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[–] 51 points 1 year ago (5 children)

external gestation...a womb with a view

severe genetic manipulation... designer babies

digit/limb/organ regeneration

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Seems entirely reasonable that a Gattaca future is achievable. Whether desirable is the other question. Somewhere CJ Cherryh is being worshipped as a prophet.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Artificial wombs are something that's often presented as dystopian, but I would imagine would actually be a very good thing. Beyond the obvious help it would be to infertile couples that desired children, they would if commonly adopted eliminate the danger of birth and pregnancy complications, and discomfort associated with the process. Probably not everyone would want to use it, but I'd bet even having the option would mean a lot to a lot of people.

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    [–] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Artificial stem cells seem like the next thing to really revolutionize medicine.

    Quantum computers for brute force hacks seems doable in 100.

    Eye tracking pointer devices will likely be more convenient than mice within a dozen or two years. This will probably be widely available for people who are paralyzed first.

    Diamond processors are always 10 years away, but I think we can do it in 100. This would revolutionize the amount of power we can put through a chip without worrying about cooling.

    Quick charge capacitor replacements for standard rechargble batteries

    Low yield fusion plants. I'd like to think of them as capable of high yield, but it's much harder than initially thought. Some ideas are quite promising for low yield.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The eye tracking stuff exists already. There are medical device companies that build and sell these things.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    Vaccines. Maybe in 100 years we'll even be able to eliminate measles...again.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I suspect we will see a human brain to digital interface. I don't think it will be "downloading minds" or anything, but I could see someone finding a way to plug a specialized camera or mic in to have a full functioning robotic replacement part.

    I'm pretty sure they already have the beginning pieces to this, but its too specialized and expensive to do anything commercial with it yet.

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    [+] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)
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    [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Tricorders, cellphones are already partway there they just need more durable, small sensors like a handheld light spectrometer to tell what things are made of and a handheld interferometer to detect gravity

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    [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Computer circuits based on light instead of electricity.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    We currently carry tricorders in our pockets. I can see a medical tricorder being ubiquitous for field medics, ships, and the like within 100 years.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    living in a self-sustaining ecological-aware community that values freedom and diversity and everyone having their needs met

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago*

    A lot of black mirror stuff.

    Apologies for the blanket pessimism but the last decades darkened my view.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Nuclear fusion seems increasingly achievable.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They are down to 2 main problems now. The main one is (the cost of) scaling up. Fusion reactors will be more effective then bigger they are. The tiny test ones are already past break even.

    The other is wall material. Apparently the radiation has an annoying ability to transmute the elements making up the wall of the reactor. They are working out a material that can maintain its bulk mechanical properties, even with random elements appearing in its internal structure.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Railguns, there already exist prototypes that destroy themselves. So close!

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Is it cheating to say AI and humanoid robots?

    Anti-aging tech, if so.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Cancer curing nanotechnology

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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Ai and eeg can read brain waves generate images already kinda decent, maybe meet the robinsons memory viewer machine.

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Direct brain interfaces for, like, VR. So instead of a screen strapped to your face, your visual cortex is just stimulated so you see the game using your own "hardware." A literal Matrix type environment for your mind.

    This is either gonna be cool and fun, or scary and evil. But it will exist.

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    [+] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)
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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Portable communicators. It would be slick to have a USB c tricorder though.

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Asteroid mining. We've had the tech to get people to the asterodi for decades, just lack the will to do it.

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    Fully autonomous humanoid robots. Unfortunately with out-of-control AGI they will probably kill me.

    It would have been cool to have a benign C3-PO or R2D2.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (27 children)
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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Exoskeletons like Ripley's in Alien. We've got smaller ones, but I want to pilot a walking fork lift.

    Pipe dream - battlemechs aka mechwarrior (not pacific rim). Very impractical but I want one anyway. Yes, I saw the robot fighting league by Megabots. I have their poster.

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    [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    I would guess that we'll most-likely have AGI in 100 years. That's pretty futuristic and impactful.

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