Cold fusion. It would change everything more profoundly than steam and oil.
How do you mean, what aspects/problems will that address?
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#82VR/AR becoming mainstream and Disrupting many industries.
Do you foresee any negative consequences as well?
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#83Decentralised internet.
Might be very feasible with upcoming blockchain tech.
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#84US stops meddling with LA affairs
LA?
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You're assuming that people won't want to work if they don't have to worry about starving, which I'm not sure is a valid assumption at all.
Sure, everyone will keep being disciplined, waking up early to a work a shitty office job. They will keep doing data entry for 40k a year and cleaning up public toilets for 35k a year. They will put up with massive stress and the risk of being laid off at a large corporation
Oh, your argument is that people should be under massive stress? Nice.
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#86Find a cure for death, a cure for aging and bio-replacements become as good as the original.. or better. It's what I've been dreaming about ever since CRISPR.
Me too I just think with this we also need to be able to travel faster than light to expand our access to resources
Yes, but that is still a long way off though :( but hey, atleast with a cure to aging and death, we can afford to wait as long as we want :D
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, everyone will keep being disciplined, waking up early to a work a shitty office job. They will keep doing data entry for 40k a year and cleaning up public toilets for 35k a year. They will put up with massive stress and the risk of being laid off at a large corporation
Oh, your argument is that people should be under massive stress? Nice.
haha yeah, it was funny reading that after I posted it. My point is people, wont work if they dont have to, working is miserable. But it keeps an order in society that has been shown to be beneficial (look at the development of western democracies).
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh, your argument is that people should be under massive stress? Nice.
haha yeah, it was funny reading that after I posted it. My point is people, wont work if they dont have to, working is miserable. But it keeps an order in society that has been shown to be beneficial (look at the development of western democracies).
I think that people will still want to make money, and work shit jobs to buy iPhones, they just won't be as stressed as they would be if the alternative was starvation, which is good in my book.
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#90It is really hard to say just one thing but if I could only name one I would say find a cure for cancer. That in and of itself would have wide impact on families who are emotionally and financially devastated as a result; should help reduce the cost of healthcare overall given that cancer treatment is exorbitant; and would allow researchers to focus on other illnesses or worldwide problems.
What do we do about population control when we have cures for diseases and better health care that extends the life of everyone? We're already having a hard enough time with crops for coffee, avocados, and more due to high demand and climate change.
Once we move on to stabilizing the health of everyone we will focus on consolidating the infrastructural dross that takes up the space around us. I believe that house sharing will be a major thing once we all realize what we are here for and how perfect things could be.