For me it’s Open Source AGI not controlled by the enshittifying power of capital
FTL travel and human/animal hybrid genetic engineering to make cat boys and girls real.
Is it considered a technological advancement to remove something which exists now and actively makes life worse? I’d like to remove “health insurance” as a concept
I want to see wide-spread adoption of organ transplants using decellularization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decellularization
A 3d printer in every home and a larger one in each neighbourhood. Design our own stuff instead of buying garbage that falls apart.
A self-hosted AI, which isn’t controlled by any bigtech company, would be pretty sweet.
The end of surveillance capitalism.
Large scale terraforming. We’re gonna need it here on Earth if we don’t get climate change under control… and we’re not gonna get climate change under control the easy way cuz it’s not profitable.
But if we do get a hold on planet-scale, controlled climate manipulation here, that’ll give us a gold mine of data for extraterrestrial use.
We’re gonna need it here on Earth
But we are way too stupid for it.
That god is a chemically sustained illusion, and the dismantling of religion.
AGI?
Artificial general intelligence (I think)
- Find proof of extraterrestrial life
- Find out what causes gravity and learn to use it (just imagine a world in which we could create gravity)
- Master matter and build Replicators
- Get a grasp of what time is and why we don’t have a real perception of it
Wait, which Replicator are you taking about? It makes a difference.
Oh, I meant the ‘make me a sandwich’ - device from Star Trek.
Mass market availability of true self-driving vehicles and humans on Mars. Both seem possible if not likely in my lifetime, but there’s still lots of room for capitalism to eff them up.
devils advocate: if the technology is not […or quickly become] affordable. then sometimes, some of these hopes, are unrealistic.
Flexible, plug-n-play solar energy capture methods with more versatile applications than inside aluminum frames glued to huge hunks of glass.
Like, a paint. I could just paint the south side of my house with the stuff and it handles my electricity demand.
I want robot body parts.
I want to live forever, or at least until I get lazy and flash some shady firmware to my robotic heart…
Hyper compact batteries, that would change everything overnight
A technology advance species invades hearth peacefully and solves all our bad problems.
*but there’s a tradeoff involving alien symbiotes or some kind of “adjustment” to our procreation process that is nonconsensual.
But the rest of the house is destroyed!? Seems unfair
Immortality or at least a usefully extended lifespan
So much I want to do!
-Discovering extraterrestrial life
-Phasing out of disposable plastics and gasoline vehicles
-Transferring to clean energy and clean industrial processes whenever applicable
-More widespread ethical and sustainable farming practices
-Lab grown organs and/or more efficient artificial body parts
-Improved healthcare system/healthcare research
-Better treatments and potentially cures for chronic and/or rare diseases
-Much longer lifespans
I just think we don’t live long enough even with the current best case scenerios lolThough some of this would be viable now, if it weren’t for capitalism/politics holding it back so might not entirely count
