Why the next 25-50 years will be mind-blowing
You just wait. Stick around for another quarter (or more) and you'll see some really awesome stuff.
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- Nanotechnology baby. Hell yeah. Tiny little robots will revolutionize everything. Imagine a day in which you go to the doctor, (s)he shoots you up with some grey goo, and tada, you never get sick again. That goo contains billions of tiny robots that use quantum computing to hunt down every known pathogen in the Universe and they get the data from a wireless substation (i.e. your phone). No more antibacterial gel. I hate that crap.
- Astronomy suckas. The next couple of decades will show us things that will literally blow minds. I can't wait until I walk down the street and somebody's head just blows up in front of me because of this stuff. The James Webb Space Telescope, for example, will be able to spot newly forming planets hundreds of light years away. It will be able to see ancient galaxies. This is the beginning of the Golden Age of Astronomy. Now move away as your head will soon explode.
- OK, so pair this up with nanotech above, and you get a glimpse of what's in store for us. There will be a day in the future in which a construction worker walks into a boutique of sorts and says this: "Doc, I want you to cut off these arms right here and give me those ARM-2000K models right there."
- Now, the previous entry here was about interfacing nerves and muscles with machines. Cybernetics. How about one step further? Why not tap into the brain directly? Watch out, your head is about to explode. Crossing the blood-brain barrier and wiring it up with transceivers will allow us to do unimaginable things. Just wait. You'll be able to order pizza, rent a movie, and slap your servant-robot by just sitting there on the sofa and thinking about it.
- Tokamak baby! Yeah! You'll be able to walk up to the friendly, local, neighborhood nuclear fusion power plant and toss in your garbage. It'll go through a plasma gassification system and raw materials (such as lithium - which is needed for fusion) will be extracted. The lithium, helium, and hydrogen (and a few more) will make their way to a tokamak reactor. Bam! Clean energy. LIMITLESS clean energy. Tokamak. Even the name sounds pimp.
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Everything on this list is 100% inevitable, unless peak oil takes our fossil-fuel addicted asses out before we get to them in time.
Better hurry, future.
2 years agoWow. I concur. I'm over here still trying to figure out all of the features on my cell phone!
2 years ago