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[–] [email protected] 62 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

That has a real chance of existing? Something with clean power.

That I really want? Replicators. Man think about a life not having to cook or clean dishes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

So many stupid problems could be resolved with miniaturized fusion cells

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Earth unity. Whatever they did to make humans stop attacking each other was crazy.

We probably need another species to compete against to unite us. I'd put Billions into nasa to find aliens so we can fight them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

We probably need another species to compete against to unite us.

Nah, the US would use it as an excuse to demand a world government under their control.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'd like to support solarpunk development. I just want to live a simple life, with high tech in cooperation with the environment. We need it badly. I would fund so many community libraries. Don't misunderstand me though. I still want space travel, but I no longer trust capitalists with it.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

A fully open source tech manufacturing company such as chips, gpu, ram, motherboard, connectors, ssd .etc you get the idea.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I've been thinking along the same lines lately. A fully open source hardware and software architecture and implementation, to replace the closed "old world".

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (11 children)

Asteroid mining. This may still be too far off and too expensive. But the first person to get this working successfully will be a trillionare.

This plus fusion are the two things most needed to transition humanity to a space based civilization.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Or it'll be a gold rush situation where that guy will break even, but the people selling him rocket fuel will make a modest fortune. It's all dependent on how expensive the shipping method invented is.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (3 children)

An end to the problem of aging, and death. Whether that means turning into cyborgs, I don’t care. I just want to choose when I die. Not having dying slowly happen to me like a terminal illness. Plus life is way too short. If I get tired of immortality let me off myself. But let me at least get tired of it first.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Have you ever heard of de'beers diamond hoarding story. Thats like what i expect would happen to humanity if we gained the ability to live forever, 'manufactured scarcity'.

A tumultuous time of oligarchic rule with infighting to control the life extending technology. Eventually ending in a winner take all dictatorship. The masses would never see their lives extended (greener pastures visions may be made in the beginning). In fact common peoples lifespans would likely shorten as the controlling elite no longer required the same sort of widespread healthcare present even at todays standards, (depending upon where you live).

The elite would form a supplicant circle around the eventual dictator who maintains control, drip feeding the life extending technology to those who serve their dictatorship best.

Within a couple generations they won't be a dictator but our Monarch, and the common people will obey, and descend to a miserable condition.

I may have let my imagination loose today a bit...

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Two chicks at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I know that not most woman aren’t in to a men just for his money, but the kinda chicks who will double up on a guy like me are!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Chicks dig guys with money!

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Bacta Tanks. Maybe a few days in one would fix my back.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Nano-tech medicine, for sure. Injectable swarms of individually dumb, tiny robots which are controlled by an external AI doctor.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I'd invest my billions with this guy

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

How about a UBI? Do social policies count as technologies? They do in 4X games, so I'm going with it.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Doors that go "swish" when they open.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Make them open and close in a circular pattern like a camera aperture and I'm in

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Curing aging.

That would leave the time to see all the other inventions to come. It would also cure age related diseases like Alzheimer's and Cancer.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (7 children)

I would fund a truly fair AI and a very gentle, but firm, self replicating robot army to enforce it's benevolent will on everyone.

So basically SkyNet, after I make a pointer arithmetic mistake.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Regrowing teeth

Current against foetal alkohol syndrome

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Faster-than-light travel. Which is physically impossible, but whatever.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Every single suggestion so far has been positive, life-affirming, and productive, so I'm going to be Gru here for a change:

Bolos. AI tanks with no crew and heavily (Greek) Spartan-centric model training.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'll add mine here then. Cat Girl genetic engineering. It helps no one but the amount of non destructive upheavel from it be easy available would be entertaining.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Nanotech robots for garbage recycling.

Imagine if we dumped our trash into one end of a big fuckoff machine and out the other end it came out in microscopic pieces into hoppers for reuse or correct disposal.

Throw in an old appliance and out the other end comes the aluminium from the body, the steel, the copper from the wiring, the silica... you get the idea.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

But they'd just realize we are all garbage and then gray goo the entire earth

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The fiction part would kind of keep me from doing that. And I fully believe that everything that actually is possible is already being worked on as quickly as possible.

So, maybe just pay for a whole lot of renewable energy plants all around the globe. Buy up all fossil fuel plants, demolish them and put in renewables instead.

Or fund a fully open smartphone with modular components like a PC with good specs and an optional keyboard.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Oh, I know. I'd start up a Dyson swarm to beam sunlight directly to my power plants. That should be possible.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I fully believe that everything that actually is possible is already being worked on as quickly as possible.

That’s either very optimistic about our level of knowledge about the universe, or a purely semantic thing where you count the precursor technology of another technology that would eventually be the major breakthrough as β€œalready being worked on”…

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Consciousness storage and transfer

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Open source non destructive Brain machine interfaces

I want to interact with machines at the speed of thought so bad. Not to mention what it could mean for people when they are disabled.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Those machines that can make food instantly for sure. Put a few of those bad boys in the right place and we've solved world hunger. Also, healthy tasty food for those of us who can't cook and can't afford to eat at restaurants.

Granted, people in the restaurant would largely lose their job, but we can retrain them for something else like we did with stagecoach drivers, telephone operators and honest politicians before them 🀷

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

FISH!

I'd say budget 3D printed meals are around the corner.

Proper gourmet replicated meals, 60yrs.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Antigravity, Durasteel, shields, cold fusion, nanotech, time travel, warp, dimension sliding/hopping, mind mapping, cryo sleep, teleportation, Positronic brain, ...

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I don't know how plausible this is, but a way for trans men and trans women to exchange sexual traits. There might be an answer elsewhere in that there are animals that can change sex in certain conditions so there is some biological evidence of possibility in a singular case. However it seems anti-poetic that we have genetic females who want to be genetic males and genetic males who want to be genetic females and the answer that we currently have as society is for them to go fuck themselves.

I guess for more realistic, then deep dive VR.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (4 children)

May be poulsen treatment or immortality cruciform from Hyperion. Not sure if immortality is such a good idea though. Throughout history horrible dictatorships tend to end after the death of the despots. Imagine if these horrible people are immortal...

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Space based mirrors for asteroid mining. Bounce a sh*tton of light from the sun around and just melt asteroids. Love that in the Troy Rising series.

Lots of problems getting there irl (need a better way to get out of the gravity well, and light speed lag for command and control would be a real issue) but the idea is just too fun.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I’m convinced that, despite his denial, Isaac Asimov’s psychohistory was a Red Scare-dodging caricature of historical materialism / scientific socialism. I’d put my money there.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Fusion, nuclear propulsion, nanotechnology, genetic engineering, biomining, biological fuel cells

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Giving it all away to mutual aid groups to have them figure out local issues.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Do I have to choose one? The world food program is never overfunded, and that would buy a stupid amount of lobbying for whatever overlooked domestic issue, or even just research grants for neglected but foundational things. Boring/ugly animals could also use conservation.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

room temp superconductors.

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