For me it’s quantum computing - especially considering its impact on most current encryption methods
Longevity research, it has really taken off in the last ten years, hopefully we’re on some cusp for multiple breakthrough in the next ten years.
Atomically Precise Manufacturing but it’s hard to find information about it.
personally, I have no desire to live longer than I’m intended to. living to that age with more vitality, however, that sounds great!
Well that’s the idea, repair the damage and be youthful instead of aging and becoming an old crippled person.
You’re thinking of Geriatrics; the study of making people old longer. Longevity is making people not get old in the first place.
It’s very far thou, like 2040 type of boom technology
Excited and scared for quantum computing
Yeah, my understanding is the NSA stores all encrypted texts they intercept so when they can get a good quantum computer they can break them.
Glad groups like signal have started updating their encryptions to help handle that
Mulvad too are rolling out “quantum-resistant encryption” (read: they add another random key after the first key handshake is established)
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/stable-quantum-resistant-tunnels-in-the-app
Good to know.
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Regrowing / regenerating certain body parts.
This could theoretically be done with stemcell stuff, but it’s not there yet. However, when we finally reach the point where we can infinitely regenerate our body cells, we’ll become effectively “ammortal”; unable to die due to natural causes (such as illness), but we will still die from other people (for example, a bullet to the head)
Besides that, I think nuclear fusion would be an incredible development if we can finally harness it to power our homes.
Fusion won’t be the silver bullet people tout it as for much of the same reasons as fission isn’t (mostly politics). No politician wants to spend billions of dollars on something that is going to take a decade to even be functional and another decade to break even. It would get cheaper with scale, but so would fission, we just never let it get there. It also still produces radioactive waste, despite what proponents claim, and it even produces more radioactive waste than a fission reactor by volume. But it isn’t as long-lived.
These are the same tired arguments we hear about fission. If your country isn’t actively building fission, it’s probably not going to build fusion, aside from demonstrations.
The steady improvement in computer speed and efficiency (unfortunately brought down by bloated software, but in some areas you feel it in absolute terms), storage and memory size, and EV technology. I hope in 2040 there will be cheap powerful e-scooters and e-motorcycles.
I hope so too. Nice, affordable transport for many
Also e-scooters are just plain fun. 20mph on an e-scooter feels like 40mph on a motorcycle that feels like 80mph in a car.
I really hope that storage increases faster than our recording tech, to the point that everyone can easily store the sum total of the internet (videos and all) on a single portable drive.
You underestimate the amount of crap (which is mostly porn, whether you like it or not) on the Internet. And resolutions will increase as cameras get better.
But in some metrics, we have already gotten there. You can download the entirety of Wikipedia and it fits in a few gigs. You could download everything (including the 800+ videos which would span multiple weeks long end to end) I made and have it be less than 1TB.
Interaction net parallel computing (see HVM by HigherOrderCo)
The democratization of embedded programming and the capacities it offers. Coupled with 3D printing you can build your own robots or machines with minimal knowledge and money.
Regrowing teeth
Growing extra teeth
Cause why not right haha
Good news, there’s a trial starting soon.
Although they can’t guarantee the number and location of teeth regrown.
I’ll take two scoops please
more single use plastics and pesticides, personally
Not sure if anyone here would say AI regardless of the title, but for me it would have to be nuclear fusion
Anything decentralized and open source.
I’m really excited at the improvements made to gnome-mobile.
self hosted services that automatically and safely scale to global p2p services is about to happen
Any information about any of those things? I’m quite interested!
I’m the creator of a network protocol (and working implementation :-) that is based on self hosted nodes, that let’s you share/link to whatever data, say a html page, a video etc. Encrypted, overshared (so your node doesn’t need to be up for your data to be accessible), and decentralised. Based on reciprocal sharing so no money or luck involved.
I’m being bad at promoting it would be an understatement, I would love just contributing to all this obviously coming decentralised sharing.
Cheers
There has been a few attempts; zeronet and one from bittorent themselves that was dropped (I wonder what happened to that).
None of them have been used to create the killer app that has inspired the required network effect for mainstream usage. I guess finding the magic architecture that works and becomes sticky is the key. There are so many ways to do it!
Yup, that’s why I’m very excited about it
What about FOSS decentralised webpages, would that pick your interest?
Very much
What do you think about tenfingers.org ?
Never heard of it and it seems shady
🥲 It’s my protocol I have been working on for years.
Mind telling why it feels shady?
Fusion? That would be big. The continual role out of green energy which can push the price down. The McRib coming back. Normal things.
Nuclear power reactors built after the 1970’s. New generation (5?, 6?) for baseload. Mox, msr, lead moderated… Renewables can bicker over the transient loads while reactors provide the ‘always on, always needed’ bulk of power load.
Fuel reprocessing to close the loop would be the grail at this point.
It would be nice to not need to worry about having a safe power source. Working remote, power blackout kills my ability to do my job
Nuclear Fission, it’s amazing how far the technology has come.
do you mean fusion? fusions the one that separate atomic nuclei that we’ve had since the 1940’s. fusions the one where atomic nuclei are combined, that make headlines when the reactors run for more than a few seconds
I mean Fission - Fusion is also exciting but still a ways off… Fission is usable today.
Your correction is a bit confusing as you said “fusion” three times and “fission” zero times.
Nothing. I’ve learned that anything capitalist media gets excited about is always going to fucking suck for everyone the instant it comes out.
I know that’s a cop-out answer so i’ll point out that sodium ion batteries are rolling out and it’s causing prices to drop, which is great.
Not initially. With new disruptive tech, a new un-cornered market arises where companies are so desperate for their initial customer base that customer incentives and company goals are wholly aligned.
It’s only when the competition peters out or when the startup money starts demanding an immediate return on it’s initial upfront investment that company incentives and customer incentives drastically diverge.
Sometimes we get immediate benefits. It took a while for capitalism to take over the Internet.
That was then, this is now. Now shit goes bad before it even comes out.
I was looking forward to Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT before they became digital plagiarism before even releasing to the public. I even had use cases lined up and now it’s just become so radioactive that I refuse to use it even for its genuine and non-abusive purposes. Didn’t help that generative AI field actively killed one of the AI-powered (not machine learning) tools I was using. Good thing I had a copy.
It had so much potential but all it did was fuck up the ecosystem, enshittify itself and then poison the well for everyone else.
