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There is a class of problems that I've become accustomed to being forever in the future. - Nuclear Fusion - AGI - Driverless cars - Quantum Gravity - Carbon Na
by lumost 5y ago
There is a class of problems that I've become accustomed to being forever in the future.
- Nuclear Fusion
- AGI
- Driverless cars
- Quantum Gravity
- Carbon Nanotubes
There appears to either be a problem where these are either convenient money sinks, problems that are missing key break-throughs or missing critical technologies. Nuclear Fusion would be easy if we had 400T magnetic fields and the structures to support them.
We seem to be missing a critical cultural element required to drive these types of innovations - or we are missing the slow tooling, process, and incremental innovations required to support these technologies.
- amelius 5y agoDriverless cars really aren't that useful.
- mcv 5y agoDriverless cars would be very useful; it would mean I can use my time in the car in a more useful way, like reading. Now I have to use the train for that. But maybe that's also the risk of driverless cars: it would make them more attractive than they should be, because they're really too inefficient to be able to afford them as society's main form of transportation.
- oddlama 5y agoYou can add graphene based technologies to that list.
- rnk 5y agoUsed to be on the list: reusable rockets, reasonably priced electric cars with charging infrastructure, rapid development of new vaccines with direct genetic engineering mechanisms.
- penjelly 5y agoI've heard of horses taking their blackout/drunken owners home before. CHECKMATE DRIVERLESS VEHICLES