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[KrakenIPA]

Your mom losing a few pounds.

So many of these things just like help me. But this is awesome.

 

[Mistake]

Could still happen with EMPs frying electronics over a large geographical area (e.g. nuclear missile detonating in the atmosphere above). Dunno how realistic that threat is anymore, though, haven't heard anyone bring it up in a long time.

Yeah the outcome is not impossible but statistically very unlikely. Even if it did happen there is no putting the genie back in the bottle. Someone would figure out how to make newer computer chips and electronics.

It is always good to have backup plan incase you are without power and tech for awhile but I doubt eh eradication of technology in our lifetime will happen.

Actually, all it would take is one big solar flare to wipe out our electronics, which is likely to happen eventually. But we have schematics to make more stuff anyway.

I’m hoping to see the biggest advancements in the medical field. Gene therapy, CRISPR, mRNA, etc

 

[01011001]

Quantum Computing + AI = high potential for rapid technological advancements

 

[lefty1117]

Yeah I think when it comes to the singularity stuff it can take one of two paths. Either we are going to create AI to do stuff for us and it will develop to a point where it becomes self aware and we're going to have some sort of slavery ethics issue to deal with; OR we take the route of improving ourselves by integrating technologies into our bodies, to increase our own capabilities and output. Cyberpunk or Detroit: Becoming Human. Which will it be? The first might be dirtier and less equal, a new battleground of the haves vs have-nots; but the second scenario could be apocalyptic for humanity.

 

[EviLore]

-Neuralink and other cyborg enhancements
-Advanced VR and AR
-AI involved in every aspect of life
-Mass automation of production, services, driving
-Biotech: mRNA treatments for various diseases, CRISPR gene editing, life extension
-Clean energy normalization
-Off-world colonization

 

[Rival]

Having grown up in a time before the internet being something everyone could basically access easily and by extent also having that in your pocket because of cell phones I will go with that.

 

[bender]

Sailors on the Moon.

 

[AJUMP23]

Biological immortality.

I believe that in my life time, we'll develop a way to slow down and then totally stop the aging process.

We can’t even cure Alzheimer’s or Dementia and that is just the brain. Not the whole body.

 

[CloudNull]

Lots of good answers. It’s funny because 20 years ago if you would have asked this question no one would have said a smart phone. I wonder if the biggest life changing tech that we will experience has yet to be developed or prototyped.

 

[IDKFA]

We can’t even cure Alzheimer’s or Dementia....

Not yet, but soon.

 

[SoloKingRobert]

Teleportation

 

[dave_d]

Fusion, hey it's only 20 years away for the past 70 years.

 

[dave_d]

I will of course welcome the day self driving cars completely take over since the average driver is so bad at it. (You're not driving a semi-tractor trailer, stop taking truck turns like you're driving one.)

 

[West Texas CEO]

impulse engines

 

[Lord Panda]

Level 5+ Self Driving Cars.
Fusion
Mass produced graphene
Solid state batteries and super capacitors
Personal quantum computing

 

[jufonuk]

 

[QuantumZebra]

I witnessed the golden age / dawn of the interwebs (95-05), the turn of the millenium, Y2K, 9/11, Trump, etc.. all in my short 35 years.


I'm pretty shocked tbh. Can't wait to see us create an AI that ends life as we know it.

 

[Evil Calvin]

I my lifetime the biggest has been the internet.

Going forward it may be cures for diseases and Cancer.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Wont ever happen due to safety issues, but decades from now instead of going to the doc to do xrays, your own laptop can scan you and you send it fast yourself to your doctor or lab.

It would give people who hate seeing the doc or no access to this a chance in a timey fashion to send results themselves.

If needed, it's done at home, but you do a Zoom call and they monitor it doing it right. Saves a lot of time from either end.

 

[LocalE]

Wont ever happen due to safety issues, but decades from now instead of going to the doc to do xrays, your own laptop can scan you and you send it fast yourself to your doctor or lab.

