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[-] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 hours ago

Robocop Bell Riots suppression?

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

The Oscilation Overthruster.

[-] Strider@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A lot of black mirror stuff.

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

[-] last_philosopher@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I think genetic engineering is the most high-potential tech right now. They're already using it to cure sickle cell, and my (total non-expert, probably way too hopeful) pipe dream is that we could basically treat it like we can open a terminal on the body some day and change whatever we want.

Edit: I just want to point out that I'm imagining curing cancer, reversing aging, etc. Not like, additional orifices or anything.

[-] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I'd really like to at least see humanity fully switch to clean energy in my lifetime but I'm losing hope.

I should already be able to take a self-driving flying taxi to work. I should already be able to vacation on the moon. We shouldn't be burning stuff to power all our modern tech.

I grew up on 80s/90s scifi. I hope humanity can get it's shit together and that the current anti-intellectualism phase we're in is just part of a larger cycle.

[-] match@pawb.social 9 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

I saw something about a city in India being super eco-friendly. I'm not sure what was the name of the city, but it looks like they have a few.

https://www.magicbricks.com/blog/world-environment-day-2025-indias-10-greenest-cities-driving-real-estate-demand/140400.html

[-] londos@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago

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

[-] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Sex robots!

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

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

[-] invertedspear@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 days ago

Check out the app Phyphox, it uses all your existing sensors and probably surpasses tricorders in several ways while, of course, lacking in a few others.

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[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 50 points 2 days ago

external gestation...a womb with a view

severe genetic manipulation... designer babies

digit/limb/organ regeneration

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

They just released a story about removing the gene that causes down syndrome. Pretty huge

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 days ago

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

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 16 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

The real downside to artificial wombs is that we may rapidly become dependent on them. Half of pregnancies result in spontaneous abortion. With external gestation that assumedly wouldn't happen. That's a hell of a lot of evolutionary pressure which could have all kinds of consequences.

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Fast-refresh ePaper. I just want a laptop I can use outside, man!

[-] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Look up Daylight DC-1 might be what you are looking for

[-] Distractor@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Oooohhh, thank you

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

They exist as monitors. In videos they kind of look like really early crappy LCD screens.

I'd just sit in the shade.

[-] hanabatake@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

I remember we could use the game boy advance SP outside. Is this screen technology used for PC?

[-] Toes@ani.social 8 points 2 days ago

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

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I thought we already had rail guns on ships?

[-] scintilla 2 points 1 day ago

No. Well kinda.

The Ford class uses what is basically a rail gun to launch planes but big navy decided against continuing development on railguns as a weapon.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 7 points 2 days 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.

[-] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] Lizardking13@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

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

[-] Fleur_@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago

I feel like the bottleneck will be with smooth continuous motions. It's very easy to move a cursor in that way with a mouse but you can't do that motion with your eyes unless you are looking at something else that's moving.

[-] Lizardking13@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Fair. Check this out. The existing stuff is pretty cool https://youtu.be/CP3t8qMHcsM

[-] Justdaveisfine@midwest.social 21 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] pleasestopasking@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago

This is so terrifying to me. I feel like it'll end up like the Black Mirror episode with the subscription model, getting more and more expensive with fewer features.

[-] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Common People

That episode made my wife and I really hope this tech never becomes a thing.

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[-] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Suicide Machines on Street Corners.

[-] hungryphrog 2 points 1 day ago

That'd be pretty expensive to run if you think anout it. And who'd do the cleanup?

[-] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

The cleanup is part of it.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

Blend them up and flush them into the sewage system.

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[-] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I read that as Sucide Marines and was confused for a bit

[-] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

The military mental health epidemic. That's the future I want.

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[-] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 days ago

Nuclear fusion seems increasingly achievable.

[-] cynar@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

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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[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Computer circuits based on light instead of electricity.

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