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48 seconds. I predict a glut of helium. balloons for everyone

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

It's seriously insane growing up on star trek and then seeing it come to life.

Still holding out for flying cars.

And warp drive!

[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

I don't want flying cars because I don't want 95% of the people around me to be driving regular cars. Can't even use a turn signal and now they have carte blanche to drive over houses and shit?

The answer is mass transit. Mag-rail, not personal aviation.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

Yeah, motherfuckers can't even drive in two dimensions. Adding a third would be a clusterfuck of galactic proportions.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I'm waiting for the post-scarcity stuff 😭

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The post-scarcity utopia only happens after the Eugenics Wars and that whole Khan thing, mind you...

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately the limiting factor on flying cars is the drivers. And the limiting factor on warp drive is the science not turning out to be a scam.

I could see AI at least solving the former.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I mean flying cars are basically just helicopters.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And warp drive!

I'd take a jump drive, if warp isn't available.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think VR + generative AI is a clear pathway to Star Trek's holodecks. Imagine being able to just say "I want to play a game I've never played before, in an Amazonian rainforest", and then the AI renders the game and environment for you in VR. We're genuinely very close to that reality.

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