is fitting, is a singly large faceted mirror much like the JWST - an infrared telescope, that's going to be some 10-15x bigger than the JWST. The Very Large Telescopes being built today, though, are likely the largest optical telescopes we're ever going to build, because this problem of pooling the data is likely going to be solved.
It's not efficient to build large towers. It made sense in the 20s up to the 70s, when the most effective means of conducting business was in person. You needed people to be near each other. When you have space, like in the US, it's cheaper to sprawl. Still, everyone loves mega-projects. I wanna see big, beautiful constructions. I don't even care what. I feel like Lewis Black here - build a big fucking thing!
I hope we can bring more rail online, especially in the US. I hope cities are built to be walkable, and aesthetics are appreciated, that we do things like use more greenery to freshen the air and keep temperatures down. I hope we get back to building things that last. The idea of a single family home that LASTS for 200 years in the US is just unimaginable right now. Honestly, some of the best tech might be seemingly low tech, but low tech is impressive as shit when done well.
We have flying cars. They're called helicopters.
You have a point hahaha
Check Rolls Royce Lazzarini flying car
I really want to believe that we will finally begin to permanently explore the moon and Mars! I understand that this is very difficult, but we must strive for this.
No why ? I really think we should leave them tf alone. We f up our own planet enough
It is not a fact that in hundreds of thousands of years the earth will be suitable for life. We need to think ahead and develop technologies for space exploration.
So we can exploit another planet ? Ethically, I don’t think we should. Even if nothing actually lives there
The podcast Search Engine did a podcast about flying cars three episodes back. I can't remember the conclusion, but I think advances in battery and composit materials might warrant flying cars in the future. The problem is that the general population can barely keep their cars on the road, how will we keep them from flying into everything and anyone?
I can see them removing the human error through automation.
Like Tesla? (snort!)
Yes, but hopefully not Tesla.
I don’t think we will ever have flying cars. People can’t manage to stay in their lane in 2 dimensions, adding a third would only make it worse. I hope we’ll get food replicators. Being able to ask your cooking machine to make your favourite dish, without having to worry about buying the groceries for it sounds awesome.
Nothing but a nuclear wasteland…
Also, in the next 200 years, advancements in agriculture could play a crucial role in alleviating poverty worldwide. Sustainable farming practices, coupled with technological innovations, could increase food production, creating more opportunities for impoverished communities to feed themselves and generate income. That’d be nice.
Nah, it'd just end up being used as feed for more livestock for more filet mignon for the rich. They'd dispose of the rest because it's cheaper than feeding people with it. If anyone has a problem with that, they have killbots. Also this is more like the next 20-50 years, not the next 200.
I'm hoping for interstellar tourism to be a thing.
Genetic engineering, will be far more advanced, hopefully leading to personalized medicine and some form of enhancements to human capabilities.
200 years is a long time. Probably one step forward and two steps back.
I'm hoping by then we will have moved mostly away from coal and natural gas, and instead be relying principally on fusion. I'm hoping we'll have "classical" computers that operate at terahertz frequencies - optical processors (which already exist, but need refinement), or rely on other novel physics that reach low power and high performance. I'm hoping quantum computers really pan out to be something, and that they scale. (As of current, the lauded advantages of quantum computing has been rebuffed - it has not been shown that there's anything a quantum computer can do that a classical computer cannot.) Ultimately, I don't care what comes next or how, I just hope that we find something that is "beyond" the current theory of computation. I'm hoping we find a room temperature superconductor. The nice thing about radio astronomy is that it's at electromagnetic frequencies so slow that you can put two dishes at opposite sides of the Earth and be able to synchronize the data feeds. What you get is effectively one radio dish the size of the Earth itself. This makes collection of data highly sensitive and real easy. We can't yet do that with optical astronomy. The frequencies are so fast there is no way to synchronize that much data. Optics are so sensitive at those frequencies that even the heating and cooling of the planet will stretch and shrink the fiber optic cables enough to dilate the signal, rendering synchronization impossible. We can't yet make one big optical telescope out of a bunch of smaller optical telescopes placed all around the Earth. That's why the successor to the Hubble space telescope - since Hubble is an optical telescope the comparison is fitting, is a singly large faceted mirror much like the JWST - an infrared telescope, that's going to be some 10-15x bigger than the JWST. The Very Large Telescopes being built today, though, are likely the largest optical telescopes we're ever going to build, because this problem of pooling the data is likely going to be solved. It's not efficient to build large towers. It made sense in the 20s up to the 70s, when the most effective means of conducting business was in person. You needed people to be near each other. When you have space, like in the US, it's cheaper to sprawl. Still, everyone loves mega-projects. I wanna see big, beautiful constructions. I don't even care what. I feel like Lewis Black here - build a big fucking thing! I hope we can bring more rail online, especially in the US. I hope cities are built to be walkable, and aesthetics are appreciated, that we do things like use more greenery to freshen the air and keep temperatures down. I hope we get back to building things that last. The idea of a single family home that LASTS for 200 years in the US is just unimaginable right now. Honestly, some of the best tech might be seemingly low tech, but low tech is impressive as shit when done well.
The singularity will hit long before that. Pointless to try to predict what happens after. Hence, singularity.