It would give people who hate seeing the doc or no access to this a chance in a timey fashion to send results themselves.

If needed, it's done at home, but you do a Zoom call and they monitor it doing it right. Saves a lot of time from either end.

I imagine this as a revelation from The Seer on that show Vikings. When he was in real bad shape, near the end.

 

[jufonuk]

Imagine the possibilities

 

[8bitpill]

 

[EverydayBeast]

Less injuries, advance character traits, picking height, build etc. of child.

 

[Bwesh]

AI is really shaping up to be the next thing to blow up.

From writing stories, life like conversations, medical diagnosis, teaching, driving, and probably even writing lines of code about our dream video game to be sold or for personal use.

 

[Mihos]

I am old, so the internet was it for my lifetime

 

[Ten_Fold]

Self-driving cars will be far more common, Ai will become better, like I can see new homes with built in Ai systems.

People actually living on Mars.

Tech that will see a lot more humans live longer than 100 years an still able to kinda move around.

Well all that depends on what kinda war we get into next.

 

[DeaconOfTheDank]

The creation of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and an age of digital consciousness that would undoubtedly follow it.

To me, the pursuit of AGI is paramount. Humanity would discover much of itself in the process:

• What is consciousness? Are we simply processors acting upon sensory inputs?
• With respect to day to day activities, what qualities define good and evil actions?
• Is human intelligence truly special? If so, what is the nature of God?

 

[Paulxo87]

over the past ten years smartphones have completely changed the planet.

 

[bender]

The internet already happened, nothing will top that.

 

[Hinedorf]

Internet. Life before the internet was a different time indeed.... even early internet life. No question EVERYTHING globally has changed because of the Internet.

Working with folks 10 years younger than myself who sometimes strike me as brilliant and are not respond with "I just googled". Sometimes my mind is blown as to what an unbelievably reliable crutch google is, wish my brain would think of it more often!

 

[TheDreadLord]

Probably AI tech being so advanced that it can replace many physical models. This would speed up significantly the development of new technologies and also make HPC more affordable to all countries.

 

[Tumle]

Impossible, I am a Singulartarian.

Not only do I believe the Technological Singularity is an event that is happening currently, but if you just look at the exponential strides in material sciences alone - the breakthroughs have been too numerous to follow.

Now nanomaterials exist that float when a light source is aimed towards it, now fluid can essentially cling to a surface, get turned on it's ear - and remain without dripping away instantly.

Both of these advents (and many many more) simply defy physics.

The breakthroughs in Robotics and ML alone, where our best programmers have given multiple examples confessing they can no longer adequately explain, replicate or follow ML derivative programming methods.

Fortunately, what you claim is impossible given multiple scenarios - none of which a sentient AI would want to quit existing.

And more importantly, none of these technologies you worry about are replete without counter technologies. Mechanisms will exist that are just as sophisticated and nuanced, and numerous... as more fatale/lethal technologies come into existence - so will the counter mechanisms.

I believe US Military has created Multiple Singularities, and most of the counter mechanisms are live now and we are none the wiser.

In the public sector however, we are literally vaulting towards an Era of self replication, molecular food materialization and infinite molecular compute capability. Pair that with Deep Dive BCI and Nanorobotics and the future looks bright indeed.

Let alone with the added advent of Multiple sentient AI coming online alongside advanced Molecular Nanorobotics and a myriad of other technologies that we can not hope to comprehend even after these technologies come into existence.

its also the outcome i think and hope will happen, but its always good to think of the possibilities that could happen.

Splitting the atom gave us nuclear power, but also gave us nuclear bombs.. so as long as there are checks and balances that's fine.
everyone is racing to the finish line, i just hope they make sure to weigh the possibilities along the way

 

[TonyK]

Real 3D tvs. No glasses, no specific point of view, simply a volumetric tv image that can be perceived from any angle. And then, porn for that.

 

[mxbison]

- AI taking your Mcdonalds order
- Surgery robots (probably already a thing?)
- People walking around with AR/VR glasses
- Self driving cars

Nothing too crazy.

