r/Futurology

How long do you THINK until we get a cure for this if ever?

I just got my learners and I just want to know what’s the point of even doing this anymore if we’re no longer going to be the ones driving.

Something is off in the picture everyone paints. Machines get smarter every month, the graphs go straight up, people talk about the singularity like it lands next Tuesday. And the whole time we still die at 80. Same as our grandparents. If technology is really moving that fast, why is the one thing that matters most not moving at all?

Researchers say they are working on it. Papers come out every week. Meanwhile an 80 year old still looks 80, moves like 80, dies at 84. Nothing visible has changed in a lifetime. So maybe the money is in the wrong place. Maybe we need fewer studies and more radical experiments on people who are running out of time anyway.

They call it longevity escape velocity. It was predicted for right about now. Where is it?

>Clearer estimates of the geoneutrino flux at each experiment could come from more detailed geological data, as well as further geoneutrino counts at each site. However, McDonough says the best thing would be to build a neutrino detector at the bottom of the ocean(opens a new tab). It’s an idea McDonough has championed for decades(opens a new tab).

>Such a detector would be far from continental rocks, which are rich in radioactive elements; oceanic crust is also thinner and more uniform. Crust-related uncertainties go down so much that “you are in mantle-only territory,” he said.

>The idea of an ocean-bottom detector, estimated to cost hundreds of millions of dollars(opens a new tab), has seen little take-up from government funders to date. But McDonough is hoping he can make something happen in China, which has given the green light to other big geoscience projects(opens a new tab). “It’s very possible,” he said. Until then, physicists will keep paddling around for answers deep underground.

The movie takes place in 2029, we have:

Neural interfaces (Cyber brains)

Extreme Human/Machine integration (controlling prosthetics with the brain, controlling computers with brain)

Advanced Ai and other autonomous systems

Digital identity’s (inseparable from digital information about them and from the networked systems connected to their brain, Aka your smart phone, social media)

Mass surveillance (yikes)

Corps possessing enormous amounts of personal information

The inability to tell what’s real (still can, but getting worse)

I know some of this existed in 1995, but not anywhere near what Ghost in the Shell showed. Our world is starting to look like theirs…

This tech isn’t here yet, but the ability to hack people’s brains is terrifying, we seem to be working towards that future.

There also a bunch of other little ones, hands free comms, talking to comps instead of typing, cybercrime becoming major threat, global networked information, total loss of freedom, etc

I keep hearing about it, but I'm not sure what people are expecting out of it. Where is the enthusiasm primarily focused? What possible changes to transportation infrastructure might you hope for? What does the ideal green infrastructure future look like to you?

Every generation inherits practices that feel ordinary simply because everyone around them accepts them.
A century later, some of those same practices can look cruel, irrational, wasteful, or unbelievably primitive.
The difficult part is that the people living through them usually don’t realize they’re witnessing something future generations will condemn.
So what do you think we’re currently too close to see clearly?
It could be something involving healthcare, work, technology, privacy, food, the environment, education, transportation, social media, or something completely different.
What will people in 2100 look back on and genuinely ask:
“How was this ever considered normal?”

The UK and Google are testing whether small altitude changes can help hundreds of commercial flights avoid forming heat trapping contrails.

If this works at scale, airlines could reduce part of aviation’s climate impact without waiting for entirely new aircraft or fuels.

Different experiences with technology have shaped radically different expectations of what artificial intelligence will bring.