What will be the next major impact to society?
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Ehh…the same thing can only be said so many times/ways. If the convo doesn’t just naturally die on the vine, it’s bound to get real weird
Sure. There's also Star Trek where food is created in a replicator and everyone can "vacation" for free on the Holodeck. Medicine is super advanced - full diagnostics by waving a box over the patient. AI could unlock that future too.
Yeah, given the way it seems to be going I'll bet on Bladerunner. Not really but but seems that way the difference is somewhere between the 2.
I was kinda surprised no one mentioned 3D printing, especially organic 3D printing. Should revolutionize organ transplants in the next decade
AI does seem like a key step toward something like the Star Trek computer. It could turn my Alexa speaker from a voice activated juke box and weather forecast machine into an all knowing source of everything that I can talk to like a real person.
If we can get a food replicator and a tri-corder out of AI I'd call it a win.
Sounds like that would also mean fewer trips to HyVee, a big win. 3D print my dinner- steak or roast beef anyone
If looking at 10 years out, I really think self driving vehicles will becoming more and more. I know there are skeptics, but it is advancing very quickly. Have a friend who is an ex-Air Force bomber pilot in 80s and early 90s. He said heck his training missions in the 80s involved going out in the dark on runs and going low over Scottish highlands and turning on auto pilot and riding that baby like an extreme version of Space Mountain. He said they will get self driving cars figured out and he has no fear of riding in one.
Someone will try making their petey bigger with one.
It's all relative to the wave and at what apex you're at from the epicenter. I was at the second max (after Santa Monica) in the Northridge quake. Things were definitely finding their way out of all the cupboards. And who has time to dress? (sarcasm). I was in the door frame after 5 seconds of wondering if it'll subside or grow. Grow it did. But, again very calculated and not one ounce of fear.
I don't like buying into hypotheticals. Early cave drawings could be of meteors, dreamt up by hallucinations, just general human creativity, etc... No one knows so go off things we do know. The James Webb telescope can see back in time millions of years, if it hasn't discovered alien life yet its far fetched to think contact will happen in the near future.
I fall in the same boat that I'm curious as to how anything is here. If there's a higher power what created that? It's an infinite loop.
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