Or we get World War 3 and everything is fucked.

 

[Bernd Lauert]

AGI might happen, and it's gonna be the last human invention ever. So probably that.

 

[NahaNago]

I think it will be human androids that you could buy for your home. I could see that happening in around 30 years. We'll probably get android pets before that though.

I hope hover cars becomes a thing before I die. A massive floating city in the ocean would be nice to visit.

I honestly can't think of anything. Honestly as of right now the biggest leap has been the internet and computers. I think we had like one computer in my school growing up and now every one has a cellphone probably a hundred times more powerful than that computer.

Artificial wombs will be an option for your pregnancy.

 

[farmerboy]

A final "Theory of Everything" that ends up uniting science and religion.

 

[DeaconOfTheDank]

A final "Theory of Everything" that ends up uniting science and religion.

Out of curiosity, what sort of connections are you hoping to see between science and religion? Additionally, what sort of contradictions would you want addressed?

 

[T8SC]

I'm still waiting...

 

[drganon]

All I want is that pizza hydrating thing from back to future 2.

 

[StormCell]

The biggest leap in science will probably be related to quantum computing being able to handle more general tasks. The implications with this would be enormous. Shrinking processor size enabled smart phones and brought social media and life together in a way no one should have wanted. Firstly, this was a big leap thanks to microprocessors. Another huge leap would be computing that enables full digital worlds that are as real to us as this one that people can choose to go live in at the expense of spending time in this reality. Think if you had rotten luck here and were disabled from the waist down, you could choose to live in an alternate reality via neural link and it would be just as real as this reality but you would have full use of your legs and such.

That next big leap could relegate millions of humans to living in bed-sized capsules stowed in large facilities. It could be a digital new world for the poor or the wealthy. Not sure if this is a cheap solution or the ultimate rich person escape.

 

[Nhranaghacon]

The largest leaps in computation will be made in stride purely by molecular computation. Quantum Computation methods will only be bolstered by Molecular Nanotechnology - and Molecular Nanotechnology will instantly take on a form of it's own computation ability we could have only ever dreamt of, and this will happen far quicker than Quantum Computation becomes feasible for mass markets - however we will live in a world with both technologies - I'm far more excited about Molecular Computation finding cohesion with Molecular Nanorobotics technology, and self improving ad-infinte Personally.

Computer Science Labs will be upgrading to Molecular Compute Substrates across all fields by 2023.

 

[QuantumZebra]

Is that Oscar Isaac in Ex Machina? The girl doesn't look like the girl from it though..

 

[Rentahamster]

Is that Oscar Isaac in Ex Machina? The girl doesn't look like the girl from it though..

There was more than one girl.

 

[QuantumZebra]

There was more than one girl.

I need to watch that movie again

The girl who played Tomb Raider was sooo fine

 

[The Hamburglar]

None. The 50s to 2000s saw amazing leaps. Now we just get the same shit but smaller.

Because tech was progressing so fast there’s a reason they believed we’d have flying cars by now in the 60s.

 

[Paltheos]

Echoing allot of other responses here but I feel like we've already seen it. Cheaply available personal computers, and now even small enough to fit into our pockets, along with an information highway that brings data from all over the world to our faces in an instant is a pretty gigantic fucking step. My unimaginative mind can't conceive of something quite as big so soon but then again I'm not a scientist.

 

[UnNamed]

Vacuum trains will revolutionize the way people live in the countries, and in conjuction with smart working, there will be no need to move to main cities but you can live 600km from your work. We are going back to live in villages.

Autonomous cars, I don't think my 2old nephew will need a driver license when she'll be 18. Even having a car will be useless for most people.

And in general batteries. Everything involving batteries will have a huge improvement in the next years: mobility, robotics, Healthcare, trips, housing, etc.

 

[8bitpill]

Is that Oscar Isaac in Ex Machina? The girl doesn't look like the girl from it though..

It is from Ex Machina

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Sex robots