I'm still looking forward to affordable electric cars. Hopefully in the next 5 years?
What level is affordable?
Where I can buy it off a middle income salary. I live in Asia and they're not around yet.
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#13Medical science that can completely heal any injury or illness in minutes or at most days.
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Where I can buy it off a middle income salary. I live in Asia and they're not around yet.
So maybe 22k usd or less? Curious what that amount is
I was thinking more $50k-$100k, but cars here are expensive in general, easily taking a third of someone's income for 9 years.
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#15Anti-ageing therapy i.e. lifespan extension (also related to medical science as a longer lifespan also requires dealing with other health issues like cancer). The technology for the first iteration of this is probably quite close, within a few decades or by the end of the century at the latest.
It's a thorny issue though. People are afraid of death but paradoxically this sometimes manifests in resistance to any efforts to address it. I think people have difficulty dealing with the idea of life extension in an equanimous manner, as the concept of death is loaded with fear.
So there will be arguments against it from many perspectives: psychological, philosophical, economic, religious and so on. These arguments can have merit and warrant due consideration but I think that fear and pessimism should be balanced with hope and optimism.
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So maybe 22k usd or less? Curious what that amount is
I was thinking more $50k-$100k, but cars here are expensive in general, easily taking a third of someone's income for 9 years.
Gotcha, guessing you are in Singapore then :)
In the USA a model 3 costs around $42k to 58k plus taxes.
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#17SHAI HULUD
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#18Replicator tech. Post scarcity (within a reasonable pocket of the universe where there exists a energy inequilibrium).
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#19Pollution processors (from Master of Orion). I think the closest thing we have to them are carbon capture plants, which are pretty cool too.
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#20Tech: Time viewing. See: The Light of Other Days [Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter]
Horizon: Never. Why? Wormholes don't do that.
Tech: Near infinite storage for nearly free. I'm pretty sure that in my lifetime most everyday people will no longer delete files or care how big something is.
Horizon: 10 years tops. Why? Moores law for data storage.
Tech: FTL
Horizon: 50-100 years. Why? I have a sneaking suspicion that there's some radical new theories about space and time just around the corner.
Tech: Androids
Horizon: 20 years. Why? Almost all the pieces are already here.
Tech: Artificial human wombs
Horizon: 15-50 years. Why? Kinda already here, just needs moral/political support