What are you hoping to see happen in the future?

I want to see less vehicles on roads.

We also would have accepted the lamentations of their women.

Genghis, we've talked about this before: you can't snap arrows and push EV's at the same time -- there needs to be a transition period.

Ideally by regulating the shit out of corporations, and dismantling fraudulent 501(c)(3)s like the Heritage Foundation.

There are entrenched entities heavily invested, literally and figuratively, in aligning the government with their interests, and against the interests of the majority. Their primary methods are propagandizing the gullible to vote for the representatives they have invested in, and fomenting apathy in those they cannot propagandize.

The solution is two-fold: supporting candidates aligned with your interests throughout their career from local elections up to more powerful ones, and voting in every election for the front-runner who is less detrimental to those interests.

If you think the current government has their heads in their asses, it's a good bet that this two-fold solution takes the form of voting for progressives in local elections and greater primaries, and showing up to vote for whichever of the front-runner candidates is comparatively more progressive.

Voting for a candidate that is progressive but vastly unlikely to win is counterproductive. Not voting because none of the likely candidates is sufficiently progressive is counterproductive.

If everyone understood this, and showed up to vote, within a few election cycles we'd have a government composed of un-assed heads.

This was literally in the post under this one: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lithium-metal-battery-with-over-500-Wh-kg-developed.862073.0.html

I just want reliable long-term storage. Even if it's a trickle of power coming out, I want it to be reliable and large, so that I can just throw energy at it when I don't need it and can rely on it when I do.

As long as it's not on Phoebe...

Same, on waiting on NASA to bring back the water samples from mars, hoping for life to be found on mars

the pentagon declassified some ufo a few ago

its one step closer to aliens

I don’t know you or your situation, stranger, but it can happen as soon as you’re ready.

About three fiddy.

Samesies

Yeah but someone's gotta mine that coal

I'm here to make a flippant sarcastic comment about us already having fusion, and that all we need is enough solar panels to capture it. I thank you for your time, and yes I will go eff myself.

If you knew what came next in the ST timeline, you would not wish for it

One must walk before they can run. Probably. I dunno the future.

It's gonna be locked down. Everyone wants a holodeck, but imagine there are so many rules and regs on what you can and can't do in one that it's not even worth it?

Imagine playing GTA, but:

• you can't hijack a train full of people
• buildings don't take any damage when you fly helicopters into them
• people's limbs don't detach when you sever them
• you can't make idle small talk with random NPCs without it escalating into violence

Would that be a GTA you would actually play?

If anyone ever invents a synthesizer somehow capitalism will fina way to ruin it. It would be lovely to live in a post scarcity society though

Maybe just teleporters that don't work with living tissue.

Just remember: 99% of gamblers quit just before they win big!

Required reading: www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vzgl/you_just_won_a_656_million_dollar_lottery_what_do/chba4bf

Loud engines aren't a technological or engineering problem; they're a self-esteem problem. Universal healthcare that includes mental health support and a strong working class economy will go a long way towards addressing those with low self-esteem, but they'll never go away entirely.

That first wish is coming true with EV <3

I wish I could buy an electric motorcycle already, but they're soo overpriced. Anyway, I expect them to become available at affordable prices within 10 years.

Gotta save the trees for carbon dioxide conversion!

Do you have a license for that edge?

Maybe start with the death of the two-party system?

in sha' allah

well IBM does have cloud accessible quantum computers that they don't charge to use

I used those to teach myself some stuff about quantum information science

Dude that came out like 15 years ago

That would be horrible. Law entforcement would have a field day (not with the fart statistics tho). Our brain is the last frontier of privacy.

Here's the thing. You are all trillion of your features, but you are mostly an informative subset of maybe a million. You drop a verse of shakespeare from your memory and you'd essentially be the same person.

Your memories don't encode every single thing that has happened to you, they encode blurry snapshots of fast-decaying events and flatten them over time depending on importance, filling in the blanks with other parts of your mind (made with other blurry decaying events).

If you thought AI was bad at hallucinating events, be glad you cannot ask your brain direct questions

Or hide the parts we want to forget and breathe normally for a few days.

It could become true soon (by the end of the century).

https://www.livescience.com/worlds-population-could-plummet-to-six-billion-by-the-end-of-the-century-new-study-suggests

Human's have done some impressive things. We're unravelling the mysteries of the universe and building some amazing tech. Yes, a powerful few of us have done some horrific things, to ourselves and to the creatures we share our home with, but I don't think it was all for nothing if that's what you're getting at.

Okay, you first /s