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I don't think there's a whole lot of long-term vision out there. It seems the political conception of the future is mostly filled with tackling the challenges

I don't think there's a whole lot of long-term vision out there. It seems the political conception of the future is mostly filled with tackling the challenges of global warming, unreset and other sorts of eco-doom that the zeitgeist is enthralled with. Musk, Kurzweil and a few others are the only people who look far into the future outside of the eco-doom/security paradigm any more.

zanny 13y ago
Here are the things I'd like to see (and if possible, be involved in) during the 21st century: 1. Molecular printing, mainly of food, as the end-state of consumer 3d printing. Print the protein folds and amino acids and make whatever food product you want, and cure world hunger with it. 2. Generational spacecraft running on a mix of fission, fusion, and solar power. Requires a construction facility in at least low Earth orbit. 3. A floating city on Venus in one of the temperate belts near the poles rife with CO2 to enable an oxygen cycle. 4. Embedded cybernetics, including the ability to interface with the brain, by properly decoding the human electrical signaling system the nervous system uses. 5. 3d printed stem cells to regrow any damaged tissue anywhere. 6. The end-state of current computer tech is embedded cybernetics that interpret brain waves. Bionic eyes that provide huds and vision in multiple spectrums, a wireless access point in your head, etc. 7. Elimination of bacterial infection by fabricating antibodies with 3d molecular printing (there is a trend here!) 8. Not really long-term game changing, but the natural evolution of learning systems moves towards self-maintaining infrastructure and transit, so that entire cities and the transportation of people and goods is done entirely by an automated interconnected grid. 9. A space-based solar array to power the planet that has a diminished orbit to stay in direct line of sight of the sun. I'd suggest a solar ring around the Equator, but it is more efficient to keep the entire thing pointing at the sun all the time. 10. Either the commercial fusion of rare earth metals, or asteroid mining, whichever is cheaper (more likely the latter) for scarce elements.

zanny 13y ago

Here are the things I'd like to see (and if possible, be involved in) during the 21st century: 1. Molecular printing, mainly of food, as the end-state of consumer 3d printing. Print the protein folds and amino acids and make whatever food product you want, and cure world hunger with it. 2. Generational spacecraft running on a mix of fission, fusion, and solar power. Requires a construction facility in at least low Earth orbit. 3. A floating city on Venus in one of the temperate belts near the poles rife with CO2 to enable an oxygen cycle. 4. Embedded cybernetics, including the ability to interface with the brain, by properly decoding the human electrical signaling system the nervous system uses. 5. 3d printed stem cells to regrow any damaged tissue anywhere. 6. The end-state of current computer tech is embedded cybernetics that interpret brain waves. Bionic eyes that provide huds and vision in multiple spectrums, a wireless access point in your head, etc. 7. Elimination of bacterial infection by fabricating antibodies with 3d molecular printing (there is a trend here!) 8. Not really long-term game changing, but the natural evolution of learning systems moves towards self-maintaining infrastructure and transit, so that entire cities and the transportation of people and goods is done entirely by an automated interconnected grid. 9. A space-based solar array to power the planet that has a diminished orbit to stay in direct line of sight of the sun. I'd suggest a solar ring around the Equator, but it is more efficient to keep the entire thing pointing at the sun all the time. 10. Either the commercial fusion of rare earth metals, or asteroid mining, whichever is cheaper (more likely the latter) for scarce elements.